Ashtangasamgraha 2.19
Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 2.19
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2.19
caṇḍaṃ śokāturaṃ bhīruṃ kṛtaghnaṃ vaidyamāninam |
hīnopakaraṇaṃ vyagramavidheyaṃ gatāyuṣam ||
praśnakāle nārī yalliṅgamaṅgaṃ bāhyadravyaṃ vā parāmṛśati talliṅgamasyā garbhamādiśet ||
nidānoktānupaśayo viparītopaśāyitā ||
devadāru haridrāṃ ca droṇe 'pāṃ pālikān pacet |
kvāthe 'smin sādhayet piṣṭairghṛtaprasthaṃ picūnmitaiḥ ||
mūtrakṛcchrajvaracchardikāsaśoṣabhramakṣaye |
tāpe pāṇḍvāmaye 'lpegnau śastāḥ sarvaviṣeṣu ca ||
viśeṣeṇa tu tanmūlā jvaraśirobhitāpatṛṣṇābhramābhiṣyandakukūṇakapothakīvamathukāsaśvāsātīsāravisarpāḥ ||
one who is fierce, afflicted by grief, timid, ungrateful, or imagining himself a physician; / one lacking attendants, agitated, unmanageable, or whose life-span has run out.
At the time of questioning, whatever gender of limb or external object the woman touches, one should predict a foetus of that gender.
Discomfort produced by what is prescribed by etiology, and relief by the opposite.
One should boil devadāru and haridrā, each one pala, in a droṇa of water; / in this decoction one should prepare a prastha of ghee with pastes measured in picu amounts;
[these] are commended in dysuria, fever, vomiting, cough, emaciation, dizziness, wasting, / burning heat, jaundice, weak digestive fire, and all poisons.
Especially arising from that cause are: fever, headache, thirst, dizziness, ophthalmia, infantile eye-disease, blepharitis, vomiting, cough, dyspnoea, diarrhoea, and erysipelas.
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