[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) › 12.26 # Ashtangasamgraha 12.26 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 12.26 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [12.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.26) viṣyandi lavaṇaṃ sarvaṃ sūkṣmaṃ sṛṣṭamalaṃ viduḥ | vātaghnaṃ pāki tīkṣṇoṣṇaṃ rocanaṃ kaphapittakṛt || prātaḥ snātaḥ sarṣapānagnivarṇān | hutvā sāvitryā sarpiṣāktāṃstilānvā | pūtaḥ pāpairmucyate vyādhibhiśca || krameṇa vardhamānaśca kukṣāvudaramāvahet || prasahānāṃ rasaiḥ sāmlairbhojayet piśitāśinām || na sraṃsate calati vā vartmaivaṃ sarvatastataḥ || > Every salt is liquefying, subtle, and loosening of stools, so they know; / destroying vāta, digestive, sharp, hot, appetizing, and producing kapha and pitta. > Bathed in the morning, having sacrificed / mustard seeds having the color of fire / or sesame seeds smeared with ghee, with the Sāvitrī verse, / purified, he is freed from sins and diseases. > And gradually growing, it would produce an abdominal enlargement in the belly. > One should feed \[him\] with the sours-containing meat-juices of birds of prey and carnivores. > Thus the eyelid does not droop or displace in any direction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.25) - [Next: 12.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.27) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.12.26) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.26) · Pramāṇa