[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 # Ashtangasamgraha 7 English (machine translation) 7 - **Language:** English ### [7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.1) Now, therefore, we shall explain the chapter named Knowledge of the Nature of Food. / Thus spoke the great sages, Ātreya and the others. ### [7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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. ### [7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.3) Puṇḍra, pāṇḍu, puṇḍarīka, pramoda, the two gauraśārivas, kāñcana, mahiṣa, śūka, dūṣaka, kusumāṇḍaka; Between the big toe and the \[second\] toe is Kṣipra; an injury there causes death from convulsions. Two finger-breadths above Kṣipra on both sides is Kūrca; there, trembling and rotation of the foot occur. Below the ankle joint is Kūrcaśiras; there, pain and swelling occur. At the union of the foot and the lower leg is Gulpha; there, pain, stiffness of the leg, or impotence occurs. Twelve finger-breadths up from the heel, in the middle of the calf, is Indrabasti; there, death occurs from loss of blood. At the junction of the calf and thigh is Jānu; there, lameness occurs. Its cause is of two kinds: misconduct of the parents and fate. From both of these arises the aggravation of all three doṣas; therefore, they are incurable. By this, all hereditary disorders are explained. Or with gruel containing ghee, prepared with emetic substances; When given to one who has overeaten, who is heavy, who has an accumulation of feces, or who is weak, the unctuous substance, enveloped by these, does not return, even due to overwhelm. ### [7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.4) Lāṅgala, those called lohavāla, kardama, śītabhīruka, pataṅga, tapanīya, and whatever other noble rice varieties there are; There, increase of swelling and stiffness of the leg occur. In the middle of the thigh is Urvī; there, wasting of the leg occurs from loss of blood. Above Urvī, below the groin joint, at the base of the thigh, is Lohitākṣa; there, hemiplegia occurs from loss of blood. Between the groin and the scrotum is Viṭapa; there, impotence or deficiency of semen occurs. As with the legs, so in the arms; the distinction, however, is that the ankle corresponds to the wrist, and likewise the knee to the elbow. Upon puncturing them, crippledness of the hand occurs. And like Viṭapa, between the armpit and clavicle is Kakṣādhara; there, crippledness of the hand occurs. With sugar, honey, and ghee, or with milk, or with a refreshing drink, or accompanied by the juices of grapes, vidārī, kāśmarya, and meats; One should know by side-pain and constrictive aches that the unctuous substance is obstructed by vāta. From living together and associating with gods, asuras, and the like, and because of adopting their disposition, conduct, and deeds, they acquire their names. ### [7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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. ### [7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.6) Among awned grains, the red \[variety\] is the best; it relieves thirst and the three doṣas; next to it is mahān, and after that kalama, and then the others. Two finger-breadths below the two breasts, on both sides, are the Stanamūlas; \[an injury\] to them causes death with the thorax filled with kapha. Two finger-breadths above the two nipples, on both sides, are the Stanarohitas; \[an injury\] to them causes death with the thorax filled with blood. On both sides of the chest are the two vessels carrying vāta, the Apastambhas; \[an injury\] to them causes death from cough and dyspnea due to the thorax being filled with blood. Below the summits of the shoulders, on the upper parts of the flanks, are the Apalāpas; \[an injury\] to them causes death from blood turning into pus. When that \[apāna vāta\] causes an accumulation of waste products; and further, from adopting squatting, irregular, or hard seating, from riding in shaking carriages, on camels, and the like, from excessive sexual intercourse, from injury to the rectum caused by improper insertion of an enema nozzle or the like, from frequent contact with cold water, from friction caused by cloth, clods of earth, grass, and the like, from continuous excessive straining, from suppressing or forcibly initiating the urges of flatus, urine, and feces, and in women from abortion, compression of the fetus, or difficult delivery; provoked by such causes, the downward apāna vāta, reaching that accumulated waste that has descended, deposits it in the anal folds. Then, as they become engorged with fluid, hemorrhoids develop. And whatever is light, has not lost its potency, is easily digested, and produces strength; And with those very two oils, one should administer an unctuous enema in the evening after food has been eaten. ### [7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.7) The yavakā, hāyanā, pāṃsu, vāpya, naiṣadhaka, and other \[varieties of rice\] are sweet, hot, heavy, unctuous, sour in vipāka, and provoke śleṣman and pitta. From depletion of blood in them (the apālāpa marmans), one dies pale, discolored, and emaciated. On both flanks, on the outer part of the hips, on either side of the spine, are the two kukundaras. Injury to them causes loss of sensation in the lower body and loss of movement. Above the hips and the ears, covering the viscera and attached between the flanks, are the two nitambas. Injury to them causes swelling in the lower body, debility, and death. Attached below within the flanks, between the hips and flanks, oblique and upward, are the two pārśvasandhis. Injury to them causes death due to the