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Ashtangasamgraha 8.22

Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 8.22

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Sanskrit

8.22

ghreyāṇi ghrāpayitvā tu spṛśyān saṃspṛśya tānapi |

pratīvāpaṃ tato datvā pratīkṣyaivaikanāḍikām ||

tasminmārutodrekaḥ tena ślathasāramāṃsasandhyasthitā tvakpāruṣyamavanāmaḥ kāyasya vepathuḥ kāsaḥ śvāsaḥ śleṣmasiṅghāṇakodīraṇaṃ dhātukṣayaśca ||

ānaddhodaratā chardiḥkarṇakṣveḍāntrakūjanam ||

kaphaghnamannaṃ hṛdyaṃ ca rāgāḥ sārjakabhūstṛṇāḥ ||

anirūpitakalpanaṃ ca bhaiṣajyaṃ kalkīkuryāt |

athaikadhyaṃ pratisaṃsṛjyādhiśritya ca niryūhavatsādhayet ||

sitalaśunaphalatrayośīratiktāvacā tutthayaṣṭībalālohitailāśilāpadmakaiḥ ||

Having caused him to smell things to be smelled, and having touched those [ointments] to be touched,
and then having added the additive, waiting for just one nāḍikā—

In that [old age], there is an excess of vāta; thereby there are loose core constituents, flesh, joints, and bones, roughness of the skin, stooping of the body, tremor, cough, dyspnea, emission of phlegm and nasal mucus, and depletion of bodily tissues.

Distension of the abdomen, vomiting, ringing in the ears, and rumbling in the intestines;
food that destroys kapha and is pleasing to the heart, along with soups flavored with sweet basil and bhūstṛṇa.
And a medicine whose preparation is not explicitly defined, one should turn into a paste.
Then, combining it together and placing it on the fire, one should prepare it like a decoction.
With sugar, garlic, triphalā, uśīra, tiktā, vacā, tuttha, yaṣṭī, balā, red sandalwood, cardamoms, and padmaka—

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