Ashtangasamgraha 25.3

25.3

guruśītasarasnigdhamandasūkṣmamṛdudravam |

auṣadhaṃ snehanaṃ prāyo viparītaṃ virūkṣaṇam ||

dhūmacchardanagaṇḍūṣānucitaṃ ca sirāvyadham |

kruddhāḥ śleṣmolbaṇā doṣāḥ kurvantyantarmukhaṃ gadān ||

A medicine that is heavy, cold, mobile, unctuous, slow, subtle, soft, and liquid / is generally an oleating agent; the opposite is a drying agent. / When one is unaccustomed to medicinal smoke, emesis, gargles, and blood-letting, / provoked doṣas with an excess of śleṣman cause internal-facing diseases.