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Ashtangasamgraha 11.23

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11.23

In the cases of disorders of immature metabolic waste, however, having observed at the time of a meal that the food is digested, that the stomach is coated with doṣas, and that the abdomen is motionless, heavy, and has no desire for food, one should make him drink medicine to digest the remnant of doṣa and to kindle the fire.
One should not make him drink [it], however, when food is undigested;
for the digestive fire, weakened by disorders of immature metabolic waste, is unable to digest simultaneously the immature metabolic waste, the medicine, and the quantity of food.
Having drowsiness, burning sensation, anorexia, vomiting, fainting, flatulence, and diarrhea.
Reaching the testicles from the groin, [the veins] carrying to the scrotum.
There, one should administer goat's milk boiled with young shoots of nyagrodha and others, mixed with sugar and honey, in food and for washing the rectum.
Or one should drink that kind of ghee accompanied by milk;
or he should lick ghee produced from milk, with a milk after-drink, eating francolin soup or eating milk.

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