Ashtangasamgraha 16

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16.1

Now we shall explain the chapter on the compendium of various classes of substances.
Thus spoke the great sages beginning with Ātreya.
Thus spoke the great sages beginning with Ātreya.
Thus spoke the great sages beginning with Ātreya.
Thus spoke the great sages beginning with Ātreya.

16.2

Vidārī, pañcāṅgula, vṛścikālī, vṛścīva, devāhvaya, the two śūrpaparṇīs,
kaṇḍūkarī, the two sets of five called jīvana and hrasva, gopasutā, and tripādī.
And in those who indulge improperly in sleep, waking, and sexual intercourse:
Therefore in all of those, one should first employ oleation and sudation which pacify vāta;
mild purgation accompanied by unctuous substances, and various types of enemas of that kind, as well as sour, salty, and sweet tastes, applied with proper reasoning.
For when vāta is conquered, even with little effort any other doṣa can be controlled in cases of gulma.
Therefore, in eye diseases, one should promptly treat the terrible cataract (timira).

16.3

This vidāryādi group is good for the heart, nourishing, and pacifies vāta and pitta;
it is a group that cures emaciation, gulma, body-ache, upward dyspnea, and cough.
When human blood is vitiated by injury or lack of purification,
or ghee cooked with milk containing viḍaṅga, pañcakola, black pepper, triphalā, and coriander as the paste;
or with this very paste along with a decoction of daśamūla;
or ṣaṭpala [ghee] prescribed for consumption;
or combined with curd and hiṅgu, coriander, amlavetasa, black salt, elā, viḍa-salt, śaṭī, pomegranate, yavakṣāra, trikaṭu, ajagandhā, ajamodā, cumin, puṣkaramūla, vacā, citraka, and surasā;
in that decoction, one should boil a prastha of ghee with twice the amount of milk.

16.4

Sārivā, uśīra, kāśmarya, madhūka, the two cold herbs,
yaṣṭī, and parūṣaka eliminate burning sensation, bleeding disorders, thirst, and fever.
Obstructed by such blood, it initially vitiates that very blood.
One should boil together one pala of dried ginger, one and a half palas of pippalī, one kuḍava of coriander, two kuḍavas of pomegranate, twenty palas of ghee, and milk.
This ghee is equal in efficacy to the preceding one.
Taken at night with a karṣa each of śatāhvā, madhuka, drākṣā, sugar, dāru, and the three fruits,
it is supreme in removing cataract.

16.5

Padmaka, puṇḍra, vṛddhi, tugā, ṛddhi, śṛṅgī, and amṛtā are the ten known as jīvanīya;
they produce breast milk, eliminate vāta and pitta, and are pleasing, nourishing, vitalizing, and aphrodisiac.
They name it by these names; and it initially rushes down into the feet.
With that decoction, and half-parts each of surā-liquor, curd scum, fermented grain gruel, and pomegranate juice, along with half-pala portions of yavānī, dīpyaka, amlavetasa, hiṅgu, cavikā, rock salt, trikaṭu, triphalā, and deodar cedar, a prastha of cooked ghee drunk is equal in effect to the preceding.
With sugar, śatāvarī, medā, puṇḍrāhva, madhuka, and utpala.

