[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) › 2.12 # Ashtangasamgraha 2.12 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 2.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.12) jñānaṃ caturvidhaṃ yasya sa rājārho bhiṣaktamaḥ | śastraṃ śāstrāṇi salilaṃ guṇadoṣapravṛttaye || dauhṛdavimānanāddhi vāyuḥ prakupito 'ntaśśarīramanucaran garbhasya vināśaṃ vairūpyaṃ vā kuryāt | labdhadauhṛdā tu vīryavantaṃ cirāyuṣaṃ ca putraṃ prasūte || bhramaḥ pralāpo gharmecchā vināmaścānilajvare || kṣayakāsaśiraḥpārśvahṛcchūlāṃsābhitāpanut || sarvato 'rdhena tallīḍhaṃ madhvājyena guḍena vā || tiktānurasaṃ stanyaṃ mudgamāṣapalāśābhyāṃ kākolīyugalena ca śodhayet | priyaṅgudhātakīpuṣpapadmakadevadārukṣaudrairvā | kaṣāyānurasaṃ hiṅgusaindhavavatā ghṛtena | phenilaṃ vicchinnaṃ plavamānaṃ ca bilvāgnimanthaśṛtena payasā haviṣā ca | sūpyaparṇī kākolībṛhatyavalgujaphalairvā || > He whose knowledge is fourfold is the best physician, worthy of a king; > Weapon, treatises, and water, for the activity of merits and faults, > For, from the denial of pregnancy longings, vāta, being provoked and moving inside the body, may cause the destruction or deformity of the embryo. > But she who has obtained her pregnancy cravings gives birth to a son who is vigorous and long-lived. > Giddiness, delirium, desire for warmth, and bending down occur in vāta-fever; > Relieving consumption, cough, pain in the head, flanks, and heart, and burning in the shoulders; > Licked with half its total amount of honey, ghee, or jaggery. > Breast milk having a bitter after-taste should be purified with mudga, māṣa, and palāśa, and the pair of kākolīs, > Or with priyaṅgu, dhātakī flowers, padmaka, devadāru, and honey; > Having an astringent after-taste, with ghee containing asafoetida and rock salt; > Frothy, separated, and floating, with milk and ghee boiled with bilva and agnimantha, > Or with sūpyaparṇī, kākolī, bṛhatī, and avalguja fruits. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.11) - [Next: 2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.13) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.12) · Pramāṇa