Ashtangasamgraha 36.7

36.7

na tu snehapītakṛtapañcakarmānyatamagarbhiṇīsūtikājīrṇakāmalāklībonaṣoḍaśātītasaptativarṣābhighātātisrutaraktāduṣṭaraktāsnigdhātisnigdhāsvinnākṣepakapakṣāghātātisāracchardiśvāsakāsodararaktapittārśaḥpāṇḍurogasarvāṅgaśophapīḍitānām |

na cāvyadhanīyāścāyantritānutthitāḥ sirāḥ na tiryaṅna cātiśītoṣṇavarṣavātābhreṣu |

tatra snehapītādiṣu samyagviddhā api sirā na sravantyatisravanti vā samyaksnigdhasvinnasya punardravībhūtā doṣāḥ śoṇitamanupraviṣṭāḥ samyak pracyavante |

na tveṣa niṣedho viṣasaṃsṛṣṭopasargātyayikavyādhiṣu |

pratirogaṃ tu vyadhaṃ prati vibhāgaḥ ||

mahādāhajvarakarī vivṛtā vivṛtānanā ||

However, [it should] not [be performed] on those who have drunk unctuous substances, who have undergone any of the five purificatory therapies, pregnant women, puerperal women, those suffering from indigestion, jaundice, or impotence, those under sixteen or past seventy years of age, those injured by trauma, those who have bled excessively, those whose blood is unvitiated, those who are unctuated, excessively unctuated, or un-sudated, or those afflicted by convulsions, hemiplegia, diarrhea, vomiting, dyspnea, cough, abdominal disease, bleeding disorder, hemorrhoids, anemia, and generalized edema. / Nor should veins that are not fit to be punctured, unbound, or unraised be punctured, nor obliquely, nor during excessive cold, heat, rain, wind, or cloudy weather. / There, in those who have drunk unctuous substances and the like, veins even if properly punctured do not bleed, or bleed excessively; whereas in one who is properly oleated and sudated, the doṣas, having liquefied and entered the blood, flow out properly. / But this prohibition does not apply in cases of poison contact, infections, or emergency diseases. / The division regarding puncture is given according to each disease. / Vivṛtā causes severe burning and fever, is wide open, and has an open mouth.