Ashtangasamgraha 19.7

19.7

And other waste products also [are recognized as depleted] in their respective passages of excretion by dryness, emptiness, and lightness;

and one should detect their increase and depletion through the depletion and increase of opposite qualities.

Increase and depletion of waste products, however, [are determined] by excessive retention and evacuation.

Depletion of waste products distresses [the body] even more than their increase, because of unfamiliarity.

When it has become a lickable paste, one should throw in powder of the three pungents, the three aromatics, and barley-alkali, and half a prastha of honey.

These Daśamūla-harītakī pills destroy even severely increased swelling, abdominal enlargement, anorexia, indigestion, pallor disease, abdominal swelling, urinary disorder, dyspnea, cough, emaciation, āmavāta, acid-pitta, and disorders of urine and semen.

This powder-drenching removes pain, burning, tears, swelling, itching, burning ache, suppuration, moisture, and coating.

And at the time of eye-drop therapy, one should instill drops with that very compress soaked in sour fermented rice water.