Ashtangasamgraha 17.15

17.15

The bitter, pungent, and astringent [tastes] are unctuous, binding feces, urine, and flatus; / the saline, sour, and sweet are unctuous, promoting the release of feces, urine, and flatus.
And with milk prepared with the group [of herbs] that relieves vāta.
One should administer ghee prepared with the paste of padmaka and other [herbs] in drinks, nasal drops, and sprinklings.
If there is no relief in that manner, one should puncture a vein,
and one should consider the treatment of adhimantha.