Ashtangasamgraha 17.34

17.34

Even when opposed to one another, taste and the rest, in producing their effect,
are not necessarily for obstruction, just like merits and flaws mutually.

Or a decoction of saubhañjanaka combined with powder of long pepper, plumbago, and rock salt;

or alkali of pūtikarañja infused with sour gruel, rich in biḍa salt and long pepper;

and when the digestive fire is impaired, he should drink the three salts and so forth, alkalis, and fermented liquors;

or the six-pala ghee, the great six-pala ghee, or the rohītaka six-pala ghee.

By combinations of qualities, it is declared equal to this by antimony, coral, realgar, cuttlefish bone, and iron.