Ashtangasamgraha 7.2

7.2

Rakta, mahān, sakalama, tūrṇaka, śakunāhṛta,
śārāmukha, dīrghaśūka, lodhraśūka, sugandhika;
Of these, forty-four are in the limbs;
twenty-six are in the trunk;
thirty-seven are above [the clavicles].
Briefly, hemorrhoids are of two kinds: congenital and arising after birth.
Again, they are of two kinds: dry and moist.
The seat of all of them, moreover, is fat, muscle, and skin.
The rectum, connected to the large intestine, is indeed four and a half finger-breadths long.
In it are three muscular folds called valis, previously mentioned, each one and a half finger-breadths wide.
They are Pravāhiṇī, Visarjanī, and Saṃvaraṇī.
One and a half barley-corns from the edge of the hair is called the anal lip.
The first [fold], however, is only a finger-breadth from the anal lip.
For a consumptive patient, one should administer unctuous treatment that does not cause emaciation, upwards and downwards.
When [an enema] is given to one who has not eaten and whose anus is swollen, eight complications are recorded,
namely:
Gods, asuras, gandharvas, uragas, yakṣas, brahma-rākṣasas, rākṣasas, piśācas, pretas, kūṣmāṇḍakas, khordas, maukiraṇas, vetālas, ancestors, and sages, elders, and siddhas.
These, moreover, individually possess entourages of ten million;
and their entourage too is innumerable; thus the realm of spirits is infinite.