Ashtangasamgraha 36.5

36.5

Here, the bodily liquid which is the essence of food, termed rasa, untransformed, coloured by untransformed tejas, shaped like an indragopa insect, possessing the colour of hare's blood, guñjā berry, lac, lotus, or gold, losing its stain upon washing, sweet, slightly salty, unctuous, uncoagulated, neither hot nor cold, heavy, whose accumulation, provocation, and pacification coincide with pitta, of a cooling and fiery nature, is called blood by its inherent constitution. / Likewise [they say it is] a doṣa; / some say it is a dūṣya; / others that it consists of both. / Mukhadūṣikā [consists of eruptions] filled with fat, swollen on the face, caused by the two [doṣas].