Ashtangasamgraha 4.3
English (machine translation) 4.3
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4.3
It is divided twelvefold according to the divisions of mātrā, kāṣṭhā, kalā, nāḍikā, muhūrta, yāma, day-and-night, fortnight, month, season, solstice, and year.
One should plaster all around below the navel with ghee washed a thousand times.
One should soak a tampon with very cold ghee prepared with madhuka and place it near the vagina.
One should irrigate with cow's milk, madhuka water, or a decoction of the nyagrodha group.
And one should insert into the vagina tampons soaked in their fresh juices, / or a tampon of ghee prepared from milk boiled with their shoots.
Kṣudraka, tamaka, chinna, mahān, and ūrdhva as the fifth;
with enemas when feces and flatus are obstructed; but with post-meal remedies when accompanied by pitta;
combined with pastes, jaggery, honey, ghee, and oil, pleasantly warm and mixed with salt;
with evil spirits destroyed by lamps burning with pestilence-destroying oils;
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- Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit