Ashtangasamgraha 21.3

21.3

For śleṣman, moreover: sharp purifications administered according to rule; mostly dry foods; foods mixed with pungent, bitter, and astringent substances; sharp, long-aged, heart-pleasing alcoholic beverages; running, jumping, swimming, staying awake at night, fighting, wrestling, sexual intercourse, physical exercise, dry massage, bathing, and dry unguents;

especially honey, legume soup, emetics, fasting entirely, gargles with medicated smoke, avoidance of ease, and the regimen of the spring season entirely for the sake of well-being.

And here are [verses]:

Alternatively, one should boil one pala each of paṭola, picumanda, dārvī, durālabhā, tiktarohiṇī, pāṭhā, parpaṭaka, and trāyamāṇā in two āḍhakas of water down to one-eighth portion remaining.

With that [decoction] and with pastes of one karṣa each of sandalwood, upakulyā, mustā, trāyantī, indrayava, and bhūnimba, one should prepare twelve palas of ghee.

This Tiktaka ghee cures kuṣṭha, erysipelas, blisters, boil-like swellings, cervical adenitis, swelling, eruptions, bleeding disorders, piles, vātarakta, jaundice, anemia, madness, burning sensation, thirst, dizziness, itching, skin diseases, sinus tracts, abdominal swelling, intoxication, cataract, dark facial spots, vitiligo, epilepsy, fistula-in-ano, abdominal disease, menorrhagia, fever, poisoning from artificial poison, abscess, disorders of the duodenum, and heart disease;

hemicrania, stiffness, and aversion to cold.