Ashtangasamgraha 36.6

36.6

And blood of this very kind, purified through the customary habituation to proper food and conduct, is the source of strength, complexion, happiness, and lifespan. / Otherwise, or naturally vitiated by the autumn season, it causes ophthalmia, adhimantha, pterygium, cataracts, red streaks in the eyes, pricking pain, splitting pain, burning, and itching in the head, ear diseases, stomatitis, foul-smelling nose and mouth, coated tongue, phantom tumor of the skin, spleen enlargement, abscess, erysipelas, fever, bleeding disorder, obstinate skin diseases, eruptions, elephantiasis, chancroid, temporal swelling, gout, bloody urine, minor diseases, loss of digestive fire and voice, heaviness and debility of limbs, anorexia, sour eructations, salty taste in the mouth, anger, delusion, perspiration, intoxication, fainting, collapse, tremors, stupor, and so forth; / and those disorders which, though curable, are not cured even when properly treated with cold, hot, unctuous, dry, and all other antagonists of the doṣas, / and which are born from the provocation of blood; therefore, in those conditions one should puncture a vein appropriate [to each] to drain off the overly aggravated blood. / The body is covered with painless, white [growths] born of kapha and vāta.