Ashtangasamgraha 3.11

3.11

Pitta has many medicines, but purgation is indeed the best medicine. // One should administer according to rule formulations dominated by indravāruṇī, sugarcane juice, milk, grapes, honey, and white sugar for the purpose of purgation, / or with milk boiled with latex-bearing trees. // And having sprinkled him with cold water and fed him with milk, one should administer an oily enema with ghee scum or oil of yaṣṭīmadhuka. / And for an emaciated person, the entire regimen that is sweet and nourishing is recommended. // Terrifying those who are asleep, or sometimes even those who are awake, / mostly on conjunction days the seizing spirits seize them, striking at weak points,