Ashtangasamgraha 7.5

7.5

Sweet in taste and post-digestive effect, unctuous, aphrodisiac, constipating and reducing feces,
astringent in secondary taste, wholesome, light, diuretic, and cooling.
There, instantaneous death occurs.
Having little flesh and blood, located internally within the pelvis, curved like a bow, with a single opening and facing downwards, is the bladder.
There too instantaneous death occurs, except in the case of a wound from urinary calculus.
Even there, if it is pierced on both sides, he does not survive.
If ruptured on one side, a wound exuding urine forms;
that wound, however, heals when treated with effort.
Between the colon and the stomach is the navel; there too instantaneous death occurs.
Among those, the dry ones are dominated by vāta and śleṣman, and the moist ones are dominated by blood and pitta.
Food and drinks that are heart-pleasing, pacifying vāta, and light,
prepared with sauvīraka vinegar, surā liquor, jujube, horse gram, and barley.