[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Ashtangasamgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › 3.37 # Ashtangasamgraha 3.37 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 3.37 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.3.37) viṣamūrcchāmadārtānāmapathyaṃ śoṣiṇāṃ ca tat | pathyaṃ suptotthite bhukte snāte vānte ca mānave || tamupadekṣyate tūtāreṣu | atha sūtikāṃ balātailenābhyajyāt | bubhukṣitāṃ ca pañcakolacūrṇena yavānyupakuñcikācavyacitrakavyoṣasaindhavacūrṇena vā yuktāmahaḥpariṇāminīṃ yathāsātmyaṃ snehamātrāṃ pāyayet | snehāyogyāṃ vātaharauṣadhakvāthaṃ hrasvapajcamūlakvāthaṃ vā || pārāvata ivākūjan pārśvaśūlī tato 'sya ca || lājāḥ śṛṅgāṭakaṃ mustaṃ kharjūraṃ kṛṣṇamṛttikām || vāyunā bheṣaje tvanyat sasnehalavaṇaṃ pibet || tṛṣṇāgṛhītaḥ kṣāmākṣo hanti taṃ śuṣkarevatī || > That is unwholesome for those distressed by poison, fainting, and intoxication, and for the emaciated; / it is wholesome for a person who has arisen from sleep, eaten, bathed, or vomited. > > He will explain that in the later sections. > > Now, one should massage the newly delivered woman with balā oil. > > And when she is hungry, one should make her drink an amount of unctuous substance digestable within a day, according to habituation, combined with the powder of the five spices, or with the powder of ajwain, small fennel, wild pepper, leadwort, the three pungents, and rock salt. > > For one unfit for oleation, a decoction of vāta-dispelling drugs, or a decoction of the lesser five roots. > > Cooing like a dove, suffering from flank pain, and then for him, > > Puffed rice, water chestnut, nutgrass, dates, and black soil. > > In case of vāta, however, one should drink another medicine with unctuous substance and salt. > > Seized by thirst and having sunken eyes, śuṣkarevatī destroys him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.3.36) - [Next: 3.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.3.38) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.3.37) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.3.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.3.37) · Pramāṇa