Ashtangasamgraha 13.2

13.2

Water is the best among things that refresh, arrest [discharges], and moisten;

bathing and liquor, among things that remove fatigue;

milk, among vitalizers;

meat, among nourishing substances;

meat-soup, among gladdening substances;

salt, among substances that produce relish for food;

tinduka fruit, among substances that cause aversion to food;

sour [food], among heart-pleasing substances;

rooster, among strengtheners;

[sesame] oil, among pacifiers of vāta and śleṣman;

ghee, among pacifiers of vāta and pitta;

honey, among pacifiers of śleṣman and pitta;

sudation, among softeners;

exercise, among things that produce firmness;

caustic alkali, among things destructive of virility;

unripe wood-apple, among things harmful to the voice;

sheep's ghee, among unwholesome things for the heart;

buffalo milk, among sleep-inducers;

partially formed curd, among things producing obstruction [of the channels];

sugarcane, among urine-inducers;

barley, among stool-inducers;

jāmbava, among vāta-inducers;

horse-gram, among inducers of acid dyspepsia;

black gram, fried cakes, and ewe's milk, among inducers of pitta and śleṣman;

durālabhā, among desiccators of pitta and śleṣman;

fasting, among fever-removers;

vāśā, among pacifiers of bleeding disorders;

kaṇṭakārikā, among destroyers of cough;

lac, among healers of fresh wounds;

habitual use of nāgabalā, among cures for chest wound and consumption;

puṣkaramūla, among relievers of hiccup, dyspnea, cough, pain in the flanks, and anorexia;

goat's milk, among consumption-removers, milk-promoters, styptics, and pacifiers;

water settled with a heated earthen clod, among relievers of excessive vomiting and thirst;

marking-nut and leadwort root, among pacifiers of dry hemorrhoids;

kutaja, among pacifiers of bleeding hemorrhoids;

puffed rice, among destroyers of vomiting;

barley-ash, among laxatives, digestives, and destroyers of hemorrhoids;

habitual use of buttermilk, among pacifiers of hemorrhoids, swelling, digestive-tract disorder, and mishaps due to ghee;

habitual use of carnivorous meat, among destroyers of hemorrhoids, consumption, and digestive-tract disorder;

mustā, among bowel-binding, digestive fire-kindling, and food-digesting substances;

ativiṣā, among bowel-binding, food-digesting substances, and removers of all doṣas;

bilva, among bowel-binding, fire-kindling substances, and pacifiers of vāta and kapha;

udīcya, among cooling substances, fire-kindlers, and relievers of vomiting and diarrhea;

kaṭvaṅga, among bowel-binding and fire-kindling substances;

bark of kutaja, among things that bind and desiccate śleṣman, pitta, and blood;

filaments of blue lotus and white lotus, along with anantā, among bowel-binding substances and pacifiers of bleeding disorders;

kāśmarya fruit, among styptics and pacifiers of bleeding disorders;

gandhapriyaṅgu, among relievers of excessive hemorrhage and pitta;

pṛśniparṇī, among styptic, fire-kindling, food-digesting, vāta-destroying, and aphrodisiac substances;

sālaparṇī, among aphrodisiacs and removers of all doṣas;

balā, among bowel-binding, tonic, and vāta-destroying substances;

pippalī-root, among kindlers of digestive fire, digestives, and relievers of abdominal distension; leadwort root, among kindlers of digestive fire, digestives, and removers of anal swelling and colic;

gokṣura, among relievers of dysuria and vāta;

turmeric, among destroyers of urinary disorders;

bloodletting, among removers of abscesses, erysipelas, boils, and scrofula;

habitual use of castor oil, among relievers of scrotal enlargement, abdominal swelling, and vāta pain;

garlic, among removers of abdominal swelling and vāta;

asafetida resin, among cutting, digesting, downward-propelling substances, and pacifiers of vāta and kapha;

amlavetasa, among purgatives, kindlers of fire, downward-propelling substances, and pacifiers of vāta and kapha;

camel's milk, among destroyers of abdominal enlargement and swelling;

iron powder, among destroyers of anemia;

khadira, among destroyers of skin diseases;

viḍaṅga, among destroyers of parasitic worms;

rāsnā, among removers of vāta;

castor root, among aphrodisiacs and removers of vāta;

guggulu, among removers of fat and vāta;

amṛtā, among bowel-binding, fire-kindling substances, and pacifiers of vāta, śleṣman, blood, and constipation;

madanaphala, among substances useful for emesis, non-unctuous enemas, and unctuous enemas;

trivṛt, among easy purgatives;

caturaṅgula, among gentle purgatives;

spurge milk, among sharp purgatives;

pratyakpuṣpī, among head-cleansers;

triphalā, among destroyers of ocular cataract;

guggulu, among substances beneficial for wounds;

śirīṣa, among destroyers of poisons;

āmalaka, among age-sustainers;

harītakī, among wholesome substances;

habitual use of milk and ghee, among rasāyana rejuvenators;

habitual intake of parched barley-meal with equal parts ghee, among aphrodisiacs and removers of upward vāta;

volition and crocodile semen, among aphrodisiacs.
There, pitta situated in the heart, impelled by strong vāta,
causes tears to flow from the inner canthus, at the junction of the eyelid and the white.
By that, the eye becomes painless, red, and swollen; that is watery discharge.