Ashtangasamgraha 15.2

15.2

ānantyādauṣadhānāmāmayānāṃ cānantā eva kaṣāyāḥ |

ye tu sutarāmupayogavantaḥ prakarṣavartino vā te jīvanīyādisaṃjñāḥ |

pratyekaṃ daśakaṣāyasaṃyogāt pañcacatvāriṃśanmahākaṣāyā vakṣyante |

tatpratipatyarthameva mandabuddhīnām |

buddhimatāmudāharaṇāmātrapradarśanārtham |

śakyaṃ hi buddhimadbhiḥ svāduśītasnigdhādīn jīvantyādiṣu sādhāraṇān guṇānālocya kṣīrekṣudrākṣākṣoḍavidārīkandādiṣvapi tadguṇeṣu jīvanīyāditvamavadhārayitum |

yathoktānusaraṇameva tu śreyo mandabuddheriti |

vyastāśca te catvāri pañcāśadadhikāni tadabhidhānānyeva |

yadyapi tāni tānyeva dravyāṇīti dravyasaṅkaraḥ kaṣāyeṣu tathāpi na saṃjñāvirodhaḥ |

ekasyāpi bahukāryanirvartanāt |

tatra lavaṇavarjyā rasāḥ kalpanāyāṃ kaṣāyā ityucayante |

tadyonitvāt |

lavaṇasya yato niryāsādikalpanānāmasambhavaḥ |

pṛthagupayogopakārarahitatvācca nairathakyamiti ||

aduṣṭaduṣṭaḥ pavanaḥ śarīrasya viśeṣataḥ ||

pratataṃ ca śoṇitamapaharet |

pākābhimukhaṃ copanāhya pakvaṃ pāṭayitvā vraṇavaccikitset ||

avyaktamīkṣate rūpaṃ vyaktamapyanimittataḥ ||

Because medicines and diseases are infinite, decoctions are indeed infinite.

Those that are especially useful or of preeminent efficacy are designated as jīvanīya and so forth.

Forty-five great decoctions will be stated, each consisting of a combination of ten decoction-drugs,
solely for the understanding of those of dull intellect,
and to provide merely an illustration for the intelligent.

For the intelligent are able, by discerning the common qualities of sweetness, coldness, unctuousness, and so forth in the jīvantī group, to determine the status of being a jīvanīya even in milk, sugarcane, grape, walnut, tubers of vidārī, and the like, which possess those qualities.

However, following what is explicitly stated is preferable for a person of dull intellect.

And they are designated individually by fifty-four names.

Even though the very same substances recur so that there is an intermingling of substances among the decoctions, still there is no contradiction in designation,
because even a single substance accomplishes many actions.

There, in the pharmaceutical preparations, the tastes excluding salt are called kaṣāyas,
because they are their source,
for with salt, preparations such as extracts are impossible,
and because it is devoid of separate therapeutic utility, it would be useless.

Wind, when uncorrupted or corrupted, particularly of the body, […].

And one should continuously draw off blood.

Applying a poultice when it tends toward suppuration, and having incised it once suppurated, one should treat it like an ulcer.

He sees an indistinct form, or even a distinct one, without cause.