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Ashtangasamgraha 17.33

Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 17.33

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Sanskrit

17.33

rasaṃ vipākastau vīryaṃ prabhāvastānyapohati |

balasāmye rasādīnāmiti naisargikaṃ balam ||

rudhirasyandanārthaṃ ca pāṇinā plīhānaṃ vimardayet |

punaśca snehapītaṃ viśuddhadehaṃ samudraśuktikṣāraṃ payasā pāyayet hiṅgu suvarcikāṃ vā |

palāśakṣārodakena vā yavakṣāram ||

ājena tāmramamunā pratanupradigdhaṃ saptāhataḥ punaridaṃ payasaiva piṣṭam ||

Post-digestive effect displaces taste; potency displaces those two; specific action displaces those:
such is the natural order of strength among taste and the others when their power is otherwise equal.

And for the sake of making the blood flow, he should massage the spleen with his hand;

and again, when he has drunk an unctuous substance and has a purified body, one should have him drink with milk the alkali of oyster-shell, or asafoetida, or natron;

or barley alkali with palāśa-alkali water.

Copper smeared very thinly with this goat's [milk], after a week ground again with that very milk;

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