abdomen filling with blood. And when these are produced, these signs become more distinct. \[The faces of\] a crow, an owl, a wolf, a leopard, a cow, a horse, a mongoose, a serpent— One should know that it is enveloped by pitta; one should remove it with sweet and bitter enemas. Likewise, one whose mind is afflicted with insanity or epilepsy, or who is afflicted by diseases such as fever— and especially a wounded person, through the smell of pus, blood, and fat. ### [7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.8) And they cause copious flow of urine and feces, and each preceding one is considered inferior. \[The red rice\] is unctuous, astringent, light, sweet, destroys all three doṣas, stable, and cooling. In their case, death occurs due to complications caused by excessive hemorrhage. On either side of the spine, connected to the base of the arms, are the two aṃsaphalakas (shoulder blades). Injury to them causes numbness and wasting of the arms. Between the neck, arm, and head, connecting the base of the shoulders and the shoulder region, are the two aṃsas. Injury to them results in stiffness of the arms. For it is recognized as disgusting; it does not contribute to vomiting, strength, or vital essence. One should know that sneha is enveloped by śleṣman through fainting and languor. ### [7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.9) Among vrīhi rices, the ṣaṣṭika is best; the white is superior to the dark-white; after that, in order, are mahāvrīhi, kṛṣṇavrīhi, and jatūmukha. Of them, two are nīlās and two are manyās. Injury to them causes muteness, alteration of voice, or loss of taste sensation. In the neck, on either side, are four sirāmātṛkās separately; injury to them causes immediate death. At the junction of the head and the neck are the two kukāṭikās. Injury to them causes tremors of the head. Situated below the back of the ears are the two vidhuras. Injury to them causes deafness. On both sides of the nasal passage, connected internally to the ear passages, are the two phaṇas. Injury to them causes loss of smell. Below the outer ends of the eyebrows, outside the eyes, are the two apāṅgas; injury to them causes blindness. Above the outer ends of the eyebrows, along the ear on the forehead, are the two śaṅkhas. Injury to them causes immediate death. Above the eyebrows, in the depressions, are the two āvartas. Injury to them causes blindness or impairment of vision. Prepared as veśavāra, they are wholesome and included in broths and the like. One should eliminate it with enemas accompanied by fruits and oils along with sours. At the commencement of a sinful deed; or at the time of the maturation of deeds done in a past life; or when living alone in a deserted house; or when standing at a crossroads; or when in an impure state at twilight, or when engaging in sexual intercourse during the junctions of fortnights; or when having intercourse with a menstruating woman; or during defective instruction, oblations, offerings, or auspicious rites; or upon the breach of vows, celibacy, or religious observances; or during a great battle; or during the destruction of a country, town, or family; or at the conjunction of a major planet; or at the time of a woman giving birth; or upon contact with various impure beings; or during vomiting, purgation, or hemorrhage; or when entering a caitya or temple while impure or unprepared; or when contaminated with meat, honey, jaggery, sesame, or alcohol; or when unclothed; or when going out at night to a city crossroad, garden, or cremation ground; or upon offending brāhmaṇas, teachers, gods, ascetics, or venerable persons. ### [7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.10) Kukkuṭāṇḍaka, lābākṣa, pārāvataka, sūkara, varaka, uddālaka, ujjāla, cīna, śārada, and dardura. Injury to these two: one may live if the arrow remains inside or falls out due to suppuration, but not if the arrow is extracted. Between the eyebrows is the sthapanī. Injury there is like that of the utkṣepa. Five joints in the head, transverse and vertical, are named the sīmantas. Injury to them causes death through insanity, dizziness, and loss of consciousness. The union of the veins nourishing the tongue, nose, eyes, and ears at the palate— their four apertures are named the śṛṅgāṭakas; injury to them causes immediate death. Inside the skull, at the upper confluence of the vein-joints, is the whorl of hair, which is called adhipati. There too, immediate death occurs. And their skin, nails, eyes, face, and excreta become dark. Tasty, soft, unctuous, and prepared with sharp ingredients. One should recognize it as enveloped by excessive eating by signs of āma accompanied by burning sensation. The gandharvas \[afflict\] by touching; the serpents by entering; the yakṣas by causing their own fragrance to be smelled; the rākṣasas by mounting and driving; likewise the piśācas and others; the pitṛs by appearing; the ṛṣis, gurus, elders, and siddhas by cursing. ### [7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.11) The gandhana and kuruvinda types are considered slightly inferior in properties. Other vrīhi rice is sweet, sour in vipāka, provokes pitta, and is heavy. And in general as well. With pippalī, barley, horse gram, and dry ginger. Mild purgation and everything prescribed for āma is beneficial there. Asuras \[afflict\] one who is angry, miserly, conceited, and proud of lineage and appearance, on the dark twelfth, dark thirteenth, and at the twilights. Gandharvas \[afflict\] one fond of dance, song, instruments, fragrances, garlands, and garments, addicted to another's wife, and clean in habits, mostly on the fourth, eighth, twelfth, and fourteenth