16.6

Parūṣaka, the noble [fruits of triphalā], grapes, kaṭphala, the seed of kataka, / rājāhva, pomegranate, and herbs, conquer thirst, urinary disorders, and vāta. / Collyrium, phalinī, māṃsī, lotus, blue lotus, rasāñjana, / with cardamom, liquorice, and ginger, remove poison, internal burning sensation, and pitta.
Its premonitory symptoms are like those of kuṣṭha: likewise, exhaustion and flaccidity of limbs.
One should prepare one prastha of ghee, combined with one āḍhaka of curd, equal in separate measures to each of the juices of citron, pomegranate, and āmrātaka, vinegar, husk-water, and sour gruel; having as its paste vacā, kāravī, śatāhvā, the two alkalis, the three salts, trikaṭu, rāsnā, kumbha, nikumbha, yavānī, yavānaka, hiṃsrā, amlavetasa, nīlinī fruit, viḍaṅga, pomegranate, asafoetida, pāṣāṇabheda, koṣaka, vṛṣaka, hapuṣā, bhārṅgī, śvadaṃṣṭrā, trapusa seeds, ervāru seeds, ajājī, sārivā, upakuñcikā, granthika, kustumbarī, tumburu fruit, mūrvā, citraka, surasā, and gajapippalī.
This ghee, named Dādhika, is equal [in effects] to the preceding one;
it also cures retention of urine, insanity, epilepsy, and diseases of vāta.
Or he may drink ghee prepared with vyoṣa, ṣaḍgranthā, kṛmighna, kaṭukā, citraka, sauvarcala, abhayā, and yavakṣāra, mixed with a one-tenth part of milk.
For one unsuited to milk, one should prescribe any one among surā, madirā, whey, the cream of curd, or pomegranate juice.
It destroys that [corneal] opacity, cataract, blood streaks, and headaches.

16.7

Paṭola, kaṭurohiṇī, and sandalwood, combined with honey-yielding [liquorice], guḍūcī, and pāṭhā, / destroy kapha, pitta, kuṣṭha, fevers, poison, vomiting, loss of appetite, and jaundice.
Itching, throbbing, piercing pain, bursting pain, heaviness, and numbness.
For oleation and sudation, when properly administered, produce softness of the bodily channels, conquer vāta, break obstruction, and quickly draw out gulma.
With dhanvayāsa, trāyantī, and parpaṭa, one pala each separately;

16.8

Guḍūcī, padmaka, ariṣṭa, coriander, and red sandalwood / destroy pitta- and śleṣman-fever, vomiting, burning sensation, and thirst, and stimulate the digestive fire.
Setting out from the roots of the feet, or sometimes also the hands.
In that arising in the urinary bladder, an enema; both [types of enemas] in that residing in the navel or flanks.
And for one whose vāta and stool are obstructed and whose digestive fire is blazing, unctuous, warm, and nourishing food and drinks, as well as repeated administration of oleation-drinks, evacuating enemas, and unctuous enemas, must be employed while safeguarding kapha and pitta.
With those ground [ingredients] of half a pala each, one should cook a prastha of ghee in an āḍhaka [of water].

16.9

Āragvadha, indrayava, pāṭalikā, kākatiktā, nimba, amṛtā, madhurasā, sruvavṛkṣa, pāṭhā, / bhūnimba, sairyaka, paṭola, the pair of karañjas, saptacchada, agni, suṣavī-fruit, bāṇa, and ghoṇṭā:
Dwelling in the skin and muscle, superficial: that arises first. Then / one should scrape it.
When colic, distension, and constipation are caused by it, one should prepare powders, pills, and decoctions from the medicines of the immediately aforementioned gheës, together with any one among jujube, pomegranate, citron, surā-scum, buttermilk, whey, sour grain-wash, or hot water.
Furthermore:
That ghee, combined with vyoṣa and cavya, cures diseases of the nose, ears, and eyes.

16.10

The Āragvadhādi [group] conquers vomiting, kuṣṭha, poison, fevers, / kapha, itching, and urinary disorders, and cleanses foul ulcers.
When superficial, accompanied by itching and other [symptoms], the skin is copper-coloured, greyish-black, or red.
Taken with non-cold water, matured liquor, urine, buttermilk, jujube-water, whey, thin gruel, ghee, camel milk, horse-gram soup, water dripped through alkali, or pomegranate juice, by a self-controlled person; or ghee cooked with these very same medicines: his colic situated in the heart, rectum, waist, liver, spleen, and genitals will disappear, as well as gulma, sluggish digestion, piles, dysuria, abdominal enlargements, tympanites, hiccup, constipation, hernia, anorexia, dyspnoea, and cough; and his digestive fire will become able to digest even powdered stones that are consumed.
It particularly cures corneal opacity, cataract, night-blindness, burning sensation from heat and sourness.

