Ashtangasamgraha 30.9

30.9

In the absence of a pipe for the cough-curing and other varieties, one should use any tube made of reed, bamboo, castor-plant, or the like.

In pitta, and in swelling predominantly of pitta, and when burned by poison, fire, or caustic alkali, the quenching [paste] with cold [drugs] is used.

That same one, when blood is inwardly vitiated, is the soothing one.

And that same one, upon excessive flow of blood, is called the astringing one.

When śleṣman and fat predominate, with cold drugs, and when unsuppurated, hardened, or knotted, the liquefying one is made with dry drugs.

And with those very ones, when suppurating, it is the ripening one.

On a wound with a narrow mouth, the compressing one is used with dry and slimy drugs.

On an unpurified [wound], the cleansing one is used with individually prescribed drugs.

On a purified one, the healing one.

And when healed, the color-restoring one.

Their very nature is declared by their names.