[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) › 2.23 # Ashtangasamgraha 2.23 English (machine translation) 2.23 - **Language:** English ### [2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.23) The attendant should be affectionate, pure, skilled, and intelligent; / the patient should be wealthy, obedient to the physician, capable of explaining, and endowed with mental fortitude. In that case, the restorative treatment comprises aphrodisiac enemas, food, and heart-gladdening measures; / for these, imparting strength to the semen, replenish his channels. Delusion, drowsiness, and a coated and bitter mouth are to be known as the signs of śleṣma-pitta fever. For strength is fully capable of expelling doṣas and imparts supreme strength. And by the śleṣman residing there, there is itching; because of it, the nipple is bitten; / whatever he gets hold of, that he brings to his mouth; / and vāta becomes aggravated in the roots of his teeth; / then that \[vāta\], mingled with kapha, residing in the bone and marrow, spreading in every direction together with pitta, vitiating the bodily tissues and waste products, produces various complications as described. - [Previous: 2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.22) - [Next: 2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.24) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2) ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.2.21) — Indu, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.23) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.23) · Pramāṇa