16.11

Asana, tiniśa, bhūrja, śvetavāha, prakīryā, khadira, kadara, bhaṇḍī, śiṃśapā, meṣaśṛṅgī, / the three cold ones, nata, palāśa, ajoṅgaka, teak, sāl, dhavakabuka, kaliṅga, chāgakarṇa, and aśvakarṇa:
Knotted swelling, suppurating in the joints, bones, and marrow.
With that [decoction] having an equal amount of milk, possessing one pala of triphalā paste,

16.12

The Asanādi [group] conquers śvitra, kuṣṭha, kapha, and worms, / anaemia, and urinary disorders, and destroys disorders of adipose tissue.
It makes one lame or crippled, roaming everywhere in the body.
One afflicted with cataract should drink it appropriately, or drink the juice of the noble [triphalā] combined with it.

16.13

Varaṇa, the pair of sairyaka, śatāvarī, dahana, moraṭa, bilva, viṣāṇikā, / the two bṛhatīs, the two karañjas, the two jayās, bahalapallava, darbha, and rujākara:
Roughness, blackness, dusky hue, and growth and decline of the swelling.
Then, placing that clear portion over the fire with an addition of powder of ginger, rock salt, kuṣṭha, and kṛmighna, one should remove it when it has become a paste to lick.
Combined with that oil, it is equal [in effects] to the preceding one.
With one pala each, combined with an equal amount of sugar and grapes, one should cook a prastha of ghee:

16.14

The Varaṇādi [group] restrains kapha, fat, and weak digestive fire, / āḍhyavāta, headache, gulma, and internal abscess.
Dislike of cold and lack of exploratory relief, stiffness, trembling, and numbness.
And having removed the pot glowing like fire, one should extract the alkali.
This antidote containing alkali, laid down by Bhela, is equal [in effects] to the preceding one, and cures bites of snakes and mice, artificial poisons, epilepsy, insanity, urinary calculi, and disorders of the vagina and semen.
This, named Mahātraiphala, is supreme in curing disorders of vision.

16.15

Ūṣaka, tutthaka, asafoetida, the two kāsīsas, and rock salt, / along with asphaltum, remove dysuria, urinary calculus, gulma, fat, and kapha.
Accompanied by itching and moisture, it does not subside with unctuous or rough measures.
There, one should drink castor oil with milk for the purpose of purgation;
if accompanied by kapha, mixed with the scum of vāruṇī liquor;
if pitta is excessively provoked, one should drink triphalā or trāyamāṇā with milk.
If burning heat persists even in one who has been purged, one should let blood.
Combined with liquorice and flooded with honey,

16.16

And here are [the verses]:

Vīrataru, araṇī, nagaguccha, moraṭa, ṭuṇṭuka, the pair of sairyaka,
mustaka, mañjarī, karkaśa, pārtha, and the group of ten that causes the flow of urine.

Intolerance to touch, pain, redness, swelling, suppuration, and intense heat.

One should drink two pala of peeled sesame seeds and half a pala of dried ginger ground together with one pala of jaggery in hot milk;

that removes vāta-abdominal swelling, udāvarta, and vaginal pain; likewise, bitumen [boiled] with milk and the mahāpañcamūla.

Drinking garlic prepared with milk overcomes abdominal swelling, udāvarta, sciatica, heart disease, internal abscess, consumption, and irregular fever;

[and] one obtains the eyesight of an eagle, so said the venerable Nimi.

16.17

This group beginning with Vīrataru destroys diseases caused by vāta,
and removes urinary calculus, gravel, dysuria, suppression of urine, and pain.

