Ashtangasamgraha 27.5
English (machine translation) 27.5
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27.5
Therein, curable by emesis are: those who have drunk poison, been bitten, poisoned by an envenomed arrow, struck, [or affected by] incompatible food and indigestion; acute fever, consumption, diarrhea, downward bleeding disorder, cholera, sluggish digestion, dyspepsia, anorexia, scrofula, glandular swelling, tumors, elephantiasis, fat disorders, slow poisoning, insanity, epilepsy, dyspnea, cough, nausea, erysipelas, urinary disorders, leprosy, anemia, diseases of the eyelids, mouth, nose, and cranium, obstruction of the ear, swelling, disorders of breast milk, and so forth, and especially the śleṣman diseases mentioned in the classification of doṣas.
For these are completely destroyed by emesis, like unripened rice and the like by the withdrawal of water.
The two temples ache severely, and the occiput splits open as it were;
and the region between the eyebrows and the forehead feels as if falling, with extreme pain.
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- Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit