[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt) › 12.9 # Ashtangasamgraha 12.9 English (machine translation) 12.9 - **Language:** English ### [12.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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. - [Previous: 12.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.12.8) - [Next: 12.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.12.10) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.12) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.12.9) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.12.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.12.9) · Pramāṇa