[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) › 16.3 # Ashtangasamgraha 16.3 English (machine translation) 16.3 - **Language:** English ### [16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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. - [Previous: 16.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.16.2) - [Next: 16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.16.4) - [Up: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.16) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.16.3) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.16.3) · Pramāṇa