Ashtangasamgraha 6.10

6.10

When fire is predominant, it is bitter and pungent; astringent when wind is predominant; / but when space-quality is predominant, it resembles celestial water because of its unmanifest taste.

Then, by these [channels], the body parts are maintained and nourished according to their respective functions.

Accompanied by madness, intoxication, fainting, epilepsy, and tetanic convulsions.

One should clear the path of that vāta by any means necessary.

He should drink a digestive, heart-cleansing draught mixed with black salt.

Homage to Skanda, the god, homage to the lord of grasping spirits.