[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) › 4.12 # Ashtangasamgraha 4.12 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 4.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.12) visarge balināṃ prāyaḥ svabhāvādigurukṣamam | bṛṃhaṇānyannapānāni yojayettasya yuktaye || āmagarbhaśeṣeṇa hi punaḥpunarakuśalamanuṣajyeta | tasmāttīkṣṇairanavaśeṣayannupācaret | tataḥ paraṃ snehapānairbastibhirāhāraiśca dīpanīyapācanīyajīvanīyabṛṃhaṇīyamadhuravātaharairiti || sa yāpyastamakaḥ sādhyo navo vā balino bhavet || pañcakāsān śiraḥkampaṃ yonivaṅkṣaṇavedanām | sarvāṅgaikāṅgarogāṃśca saplīhordhvānilān jayet || rasaḥ sapeṣyo balavaṇamāṃsaretognitaimiryaśirorujīṣṭaḥ || sagranthikaiḥ sendrayavaiḥ śiśostat satataṃ hitam | sarvarogagrahaharaṃ dīpanaṃ balavarṇadam || > During the releasing period, \[the digestive fire\] of strong persons can naturally digest heavy \[substances\]; / for its proper employment, one should apply nourishing foods and drinks. // For through a residue of unformed embryo, harm would continually attach again and again; / therefore, one should treat \[her\] with sharp \[substances\], leaving no residue. // Thereafter, with drinks of unctuous substances, with enemas, and with foods that are digestive-fire-stimulating, digestive, vitality-promoting, nourishing, sweet, and vāta-relieving. // That tamaka \[asthma\] is manageable; or, when fresh and in a strong person, it can be curable. // It conquers the five kinds of cough, head-tremor, and pain in the vagina and groins, / diseases of the whole body and of a single limb, along with splenic disorders and upward-moving vāta. // The meat juice, along with the paste, is desired for strength, complexion, muscle, semen, digestive fire, eye disease, and headache. // With granthika and indrayava, it is constantly wholesome for an infant; / it removes all diseases and grahas, stimulates the digestive fire, and bestows strength and complexion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.11) - [Next: 4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.13) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.12) · Pramāṇa