lunar days. Nāgas \[afflict\] a brāhmaṇa prone to excessive sleep, fickle, given to groundless anger, and successful in undertakings, mostly on the fifth, at the twilights, and at midday. Yakṣas \[afflict\] one endowed with vitality, strength, beauty, skill in arts, wealth, and valor, fond of garlands, ointments, and laughter, and spoken to frequently, mostly on the bright seventh and eleventh. ### [7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.12) The pāṭala causes abundant urine, feces, and heat, and aggravates all three doṣas. Kaṅgu, kodrava, jūrṇāhva, gadī, and varuṇapadikā. Sweating, fainting, vomiting, and dyspnea are the symptoms of one pierced in a marman. One should classify the diseases born of combinations and sannipāta by the mixture of symptoms. By that, six disorders beginning with catarrh subside. Recognizing that sneha is enveloped by feces, with oleation, sudation, and enemas. Brahmarākṣasas \[afflict\]. ### [7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.13) śyāmāka, toyaśyāmāka, hastiśyāmāka, śilbikā, / śiśira, uddāla, nīvāra, varūka, and barakotkaṭa; // moreover, that is a confluence of muscle, vessels, ligaments, bones, and joints; / therefore, when it is injured, there is an impairment of life especially; / but the designation is according to the predominant element; / therefore, according to their substratum such as muscle, the vital points are divided into five classes; / upon its excessive discharge, complications of loss of blood arise; / and here is a verse: // with raisins, their paste immersed and stirred in clear coriander-water, // he should remove it thoroughly by the method that removes upward movement of vāta; / one who likes quarrelling and drinking, is envious, harsh-speaking, and eats much, and \[is possessed\] on the ninth and twelfth of the dark fortnight, at night—the Rākṣasas \[possess him\]. ### [7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.14) madhūlikā, antanirgaṇḍī, veṇuparṇī, praśāntikā, / gavethukā, aṇḍalauhitya, toyaparṇī, and mukundara; // talahṛdaya, indrabasti, guda, and stanarohita are the eleven muscle vital points; / urvī, lohitākṣa, nābhi, hṛdaya, stanamūla, apastambha, apalāpa, pārśvasandhi, bṛhatī, nīlā, manyā, mātṛkā, phaṇā, apāṅga, sthapanī, and śṛṅgāṭaka are the forty-one vessel vital points; / kṣipra, kūrca, kūrcaśiras, viṭapa, kakṣādhara, basti, aṃsa, vidhura, and utkṣepa are the twenty-seven ligament vital points; / kaṭīkataruṇa, nitamba, aṃsaphalaka, and śaṅkha are the eight bone vital points; / gulphā, maṇibandha, jānu, kūrpara, kukundara, kṛkāṭikā, āvarta, sīmanta, and adhipati are the twenty joint vital points; // powerful vāta, provoked in its own site by dry and binding \[substances\], // with honey, camphor, cloves, and saffron; // unctuous substance applied into the rectum runs unchecked with speed / to the upper body, and from there even emerges from the throat and upper orifices; ### [7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.15) they destroy kapha and pitta, are dry, astringent, sweet, cold, / aggravate vāta, bind feces and urine, are light, and scraping in nature; // \[it\] causes harsh constipation and obstruction of vāta, feces, and urine; // one pala of paste of raisins with fermented gruel, sour juice of āmalakī, // with oil cooked with those, an evacuating enema should be given accompanied by an unctuous enema; // and similarly \[one possessed\] mostly on the sixth and ninth \[lunar days\]—by preceptors, elders, and Siddhas; / likewise, one who is devoted to bathing, purity, and solitude, and skilled in legal treatises, scripture, and poetry—the sages \[possess him\]. ### [7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.16) among them, priyaṅgu heals fractures, is nourishing, and heavy; / koradūṣa is exceptionally binding, cold to the touch, and destroys poison; // yet even among them, the kṣipra \[vital points\] sometimes \[kill\] swiftly; // distension, intestinal colic, nausea, and sharp cutting pain; // with tree-sorrel, coriander, dramilī, mustard, pomegranate, and dry ginger, // and with treatments that counteract vomiting, one should bring about its cessation; // namely: / a liking for harming gods, cows, Brahmans, and ascetics; cruel intention; irritability; restlessness; torment of vital essence, complexion, luster, strength, and body; and in dreams, reproach and instigation by gods and the like. ### [7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.17) uddālaka, however, is hot in potency; nīvāra increases śleṣman; / madhūlikā is especially cold in potency, unctuous, and aphrodisiac; // for as long as vāyu remains obstructed here by the tip of the foreign body, so long does he live; // the upward course of vāyu, then vomiting, anorexia, and fever; // with vetiver, leaf, bark, and water, blended with the juice of holy basil; // then it causes pain, delusion, itching, and swelling, and the treatment here: / a sharp enema, and oil boiled in the juice of arka leaves; ### [7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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; ### [7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.19) chronic coryza, dyspnea, cough, stiffness of the thighs, and afflictions of the throat and skin; // secondary barleys are known to be inferior in qualities to barley; // for fire and air especially cause pain; / but soma supports the vital breaths, so it has been said; // and various extremely severe vāta diseases arise; // or water prepared with pañcamūla, or with tāmalakī; // pain from the rim, and a crooked flow: these are their faults, respectively; ### [7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.20) bamboo