[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) › 17.2 # Ashtangasamgraha 17.2 English (machine translation) 17.2 - **Language:** English ### [17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.17.2) Here indeed, substance is composed of the five great elements. Its foundation is earth; its origin is water; specific manifestation arises from the co-inherence of ether, wind, and fire. Designation, however, is by predominance. Therefore, from the occurrence of the co-inherence of the elements, no substance has only a single taste; and consequently diseases do not have a single doṣa. Castor oil combined with either urine or milk, day after day for one month or two, or a diet of milk, or cow's or buffalo's urine, or subsisting on female camel's milk. That \[disease\] caused by śleṣman was previously stated to be curable; it has, again, six complications: āvartakī, śarkarā, rājīmatī, chinnāṃśukā, candrakī, and chatrakī. - [Previous: 17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.17.1) - [Next: 17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.17.3) - [Up: 17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.17) ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.24.p1) — Indu, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.17.2) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.17.2) · Pramāṇa