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# Ashtangasamgraha 11.4

English (machine translation) 11.4

- **Language:** English

### [11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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.

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## Linked texts (1)

- [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.11.4) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit

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