Ashtangasamgraha 10.10

10.10

Moreover:

One should place solid food on the right side,

liquid food, lickables, and the tooth-cleansing ball on the left, and main edible food in the middle.

According to the digestive fire and suitability, one should eat liquid or dry food first;

and at the very beginning, heavy, sweet, and unctuous food;

in the middle, sour and salty food;

at the end, dry, liquid, and food possessing other tastes.

There, for one with weak digestive fire, the internal heat being stimulated by hot liquid, the other food consumed undergoes proper digestion.

And whoever perceives beyond the senses, one should predict their death.

Splitting pain of the testicles, pain in the bladder and penis, sour eructation, thirst, fever, burning sensation, fainting, diarrhea, and jaundice occur in those born of pitta.

Cardiac tightness, craving, insomnia, trembling, colic, constipation, emaciation, cough, and dyspnea occur in those born of vāta.

Or having anointed the anal region with oil, compressing it with sharp-pointed pieces of burnt brick heated fire-red and quenched in buffalo urine, one should foment it twice a day for seven days;

and afterwards, [bathe it] with the sitz bath as described.

Then, after seven nights have passed, having made a suppository (varti) from a paste of tender sprouts of pūtīkarañja with rock salt and the milk of snuhī, not excessively dry, one should insert it into the rectum.

And after the patient has passed feces and urine, one should place them in a tub bath (avagāha).

This procedure is to be performed morning and evening, every day or on alternate days, up to three nights.

Then one should use devadālī alkali with harītakī.

In this way, hemorrhoids wither away.

He forgets, regains consciousness, weeping with an altered voice.