[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) › [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt) › 1.33 # Ashtangasamgraha 1.33 English (machine translation) 1.33 - **Language:** English ### [1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.33) Sweet, sour, saline, bitter, pungent, and astringent: these are the six tastes residing in a substance, and each preceding one brings greater strength than the subsequent. Likewise, having smelled the vapor of cooking rice flour and white-stalked apāmārga, jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, the central stalk of śaṅkhapuṣpī, sahacara, nagnajit, and agnijihvā, or eight banyan shoots, a woman standing on the threshold should administer that juice through the nose as before. \[One should administer\] a sour gruel cooked \[with drugs\] that kindle the digestive fire and digest \[undigested matter\] to one suffering from fever with diarrhea. Using this guiding method, the wise physician should also design other \[prescriptions\]. Consisting of an uneven number of syllables, not harsh, clear in meaning, charming, easy to pronounce, ending in a long syllable, and possessing the name of a blessing. - [Previous: 1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.32) - [Next: 1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.34) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.33) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.33) · Pramāṇa