Itching, mild pain, and the presence of all signs of both [doṣas] in combination.

A decoction of māṣaparṇī, mudgaparṇī, sahadevā, the minor pañcamūla, castor, and ikṣuvālikā mixed with yavakṣāra destroys all abdominal swellings and pain in the trunk.

A decoction of devadāru, ginger, castor, and puṣkaramūla destroys all abdominal swellings and pain,
or one of puṣkaramūla, durālabhā, barley, and dried ginger.

Oil, sour gruel, urine, wine, and yavaśūka drunk together remove abdominal swelling, abdominal enlargement, distention, and spleen enlargement.

And one should repeatedly apply various types of sudation.

Drunk with powder of triphalā, it destroys cataract.

16.18

Lodhra, śābaraka-lodhra, palāśa, jiṅgiṇī, sarala, together with kaṭphala,
kutsitāmba, kadalī, gataśoka, elavālu, paripelava, and mocā.

One should abandon [that] born of all three doṣas, discharging, rigid, and producing a tumor.

Alternatively, one part of asafetida, three of rock salt, nine of castor oil, and twenty-seven of garlic juice, taken together and drunk, destroys abdominal enlargement, ingested poison, abdominal swelling, scrotal enlargement, spleen disease, and pain.

One should boil one pala each of nīlinī, balā, vyāghrī, kaṭukāphala, tālapatrikā, rāsnā, and kṛmighna in one āḍhaka of water and remove it when an eighth part remains.

With that, having added one pala of snuhī latex and an equal amount of curd, one should cook one prastha of ghee.

That nīlinī-ghee, drunk in a dose of one pala with the scum of thin gruel by one who eats meat broth, eradicates abdominal swelling, spleen disease, skin diseases, vitiligo, abdominal enlargement, facial discoloration, swelling, fever, anemia, insanity, and epilepsy.

For everyone suffering from abdominal swelling is difficult to purge, because the digestive tract is overcome by vāta;
therefore, one should purify him when well-oleated, or by unctuous purgatives.

Or old ghee into which red-hot iron balls have been quenched.

16.19

This group named Lodhrādi removes fat and kapha;
it cures vaginal disorders, is astringent, improves complexion, and destroys poison.

Entering and obstructing one another, it takes away life through pains.

Or one should drink juice of grapes and abhayā with jaggery,
or administer the purgations described in the Kalpasthāna.

One should eat it with ghee and honey, or taken alone as a powder.

16.20

Arka, alarka, nāgadantī, viśalyā, bhārṅgī, rāsnā, vṛścikālī, prakīryā,
pratyakpuṣpī, pītataila, udakīryā, the two śvetās, and the tree of ascetics.

From excessive eating, injury, walking, and provoking or suppressing natural urges.

Or ghee prepared with a decoction of the tṛṇapañcamūla and a paste of the jīvanīya [group];
likewise milk prepared separately with the nyagrodhādi group or with the tṛṇapañcamūla, etc.

Kept in an iron vessel and within a heap of black gram for a month, one should consume it.

16.21

This group beginning with Arka removes kapha, fat, and poison;
it alleviates worms and skin diseases, and especially cleanses wounds.

Chronic rhinitis, facial paralysis, thirst, cough, dyspnea, and many other diseases.

Or having drunk warm milk boiled with trāyamāṇā, one should drink comfortably warm milk immediately after.

Or one should eat with well-cooked soup together with āmalakas.

16.22

The two surasās, phaṇijja, kālamālā, viḍaṅga, kharabusa, vṛṣakarṇī, kaṭphala, kāsamarda,
kṣavaka, sarasī, bhārṅgī, kārmuka, kākamācī, kulahala, viṣamuṣṭi, bhūstṛṇa, and bhūtakeśī.

Vitiated by heavy loads, excessive weeping, laughing, and the like, [it causes] diseases.

And one should anoint with unctuous substances prepared with cooling drugs.

