[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) › 2.19 # Ashtangasamgraha 2.19 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 2.19 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.18) - [Next: 2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.20) - [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.2.19) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Ārogyacintāmaṇi (Dāmodaramiśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.arogyacintamani-damodara.1.19) — Dāmodaramiśra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.19) · Pramāṇa