[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) › 35.2 # Ashtangasamgraha 35.2 English (machine translation) 35.2 - **Language:** English ### [35.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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. - [Previous: 35.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.35.1) - [Next: 35.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.35.3) - [Up: 35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.35) ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.42.2) — Indu, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.35.2) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.35.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.35.2) · Pramāṇa