grains are hot, laxative, astringent, and aggravate vāta and pitta; / aphrodisiac, cold, heavy, unctuous, life-giving, and pacifying vāta and pitta; // from the combination of all five—muscle and the rest—in full development, they take life immediately; // and the others \[do so\] respectively through the deficiency and diminishment of one by one, and naturally; // in those whose alimentary tract is overpowered by vāta, it arises even without them; // and he should carefully prepare agreeable, clean food with it for him; // torn and soaked: these eight enemas he should avoid in operations; // and there too, one who shakes his head, creates quarrels, is wakefully reciting with haste, and laughs—\[possessed\] by Hasanā. ### [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; ### [7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.22) The legumes are mudga, maṅgalya, vana-mudga, makuṣṭhaka, / masūra, kalāya, āḍhakī, and chickpeas, which are of various types. // For when hands and feet are severed, the vessels contract; / therefore, due to minimal hemorrhage, life continues; / but upon piercing of a marma, death occurs due to excessive blood loss and disorder of vāta. / Therefore, when a marma is injured, that limb should quickly be amputated from the joint region. / For marmas that are severely struck, each prior function is lost, or when struck slightly at the margin, subsequent functions \[are impaired\]. // Those \[hemorrhoids\] are declared difficult to cure, as are those that have lasted a full year. // Jīvantī, madhuka, grapes, and the fruits of kuṭaja... // One should abandon \[patients lying with\] an upturned \[face\] or on the right side on seven beds. ### [7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.23) Astringent, sweet, light, causing constipation and distension, / unctuous, binding feces, cold, pungent in vipāka, they are beneficial // in \[disorders of\] pitta, blood, kapha, and medas, when employed as soups, pastes, and the like. / Among pulse-legumes, mudga is best, lightest, and produces little vāta. // As follows: / The urvī, kūrcaśiras, viṭapa, and kakṣadhara—these twelve are measured as one's own finger-breadth. / The two ankles, wrists, and breast-bases—these six are two finger-breadths. / The two knees and elbows—these four are three finger-breadths. / The kūrcas, anus, bladder, umbilicus, heart, nīlās, manyās, mātṛkās, sīmantas, and śṛṅgāṭakas—these twenty-nine are equal to the palm of the hand. / The remaining fifty-six have the measure of half a finger-breadth. / Others, however, say: / Kṣipra \[marmas\] are the size of a rice grain; / stanarohita and utkṣepa are the size of a pea; / and yet others consider marmas to be of the size of a sesame seed. / And here it is said: // Hemorrhoids that are easily cured are those that have arisen recently. // Blue water-lily, tāmalakī, trāyamāṇā, durālabhā— / making a paste \[of these\], cooked ghee is supreme in overcoming consumption, the king of diseases. // Rapid onset, aggravation of vāta, and feeling of fullness in the large intestine: / these are its complications, and what is suitable here should be administered. // One who laughs, dances, or sings in secret, and practices silence when surrounded by people, \[is possessed\] by Vikaṭa. ### [7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.24) One should therefore always employ longevity-promoting \[regimens\], O wise one! // Resembling the mouth of an earthworm, slimy and soft. // Having taken parts measured in palas, and one pala of parpaṭaka... // Complications arise from the administrator: too slow, external, or excessively forceful application. // Among them, one who speaks with a distorted voice, terrifies others, recites sacred texts, speaks Sanskrit, and repeatedly begs for water, is possessed by Yajñasena. ### [7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.25) Among those, green ones are superior; makuṣṭhas cause worms; / masūras are exceedingly beneficial for complexion through pastes, and are strongly astringent. // Likewise, diseases situated in the marmas, even when treated with effort. // Resembling a peg, firm and rough—they know that to be a carmakīla. // When that is purified, one should cook a prastha of ghee with twice as much milk. // The agitated vāta, having entered, causes colic and piercing pain; / there, massage, sudation at the anus, and vāta-destroying foods \[are indicated\]. // Among them, one with rough skin, beating the ground, and weeping without cause, is possessed by Viśākha; / one with a cracked and stammering throat, fracturing his limbs, licking his tongue, chanting with a rosary, and continually purifying himself, is possessed by Saṅgama; / one who becomes angered at the rise and toil of clouds and lightning, considers rain to be all around, and crushes carts, is possessed by Vidyunmālin; / one who begs for raw meat, flesh, radish, fried cake, and rice pudding, and has rough skin, is possessed by Virūpākṣa. ### [7.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.26) Rājamāṣa is heavy, produces much feces, dry, and greatly aggravates vāta. / Kulattha is astringent, sweet, dry, hot, and causes raktapitta. // He breathes upward with difficulty, with his limbs continually drooping. // Due to śleṣman, it has unctuousness, knottedness, and same color \[as the skin\]. // Trāyantī, pauṣkara root, sahapatraphalā, and phala... // There may be rigidity, pain, and breaking pain in the hips, anus, calves, thighs, and bladder. // The diet there is vāta-pacifying, along with sudation, massage, and enemas. // Among them, one who laughs on seeing food, cries out in an altered voice, and is perpetually terrified, is possessed by Kaśmala; / one who twitches all his limbs, runs repeatedly, and terrifies others, is possessed by Kuśa; / one who becomes angry upon seeing a physician, wanders while eating, eats excessively, lies down covered in ash, obstructs women on the road, and rubs urine and feces, is possessed by Nistejas; / one with the appearance, conduct, and smell of a ghost, cutting grass, terrified, and loathing food, is possessed by a Preta. ### [7.