[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) › 10.4 # Ashtangasamgraha 10.4 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 10.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.10.4) tatra saṃyogo nāma dvayorbahūnāṃ vādravyāṇāṃ saṃhatībhāvaḥ | sa viśeṣamārabhate yannaikaikaśo dravyāṇi | saṃskārastu toyāgnisannikarṣaśaucamanthanadeśakālabhāvanābhājanādibhirupajanyate | mātrā punaḥ piṇḍaparimāṇataḥ samudāyena pratidravyāpekṣayā cāhārarāśiḥ | deśo dravyasyopayoktuścotpatyavasthāne | tatra punarupayoktāsvasthāturatvataḥ prakṛtibhedataśca parīkṣyaḥ || rūpaṃ vyākṛti tadvacca yaḥ paśyati sa naśyati || tadvṛddhermeda eva ca tena prathamaṃ dūṣyate 'tyantasabhāgatvāt | tadanantaraṃ dehakledādayaḥ | tataḥ śleṣmādikṣaye pittaṃ prabalībhavacchoṇitamapi dūṣayati | tatkṣaye 'pi vāyurvasādīn dhātūn śarīrasya paramasārabhūtān bastimākṛṣya mūtreṇa saha visṛjati || tato nivātamagāraṃ praveśyācārikamupadiśet || dantānkhādanvamanphenaṃ hastau pādau ca vikṣipan || > Among them, 'combination' is the joining together of two or many substances. > It initiates a distinctive effect that the substances do not have individually. > 'Preparation', on the other hand, is produced by contact with water or fire, purification, churning, place, time, steeping, vessel, and so forth. > 'Measure', again, is the mass of food, considered collectively as the bulk measure and with respect to each individual substance. > 'Place' refers to the origin and habitat of the substance and the consumer. > There, moreover, the consumer is to be examined through his state of being healthy or sick, and by variation of constitution. > And likewise whoever sees a distorted form perishes. > Because of its increase, fat alone is first corrupted by it, due to extreme similarity of nature; > immediately after that, bodily moisture and so forth; > then, upon the depletion of śleṣman and the rest, pitta becoming powerful corrupts blood as well; > even upon its depletion, vāyu, drawing fat and the other bodily tissues that constitute the supreme essence of the body to the bladder, discharges them along with urine. > Then, having had him enter a windless room, one should instruct him in the customary regimen. > Grinding his teeth, vomiting foam, and throwing about his hands and feet. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.10.3) - [Next: 10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.10.5) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.10.4) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.17.4) — Indu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.10.4) · Pramāṇa