Ashtangasamgraha 27.30

27.30

In that case, purgation is performed with astringent and sweet substances in pitta;

with urine, pungent, and hot substances in kapha;

with unctuous, hot, and saline substances in vāta.

Immediately after the medicine is drunk, one should sprinkle his face suddenly with cold water to check vomiting.

Then, having cleansed his oral cavity with hot water, he should inhale heart-gladdening fragrances such as moist fragrant earth, citron, jambīra lime, jasmine, and white water lily.

Resting comfortably on a bed in a draft-free place, gargling little by little with hot water to prevent obstruction, focusing his mind on that, not suppressing urges, he should be purged while urges arise into a bedpan placed near the bed, not touching anything cold.

And just as in emesis, perspiration, salivation, medicine, kapha, pitta, and vāta emerge in succession, so in purgation, vāta, urine, feces, pitta, and kapha emerge,

and again vāta at the end;

for that is the arrangement of the doṣas in the body, and because of the opposite directions of the two purificatory procedures.

And that which arises without hair, with burning, as if burned by fire,