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.27) They cure chronic rhinitis, dyspnea, cough, hemorrhoids, hiccup, abdominal distension, kapha, and vāta; / they destroy semen, seminal calculus, vision, edema, and abdominal disease. // Through injury to marmas, one meets death with these symptoms. // For they quickly obstruct the rectum, causing abdominal disease with intestinal obstruction. // Thirst, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, burning sensation, vertigo, and fever... // Having extracted the nozzle straight, and cleaned it, one should insert it again. ### [7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.28) Astringent, light, sharp, sour in vipāka, and producing a burning sensation. / Niṣpāva, however, is laxative, dry, astringent-sweet, and heavy. // And one whose blood flows excessively gives up life immediately. // With pippalī, it relieves hoarseness, cough, dyspnea, and fever. // A strong \[enema\] causes pain in the chest and head, and weakness of the thighs; / the enema there should be bilvādi or with fruits, śyāmā, and urine. ### [7.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.29) Sour in digestion, causing constipation of vāta, increasing breast milk, urine, and raktapitta, / hot, causing burning sensation, it destroys eyesight, semen, kapha, swelling, and poison. // With pippalī and honey, it is supreme in restoring voice. // Astringent-sweet and cold affusions along with enemas \[are indicated\] there. ### [7.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.30) Māṣa is unctuous, produces strength, śleṣman, feces, and pitta, is laxative, / heavy, hot, eliminates vāta, sweet, and causes increase of semen and purgation. // Therefore, until the last breath, one should treat \[the patient\] with effort. // Or ghee that has been boiled and skimmed with the five pañcamūlas... // There may be evacuation of heavy feces accompanied by pain, burning sensation, and piercing pain; / there, ghee, a tampon, milk, and a picchābasti are commended. ### [7.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.31) One should know that the fruits of kākāṇḍola and ātmaguptā are endowed with qualities; / kuśāmraśimbī is sweet, removes vāta and pitta, and is cooling. // The prepared ghee overcomes this seven-fold strength of consumption. // Unctuous substance should be administered properly again there by one desiring success. ### [7.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.32) Sweet, cooling, heavy, impairing strength, and drying in nature, / the various kinds of pulses should be eaten with abundant fat by the strong. / Measured as a prastha with an equal quantity of milk, it cleanses those bodily channels. / There, enema, purgation, and procedures such as squeezing the throat \[are applied\]; / and on this there is \[a verse\]: ### [7.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.33) Unctuous, hot, bitter, pungent, astringent, and sweet is sesame; / beneficial to the intellect and hair, heavy, improving complexion, cold to the touch, and pacifying vāta. / It overcomes cough, dyspnea, sluggish digestive fire, edema, and upward vāta. / Just as a fragile egg or a full vessel of oil, even so / the physician should protect \[the patient\] with effort from all improper conduct. / When a man displays a lack of virility, one should declare it an affliction by spirits. ### [7.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.34) Producing little urine, pungent in post-digestive effect, enhancing intellect, digestive fire, kapha, and pitta, / black \[sesame\] is praised, next to it white, and next red. / Ghee containing jīvantī and pippalī with milk overcomes wasting; / and ghee prepared from milk boiled with aśvagandhā, taken with sugar and milk. / Sweet and bitter then repeatedly, astringent and pungent thereafter. / One should abandon the mentally distressed, the long-standing chronic patient, and one afflicted by spirits. ### [7.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.35) Linseed is unctuous, sweet, bitter, hot, increasing kapha and pitta, and heavy; / it impairs vision and semen, and is pungent in post-digestive effect; safflower seed is similar. / With that reduced to an eighth part and life-promoting drugs weighing a pala, / by alternate use, one should gradually bring him to his normal state; / bearing everything and of stable strength, he is to be recognized as returned to his normal state. ### [7.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.36) Among these, black gram is the lowest among all pulses, and small barley among awned grains; / new grain is obstructive of bodily channels, as is that grown in irrigated land and marshy fields. / This ghee with meat, when drunk, or taken with meat broth, / conquers cough, dyspnea, hoarseness, wasting, and pain in the heart and flanks. / From loud speech arise head disease, blurred vision, and pain in the chest and voice. ### [7.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.37) Light is that which has aged for a year, grown in burned soil, or produced in dry ground; / quick-growing, suitable for soup, dehusked, and properly roasted. / Thus ends the group of pulse grains. / When the water is reduced to an eighth of a śūrpa, one should cook a pātra of ghee in it. / Application of massage, sudation, nasal drops, food, and unctuous substances, / silence, the regimen that pacifies vāta, and overcoming each disorder according to its nature. ### [7.