[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) › 8.15 # Ashtangasamgraha 8.15 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 8.15 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.15) tatra madamaphalālabubimbīkośātakīphalairdādhimadhuyuktamāśu vamanaṃ dadyāt niṣpāvāmbubhirvā | tataḥ snigdhaśarīraṃ virecayat | triphalātrikaṭunāgapuṣpamadhukabarhiṇaparṇībṛhatīdvayacūrṇaṃ siṃhavyāghravṛkatarakṣudvīpimārjārasṛgālamṛgagodhānāmanyatamapittarasasaṃyuktaṃ sakṣaudraṃ pānameṣa jīvano nāmāgadaḥ paraṃ sarvaviṣauṣadham | tasmin jīrṇe śyāmāvyoṣātiviṣāsiddhena payasā ghṛtena vopastambhitāṃ mudgayūṣeṇa kiṃcillavaṇena sasarpiṣkeṇa mṛdvodanaṃ bhojayet | madhukaśirīṣacandanaiścainamālimpet || sarvaguṇasamuditaḥ samadoṣaprakṛtiḥ | tatrādyāstrayo nityāturāḥ doṣānuśayitaprakṛtitvāt | viśeṣataśca dvandvaprakṛtayaḥ | teṣu hi guṇamiśravikārakāriṣu kṣutpipāsādiṣvivārogyavyapadeśaḥ | tasmādviparītaguṇena vidhinā doṣopakramaṇīyoktena tānupācaret | samasarvarasena sātmyenāntyaṃ yathartuvihitena ca || śakṛddurgandhamāṭopaviṣṭambhārtiprasekinaḥ || dhātrīrasena śītaṃ vā pibenmudgadalāmbu vā || mātrāyā na vyavasthāsti vyādhiṃ koṣṭhaṃ balaṃ vayaḥ | ālocya deśakālau ca yojyā tadvacca kalpanā || grahān sarvān nihantyāśu viśeṣādāsurān grahān || > In that case, one should promptly give emesis with fruits of madanaphala, alābu, bimbī, and kośātakī, mixed with curd and honey, / or with water of niṣpāva. > > Then, when the body is oleated, one should purge it. > > The powder of the three fruits, the three pungents, nāgapuṣpa, madhuka, barhiṇaparṇī, and the two bṛhatīs, combined with the bile fluid of any one of a lion, tiger, wolf, hyena, leopard, cat, jackal, deer, or monitor lizard, taken with honey—this antidote named Jīvana is the supreme medicine for all poisons. > > When that is digested, one should feed him soft boiled rice with mung bean soup, slightly salted and with ghee, supported by milk or ghee prepared with śyāmā, the three pungents, and ativiṣā. > > And one should plaster him with madhuka, śirīṣa, and sandalwood. > > Endowed with all qualities is the constitution of balanced doṣas. > > Among them, the first three are constantly afflicted because their constitution is dominated by a doṣa, > and especially the dual constitutions; > for in them, producing disorders of mixed qualities, the designation of health is just like \[that in\] hunger, thirst, and the like. > > Therefore, by means of a procedure of contrary qualities stated in the chapter on the management of doṣas, one should treat them; > and the last with \[a regimen\] consisting of all tastes equally, by habitual use, and according to what is prescribed for the season. > > In those with foul-smelling stool, borborygmi, constipation, pain, and excessive salivation, > one should drink it cold with emblic myrobalan juice or with mung bean cotyledon water. > > There is no fixed rule of dosage; having considered the disease, bowels, strength, age, / place, and time, it should be administered, and likewise the pharmaceutical preparation. > > It destroys all seizure spirits quickly, especially the demonic seizure spirits. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.14) - [Next: 8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.16) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.15) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Ārogyacintāmaṇi (Dāmodaramiśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.arogyacintamani-damodara.92.137) — Dāmodaramiśra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.15) · Pramāṇa