Ashtangasamgraha 1.46

1.46

śodhanaṃ śamanaṃ ceti samāsādauṣadhaṃ dvidhā |

śarīrajānāṃ doṣāṇāṃ krameṇa paramauṣadham ||

navajvare malastambhāt kaṣāyo viṣamajvarān ||

dvikiṣkumātraṃ liptāyāṃ baliṃ datvā caturdiśam ||

Medicine is succinctly twofold: purification and pacification. / For the bodily doṣas, the supreme remedy in respective order is: / Because of the retention of wastes in acute fever, an astringent decoction causes irregular fevers. / Having smeared an area of two cubits, having offered oblations in the four quarters,