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.38) The lightness of thin gruel, thick gruel, thick rice paste, and boiled rice / increases in that preceding order; among them, thin gruel is auspicious and promotes the downward movement of vāta. / And prepared with well-ground life-promoting herbs, this Pārāśara ghee, / when used regularly, uproots consumption along with its forces. / From excessive walking arise weakness of the feet, shanks, and thighs, and the like. ### [7.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.39) It destroys thirst, exhaustion, and residual doṣas, is digestive, brings equilibrium to the bodily tissues, / softens the bodily channels, causes sweating, and rekindles the digestive fire. / The milk of cows, elephants, goats, sheep, and horses—ten equal liquids. / From eating with indigestion arise undigested toxic residue, vomiting, fever, and the like. ### [7.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.40) Overcoming hunger, thirst, exhaustion, debility, abdominal disorders, and fever, / promoting the natural downward movement of waste products, wholesome, thick gruel stimulates the digestive fire and digests \[undigested food\]. / And one should quickly cook that which destroys wasting, just as ghee prepared with vāsā and balā. / From unwholesome food arise diseases and remedies according to each doṣa. ### [7.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.41) Thick rice paste is bowel-binding, pleasing to the heart, destroys thirst, stimulates digestive fire, and is beneficial / for those suffering from wounds, eye diseases, purified by elimination, weak, and those who have drunk unctuous substances. / Karañja, bola, sthavira, horsegram, jujube, and agnika. / One should administer smoke, dry food, and fasting in kapha-predominant conditions among these. ### [7.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.42) Well-washed, drained, steamed, with its steam released, boiled rice is light; / and that which is cooked with a decoction of fire-stimulating herbs or prepared with fried rice. / And harītakī; that destroys wasting, edema, urinary disorders, and abdominal enlargement. / The rectum feels as if cut open and consciousness seems to whirl. ### [7.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.43) The opposite is heavy, and that which is prepared with milk, meat, and the like; / thus one should determine everything according to the combination of substances and actions, measures, and so forth. / One should give these prepared ghees with food, / or the administration of milk and ghee boiled with life-promoting herbs; / nourishing food there, and various aphrodisiac enemas. ### [7.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.44) For those wasting away, freed from disease, purified, desiring purification, / emaciated, weakened, with injured chest, and depleted bodily tissues, sense faculties, and vital essence; / the core extracts produced from ariṣṭa, gāyatrī, sāla, and bījaka. / When vāta is obstructed in them, afflicting the entire body, / one should first give a medicated rectal suppository, and then an enema that dispels vāta. ### [7.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.45) For those desiring sight, hearing, digestive fire, longevity, strength, complexion, and voice; / for those with fractures and dislocated joints, the wounded, and those afflicted with vāta disorders. / In sixteen times as much water, one should cook until a sixteenth part remains. / And the fruit boiled in urine, an equal quantity of that ghee with oil, and the five salts. ### [7.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.46) Pleasing to the heart, wholesome, supremely aphrodisiac, nourishing, and gladdening is meat juice; / but soup of green gram is wholesome for those who have undergone purification, the wounded, and those with throat and eye disorders. / One should add thirty \[parts\] of tavakṣīrī, twice as much honey as sugar. / Balā, rāsnā, madana fruit, bilva, citraka, the two pañcamūlas, and fruit of kṛtamāla. ### [7.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.47) Promoting the downward movement of vāta, horsegram soup conquers abdominal swelling, downward shooting colic, and upward shooting colic; / black gram soup is considered foremost in producing copious internal waste products. / Milk is the following drink; that in the morning is a rejuvenative without restrictions. / Ghee mixed with oil, jaggery, and rock salt is beneficial, conferring strength, nourishment, and complexion to the chronically ill. ### [7.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.48) Khala and kāmbalika are pleasing to the heart, breaking up secretions, and conforming to their added drugs; / meat juice is with flesh, soup is with pulses, and khala is with fruits. / Urinary disorders, abdominal swelling, consumptive disease, anemia, and fistula-in-ano. / And those ghee-jaggery preparations declared for chest injury are also to be employed in wasting; / meat juice with life-promoting drugs without salt is beneficial as an unctuous enema and evacuating enema for a child. ### [7.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.49) With roots, and consisting mostly of sesame paste and sour substances, it is known as kāmbalika; / they are understood as seasoned or unseasoned, combined with or devoid of unctuous substances and the like. / Triphalā, pippalī, mustā, śṛṅgāṭa, jaggery, and sugar. / Therefore, with diligence, one should administer that which quickly increases strength and bodily limbs. ### [7.