[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) › 15.2 # Ashtangasamgraha 15.2 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 15.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 15.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.1) - [Next: 15.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.3) - [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.15.2) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.22.1) — Indu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.2) · Pramāṇa