[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) › 7.21 # Ashtangasamgraha 7.21 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 7.21 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.7.21) sandhānakarī madhuro godhūmaḥ sthairyakṛt saraḥ | pathyā nandīmukhī śītā kaṣāyā madhurā laghuḥ || iti śūkadhānyavargaḥ | pratiniyatakarmāṇi candrasūryāyaskāntopalānāmivāmbuvahnikālalohasaṃśleṣāḥ tathā ca chinneṣu bahumarmasvapi pāṇipādeṣu svabhāvata eva na mṛtyuḥ || sthitāni tānyasādhyani yāpyantegnibalādibhiḥ || balāgarbhaṃ ghṛtaṃ yojyaṃ kravyāmāṃsarasena vā || phenilacyutyadhāryatvaṃ basteḥ syurbastidoṣataḥ || > wheat promotes healing, is sweet, gives stability, and is laxative; / nandīmukhī is wholesome, cold, astringent, sweet, and light; // thus ends the group of awned grains; // their specific operations are like the attachments of water, fire, time, and iron with the moon, sun, and magnetic stone; and thus even when the hands and feet, which have many vital points, are cut off, there is naturally no death; // those incurable ones that have become established are managed by the strength of the digestive fire and other factors; // ghee prepared with balā should be administered, or with the meat broth of carnivorous animals; // frothy, slipping, and inability to retain are due to defects of the enema bladder; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.7.20) - [Next: 7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.7.22) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.21) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.303) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Āyurvedasaukhya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.ayurvedasaukhya.17.3.p1) — Ṭoḍaramalla 1565, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.7.21) · Pramāṇa