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Ashtangasamgraha 4.5

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4.5

Between the two, the period of absorption is of the nature of fire. In that period indeed, the sun, occupying the course and nature of time, with its disk of intensely hot rays, and the winds, fierce and dry due to contact with it, drying up the soma-born quality, taking away the unctuousness of the world, having brought about dryness in the order of the seasons, and intensifying the dry tastes—bitter, astringent, and pungent—bring about debility in human beings.
Or a paste of the bark and sprouts of the nyagrodha group;
or one should make her drink the blood of a rabbit, blackbuck, or deer, along with honey;
or ṛddhi, vidārī, and jīvantī with milk;
or blue water-lily, sugar, burnt earth, sandalwood, and the like, or rice grains, roots of water-lily, unripe udumbara fruits, and shoots of nyagrodha with goat's milk.
One should cook a prastha of ghee with two śāṇas each [of the drugs] combined with pañcakola;
Combined with the three unctuous substances, it is proclaimed as an excellent evacuating enema that cures all vāta diseases.
With pāribhadraka, kaṭvaṅga, jambū, varaṇa, and kattṛṇa;

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