Ashtangasamgraha 19.32

19.32

Though residing in the heart, it is all-pervading, the supreme seat of life; / that vital essence diminishes through anger, hunger, anxious thought, grief, fatigue, and the like.
Then, tied in a poultice-bag, rubbed with breast milk or water, it quickly dispels pain, burning sensation, redness, and swelling. / Or with sandalwood, water lily, white lotus, spikenard, and the like, processed with milk; / and with them plastering of the head and face and sprinkling [are performed].