Ashtangasamgraha 1.15

1.15

by the treatise-makers, with some variation here and there; / and because, intent upon conveying the meaning, they were not careful in their expression.

An evacuating enema prepared with bilva and vidārī, combined with milk;

an oily enema of oil prepared with madhuka and bhadradāru;

a urethral enema of oil prepared with milk and the juice of freshwater crab.

In the pitta type: drinking of ghee prepared with kāṇḍekṣu, śvadaṃṣṭrā, and guḍūcī, with a paste-additive of mūrvā and madhūka;

purgation with trivṛt powder along with ghee;

an evacuating enema prepared with payasyā and śrīparṇī, combined with milk;

an oily enema and a urethral enema of oil prepared with madhuka and mudgaparṇī.

In the kapha type: drinking of ghee prepared with a decoction of pāṣāṇabheda, aśmantaka, and āmalaka, with a paste-additive of pippalī and madhuka powders;

emesis with a decoction of madanaphala;

purgation with dantī and viḍaṅga powders licked with oil;

an evacuating enema concentrated with a decoction of rājavṛkṣa and madanaphala;

an oily enema and a urethral enema of oil prepared with madhuka and pippalī.

Or one should administer that linctus in foods and drinks;

and one should prepare foods and drinks with the decoctions of those very [drugs].