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Ashtangasamgraha 20.16

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20.16

The actions of vāyu, however, are: prolapse, dilation, obstruction, exhaustion, splitting pain, pricking pain, horripilation, thirst, twisting, body-aches, trembling, aching, cramping, breaking pain, colic, wasting, numbness, roughness, porosity, contraction, and twitching, as well as an astringent taste and a dusky-red or reddish coloration.

Those of pitta are: burning sensation, heat, suppuration, sweating, moistening, putrefaction, exudation, redness, as well as a pungent and sour taste, and any coloration excluding white and reddish.

Those of śleṣman are: itching, stability, heaviness, smearing, unctuousness, coldness, binding, and tardiness of action, as well as a sweet and salty taste, and a white coloration.

And that which is not associated with the nose and arises from raktapitta,

likewise copper rubbed with cow's urine on iron and fumigated with ghee;

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