Ashtangasamgraha 28.29

28.29

bhuktaṃ jīrṇāśanaṃ kāmaṃ rātrāvapyanuvāsayet |

kevalānilanipīḍitaṃ tvaśuddhamapyanirūpitabalaṃ cāpyanuvāsayedātyayikatvāt vyādheḥ |

tasya vidhirvamanādadhikataraṃ kṛtamaṅgalamanusukhamabhyaktamuṣṇāmbusnātaṃ yuktasnehamucitāt pādahīnaṃ dravapūrvaṃ laghūṣṇaṃ sānupānamaśanamaśitavantaṃ kṛtacaṅkramaṇamutsṛṣṭaviṇmūtramaśanārdrahastamaśaṅkanīyaparicārakaṃ nivāte veśmani pratata śayane nātyucchrite svāstṛte īṣadunnamitapādadeśe vāmapāśvana prākśirasaṃ saṃveśayet |

atisnigdhāśino hyubhayamārgasaṃsargāt sneho madamūrcchāgnisādahṛllāsān janayati |

rūkṣāśino viṣṭambhaṃ balavarṇahāniṃ vā |

alpamātradravāśino visṛṣṭaviṇmūtrasya cānāvṛtena tadāvṛtāt vyāpadam |

ciramaśitavato vidāhābhimukhabhaktasya jvaraṃ kuryāt |

yataśca vāmapārśvāśrayāṇi vahnigrahaṇīgudavalāmukhāni tāni tatpārśvaśāyino nimnāni bhavantyatastadauṣadhamaskhalitamāpnoti praveśanirgamāviti |

saṃviṣṭaṃ cainamṛjusthitadehaṃ svabāhūpadhānaṃ prasāritavāmasakthimākuñcitetaraṃ tasyaiva copariprasāritadākṣaṇabāhuṃ kārayet ||

ebhireva ca siddhaṃ sarpirnasyam |

rūḍhaṃ tu vidradhau yadi tvak supteva bhavati tato vāmayet |

upasnigdhaṃ ca virecayet ||

One may readily administer an unctuous enema at night to one who has eaten and whose food is digested; / but one afflicted by pure wind, even if unpurified and of unascertained strength, should be given an unctuous enema because of the emergency of the disease. / Its procedure is: far more than for emesis, auspicious rites having been performed, comfortably anointed, bathed in warm water, having eaten an unctuous, light, and hot meal preceded by liquids, reduced by one quarter from the customary amount, accompanied by an after-drink, having walked around, having evacuated feces and urine, his hands still moist from food, attended by dependable attendants, one should have him lie down in a windless room upon an extended bed that is not too high, well covered, with the foot end raised slightly, on his left side with his head to the east. / For in one who has eaten an excessively unctuous meal, from connection with both channels, the unctuous substance produces intoxication, fainting, depression of the digestive fire, and nausea; / in one who has eaten ununctuous food, it produces obstruction of the bowels or loss of strength and complexion; / in one who has eaten a small amount of liquid food, when feces and urine have been evacuated, from being enveloped by that which is unobscured, it produces a complication; / in one who has eaten long before, when the food is on the verge of causing a burning sensation, it produces fever; / and because the sites of the digestive fire, the duodenum, and the orifices of the rectal folds depend upon the left side, they are downward in one lying on that side, and therefore the medicine enters and exits without hindrance. / And having him lie down, one should make his body straight, resting on his own arm as a pillow, his left thigh extended and the other bent, and his right arm stretched out over that same [thigh]. / And ghee prepared with these very [drugs] is [for use as] nasal drops. / But when healed, if the skin on the abscess becomes as if numb, then one should induce vomiting, / and having gently oleated [him], one should purge him.