Ashtangasamgraha 19.2

19.2

Rasa [supports it] by contentment, nourishment, and enriching blood.
Blood [supports it] by sustaining life, clarifying the complexion, and nourishing the flesh.
Flesh [supports it] by covering the body, [forming] waste products, and nourishing fat.
Fat [supports it] by unctuousness of eyes and limbs, oiliness, firmness, and nourishing the bones.
Bone [supports it] by holding the body upright and nourishing the marrow.
Marrow [supports it] by unctuousness, strength, filling the bones, and nourishing semen.
Semen [supports it] by exhilaration, strength, and generating offspring.
Feces [supports it] by support and upholding vāyu and the digestive fire.
Urine [supports it] by draining moisture from food.
Sweat [supports it] by retaining moisture, unctuousness of skin, and hair.
For [disorders] arising from unctuousness, drying medicines [are used]; for those arising from dryness, unctuous treatments.
Among these, for [disorders] arising from āma, when [the patient] has undergone fasting and has eaten light food, [one should administer] bhadradāru, nāgara, marica, prativiṣā, viḍaṅga, and indrayava with warm water;
or nāgara, devadāru, pathyā, and varṣābhū;
or pañcakola, ajājī, nidigdhikā, mustā, pāṭhā, and rajanī;
or a urine suppository, or navāyasa [cūrṇa].
One whose stool is heavy and loose, however, should take buttermilk with the three pungents, sauvarcala salt, and honey,
or should regularly use jaggery with harītakī.