[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) › 15.17 # Ashtangasamgraha 15.17 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 15.17 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [15.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.17) akṣīvamaricakebukaviḍaṅgagaṇḍīrakiṇihinirguṇḍyaḥ | ghnanti krimīn śvadaṃṣṭrāviṣākhuparṇyastathā na cirāt || stambhanākṣepaṇasvāpasandhyākuñcanakampanam || punarnavaśatapalaṃ daśapalāni ca pṛthak daśamūlapayasyāśvagandhāśatāvaryeraṇḍamūlānyapāṃ vahe 'ṣṭāṃśāvaśeṣaṃ sādhayet | pūtaśīte ca tasmin niryūhe triṃśadguḍapalānyeraṇḍatailaprasthaṃ ghṛtadviprasthaṃ kṣīradviprasthaṃ kalkīkṛtāni ca dvipalikāni drākṣānāgarapippalīpippalīmūlayavānīyavakṣāracitrakamadhukasaindhavānyāvāpyaikadhyaṃ vipacet | etat sarvayantraṇāsvaparikleśena mukumārākhyaṃ sukumārāṇāmīśvarāṇāṃ nārīṇāṃ kṣīṇaretasāmaprajānāmalpāgnīnāṃ viṣamāgnīnāṃ ca kāmatonnapāne vā prayuktamalakṣmīghnaṃ kāntikaraṃ balyaṃ bṛṃhaṇaṃ vayasthāpanaṃ vardhmavidradhiplīhagulmodāvartaśophodarārśomeḍhrayonirogeṣu mahāvātavyādhiṣu ca paramamauṣadham | gandharvahastamūlatulāṃ yavāḍhakaṃ nāgarārdhakuḍavaṃ ca saliladroṇe pādaśeṣaṃ vipacet | tena dviguṇakṣīreṇairaṇḍatailaprasthaṃ sādhayet | kalkapiṣṭaṃ cātra dadyāt punargandharvahastamūlakuḍavaṃ śuṇṭhīpalaṃ ca | etat gandharvahastatailaṃ tulyaṃ pūrveṇa | bhavati cātra || sitābhāsā ca dṛṣṭissyālliṅganāśe tu dṛśyate || > Akṣīva, black pepper, kebuka, viḍaṅga, gaṇḍīra, kiṇihi, nirguṇḍī, > śvadaṃṣṭrā, viṣā, and ākhuparṇī quickly destroy parasites. > \[They cause\] stiffness, convulsion, numbness, contraction of joints, and trembling. > One should boil one hundred palas of punarnavā, and ten palas each of the daśamūla, payasyā, aśvagandhā, śatāvarī, and castor root in a vahe of water until reduced to one-eighth. / Having strained and cooled this decoction, one should cook it together with thirty palas of jaggery, one prastha of castor oil, two prasthas of ghee, two prasthas of milk, and two palas each of paste made of raisins, ginger, pippalī, pippalī root, yavānī, yavakṣāra, citraka, madhuka, and rock salt. / Known as Sukumāra, it can be used according to desire in food or drink without any hardship from restrictions by delicate persons, lords, women, those deficient in semen, the childless, and those with weak or irregular digestive fire; it dispels misfortune, produces radiance, gives strength, nourishes, preserves youth, and is a supreme medicine for scrotal enlargement, abscesses, spleen disorders, abdominal swelling, udāvarta, swelling, abdominal enlargement, hemorrhoids, diseases of the penis and vagina, and the great vāta-disorders. / One should cook one tulā of castor root, one āḍhaka of barley, and half a kuḍava of ginger in one droṇa of water until reduced to one-fourth. / With that and twice the amount of milk, one should cook one prastha of castor oil. / And here one should add, ground into paste, one kuḍava of castor root again and one pala of dry ginger. / This castor-root oil is equal \[in effect\] to the previous one. / And here it is said: // And the pupil becomes white-hued; it is seen in liṅganāśa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 15.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.16) - [Next: 15.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.18) - [Up: 15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.15.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.17) · Pramāṇa