[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) › 4.3 # Ashtangasamgraha 4.3 English (machine translation) 4.3 - **Language:** English ### [4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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; - [Previous: 4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.2) - [Next: 4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.4) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.3) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.3) · Pramāṇa