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Ashtangasamgraha 11.21

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11.21

An unction of tvak, patra, rāsnā, agaru, śigru, and kuṣṭha, ground with sour liquid together with vacā and śatāhvā,
destroys khallī and viṣūcikā; and an oil properly cooked [with these] performs the same purpose.
And with fainting, vomiting, and diarrhea, it kills the weak abdomen.
Or in delivered women or pregnant women, a dense swelling may arise.
Then, even when the restorative dietary regimen has been properly performed, if diarrhea persists, mucilaginous enemas should be employed:
Having wrapped stalks of śālmalī with fresh darbha grass, coated them with black clay, one should steam them over a fire of cow dung.
Knowing the stalks to be steamed when the clay is dried, one should pound them well in a mortar; one should rub a fist-sized ball of them in a prastha of milk.
Then, with that strained milk, mixed with ghee, oil, and paste of honey and liquorice, one should administer a non-unctuous enema.
And when it has returned, having bathed, he should eat with milk boiled with kacchurā, or with meat broth of arid-tract animals.
This mucilaginous enema pacifies pitta- and blood-diarrhea, grahaṇī disorder, abdominal swelling, emaciation, fever, and the excessive effects of purgation and non-unctuous enemas.

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