Ashtangasamgraha 17.26

17.26

Parāśara, however, recites: / 'There are three post-digestive effects of tastes: sour digests as sour, pungent as pungent; / the other four digest as sweet; but combined tastes [digest as] combined.' / One should feed [the patient] with horse gram soup containing the three pungents, or with milk. / One should make [the patient with] abdominal enlargement due to condensed kapha drink alkali and sharp fermented liquors. / And one should constantly foment [it]. / One should apply a poultice to the abdomen with a paste of yeast, mustard, and radish seeds. / If it still does not subside, or upon removal of the probe, or if it floats up again, having prepared [the patient] with unction, nasal therapies, and the like, one should puncture again. / Even so, if it floats up again, cauterization between the eyebrows [is indicated].