Ashtangasamgraha 34.9

34.9

For viewing a foreign body in the throat, one should make a tube ten finger-breadths long and five finger-breadths in circumference; but for grasping a handle with two ears, a tube with three perforations at the mouth according to that measure; / likewise, for one with four ears, one with five perforations at the mouth; / but a foreign-body remover (śalyanirghātinī) [should have] a head shaped like a lotus seed-vessel, be twelve finger-breadths long, and have a hollow bore of three finger-breadths. / That [cyst], when ruptured, discharges thick, copper-colored, black, or white fat.