[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) › 36.2 # Ashtangasamgraha 36.2 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 36.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [36.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 36.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.36.1) - [Next: 36.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.36.3) - [Up: 36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.36) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.36.2) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.43.1) — Indu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.36.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.36.2) · Pramāṇa