Ashtangasamgraha 15.12

15.12

Vṛkṣāmla, badara, dāḍima, kuvala, āmra, āmrātaka, likuca, karamarda, / with mātuluṅga and amlavetasa: know this group to be cardiotonic. / When situated in the flesh and fat, [it causes] nodular tumors abundant in pricking pain, rough, and dizziness. / Then one should administer an evacuating enema with decoctions and pastes that destroy vāta; and after an evacuating enema, having fed [the patient] with meat soup, one should administer an unctuous enema with yaṣṭīmadhuka oil. / And one should apply sudation, pastes, and warm poultices. / And having opened a suppurated one, one should treat it like an ulcer. / In vāta, however, that cataract contracts the veins of the eye; / the pupil enters deeply inwards; this is remembered as deep-seated vision.