[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) › 7.21 # Ashtangasamgraha 7.21 English (machine translation) 7.21 - **Language:** English ### [7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.21) wheat promotes healing, is sweet, gives stability, and is laxative; / nandīmukhī is wholesome, cold, astringent, sweet, and light; // thus ends the group of awned grains; // their specific operations are like the attachments of water, fire, time, and iron with the moon, sun, and magnetic stone; and thus even when the hands and feet, which have many vital points, are cut off, there is naturally no death; // those incurable ones that have become established are managed by the strength of the digestive fire and other factors; // ghee prepared with balā should be administered, or with the meat broth of carnivorous animals; // frothy, slipping, and inability to retain are due to defects of the enema bladder; - [Previous: 7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.20) - [Next: 7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.22) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.7.21) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.21) · Pramāṇa