Ashtangasamgraha 12.20

12.20

Realgar destroys kapha, is bitter and pungent, scraping, and laxative; / orpiment is unctuous, astringent, pungent, and dispels poison.

[Seeing] white flowers, clean clothes, or anointing with foul substances, or fruits;

The abdomen is motionless, unctuous, covered with white streaks, and large.

When kapha is diminished, the person with a weak digestive fire evacuates undigested, raw waste.

In case of wound pain, an irrigation of clarified butter prepared with powder of yaṣṭīmadhuka tied in a cloth, and decoctions of the vaṭa group along with milk [should be used].

On the fifth or sixth day, when the incisions have become stable, one should cut and remove the suturing thread from the hangings,
and dust the wound with powder of gold-bearing red ochre;
and one should administer sharp nasal drops and eye salves.