Ashtangasamgraha 6.62

6.62

Curd has a sour taste and post-digestive effect, is constipating, heavy, hot, and overcomes vāta; / it creates fat, semen, strength, śleṣman, pitta, blood, digestive fire, and swelling. / Tejovatī, abhayā, kuṣṭha, pippalī, and kaṭurohiṇī. / When there is a combination [of doṣas], there should be an intervening drink combined with pungent, sour, and salty [substances]. / Affusion with a decoction of the leaves of bilva, eraṇḍa, kapittha, agnimantha, bamboo, and kuberākṣī; and massage with oil and fat boiled together with their selfsame juice, containing a paste of madhuka and aśvagandhā.