Ashtangasamgraha 7.18
English (machine translation) 7.18
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7.18
dry, cold, heavy, sweet, laxative, producing feces and vāta is barley; / aphrodisiac, stability-producing, it conquers urine, fat, pitta, and kapha; // for soma supports the vital breaths by its stability and coolness; / even those, when struck, kill at times; // deafness, dark vision, dyspnea, headache, cough, and chronic coryza; // and he should especially drink aged liquor, which clears the bodily channels; // with a lateral hole and crooked: these eight nozzles one should avoid; // emitting clouds, thunder, lightning, and rain by his speech—[possessed] by Indra; / giving away wealth by speech and taking it away—by Dhanada; / smelling like wine and liquor, regarding everything such as wood, grass, and ropes as a noose—by Varuṇa;
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