[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) › 2.20 # Ashtangasamgraha 2.20 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 2.20 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.20) jijīviṣurvyādhito 'pi pūrvoktaguṇavarjitān | kriyāvikrayiṇo vaidyān mṛtyoragresarā hi te || bahūni vā varṣāṇyudare tiṣṭhati || tatkaphāvṛtasarvotthajvariṇāmamṛtopamam || kṣaudradrākṣārasopetaṃ varṣākāle virecanam || itareṣāṃ tu caturthāt | tehyatibālye dantotpādavedanayātipīḍitā na samyak sampūrṇadhātubalā bhavanti || > \[A patient,\] even though diseased, who wishes to live \[should avoid\] physicians devoid of the previously stated qualities / who sell treatments, for they are the precursors of death. > Or it remains in the belly for many years. > That is like nectar for fever patients suffering from fever arising from all \[doṣas\] enveloped by kapha. > A purgative accompanied by honey and grape juice in the rainy season. > For others, however, from the fourth \[month\]. > For they, in extreme childhood, being severely distressed by the pain of dentition, do not possess fully complete strength of the bodily tissues. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.19) - [Next: 2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.21) - [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.2.20) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.2.20) — Indu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.20) · Pramāṇa