[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) › 6.15 # Ashtangasamgraha 6.15 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 6.15 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.15) dhanvānūpamahīdhrāṇāṃ sāmīpyāt gurulāghavam | paścimodadhigāḥ śīghravahā yāścāmalodakāḥ || tāni dhātukṣayaraukṣyapipāsākṣudvyāyāmavegadhāraṇādibhirduṣyanti | tato 'tisṛṣṭaṃ pratibaddhamalpālpamabhīkṣṇaṃ vā saśabdaśūlamucchvasanam | tatra śvāsavat sādhanam || viḍbhedaḥ satataṃ tṛṣṇā saumyāgneyo jvaro 'ruciḥ || bilvādiśca nirūhaḥ syāt pīlusarṣapamūtravān | saralāmaradārubhyāṃ sādhitaṃ cānuvāsanam || devasenāripuharaḥ pātu tvā bhagavān guhaḥ || > Heaviness and lightness \[arise\] from proximity to arid lands, marshlands, and mountains. / Those flowing into the western sea, running swiftly and having clear water, / they are vitiated by depletion of the bodily tissues, dryness, thirst, hunger, exercise, suppression of natural urges, and the like. / Therefrom arises excessive, obstructed, very scanty, or frequent respiration accompanied by sound and sharp pain. / The treatment there is as in dyspnea. / Diarrhea, constant thirst, a fever of cold and hot \[phases\], and loss of appetite. / And an evacuating enema should be made of bilva and the like, containing salvadora, mustard, and cow's urine; / and an unctuous enema prepared with pinus and deodar cedar. / May the blessed Guha, destroyer of the enemies of the divine army, protect you. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.14) - [Next: 6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.16) - [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.6.15) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.15) · Pramāṇa