[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt) › 32.3 # Ashtangasamgraha 32.3 English (machine translation) 32.3 - **Language:** English ### [32.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.32.3) The improper time for both is the night. The proper time is all daytime, or when pain arises. For one lying down in a draft-free shelter, having cleansed the eye and placed a vessel near the outer corner of the eye, having opened \[the eyelids\] with the left hand, one should instill eight, ten, or twelve drops into the area of the inner canthus from a distance of two finger-breadths with the right hand using a cotton wick soaked by means of a mother-of-pearl ladle. In this way, redness and other \[reactions\] do not arise from striking the eye by falling drops. And after instillation, one should wipe it with a soft cloth; and in vāta and kapha, one should foment it with another \[cloth\] soaked in hot water. And the eye-drop for the two of them is lukewarm; in pitta, blood, and poison, very cold. And one should not administer it excessively sharp, hot, cold, excessive, deficient, or unfiltered. Excessively sharp or hot produces burning, redness, suppuration, and weakness of vision; excessively cold produces stiffness, tearing, friction, and throbbing pain; excessively copious produces astringency of the lids, contraction, twitching, wide-opening, intolerance to draft, and friction; a deficient measure does not pacify the disease; unfiltered causes tearing, friction, and pains. In that regard, dislocation of a joint is of six kinds: crushed, separated, depressed, displaced upward, displaced sideways, and twisted. - [Previous: 32.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.32.2) - [Next: 32.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.32.4) - [Up: 32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.32) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.32.3) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.32.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.32.3) · Pramāṇa