Ashtangasamgraha 12.9

12.9

Silver is unctuous, astringent-sour, sweet in post-digestive effect, and sweet in taste; / it maintains youth, is cooling, scraping, and overcomes vāta and pitta.

Or in a place of that kind.

Appearance of streaks and disappearance of folds on the belly, however, in abdominal diseases.

And herein, one should add half a pala each of paste of ativiṣā, kṛṣṇasārivā, and bhadrā; two palas each of rock salt, viḍ-salt, and barley alkali; four palas of long pepper; and a vessel of ghee: this, formulated by Agastya, is fully capable of generating digestive fire.

Or one should scrape repeatedly;

and one should perform irrigation with a decoction of triphalā, yaṣṭīmadhu, and the two turmerics, combined with honey;

or with water cooked with mustā, sugar, and leaves of wood-apple.