Ashtangasamgraha 12.5

12.5

And it is again threefold: contrary to the cause, contrary to the disease, and producing both effects.

Among them, contrary to the cause is light, dry, hot, and the like in a disease arising from heavy, unctuous, cold, and similar factors;

likewise the reverse in the other.

Contrary to the disease:

The two basic therapeutic measures are fasting and nourishing;

the five procedures are emesis and the rest, along with smoking, fumigation, collyrium, and so forth;

likewise softening, warm poultices, incision, and so on.

Moreover:

Afflicted by that, with dry palate and lips, with swollen feet, hands, and abdomen,

for those with digestive disorders, buttermilk is appetizing and astringent due to its lightness;

it is wholesome because of its sweet post-digestive effect, and it does not vitiate pitta.

And one should purge this [patient] with paste of triphalā accompanied by a decoction of trivṛt,

or with powder of brāhmī combined with a decoction of triphalā.

One should administer an errhine of oil prepared with sandalwood, uśīra, madhuka, raisin, punarnavā, and bṛhatī root.

And when the eyelid has been scraped and has bled, cleansing with a decoction of yaṣṭyāhva;

affusion with milk boiled with sandalwood;

and cold, unctuous applications to the head and face.