[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) › 8.19 # Ashtangasamgraha 8.19 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 8.19 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.19) śiro 'bhyaṅgaprayukte śirovedanā granthijanma keśacyavanaṃ ca | tatra śyāmāpālindītaṇḍulīyakacūrṇa ghṛtarkṣapittaiḥ subhāvitayā kṛṣṇamṛdā pralepaḥ | gomayamālatīmūṣikakarṇyanyatamaraso vāgāradhūmo vā śleṣmātakatvakpāṭalāśirīṣamadhukaharidrādvayairajākṣīrāloḍitaiḥ pariṣekaḥ | anena śiraḥsnānodakakaṅkatasraguṣṇīṣā vyākhyātāḥ || tadāveśastvanantarajanmābhyāsavāsanayā janyate | tasmāddevamānuṣatiryakpretanārakāṇāṃ tattadviśeṣāṇāṃ ca yathāyathamevānūkaṃ puruṣasyānvavekṣeta || akasmādvā muhurbaddhamakasmācchithilaṃ muhuḥ || madhukaṃ sātmaguptaṃ vā śītaṃ dhātrīrasena vā || bastasya mūtreṇa subhāvitaṃ tat pittena gavyena guḍān vidadhyāt || > When \[poison\] is applied as a head-rubbing, there is headache, formation of nodules, and falling out of hair. > > There, an unction should be made with black earth well-impregnated with powders of śyāmā, pālindī, and taṇḍulīyaka, ghee, and bear's bile. > > Or sprinkling should be done with cow dung, mālatī, or the juice of any \[plant such as\] mūṣikakarṇī, or chimney soot, or bark of śleṣmātaka, pāṭalā, śirīṣa, madhuka, and the two haridrās, stirred into goat's milk. > > By this, head-bath water, combs, garlands, and turbans are explained. > > That possession \[of temperament\], however, is produced by the latent impression of practice in the immediately preceding birth. > > Therefore, one should examine the constitution of a person in accordance with gods, humans, animals, ghosts, and hell-beings, and their respective distinctions. > > Or suddenly bound at one moment, suddenly loose at another. > > Madhuka or ātmaguptā, or cold with dhātrī juice; > > Having thoroughly impregnated it with he-goat's urine, one should make pills with cow's bile. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.18) - [Next: 8.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.20) - [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.8.19) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.15.19) — Indu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.19) · Pramāṇa