[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) › 6.12 # Ashtangasamgraha 6.12 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 6.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.12) vāpīnadītoyamiti tat punaḥ smṛtamaṣṭadhā | sakṣāraṃ pittakṛt kaupaṃ dīpanānnātivātalam || tatra daśādyāḥ pūrvavat | dve vahato 'nnaṃ mātrāśrayeṇa | dve toyam | dve mūtram | dve śukraṃ vahato dve ca muñcataḥ | te eva nārīṇāmārtavam | dve varconirasinyau sthūlāntrapratibaddhe | evaṃ dvādaśa | śeṣāstvaṣṭau dhamanyastiraścīnāḥ svedamabhitarpayanti || snigdhāḥ satvavayoyuktā madyanityāstadanvayāḥ | medaḥkaphādhikā mandavātapittā dṛḍhāgnayaḥ || tāṃ ghṛtāktāṃ pibeddhūmaṃ yavān vā ghṛtasaṃyutān || piṣṭvā kuṣṭhaṃ ca mūtreṇa pibet kṣārāṃśca dīpanān | bastimasya vidaddhyācca samūtraṃ dāśamūlikam || viśeṣataḥ skandagrahe trirātraṃ ca rātrau rātrau gāyatryabhimantritodakena catvare dhātrīkumārayoḥ snapanamācaret || > reservoir water and river water—thus it is remembered as eightfold. > > Well water is alkaline, aggravates pitta, stimulates digestion, and does not greatly provoke vāta. > > There, the first ten are as before. > > Two carry food, based on its proper quantity. > > Two carry water. > > Two carry urine. > > Two carry semen and two release it; > > these same two \[carry\] menstrual fluid in women. > > Two, attached to the large intestine, expel the feces; > > thus there are twelve. > > And the remaining eight transverse arteries gratify sweat. > > Those who are unctuous, endowed with strength and youth, habituated to daily liquor, descended from such families, > > possessing an excess of fat and kapha, mild vāta and pitta, and robust digestive fire. > > One should inhale the smoke of that \[preparation\] smeared with ghee, or barley mixed with ghee. > > Having ground kuṣṭha with urine, he should drink it, and stimulating alkaline preparations; > > and one should administer an enema to him with urine and the ten roots. > > Especially in Skanda-possession, for three nights, night after night, one should perform the bathing of the wet-nurse and infant at a crossroads with water consecrated by the Gāyatrī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.11) - [Next: 6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.13) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.6.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.12) · Pramāṇa