Ashtangasamgraha 23.29

23.29

Accumulated during the cold, hot, and rainy seasons, in Caitra, Śrāvaṇa, and Kārtika

Respectively, in temperate [periods], one should quickly eliminate śleṣman, vāta, and pitta.

And while this is being prepared, one should sound the conch,

Beat the drums,

Teach and feed Brahmins,

Hold an umbrella,

And fan with chowries.

When it is ready, one should employ it in nasal medication, drinks, massages, and enemas.

This oil, boiled a thousand times, has irresistible potency; likewise, when cooked a hundred times in portions, it is a hundred-times-boiled.

And one should sweat him repeatedly.

Then, for the patient who has been oleated and sweated, one should bandage and bind the crooked parts from all sides, securing them with four-finger-wide strips of smooth, soft leather or cloth.

Having bound it at night, one should release it by day; or having bound it by day, at night.

And at the end of releasing it, one should sweat him with very unctuous warm poultices prepared with vāta-dispelling [drugs].

And without causing pain, rubbing against the grain of the hair and straightening [the limb], one should bind it again.

In this manner for seven nights.

When there is swelling, however, one should perform emesis.

When there is burning sensation and redness in a strong person, venesection [is indicated],

As well as enemas and affusions of ghee and milk, and treatments that destroy vāta and pitta.