Ashtangasamgraha 5.22
English (machine translation) 5.22
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5.22
One should make use of cock, wine, śāli rice, basti, oil massage, and tub baths, / and drink milk boiled with cleansers of the basti, and enjoy beloved women.
Fat in that [tissue layer] is in the abdomen and, accompanied by blood, in the small bones.
And that very substance in the head, enclosed by the skull, is called mastiska and mastuluṅga, and in the large bones it is majjā.
The fourth [kalā] is called śleṣmadharā.
For, lubricated by the śleṣman residing there, all joints are firm, like wheel axles provided with linchpins.
The fifth [kalā] is called purīṣadharā.
For residing here near the stomach and the small intestines, it separates the waste situated in the caecum inside the alimentary tract.
Not moving, it creates [damage to] the flesh and other tissues, and the blood surges upward.
With palm-sprout, jambu bark, priyāla, and padmaka,
milk boiled with goat's semen, uccaṭā, ikṣuraka, and honey;
cleansing the limbs with mud mixed with mustard and unbroken grains:
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- Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit