Ashtangasamgraha 22.3

22.3

sakalo 'pi cāyaṃ rogasamūhaḥ pratikāravānāyurvedavihitamupadeśamapekṣate |

yasmānniyatahetuko 'pyāmayaḥ samyak bhiṣagādeśānuṣṭhānādupāttāyussaṃskārāparikṣaye jātopi vā sahyavedanatāṃ pratipadyate |

anupakramyamāṇastu sarva eva prāyaśo bhinatyakaṇḍe |

svayamapi ca daivānnidānālpatayā vā nivartamānaṣṣoḍaśaguṇasamudita kriyopalambhādāśutaramaparikliṣṭasya cāpagacchati |

aniyataphaladāyini tu daive hitābhyāsaratasyā 'vakāśameva na labhate vyādhiḥ |

tasmānna kasyāñcidavasthāyāmātmavān hitāhitayoḥ tulyadarśī syāt |

trividhāśca punarvyādhayo mṛdumadhyādhimātrabhedena |

tatrālpalakṣaṇā mṛdavo madhyalakṣaṇā madhyāḥ sampūrṇalakṣaṇāstvadhimātrāḥ |

te punaḥ sukhasādhyādiviśeṣeṇa caturvidhāḥ prāgupadiṣṭāḥ |

subahuśo 'pica bhidyamānā vyādhayo nijāgantutāṃ na vyabhicaranti ||

śataṃ palānāṃ pratyekaṃ varāyāstvāḍhakatrayam ||

tenoṣmaṇā nāḍīsvedena ca svabhyaktaṃ svedayet |

bilvayavakolakulatthamāṣārkaśigrupatrairvā sānūpamāṃsaiḥ kvathitaiḥ ||

And this entire group of diseases, being amenable to remedy, requires the instructions prescribed by Āyurveda.
For even a disease with an inevitable cause, through the proper execution of a physician's instruction, when the accumulated lifespan-impressions have not been exhausted, or even when it has arisen, attains tolerability of pain.

Untreated, however, almost every [disease] strikes prematurely.
Even when subsiding spontaneously due to fate or due to the smallness of the etiology, it departs more quickly and without torment for one who obtains treatment endowed with the sixteen factors.

When fate yields an indeterminate result, disease finds no opening at all for one devoted to the habitual practice of wholesome things.
Therefore, in no condition should a self-controlled person view wholesome and unwholesome as equal.

Furthermore, diseases are of three kinds by way of the distinction of mild, moderate, and severe.
Among them, those with few symptoms are mild, those with moderate symptoms are moderate, and those with complete symptoms are severe.
They, in turn, have been taught earlier as fourfold according to the distinction of easily curable and the like.
And even when divided into many kinds, diseases do not deviate from being endogenous and exogenous.

A hundred palas of each, but three āḍhakas of varā;
with that steam and with tubular sudation, one should foment the person well-anointed,
or with leaves of bilva, barley, kola, kulattha, māṣa, arka, and śigru boiled together with meat of wetland animals.