Ashtangasamgraha 35.2

35.2

For extracting blood from kings, the wealthy, the timid, the delicate, children, the elderly, and women, one should employ leeches. / And one should administer purgation. / And when knots [of swelling] have gone to the head in a person who has completed the restorative dietary regimen, one should purge the head with lac, the two turmerics, viḍaṅga, dried ginger, and pūtīdāru; and he should resort to medicinal smoke, mouth gargles, and mouth rinses.