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.50) Having little meat and the like, clear, they are known as dakalāvaṇika; / one should understand \[increasing heaviness\] successively in thin soup, meat juice, thick soup, and vegetable dishes; / ginger, citraka, puffed rice, pippalī, āmalaka, and jaggery. ### [7.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.51) heaviness likewise in each of these according as they are thin, thick, sour, or sweet; / preparations of sesame oil cake, dried vegetables, and sprouted grains. / These five electuaries described in half-ślokas, taken with honey and ghee, / improve the voice and destroy cough, wasting, dyspnea, pain in the flanks, and kapha. ### [7.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.52) A cāṇḍākī patty damages the eyesight, aggravates the doṣas, causes fatigue, and is heavy. / Parpaṭas are light and appetizing; an alkaline parpaṭa is even lighter. / Powdered, one should eat or lick \[them\] as before, or they possess the same qualities. ### [7.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.53) Rāgas and ṣāḍavas are wholesome for the heart, aphrodisiac, appetizing, heavy, / gratifying, and alleviate giddiness, thirst, vomiting, burning sensation, fainting, and exhaustion. / They are commended in the very diseases mentioned earlier, predominantly those caused by vāta. ### [7.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.54) Mantha dispels thirst, vomiting, and fatigue; it is cold and instantly gives strength. / Moreover, drinkers of mantha do not suffer from urinary disorders, consumption, or skin diseases. / Especially in hoarseness of voice, one should administer nasal therapy, smoke, and the like; / there too, in that caused by vāta, one should drink \[medicated ghee\] lukewarm after a meal. ### [7.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.55) Rasālā is nourishing, aphrodisiac, unctuous, strengthening, and appetite-giving. / Pānaka removes fatigue, hunger, thirst, and exhaustion; it is gratifying and heavy. / Prepared \[as such\], it overcomes cough and benefits the voice, or when prepared with artagala. ### [7.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.56) It causes constipation, is diuretic, wholesome for the heart, and has qualities corresponding to its ingredients. / Parched grain dispels thirst, vomiting, diarrhea, urinary disorders, medas, and kapha. / Or oil \[prepared\] with licorice, grapes, long pepper, and viḍaṅga fruits. ### [7.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.57) It pacifies cough and pitta, stimulates digestion, is light, and cool. / Flattened rice is heavy, strengthening, and causes kapha and constipation. / One should take boiled rice with jaggery along with ghee, with warm water as an after-drink, / and likewise eat milk-rice; and one should apply unctuous sudation. ### [7.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.58) Roasted grain causes constipation, is unctuous, nourishing, scraping, and heavy; / it removes diseases of the throat and eyes, hunger, thirst, fatigue, vomiting, and wounds. / Prepared with the decoction and paste of sprouts of latex-bearing trees, along with honey. ### [7.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.59) Roasted flour preparations are light when drunk and instantly impart strength. / When dense, a lump is said to be hard and heavy, but when soft, it is light. / With balā, vidārigandhā, vidārī, and licorice. ### [7.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.60) Due to the addition of liquid, an avalehikā made of roasted flour is lighter still. / The preparation of pastries, sweets, and the like is explained in the same way. / Prapauṇḍarīka, licorice, long pepper, bṛhatī, and balā. ### [7.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.61) One should not eat roasted flour interspersed with water, nor twice \[a day\], nor at night, nor by itself alone, / nor after eating \[another meal\], nor by biting with the front teeth, nor in large quantities. / One should lick the powder of sweet substances mixed with honey and ghee. ### [7.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.62) The roasted flours of karkandhu, badara, and the like alleviate fatigue, thirst, and exhaustion; / they have a sour taste, are wholesome for the heart, and share the qualities of their source substances. / If it does not subside in this way, one should puncture a vein on his forehead. ### [7.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.63) Oil-cake causes fatigue, is dry, constipating, and vitiates vision. / Minced meat is heavy, unctuous, and enhances strength and bodily mass. / One should lick kaṭphala, āmalaka, and trikaṭu bathed in oil and honey. ### [7.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.64) Those made from mung bean and the like are heavy, following the qualities of their source substances. / Among cakes made from the same origin, cooked in chaff-embers, on a potsherd, in an oven, in a trench, or on hot coals, / one should know each successive one to be lighter than the preceding. / Thus ends the section on prepared foods. / One should drink barley gruel prepared with long pepper and āmalakī in yamaka; / having eaten, one should take long pepper and dry ginger, or resort to sharp emesis. ### [7.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.65) The spotted deer, blackbuck, gazelle, ṛśya, gokarṇa, mṛgamātṛkā, / kālapucchaka, cāruṣka, varapota, hare, and urāṇa— / one whose voice is impaired by speaking loudly should drink milk. ### [7.