[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) › 23.7 # Ashtangasamgraha 23.7 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 23.7 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [23.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.23.7) yogyamapi cauṣadhamevaṃ parīkṣeta | idamevaṃrasavīryavipākamevaṃguṇamevaṃdravyamevaṃkarmaivaṃprabhāvamasmin deśe jātamasminnṛtāvevaṃgṛhītamevaṃnihitamevaṃvihitamevaṃniṣiddhamevamupasaskṛtamevaṃsaṃyuktamevaṃyuktamanayā mātrayaivaṃvidhasya puruṣasyaivaṃvidhe kāla etāvantaṃ doṣamapakarṣatyupaśamayati vā | anyadapi caivaṃvidhaṃ bheṣajamabhūt tanmānena vā viśeṣeṇa prayuktamidamakarot | sūkṣmāṇi hi doṣauṣadhadūṣyadeśakālabalānalāhārarasasātmyasatvaprakṛtivayasāmavasthāntarāṇi | yānyanālocitāni nihanyurāturam | ālocyamānāni tu vipulabuddhimapi cikitsakamākulīkuryuḥ | kiṃ punaralpabuddhim | tasmādabhīkṣṇaśaḥ śāstrārthakarmānuśīlanena saṃskurvīta yajñām | api ca | santi vyādhayo ye śāstra utsargāpavādairupakramaṃ prati nirdiṣṭāḥ | tatra prājña eva doṣādigurulāghavena samyagadhyavasyedanyataraniṣṭhāyām || snigdhāmlalavaṇoṣṇādyairāhārairhi malaścitaḥ | sroto badhvānilaṃ rundhyāttasmāttamanulomayet || mādhuryaṃ vadane kaṇḍūḥ snigdhaśuklakaphasrutiḥ || > And one should examine an appropriate medicine in this way: > > Having such-and-such taste, potency, post-digestive effect, having such qualities, such substance, such action, such specific effect, grown in this region, gathered in this season in this manner, stored thus, prepared thus, contraindicated thus, processed thus, combined thus, applied thus in this dose, for a person of such type at such a time, does it extract or pacify this much doṣa? > > And was there another medicine of such kind, or applied in this measure or specific manner, which accomplished this? > > For subtle are the varying states of the doṣas, medicines, affected tissues, regions, times, strength, digestive fire, diet, tastes, suitability, mental fortitude, constitution, and ages; > > which, if not reflected upon, would kill the patient; > > and when being reflected upon, they might confound even a physician of vast intellect, > > how much more one of little intellect! > > Therefore, one should constantly cultivate understanding through regular study of the texts and their application. > > Moreover, > > there are diseases whose treatments are laid down in the treatises by general rules and exceptions; > > there, only a wise physician can rightly decide on one of the determinations based on the relative heaviness or lightness of the doṣas and other factors. > > For waste matter accumulated by unctuous, sour, salty, and hot foods > > obstructs the bodily channel and blocks wind; therefore, one should direct it downward. > > Sweetness in the mouth, itching, and an unctuous, white discharge of kapha \[occur\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 23.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.23.6) - [Next: 23.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.23.8) - [Up: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.23) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.23.7) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.30.7) — Indu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.23.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.23.7) · Pramāṇa