Ashtangasamgraha 23.17

23.17

sabhaktaṃ yadannena samaṃ sādhitaṃ paścādvā samāloḍitam |

tat bāleṣu sukumāreṣvauṣadhadveṣiṣvarucau sarvāṅgageṣu ca rogeṣu ||

taptāyāṃ vā rathakāraculyāṃ śilāyāṃ vā surāpariṣiktāyāṃ śāyayet palālāvacchannam |

svedayedvā piṇḍena |

mūlakorubūkasphūrjātakārkasaptalāśaṅkhinīsvarasasiddhaṃ vā talamabhyaṅgādiṣu yojyam abhuktavatā caitat pītamamladadhimaricavacāyuktamākṣepakamapahanti ||

niśvāsocchvāsasaṃrodhāt srotasī saṃvṛte iva ||

'With a meal' is that which is cooked together with the food or stirred into it afterward.

That is in children, delicate persons, those averse to medicine, in anorexia, and in diseases affecting all limbs.

Or one should lay him, covered with straw, upon a heated cartwright's hearth or upon a stone slab sprinkled with liquor;

or one should foment him with a bolus.

Or oil prepared with the fresh juice of radish, castor, sphūrjātaka, arka, saptalā, and śaṅkhinī should be used in inunctions and the like; and this, drunk on an empty stomach combined with sour curds, black pepper, and sweet flag, dispels convulsion.

Because of the obstruction of inhalation and exhalation, the two channels are as if closed.