And one should place vessels of gems, gold, silver, and copper filled with cold water over the region of the abdominal swelling, as well as very cool pearl necklaces.

If not relieved thus, and in the presence of premonitory signs of burning, one should let blood.

And when the blood has been let and the patient has regained strength with broth of wild animals, one should again make use of ghee to eradicate the remnant of the ailment.

Constantly by one afflicted with cataract, with raisins, sugar, and honey.

16.23

The group beginning with Surasā destroys śleṣman, fat, and worms;
it removes coryza, loss of appetite, dyspnea, and cough, and cleanses wounds.

And it causes goiter and the like, various diseases situated above the clavicle.

Having observed that it has likewise reached [suppuration], one should treat it in every respect in the same manner.

Prepared together in an iron vessel, it is beneficial as a nasal medication.

16.24

Muṣkaka, snuk, varā, dvīpin, palāśa, dhava, and śiṃśapā
overcome abdominal swelling, urinary disorders, urinary calculus, anemia, fat, piles, kapha, and semen.

Vitiated by incompatible foods, dry substances, fear, excessive joy, grief, and the like.

For one who has fasted, one should carry out a dietary regimen that is hot, pungent, bitter, and stimulating to digestion;
likewise sudations and the ghees, etc., mentioned for vāta-abdominal swelling, containing double quantities of asafetida, alkali, and amlavetasa.

Combined in equal parts and placed inside a blind crucible.

16.25

Vatsaka, madhurasā, truṭi, vacā, dīrghavṛnta, phala, vella, sarṣapa, / rohiṇī, sthapanī, hiṅgu, bhārṅgī, the ten [herbs] that relieve pain, and ghuṇapriyā;
pain across all limbs, piercing pain, horripilation, and numbness of limbs.
One should boil two palas of bhallātaka and one pala of the lesser pañcamūla in an āḍhaka of water until one prastha remains. / In that [decoction] and a prastha of milk, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter with a karṣa each of hiṅgu, viḍaṅga, śaṭhī, biḍa, rock salt, alkali, rāsnā, nāgara, pippalī, ṣaḍgranthā, madhuka, and citraka. / This Bhallātaka-ghṛta destroys kapha-gulma, splenic disease, cough, dyspnea, sprue, and anemia.
Or having prepared [it] as a six-pala [formula], or with double the alkali, devoid of milk, combined with two āḍhakas each of whey, curd, sour gruel, and fresh ginger juice, one should administer it.
A powder of hiṅgu, harītakī, puṣkaramūla, dry ginger, rock salt, biḍa, śyāmā, barley alkali, and tumburu, bathed in barley decoction, fried in clarified butter, and consumed, destroys pain, gulma, and hardness.
Each separately with the decoction of the collection of tastes, seven times.

16.26

The group beginning with vatsaka cures vāta, śleṣman, adipose tissue, anorexia, and catarrh, / as well as colic, hemorrhoids, fever, and gulma; it stimulates the digestive fire and digests [undigested matter].
Samāna [vāta], due to irregular, indigent, cold, and mixed diets;
When the body has been oleated and fomented and the gulma has become loose, one should apply the prescribed cupping vessel. / And when the gulma is captured by it, one should remove the vessel or puncture [it].
One should apply the collyrium powder; it removes all forms of cataract.

16.27

Vacā, jalada, devāhva, nāgara, ativiṣā, abhayā, / the two haridrās, yaṣṭyāhva, kalaśī, and kuṭajodbhava
[cure] colic, gulma, sprue, and other diseases arising in the colon and stomach.
Then, having plastered [it] with lukewarm sālvala and other poultices, one should foment [it] with iron vessels. / In this manner, when through this procedure the gulma has moved from its location and become loosened, one should administer purgatives combined with unctuous substances, and enemata made with daśamūla.
One should make him drink this Nīlinī-ghṛta in double the quantity. / And the clarified butters mentioned for abdominal disease.
Gradually two palas from goat's milk, clarified butter, and honey.

