Ashtangasamgraha 29.10

29.10

anasyārhāstu bhuktabhaktasnehamadyagaratoyapītapātukāmaśiraḥ snātasnātukāmasirādivyadhasrutaraktamūtritoccāritābhihatakṛtavamanavirekabastikarmagarbhiṇīsūtikānavapratiśyāyaśvāsakāsino 'nārtavadurdineṣvapi |

tatra bhuktabhaktasya nasyerito doṣa ūrdhvasrotāṃsyāvṛtya chardiśvāsakāsapratiśyāyān janayet |

snehādipītapātukāmānāmakṣināsāsyasyandopahatitimiraśirorogān |

śiraḥsnātasya śiro 'kṣikarṇaśūlakaṇṭharogapīnasahanumanyāstambhārditaśiraḥkampān |

snātukāmasya mūrdhastaimityajāḍyārucipīnasān |

srutaraktasya kṣāmatāmarucimagnisādaṃ ca |

mūtritoccāritayorbhṛśataraṃ vegadhāraṇajān vikārān |

abhihatasya tīvratarāṃ rujam |

kṛtavamanādīnāṃ śvāsakāsasvarendriyahāniśirogauravakaṇḍūkṛmidoṣān |

garbhiṇyā bhaktadveṣajvaramūrcchārdhāvabhedakāḥ syurapatyaṃ ca vyaṅgaṃ vikalendriyamunmādāpasmārayuktaṃ vā |

sūtikāyāḥ srutaraktoktān doṣān |

navapratiśyāyasya srotorodhādduṣṭapratiśyāyakeśaśātakṛmikaṇḍūvicarcikāḥ |

śvāsakāsinorvyādhivṛddhiḥ |

akāle durdine sahasaiva śaityācchirorugvepathustaimityatālunetrakaṇḍūpākamanyāstambhakaṇṭharogapratiśyāyārūṣikāḥ ||

saraktapūyasrāvī pittaliṅgaśca raktāt ||

Those unfit for nasal medication (nasya), however, are: one who has eaten a meal; who has consumed unctuous substances, liquor, poison, or water, or wishes to consume them; who has bathed the head or wishes to bathe; who has bled from vein puncture or the like; who is urged to urinate or defecate; who has suffered trauma; who has undergone emesis, purgation, or enema treatment; a pregnant woman; a puerperal woman; one suffering from acute coryza, dyspnea, or cough; and also during unseasonal cloudy days.

There, in one who has eaten a meal, the doṣa provoked by nasal medication, blocking the upper channels, may produce vomiting, dyspnea, cough, and coryza.

In those who have consumed or wish to consume unctuous substances and the like, it produces ophthalmia, nasal and mouth discharges, cataract, and head diseases.

In one who has bathed the head, it produces pain in the head, eyes, and ears, throat diseases, chronic rhinitis, lockjaw, stiffness of the nape, facial paralysis, and head tremor.

In one who wishes to bathe, it produces numbness and dullness of the head, anorexia, and chronic rhinitis.

In one who has lost blood, it produces emaciation, anorexia, and weakness of the digestive fire.

In those urged to urinate or defecate, it severely produces disorders arising from the suppression of natural urges.

In one who has suffered trauma, it produces more acute pain.

In those who have undergone emesis and the like, it produces dyspnea, cough, impairment of voice and sense organs, heaviness of the head, itching, and parasitic doṣas.

In a pregnant woman, it produces aversion to food, fever, fainting, and hemicrania, and the offspring will have facial blemishes, defective sense organs, or be afflicted with insanity or epilepsy.

In a puerperal woman, it produces the disorders mentioned for one who has lost blood.

In acute coryza, due to obstruction of channels, it produces malignant coryza, loss of hair, parasites, itching, and eczema.

In those with dyspnea and cough, there is aggravation of the disease.

At an improper time on a cloudy day, suddenly due to cold, it produces head pain, trembling, numbness, itching and suppuration of the palate and eyes, stiffness of the nape, throat diseases, coryza, and scabs on the scalp.

Discharging blood and pus, with the signs of pitta, arises from blood.