[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) › 19.2 # Ashtangasamgraha 19.2 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 19.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.2) tuṣṭiprīṇanaraktapuṣṭibhistu rasaḥ | jīvanavarṇaprasādanamāṃsapoṣaṇairasṛk | dehalepamalamedaḥpuṣṭibhirmāṃsam | netragātrasnigdhatāsnehadārḍhyāsthipuṣṭibhirmedaḥ | dehordhvatādhāraṇamajjapoṣaṇābhyāmasthi | snehabalāsthipūraṇaśukrapuṣṭibhirmajjā | harṣabalagarbhotpādanaiḥ śukram | avaṣṭambhānilānaladhāraṇaiḥ śakṛt | annakledanirvāhaṇena mūtram | kledatvaksneharomadhāraṇaiḥ sveda iti || snehajeṣu virūkṣaṇānyauṣadhāni virūkṣaṇottheṣu snehanāni | tatrāmajeṣu laṅghitavato laghvannamaśitasya bhadradārunāgaramaricaprativiṣāviḍaṅgendrayavānuṣṇāmbunā | nāgaradevadārupathyāvarṣābhvo vā | pañcakolakājājīnidigdhikāmustapāṭhārajanīrvā | mūtravartiṃ vā navāyasaṃ vā | gurubhinnapurīṣastu takraṃ savyoṣasauvarcalakṣaudram | guḍaharītakīṃ vā śīlayet || > Rasa \[supports it\] by contentment, nourishment, and enriching blood. > Blood \[supports it\] by sustaining life, clarifying the complexion, and nourishing the flesh. > Flesh \[supports it\] by covering the body, \[forming\] waste products, and nourishing fat. > Fat \[supports it\] by unctuousness of eyes and limbs, oiliness, firmness, and nourishing the bones. > Bone \[supports it\] by holding the body upright and nourishing the marrow. > Marrow \[supports it\] by unctuousness, strength, filling the bones, and nourishing semen. > Semen \[supports it\] by exhilaration, strength, and generating offspring. > Feces \[supports it\] by support and upholding vāyu and the digestive fire. > Urine \[supports it\] by draining moisture from food. > Sweat \[supports it\] by retaining moisture, unctuousness of skin, and hair. > For \[disorders\] arising from unctuousness, drying medicines \[are used\]; for those arising from dryness, unctuous treatments. > Among these, for \[disorders\] arising from āma, when \[the patient\] has undergone fasting and has eaten light food, \[one should administer\] bhadradāru, nāgara, marica, prativiṣā, viḍaṅga, and indrayava with warm water; > or nāgara, devadāru, pathyā, and varṣābhū; > or pañcakola, ajājī, nidigdhikā, mustā, pāṭhā, and rajanī; > or a urine suppository, or navāyasa \[cūrṇa\]. > One whose stool is heavy and loose, however, should take buttermilk with the three pungents, sauvarcala salt, and honey, > or should regularly use jaggery with harītakī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.1) - [Next: 19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.3) - [Up: 19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.19.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.2) · Pramāṇa