[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) › 12.3 # Ashtangasamgraha 12.3 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 12.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.2) - [Next: 12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.4) - [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.12.3) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.19.3) — Indu, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Āyurvedīya Hitopadeśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.samhitasara.ayurvediyahitopadesa.7.54) — Raṇajitrāya Desāī, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.3) · Pramāṇa