[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) › 6.27 # Ashtangasamgraha 6.27 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 6.27 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.27) pāṭalākaravīrādikusumairgandhanāśanam | pānīyaṃ na tu pānīyaṃ pānīye 'nyapradeśaje || tābhyāṃ ca sāramalābhyāṃ tadātmakānāmeva śarīraguṇānāṃ dhātvākhyānāṃ yathāsvaṃ srotāṃsi pāramparyeṇāvicchinnasantānamāpūryante | srotobhyaśca yathāvibhāgaṃ yathāyathameva dhātavaḥ puṣyanti | uttarottarānupraveśe 'pi ca pūrveṣāṃ srotasāṃ yathākālaṃ samyagāhāropayogena pariṇāmavatāpyāyyamānānāṃ nāpacayo bhavati | tataśca dhātvākhyāḥ prasādamalāḥ svaṃ svameva mānamanuvartante | yathāvayaśśarīram || sarvātmā sannipātena raktāt stabdhāṅgadṛṣṭitā || saktūnvārkāṅkurakṣīrabhāvitānāṃ samākṣikān | yavānāṃ daśamūlādiniḥkvāthalulitān pibet || auṣṇyāttaikṣṇyāt saratvācca bastiṃtasosyānulomayet | gomūtreṇa trivṛtpathyākalkaṃ vādhonulomanam || śvagrahe gavākṣībrahmadattābṛhatīdvayasārivāddrīverakuṣṭhabhūmikadambasurasamañjarīkaravīrapuṣpaiḥ pradehaḥ | mayūro lūkāśvamahiṣīpurīṣaromabhiśca | bilvairaṇḍanaktamālāralukapatrakvāthaḥ pariṣekaḥ || > Destruction of the smell with flowers of pāṭalā, karavīra, and the like; / \[one should drink this\] water, but water born of another region is not to be drunk. // And by those two—the essence and the waste product—the channels of the bodily qualities called bodily tissues, composed of those very \[elements\], are each successively filled in an unbroken continuity; / and from the channels, the bodily tissues are nourished proportionately, each in its proper way. // And even when entering each subsequent \[tissue\], there is no diminution of the previous channels, which are being nourished at proper times by the digestion resulting from the correct use of food. // And thence the clear essences and waste products called bodily tissues maintain their own measure, / corresponding to age and body. // By a confluence of all \[three doṣas\], \[one has\] all characteristics; from blood, stiffness of the limbs and gaze. // One should drink roasted barley groats, infused with the milky sap of arka sprouts, with honey, / \[made of\] barley stirred into a decoction of daśamūla and the like. // Because of its heat, sharpness, and flowing nature, he should direct the enema downwards; / or a paste of trivṛt and pathyā with cow's urine as a downward-moving agent. // In the case of the dog-demon seizure, a poultice with gavākṣī, brahmadattā, the two bṛhatīs, sārivā, hrīvera, kuṣṭha, bhūmikadamba, surasā flowers, and karavīra flowers; / and with feces and hair of peacock, owl, horse, and buffalo; / an affusion with a decoction of leaves of bilva, eraṇḍa, naktamāla, and araluka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.26) - [Next: 6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.28) - [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.6.27) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.27) · Pramāṇa