Ashtangasamgraha 4.24
Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 4.24
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4.24
vyāyāmodvarttanakṣaudrayavagodhūmajāṅgalān |
seveta suhṛdudyānayuvatīśca manoramāḥ ||
tadasiddhau vīraṇaśālikuśakāśekṣubālikāvetasaparivyādhamūlānāṃ bhūtīkānantākāśmaryaparūṣakamadhūkamadhukamṛdvīkānāṃ ca payasārdhodakenodgṛhya rasaṃ tena priyālabibhītakamajjatilakalkayukteneṣallavaṇoṣṇena nirūhayet |
vigatavibandhāṃ ca snātāśitāṃ sāyaṃ tenaiva tailenānuvāsayet ||
śamaṃ sātmyānnapānena yā prayāti ca sānnajā ||
pibet samatilāṃ peyāṃ kṣaireyīṃ vā sasaindhavām |
mātsyakaukkuṭavārāhairmāṃsairvā sājyasaindhavām ||
dadyānnirūhaṃ vidhinā vidhijñaḥ sasarvasaṃsargakṛtāmayaghnaḥ ||
yamo vaivasvato rājā ye ca tasyānucāriṇaḥ ||
One should resort to exercise, dry massage, honey, barley, wheat, and game animals;
and enjoy friends, pleasure gardens, and charming young women.
If that is not successful, one should extract the juice of the roots of vīraṇa, śāli, kuśa, kāśa, sugarcane, vetasa, and parivyādha, and of bhūtīka, anantā, kāśmarya, parūṣaka, madhūka, madhuka, and grapes, with milk and half as much water; and with that, combined with a paste of priyāla, bibhītaka marrow, and sesame seeds, slightly salty and warm, one should administer an evacuating enema (nirūha).
And when her constipation has ceased, after she has bathed and eaten, one should administer an unctuous enema (anuvāsana) in the evening with that very oil.
And that which subsides through wholesome food and drink is born of food (annajā).
One should drink thin gruel mixed with an equal part of sesame seeds, or a rice-milk porridge with rock salt,
or [gruel] with fish, rooster, or wild boar meat, accompanied by ghee and rock salt.
One who knows the procedure, destroying diseases caused by all combinations of doṣas, should administer an evacuating enema according to rule.
King Yama, the son of Vivasvat, and those who are his attendants;
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