Ashtangasamgraha 3.6

3.6

And not without covering the ground, though in fear or inability [one may do so] at will. / When urged by bodily impulses, one should not engage in other actions, nor without conquering a curable disease. // To clear old feces and to direct vāta downward, one should give an oily enema with oil prepared with madhuka and other sweet herbs. / For when the wind is moving downward, she delivers easily and without complications. // Vomiting, disgust for what has been vomited, cough, dyspnea, dizziness, and exhaustion. // The upward tract is treated by purgation, but the downward by emesis; / the other by pacifying and nourishing [measures], and considering those fit for fasting or nourishing. // Having given that patient who has had inadequate evacuation an evacuation enema with sharp drugs mixed with urine, fed him with the soup of wild animal meat, given an oily enema with oil prepared with fruit, devadāru, and pippalī, and lubricated him with vāta-pacifying unctuous substances, one should purge him again with sharp drugs. // "In those houses where [we] are honored, in which the path of proper conduct is abandoned,