[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) › 17.2 # Ashtangasamgraha 17.2 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 17.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.17.2) iha hi dravyaṃ pañcamahābhūtātmakam | tasyādhiṣṭhānaṃ pṛthivī yonirudakaṃ khānilānalasamavāyānnirvṛttiviśeṣau | utkarṣeṇa tu vyapadeśaḥ | tasmādbhūtasamavāyasambhavānnaikarasaṃ dravyam | tataśca naikadoṣā vyādhayaḥ || mūtrakṣīrānyatarayuktameraṇḍatailamaharaharmāsamekaṃ dvau vā kṣīrāhāro vā gavyaṃ vā māhiṣaṃ vā mūtram | uṣṭrīkṣīravṛttirvā syāt || saḥ ślaiṣmika eva prāk sādhyo 'bhihitaḥ | tasya punaḥ ṣaḍupadravāḥ | āvartakī śarkarā rājīmatī chinnāṃśukā candrakī chatrakī ceti || > Here indeed, substance is composed of the five great elements. > Its foundation is earth; its origin is water; specific manifestation arises from the co-inherence of ether, wind, and fire. > Designation, however, is by predominance. > Therefore, from the occurrence of the co-inherence of the elements, no substance has only a single taste; > and consequently diseases do not have a single doṣa. > Castor oil combined with either urine or milk, day after day for one month or two, or a diet of milk, or cow's or buffalo's urine, > or subsisting on female camel's milk. > That \[disease\] caused by śleṣman was previously stated to be curable; > it has, again, six complications: > āvartakī, > śarkarā, > rājīmatī, > chinnāṃśukā, > candrakī, > and chatrakī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.17.1) - [Next: 17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.17.3) - [Up: 17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.17) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.17.2) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.24.p1) — Indu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.17.2) · Pramāṇa