Ashtangasamgraha 29.4

29.4

tatra bhītaklībakṛśasukumāreṣu snehaḥ |

galarogasannipātajvarātinidrāmanovikārakrimiviṣābhipannābhiṣyaṇṇasarpadaṣṭavisaṃjñeṣu śoṣāḥ |

teṣveva bhūyasi doṣe śīghrakāriṇi ca cūrṇaḥ |

sa hi nihito nāsāgra āvegakarataro bhavati ||

tatradoṣadūṣito duṣṭaḥ ||

There, an unctuous substance [is used] in the frightened, the impotent, the emaciated, and the delicate; / dried [substances] in throat diseases, sannipāta fever, excessive sleep, mental disorders, worms, those struck by poison, conjunctivitis, snakebite, and the unconscious; / in those very [conditions], when the doṣa is abundant and fast-acting, powder [is used], / for that, placed at the tip of the nose, becomes all the more swift in inducing an urge; / there, 'corrupted' means vitiated by a doṣa.