16.28

The two groups beginning with vacā and haridrā destroy unripened diarrhea; / they eliminate excessive fat, kapha, vāta, and disorders of breast milk.
Due to excessive indulgence in riding in vehicles, sitting, standing, and pacing;
This Miśraka-sneha removes kapha-gulma, constipation of vāta and stool, reverse peristalsis, spleen enlargement, abdominal enlargement, and pain of the female genital tract.
With paṭu, lodhra, śilā, pathyā, kaṇā, elā, añjana, and phenaka.

16.29

Priyaṅgu flowers, the two añjanas, padma, pollen of the lotus, yojanavallī, anantā, / sāla tree, mocarasa, samaṅgā, punnāga, śīta, and the cause of intoxication;
Many [diseases] such as disorders of urine and semen, hemorrhoids, and rectal prolapse.
Properly applied, it cures blue blindness, pterygium, night blindness, and red lines; / especially the powder destroys cataract, just as the sun dispels darkness.

16.30

Ambaṣṭhā, madhuka, namaskarī, nandīvṛkṣa, palāśa, kacchurā, / lodhra, dhātakī, pulp of bilva fruit, root of the banyan, and the pollen born of the lotus;
By oiliness, anorexia, lassitude, coldness, swelling, and loss of digestive fire.
Then, when it has reached the consistency of an electuary over a gentle fire, taken down, and cooled, one should mix honey equal to the oil and a karṣa-portion of caturjātaka powder. / These dantī-harītakī fruits, eaten with the electuary over twenty-five days, eradicate gulma, hemorrhoids, swelling, cutaneous disease, jaundice, anorexia, sprue, anemia, heart disease, nausea, spleen enlargement, abdominal enlargement, and irregular fever;
it is cordial and a gentle purgative.
Kataka, sandalwood, sea-foam, viḍaṅga, and sugar candy.

16.31

The two groups beginning with priyaṅgu and ambaṣṭhā destroy mature diarrhea; / they promote healing of fractures, are beneficial in pitta disorders, and heal ulcers as well.
One should know [it to be] free of āma when it is combined with the opposite of stupor and the like.
Or one should drink guggulu with cow's urine. / Or with that, śyāmā, trivṛt, kuṣṭha, dantī, guggulu, alkali, and harītakī, or pīlu juice with honey, clarified butter, and salt.
This [collyrium], rubbed with honey, destroys cataract, dimness of vision, and corneal opacity.

16.32

Mustā, vacā, agni, the two niśās, the two tiktās, bhallāta, pāṭhā, triphalā, viṣākhyā, / kuṣṭha, truṭī, and haimavatī cure disorders of the female genital tract and breast milk, and digest waste products.
The sign when surrounded by pitta is burning, thirst, pain, dizziness, and fainting.
For alkali, cutting the oily, stable, sweet śleṣman from its seat, makes it liquefy.
Blue water lily, viḍaṅga, and foam of the lord of rivers.

16.33

Nyagrodha, pippala, sadāphala, the two lodhras, the two jambūs, arjuna, kapītana, somavalka, / plakṣa, āsrava, vañjula, priyāla, palāśa, nandī, kolī, kadamba, viralā, madhuka, and madhūka;
Coldness, heaviness, colicky pain, and great relief from pungent and other [substances].
And aged wine combined with a powder of pippalī, pippalī root, rock salt, cumin, and citraka.
Moreover:
When seven nights have passed, ground again with milk, one should make a wick. / This wick grants vision even to one whose eyes are ruptured.

16.34

The group beginning with nyagrodha is good for ulcers, astringent, promotes the union of fractures, / and eliminates fat, pitta, blood, thirst, burning sensation, and diseases of the female genital tract.
When covered by blood, there is severe distress with burning sensation arising between the skin and flesh.
Also by means of enemata, pills, powders, alkalis, ariṣṭas, and āsavas.
Having extracted [them] from their respective sources, after a month one should powder them together.

