[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Ashtangasamgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › 1.8 # Ashtangasamgraha 1.8 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 1.8 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.8) āyuṣaḥ pālanaṃ vedamupavedamatharvaṇaḥ | kāyabālagrahordhvāṅgaśalyadaṃṣṭrājarāvṛṣaiḥ || yena tāmagarbhāṃ garbhiṇīmāhurmūḍhāḥ | tato viparītairyadṛcchayā vā pravṛtte rakte garbhaśarīramapaśyanto bhūtahṛtamityajñā vruvate | yasmātsambhavatyojaso 'paharaṇaṃ rakṣobhirna tu śarīrāpaharaṇamaniṣṭatvādaśaktervā | icchāśaktyorhi pravṛtterupalabdhiḥ | na ca dṛśyate kasyacidamānuṣairdehāpahāraḥ || taddhyutpatsyamānasya vyādheralpatvādavyaktaṃ rūpam || pītvoṣṇatoyena vamenmadhbambu lavaṇāmbu vā || > The Veda that protects life, the Upaveda of the Atharvaveda, / with \[its eight branches of\] internal medicine, pediatrics, demonology, diseases above the clavicle, surgery, toxicology, rejuvenation, and virility, > > Because of which fools say of a woman without a fetus that she is pregnant. > > Then, when bleeding starts contrary to that or spontaneously, the ignorant, not seeing the body of the fetus, say that it has been seized by a spirit; > > because the theft of vital essence by demons is possible, but not the theft of a body, due to lack of desire or lack of capacity. > > For the manifestation of activity occurs through desire and capacity; > > and no one's abduction of a body by non-humans is ever seen. > > For that is the unmanifest symptom of a disease that is about to arise, because of its minuteness. > > Having drunk \[it\], one should vomit with warm water, honey-water, or salt water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.7) - [Next: 1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.9) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.8) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.8) · Pramāṇa