[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) › 4.6 # Ashtangasamgraha 4.6 English (machine translation) 4.6 - **Language:** English ### [4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.6) The period of release, however, is of the nature of the moon. In that period, when the power of the sun moving in the southern course is overcome by the clouds, wind, and rain of the time and course, and the moon is unchecked in strength, constantly replenishing \[the world\] with its cold rays, and the heat of the world is pacified by the celestial rains, the non-dry tastes—sour, salty, and sweet—increase in regular order, and human strength is built up. Or milk boiled with the jīvanīya \[group of herbs\]; one should feed her very cool boiled red śāli rice along with milk boiled with balā, atibalā, śāli, ṣaṣṭika, sugar cane root, and kākolī, mixed with honey and sugar; or with the meat broth of arid animals having cold potency; and one should administer treatments for bleeding disorders, avoiding purification; and gentle, pleasing stories. Distension and splitting pain in the temples, there due to exertion and overeating; which cures cough, asthma, heart and flank pain, disease of the grahaṇī, and abdominal swelling; A prastha from meat broth, combined with half a prastha of goat meat broth, is to be cooked again until it equals a prastha; With kākajaṅghā, mahāśvetā, kapittha, and latex-bearing trees; - [Previous: 4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.5) - [Next: 4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.7) - [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.4.6) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.6) · Pramāṇa