Ashtangasamgraha 4.12

4.12

During the releasing period, [the digestive fire] of strong persons can naturally digest heavy [substances]; / for its proper employment, one should apply nourishing foods and drinks. // For through a residue of unformed embryo, harm would continually attach again and again; / therefore, one should treat [her] with sharp [substances], leaving no residue. // Thereafter, with drinks of unctuous substances, with enemas, and with foods that are digestive-fire-stimulating, digestive, vitality-promoting, nourishing, sweet, and vāta-relieving. // That tamaka [asthma] is manageable; or, when fresh and in a strong person, it can be curable. // It conquers the five kinds of cough, head-tremor, and pain in the vagina and groins, / diseases of the whole body and of a single limb, along with splenic disorders and upward-moving vāta. // The meat juice, along with the paste, is desired for strength, complexion, muscle, semen, digestive fire, eye disease, and headache. // With granthika and indrayava, it is constantly wholesome for an infant; / it removes all diseases and grahas, stimulates the digestive fire, and bestows strength and complexion.