Ashtangasamgraha 29.3

29.3

tattu trividhaṃ virecanaṃ bṛṃhaṇaṃ śamanaṃ ca |

teṣāṃ virecanaṃ jatrūrdhvagauravaśophopadehakaṇḍūstambhābhiṣyandapākaprasekavairasyārocakasvarabhedakrimipratiśyāyāpasmāragandhājñānagranthyarbudadadrukoṭhādiṣu śleṣmajeṣu tīkṣṇena snehena śirovirecanadravyairvā siddhena teṣāṃ vā kvāthacūrṇasvarasaistaireva vā yathārhadravaślakṣṇakalkitāloḍitairmadhusaindhavāsavapittamūtrairyathāsvaṃ copadiṣṭairyojyam ||

tatra nijo doṣasamutthaḥ |

āgantuḥ śastrānuśastropalalaguḍanakhadaśanaviṣāṇaviṣāruṣkarādinimittaḥ |

so 'pi punarvātādibhiradhiṣṭhito nijatāṃ labhate ||

And that is of three kinds: purgative [virecana], nourishing [bṛṃhaṇa], and pacifying [śamana]. / Among them, purgation is to be employed in heaviness above the collarbones, swelling, coating, itching, stiffness, conjunctivitis, suppurative inflammation, excessive salivation, bad taste in the mouth, anorexia, hoarseness of voice, worms, coryza, epilepsy, loss of the sense of smell, glandular swellings, tumors, ringworm, urticarial eruptions, and the like arising from śleṣman, by means of an unctuous substance that is sharp or cooked with head-purgative ingredients, or by decoctions, powders, and fresh juices of them, or by those very [drugs] ground into a smooth paste with an appropriate liquid and stirred, together with honey, rock salt, fermented liquors, bile, and urine as individually prescribed. / There, the endogenous [disease] arises from the doṣas; / the exogenous is caused by weapons, auxiliary surgical instruments, stones, clubs, nails, teeth, horns, poison, marking-nut, and the like; / that too, being occupied by vāta and the others, acquires an endogenous nature.