Ashtangasamgraha 11.25

11.25

And that [lightening therapy] is threefold:

fasting, fasting with digestive [drugs], and depletion.

Among them, fasting is for those with slight doṣas.

For through the increase of wind and digestive fire caused by it, the slight doṣa dries up, just like a small pool of water exposed to wind and sun.

In the case of a moderate doṣa, [it is dried up] by fasting and digestive [drugs], just as a not very large pool of water is [dried] by wind and sun and by scattering dust and ash upon it.

For those with excessive doṣas, however, only depletion of doṣas should be performed.

For if the flood of water in a pond is not drained, there can be no thriving of śāli rice and the like.

Touch like a water-skin filled with air, dry, arising from vāta, pain without cause.

One with an excess of vāta, however, should lick śatāvarī-clarified butter;

or butter with sugar;

or clarified butter prepared with slimy fresh juice.

Clarified butter prepared with lac, pippalī, ginger, kaṭukā, indrayava, and dārvī bark, drunk with the supernatant scum of thin gruel, checks even diarrhea caused by all three doṣas.

Through that, the child may have swollen and copper-colored eyes, unable to see,
with pain and sliminess of the eyelids, rubbing the ears, nose, and eyes.