16.35

The two elās, turuṣka, kuṣṭha, phalinī, māṃsī, jala, dhyāmaka, spṛkkā, coraka, coca, patra, tagara, sthauṇeya, jātīrasa, / śukti, vyāghranakha, surāhva, agaru, śrīvāsaka, saffron, caṇḍā, guggulu, devadhūpa, khapura, punnāga, and nāgāhva;
A hard, discolored swelling caused by muscle tissue, and also pimples.
After blood has been drawn, one should perform cauterization upon it at the end with arrows and the like.
One should apply that excellent collyrium in cataract characterized by redness.

16.36

The group beginning with elā subdues vāta and kapha, and neutralizes poison; / it clarifies the complexion, and destroys itching, eruptions, and urticaria.
A swelling that is shifting, smooth, soft, and cold, with anorexia throughout the body.
Then, having pacified the force of fire with astringent, sweet, and cooling agents, one should perform procedures to restore normal complexion.

16.37

Śyāmā, dantī, dravantī, kramuka, kuṭharaṇā, śaṅkhinī, carmasāhvā, svarṇakṣīrī, gavākṣī, śikhari, rajanikā, chinnarohā, karañja,
bastāntrī, vyādhighāta, bahalabahurasa, and fruits from the tīkṣṇavṛkṣa: the Śyāmādi group destroys abdominal swelling, poison, anorexia, kapha, cardiac pain, and dysuria.
When [vāta] is enveloped by bone, one desires very hot touch and pressing.

16.38

Pippalī, pippalīmūla, cavya, citraka, śṛṅgavera, marica, hastipippalī, hareṇukā, elā, ajamodā, indrayava, pāṭhā, jīraka, sarṣapa, mahānimba, phalgu, hiṅgu, bhārṅgī, vacā, mustā, madhurasā, ativiṣā, viḍaṅga, and kaṭurohiṇī.
When [vāta] is enveloped by marrow, there is bending, yawning, and twisting pain.
And a yamaka [oil-and-ghee] prepared with palāśa-alkaline water;
and a sharp, hot regimen to break abdominal swelling.
Then one should drink [ghee] cooked with a paste of the finest [drugs] in four parts of milk.

16.39

The Pippalyādi group removes kapha, coryza, vāta, and anorexia;
it stimulates digestion, destroys abdominal swelling and colic, and ripens ama.
When [vāta] is enveloped by semen, there is either excessive ejection or none, or else infertility.
Or [he should use] pungent fishes macerated with those two, or macerated with that [fish's] bile, or macerated with boar's bile, or pieces of cloth macerated with upward-and-downward-purging drugs;
or yeast with jaggery and alkali;
and one should administer an enema with alkali, milk, and urine, a Daśamūla enema, and an uttarabasti;
one should administer a purgative combined with castor oil.

16.40

Twenty-five such groups have been described; among them, in the absence [of a drug],
one may employ another substance of like kind, and discard an unsuitable one.
When [vāta] is enveloped by urine, there is retention of urine and distension of the bladder.
However, excessive flow of blood one should treat with the regimen for bleeding disorders;
one should drink ghee cooked with that, with an additive paste of trivṛt.

16.41

These groups, applied in paste, decoction, unctuous substance, lickable electuary, and so forth, with regard to doṣa, bodily tissue, and other factors,
destroy even very difficult diseases by drinks, nasal medications, non-evacuating enemas, or internally or externally by plasters and massages.
With dāru, bilva, aḍakī, kṛṣṇā, haridrā, and madhuyaṣṭī,
oil prepared with four parts of milk should be instilled into the nose.

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Thus ends the sixteenth chapter.

Commentaries (1)

Śaśilekhā — Indu, Sanskrit

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Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit