Ashtangasamgraha 34.19

34.19

The actions of instruments are: extracting, filling, bandaging, separating, turning, shifting, opening, compressing, cleansing channels, pulling out, drawing forth, piercing, elevating, depressing, breaking, churning, sucking, probing, splitting, straightening, washing, blowing, applying collyrium, and wiping—these are generally twenty-four in number. // The doṣas situated in the flesh and blood, having resorted to the feet over time, / slowly produce a solid swelling; they call that elephantiasis.