[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) › 2.9 # Ashtangasamgraha 2.9 English (machine translation) 2.9 - **Language:** English ### [2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.9) Permitted by the teacher, he attains the title of physician; / but he who knows only the treatise, yet is unskilled in practical procedures, impotence, timidity, lack of confidence, bewilderment, instability, heaviness in the lower body, loose bodily build, flaccidity, softness, the part of the ovum belonging to the uterus, and other similar factors are female-producing factors; the opposite of these are male-producing; mixed ones are hermaphrodite-producing. pricking pain in the temples, pain in the head, and tastelessness in the mouth. Ghee immediately destroys chronic fever, cough, halīmaka, loss of appetite, irregular digestive fire, and newly arisen consumption. Uniting it and having steamed it by the puṭapāka method, one should consume it. \[One recognizes pain\] in the heart by biting of the tongue and lips, dyspnea, clenching of the fists, and upward gaze; in the abdomen by retention of feces and urine, vomiting, distention, rumbling in the intestines, biting the breast, twisting, bending backward of the spine, and elevation of the belly; in the bladder and groin by retention of urine, thirst, fainting, trembling, looking in all directions, cramps, stiffness of hands and feet, hunching over, and pulling of the hair; and everywhere by excessive crying beyond nature and grimacing of the face. - [Previous: 2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.8) - [Next: 2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.10) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.9) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.2.9) · Pramāṇa