Ashtangasamgraha 36.2

36.2

bahavo hi raktāvasecanopāyāḥ prāgabhihitāsteṣāmanyeṣāṃ ca virekādīnāmupakramāṇāṃ tatsādhyeṣvāmayeṣu sirāvyadhaḥ pradhānam |

amunā hi te samūlāḥ śoṣamāyānti kedārasetubhedena śālyādaya iva |

tathā ca ||

piṭakāḥ kaphavātābhyāṃ bālānāmajagallikā ||

Many methods of bloodletting have indeed been stated earlier; among them and other procedures such as purgation, venesection is foremost in diseases curable thereby; / for through it those [diseases] are dried up along with their roots, just as rice paddy and other crops are when a dike around a field is breached. / And likewise: / The eruptions [known as] ajagallikā in children arise from kapha and vāta.