[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) › 5.4 # Ashtangasamgraha 5.4 English (machine translation) 5.4 - **Language:** English ### [5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.5.4) From \[suppression of\] feces arise cramps in the calves, runny nose, headaches, / upward vāyu, cutting pain in the rectum, and constriction of the chest. / Because of the drying up of the rasa and other tissues it is consumption; it is the king of diseases because of its royal pre-eminence among them. / Cooking bamboo manna and fine wheat flour in milk, one whose digestive fire is blazing should drink it. / With prasṛta portions of ghee, honey, muscle fat, and oil one should prepare / a palliative enema, combined with half an akṣa of rock salt and half a pala of hapuṣā. / The bathing of a child should be performed under the constellations Puṣya and Mūla, and on junction days. - [Previous: 5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.5.3) - [Next: 5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.5.5) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.5) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.5.4) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.5.4) · Pramāṇa