Ashtangasamgraha 10.5

10.5

Time, however, depends on the season and the disease, and is characterized by digestion and indigestion.
During indigestion, the unassimilated chyle of previous food, combining with the subsequent one, quickly vitiates all the doṣas.
When food is digested, however—when the doṣas reside in their proper places, when urges of urine and feces are evacuated due to the downward movement of vāta, when belching, the heart, and channel orifices are cleared, when sensory organs are clean, the body light, the digestive fire stimulated, and hunger has arisen—food consumed without vitiating the doṣas increases longevity, strength, and complexion.
Only this is the proper time for eating.
Or he does not see the pole star or the heavenly Ganges for that year.
Likewise, those born of pitta [are difficult to treat] because their site is mixed doṣas and fat, and because their treatments are mutually contradictory;
those born of vāta, moreover, [are incurable] because the bodily tissues are depleted, because they involve great danger, and because their treatments are mutually contradictory.
When fat is not overly corrupted, however, even those born of pitta may reach curability.
Thus, every seven nights, one should treat them one by one.
When they are many, however, first the right, then the left, and from the left, that which arose behind and in front.
From burning them all in one day, however, the fault stated for excessive application [arises].
There, one should treat the dry ones with fire or with caustic alkali;
the moist ones with mild caustic alkali alone.
This is the option for burning hemorrhoids in all regions.
On the third rectal fold, however, one should treat after declaring it incurable, or, according to some, not at all.
With distorted eyes and eyebrows, he awakes when the surge of the doṣa has passed.