Ashtangasamgraha 34.13

34.13

The horn is short, medium, or long—eighteen or twelve fingers in length—with an inlet-mouth of three fingers, an aperture the size of a mustard seed at the tip, wrapped with thin leather, and with an orifice shaped like a nipple. / That is for sucking vāta, poison, blood, fluid, and vitiated breast milk. / But the gourd is for sucking kapha and blood. / It is twelve fingers long, eighteen fingers in circumference, with a circular, raised mouth of three or four fingers, and it should be used with a burning wick of kuśa, balvaja grass, or cotton inside. / And in the same way, the pot, by measure and procedure; / but it is for elevating and dissolving abdominal swellings. // It causes burning and itching; this is remembered as an ulcerous knot.