Ashtangasamgraha 12.8

12.8

suvarṇaṃ bṛṃhaṇaṃ snigdhaṃ madhuraṃ rasapākayoḥ |

viṣadoṣaharaṃ śītaṃ sakaṣāyaṃ rasāyanam ||

vṛddhirviśo 'pravṛttiśca kiñcicchophaśca pādayoḥ ||

paripakvāmaṃ ca mārutagrahaṇīrogiṇamagnisandhukṣaṇārthaṃ sarpiḥ pāyayet |

dvipañcamūlapañcakolasaralasuradārusurabhigajapippalīśaṇabījayavakolakulatthānmastunāranālena vā pācayet |

tena pādāvaśeṣeṇa pañcalavaṇadvikṣārāmlabadarayuktaṃ sarpirvipakvamathavā saindhavavyoṣakṣāradvayapañcamūlābhayārāsnājājīgranthikaśaṭhīviḍaṅgagarbhamārdrakamātuluṅgakolāmlīkādāḍimasvarasaśuṣkamūlakakvāthamastutakraśuktaprasannāsauvīrakatuṣodakāranālopetaṃ paramagnidīpanamagnighṛtākhyam ||

tataścāmrajambūpravālakvāthenāścyotanam |

triphalākhadirasārodakena vā madhusaṃyuktena |

viḍaṅgalākṣādārvītvaggairikālamanohvācūrṇaḥ kṣaudrānvito 'ñjanam ||

Gold is nourishing, unctuous, sweet in taste and post-digestive effect, / destroys poison and doṣas, cooling, slightly astringent, and a rejuvenator.

Enlargement [of the abdomen], non-passage of feces, and slight swelling in the feet.

One should make a patient suffering from vāta-induced grahaṇī disease, whether mature or immature, drink ghee to rekindle the digestive fire:

one should cook both pañcamūlas, pañcakola, sarala, deodar, scented kachur, gajapippalī, hemp seeds, barley, jujube fruits, and horse gram with curd whey or fermented gruel;

with that reduced to one quarter, ghee cooked with the five salts, the two alkalis, and sour jujube; or containing a paste of rock salt, the three pungents, the two alkalis, the pañcamūla, harītakī, rāsnā, cumin, pippalīmūla, śaṭhī, and viḍaṅga, along with the fresh juices of wet ginger, citron, jujube, tamarind, and pomegranate, decoction of dried radish, curd whey, buttermilk, vinegar, clear wine, sauvīraka, tuṣodaka, and fermented gruel, constitutes the foremost kindler of digestive fire called 'Fire Ghee.'

Then eye drops with a decoction of young sprouts of mango and rose apple;

or with water cooked with the extract of triphalā and khadira, combined with honey.

A powder of viḍaṅga, lac, bark of dāruharidrā, red ochre, realgar, and orpiment, combined with honey, serves as a collyrium.