Ashtangasamgraha 12.3

12.3

adravyaṃ punarupavāsānilātapacchāyāmantrasāntvadānabhayottrāsasaṅkṣobhaṇaharṣaṇabhartsanahasanasvapnajāgaraṇa saṃvāhanādīni |

punarapi ca trividhaṃ daivavyapāśrayaṃ yuktivyapāśrayaṃ satvāvajayaśceti |

tatra daivavyapāśrayaṃ mantrauṣadhimaṇimaṅgalabalyupahārahomaniyamaprāyaścitto pavāsasvastyayanapraṇidhānagamanādi |

yuktivyapāśrayamāhārauṣadhayojanādi |

satvāvajayaḥ punarahitānmanonigrahaḥ |

punarapi ca trividham |

apakarṣaṇaṃ prakṛtivighāto nidānatyāgaśca ||

prāṇāgnyapānān sandūṣya kuryustvaṅmāṃsasandhigāḥ ||

atimātra āmaśūle 'lasakoktaṃ hiṅgvādimuṣṇāmbhasā pibet |

chardiśūlānāhānugranthiṣu tu maricājājisauvarcalābhayāḥ |

sapittakaphe cāme kaṭukendrayavapāṭhāpippalīmūlavacābhayānāgarāṇi kvathitāni cūrṇitāni vā ||

1AS.Utt.12.4 kumbhīkāpiṭakāsu vartma likhitvā saindhavenānupratisārya paṭolāmalakamadhukakvāthena secayet ghṛtena ca ||

Non-material, moreover, comprises fasting, wind, sunshine, shade, incantations, consolation, gifts, fear, terror, agitation, cheering, scolding, laughter, sleep, waking, massage, and so forth.

And again it is threefold: relying on the divine, relying on rational planning, and conquering the mind.

Among them, relying on the divine consists of incantations, herbal amulets, precious stones, auspicious rites, oblations, offerings, sacrifices, vows, expiations, fasting, reciting benedictions, prostrations, pilgrimages, and the like.

Relying on rational planning consists of the application of diet, medicaments, and the like.

Conquering the mind, moreover, is the restraining of the mind from unwholesome objects.

And again it is threefold:

extraction, destruction of the underlying nature, and avoidance of etiology.

Having vitiated the prāṇa, the digestive fire, and the apāna, residing in the skin, flesh, and joints, they produce [disease].

When the pain from undigested food matter is excessive, one should drink the hiṅgu formulation and others mentioned in the section on alasa with hot water.

In cases with knots accompanied by vomiting, pain, and abdominal distension, however, [one should use] black pepper, cumin, sauvarcha salt, and abhayā.

And in undigested food matter associated with pitta and kapha, kaṭukā, indrayava, pāṭhā, pippalī root, vacā, abhayā, and dry ginger, boiled or powdered.

In kumbhīkā pustules, having scraped the eyelid and rubbed it with rock salt, one should sprinkle it with a decoction of paṭola, āmalaka, and madhuka, and with clarified butter.