Ashtangasamgraha 11.4

11.4

Moreover:

The food moves neither upward nor downward, nor is it digested;

it becomes sluggish in the stomach, hence it is called alasaka.

Accompanied by dry cough, which may occur in the morning or in the afternoon;

by the doṣas individually, combined, by blood, and by trauma.

Or of jalada, bilva pulp, dry ginger, and coriander;

and both of these are termed pramathyā.

The vacādi group boiled or powdered;

likewise vacā, abhayā, viḍaṅga, pāṭhā, dry ginger, and black salt;

or mustā, pippalī, indrayava, pāṭhā, and tejovatī;

or viḍaṅga, abhayā, kaṇā, and the five salts;

or pippalī, indrayava, pāṭhā, and dry ginger;

when, however, undigested matter accompanied by blood is discharged, gajapippalī sweetened with honey and sugar;

it produces stiffness of the eyelids with pain in one who has risen from sleep.