[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) › 6.22 # Ashtangasamgraha 6.22 English (machine translation) 6.22 - **Language:** English ### [6.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.6.22) \[Water that is\] tasteless, foul-smelling, hot, setting the teeth on edge through excessive coldness, / out of season, and the first \[rainwater\] from the sky, / these also, when aggravated, \[corrupt\] those bodily channels; / and bodily channels \[corrupt other\] bodily channels; / and bodily tissues \[corrupt other\] bodily tissues. / The corrupters of all of them are the deranged doṣas, / and they are deranged mostly through defect of the digestive fire. / Therefore, lifespan, health, strength, nourishment, complexion, and vital essence have that as their cause; / and the rañjaka and other \[pittas\], the elemental fires, and the tissue-fires are bound to it alone. / Likewise, even food, cooked by that alone, becomes ambrosia, and uncooked \[it becomes\] poison. // Obstruction of the chest and throat, delusion, cough, thirst, vomiting, fever. // With vyāghrī, durālabhā, śṛṅgī, bilva-pulp, and trikaṇṭaka. // Or an unctuous-less, salty, and hot enema, small in quantity with little medicine. // May he known as Viśākha, with a distorted face, be auspicious for the child. - [Previous: 6.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.6.21) - [Next: 6.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.6.23) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.6) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.22) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.6.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.6.22) · Pramāṇa