Ashtangasamgraha 20.5

20.5

In this manner, vāta, pitta, and śleṣman, though pervading the entire body, dwell predominantly unvitiated in these locations.

The cause of their increase will be explained in the [chapters on] etiologies.

And in general, the characteristics of increase and decrease have been stated in the preceding chapter.

For increase is twofold, differentiated into accumulation and aggravation.

There, [qualities such as] unctuousness, accompanied by the cold quality, produce the accumulation of vāta;
accompanied by the cold quality, [dryness, etc., produce] aggravation; accompanied by the hot quality, unctuousness, etc., produce pacification.
Accompanied by the cold quality, sharpness, etc., produce the accumulation of pitta; accompanied by the hot quality, aggravation; accompanied by the cold quality, slowness, etc., produce pacification.
Accompanied by the cold quality, unctuousness, etc., produce the accumulation of kapha; accompanied by the hot quality, aggravation; but likewise, dryness, etc., produce pacification.

And from the excess of either vāta or pitta, the procedure for abhiṣyanda is according to each [doṣa].