Ashtangasamgraha 10.25

10.25

karoti rūkṣaṃ balavarṇanāśaṃ tvagrūkṣatāṃ vātaśakṛnnirodham |

snigdhaṃ tvatiśleṣmacayapraseka hṛdgauravālasyarucipraṇāśān ||

naśyatyajānan ṣaḍahāt keśaluñcanavedanām ||

pādaśeṣe ca tasmin pūtaśīte guḍapalānyaśītiṃ vyoṣārdhapasthacūrṇaṃ ca datvā yavapalle ghṛtakumbhasthaṃ māsaṃ nidhāpayet |

etat karañjaśukramabhyasyamānamalamanalajananamarśogulmānāhaplīhagarodaraghnaṃ ca |

pīlutulāṃ tulyaguḍāṃ mastunastakrasya vā droṇe 'bhiṣuṇuyāt |

tatra pālikānāmabhayātiviṣāpāṭhāmustakaṭukādevadāruhiṃsrājīrakāruṣkaracavyājamodailācitrakagajapippalīvyoṣaviḍaṅgaśatāhvāhareṇucirabilvatvakkuṣṭhakuṭajabījatrivṛtpippalīmūlopakuñcikānāṃ cūrṇaṃ kṣiptvā pūrvavannidhāpayet tadadhikaguṇaṃ pūrvasmāt ||

prasthaṃ tadvaddravaiḥ pūrvaiḥ pañcagavyamidaṃ mahat ||

Dry [food] causes loss of strength and complexion, roughness of skin, and retention of wind and feces; / but unctuous [food causes] excessive accumulation of śleṣman, excessive salivation, heaviness of the heart, lethargy, and loss of appetite.

He dies within six days, not feeling the pain of hair being plucked out.

And when that is reduced to a fourth, strained, and cooled, having added eighty palas of molasses and half a prastha of powdered vyoṣa, placed in a ghee jar, one should keep it in a heap of barley for a month. / This karañja-vinegar, when practiced, is fully capable of generating digestive fire, and destroys piles, abdominal swellings, distension, spleen disease, artificial poisoning, and abdominal enlargement.

One should ferment a tulā of pīlu with an equal amount of molasses in a droṇa of whey or buttermilk. / Having thrown therein one pala each of powder of abhayā, ativiṣā, pāṭhā, mustā, kaṭukā, devadāru, hiṃsrā, jīraka, aruṣkara, cavyā, ajamodā, elā, citraka, gajapippalī, vyoṣa, viḍaṅga, śatāhvā, hareṇu, bark of cirabilva, kuṣṭha, kuṭaja seeds, trivṛt, pippalīmūla, and upakuñcikā, one should keep it as before; it is superior in quality to the previous one.

A prastha [of ghee] likewise with the aforesaid liquids; this is Mahāpañcagavya.