[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) › 11.26 # Ashtangasamgraha 11.26 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 11.26 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [11.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.11.26) tasmātsantarpaṇanimittānāṃ nāntareṇāpatarpaṇamasti śāntiḥ | apatarpaṇanimittānāṃ ca nāntareṇa santarpaṇamiti | evamanyeṣāmapi vyādhīnāṃ yathāsvaṃ nidānaviparītamauṣadhamevāvacārayet | sati tvanubandhe nidānaviparītamapāsya vyādhiviparītameva tadarthakāri vā | vimuktāmadoṣasya punaḥ paripakvāmadoṣaśeṣasya dīpte cāgnāvabhyaṅgāsthāpanānuvāsanaṃ vividhasnehapānaṃ ca yuktyā prayojyam | prasamīkṣya doṣauṣadhādīnāmavasthāntarāṇi | bhavanti cātra || durbalasya viśeṣeṇa jāyante 'ntāya dehinaḥ || kaphācchīto guruḥ snigdhaḥ paṇḍūmānkaṭhinolparuk || madhurauṣadhasiddhena ca sarpiṣānuvāsayet | prāyeṇa hi durbalagudā gudāśrayāmayino bhavanti | viśeṣataścirakālātīsāriṇaḥ | atisārātipravṛttau svasthānabalavṛddho vāyuḥ pittamanubalamavāpya durjayataro bhavati tasmātteṣāmabhīkṣṇamanuvāsanaṃ prayuñjīta | gudadāhe punaḥ paṭolamadhukamadhūkakṣīrivṛkṣādikaṣāyeṇa saghṛtaśarkarākṣaudreṇa kṣīreṇa vā gudaṃ tadāsannāṃśca pradeśān siñcet | śatadhautādibhirghṛtaiśca picūnabhyaṅgāṃśca dadyāt | paṭolādīnāmeva ca kalkena saghṛtena pradihyāt | taccūrṇaurdhātakīlodhramāṣacūrṇena ca pāyudvāramavacūrṇayet | evameva ca śūle vātaharatailapradehairupācaret | yaḥ punarevamapi pittalānyāseveta sa śīghraṃ gudavalīṣu pakvāsu vyāpadyate || kharatāntarmukhatvaṃ ca romṇāmanyāni vā punaḥ || > Therefore, for \[diseases\] caused by over-nutrition, there is no alleviation without lightening therapy; > > and for those caused by under-nutrition, there is none without nutritional therapy. > > Thus for other diseases as well, one should apply the very remedy that is contrary to their respective etiology. > > If, however, a secondary condition persists, one should abandon what is contrary to the etiology and apply what is contrary to the disease itself, or whatever achieves that purpose. > > When one is freed from the condition of uncooked food, or when the remainder of the condition of uncooked food is fully digested, and the digestive fire is blazed up, inunction, evacuating enema, unctuous enema, and the drinking of various unctuous substances should be employed according to proper method, > > after carefully observing the different states of the doṣas, medicines, and so forth. > > And here are \[verses\]: > > Particularly in a weak person, they lead to the end of the living being. > > From kapha, it is cold, heavy, unctuous, pale, hard, and slightly painful. > > And one should administer an unctuous enema with clarified butter prepared with sweet drugs. > > For generally those who have diseases centered in the rectum have weak rectums, > > especially chronic sufferers of diarrhea. > > In excessive discharge of diarrhea, vāyu, increased in strength in its own seat, becomes harder to conquer upon gaining pitta as a secondary power; therefore, one should frequently administer an unctuous enema to them. > > In burning of the rectum, however, one should sprinkle the rectum and its adjacent regions with a decoction of paṭola, madhuka, madhūka, milk-bearing trees, and the like, or with milk containing clarified butter, sugar, and honey. > > And one should apply swabs and rubs with hundred-times-washed clarified butter and the like; > > and smear with a paste of those very \[drugs\] beginning with paṭola, along with clarified butter. > > And one should dust the anal orifice with those powders and with powder of dhātakī, lodhra, and māṣa. > > In the same manner, in the presence of colic, one should treat with poultices of vāta-dispelling oils. > > He, however, who even in this state consumes pitta-aggravating things quickly dies when the rectal folds become suppurated. > > Roughness, turning inwards of the hairs, or others; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 11.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.11.25) - [Next: 11.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.11.27) - [Up: 11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.11) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.11.26) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.11.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.11.26) · Pramāṇa