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.66) The śvadaṃṣṭra, maral, śarabha, kohakāraka, sambar deer, / karāla, kṛtamāla, and chital are known as forest animals. / In anorexia, varied food combined with wholesome items is beneficial, / as are external and internal cleansing, mental tranquility, and heart-pleasing medicine. ### [7.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.67) The quail, vātika, vartīra, red-eyed dove, karkara, / francolin, upacakra, cakora, ruru, and bāha. / One should wash the mouth with astringent decoctions and inhale habitual smoke. ### [7.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.68) The vartaka and vartikā, the partridge, krakara, peacock, / tāracūḍa, varaka, gonarda, and mountain quail, / and the moon-beam bird are edibles that are supremely appetizing. ### [7.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.69) Likewise, the spotted-foot bird, indrāhva, and vāraṭa are scatterers. / The woodpecker, bhṛṅgarāja, koyaṣṭī, jīvajīvaka, / of hareṇu, long pepper, viḍaṅga, grape, rock salt, and dry ginger. ### [7.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.70) The wagtail, hārīta pigeon, durnāmāri, kṛśāgraha, / laṭvā, laḍūṣa, vaṭahā, rokṣvela, ḍiṇḍimāṇava, / or one should induce emesis with calamus water, and in \[anorexia from\] pitta, with jaggery water. ### [7.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.71) The tufted lark, dundubhi, pārkāra, lohapṛṣṭha, kuliṅga, / myna, parrot, śārṅga bird, cirīṭī, kuyaṣṭikā, / from kapha, one should vomit with neem water, or with dīpyaka and āragvadha water. ### [7.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.72) The mañjarīyaka, water hen, godhāputra, priyātmaja, / sparrow, cuckoo, dove, charcoal-crested bird, / and one should drink the aforementioned powder of hareṇu and the rest with warm water. ### [7.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.73) The pigeon and pāṇavika are called peckers among birds. / The white, dusky, spotted-back, black, and kākulī deer. / In the morning and at mealtime, one should practice mouth-rinsing. ### [7.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.74) The frog, cillaṭa, kūcīkā, iguana, porcupine, śāṇḍaka, / vṛṣāhi, kadalī, hedgehog, mongoose, and others are hole-dwellers. / Āmalakī, cardamom, padmaka, uśīra, long pepper, sandalwood, and blue lotus. ### [7.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.75) The ox, donkey, mule, camel, horse, leopard, lion, bear, monkey, / cat, rat, tiger, wolf, mongoose, and hyena. / Fresh pomegranate juice with cumin and white sugar. ### [7.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.76) The fox, jackal, falcon, blue jay, owl, dog, crow, / hawk, bhāsa, osprey, vulture, and veśyakuliṅga. / They destroy four types of anorexia: those arising from a single doṣa or from all combined. ### [7.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.77) The dhūmikā and bee-eater are predatory animals and birds. / The buffalo, nyaṅku, rohit deer, boar, ruru, and elephant, / black salt, jaggery, and honey cure all types of anorexia. ### [7.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.78) The sṛmara, yak, rhinoceros, and gayal are large forest animals. / The swan, crane, teal, heron, kāraṇḍava duck, and plava, / this powder, with each ingredient increased in proportion, mixed with an equal amount of sugar, destroys ### [7.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.79) The mṛṇālakaṇṭha, cakravāka, egret, raktaśīrṣaka, / osprey, puṇḍarīkākṣa, śarārī, and maṇituṇḍaka. / Carom seed, tamarind, sour amlavetasa, dry ginger, pomegranate, ### [7.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.80) The crow-billed bird, ghanārāva, madgu, krauñca crane, water fowl, / nadyāsyā, mallikā, and other birds are water-dwellers. / Coriander, black salt, cumin, and cinnamon, each half a karṣa. ### [7.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.81) Fish: rohita, pāṭhīna, turtle, gharial, crab, / pearl oyster, conch, otter, snail, carp, vartmī, and candrikā. / This powder is supremely appetizing, wholesome for the heart, bowel-binding, and destroys / constipation, cough, cardiac and flank pain, splenic disorder, hemorrhoids, and malabsorption disorder. ### [7.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.82) Bulūkī, crocodile, makara, dolphin, timiṅgala, striped fish, cilicima, and others—meat is declared to be of eight kinds. Cinnamon and cardamom are increased by parts respectively, each being half a part. ### [7.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.83) Among animal classes, goat and sheep are indefinite because of their mixed grazing habits. The first and last are arid and marshland; the two middle ones are considered intermediate. It overcomes cough, dyspnea, anorexia, vomiting, disorders of the spleen, and pain in the chest and sides. ### [7.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.84) Because they eat by scattering and similar actions, they are called scatterers and the like. Among them, \[their meats\] bind the stools, stimulate appetite, are the best among meats, and are cooling. One pala each of tālīsapatra, cavikā, and black pepper. ### [7.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.85) Meats of arid animals are astringent, sweet, clear, light, and beneficial in a sannipāta where pitta is predominant, vāta is moderate, and kapha follows. The group of four aromatics and uśīra, one karṣa each, finely powdered. ### [7.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.86) Here, the copper-colored \[deer\] is the hariṇa; the black one is the eṇa; it is good for the heart and conquers the three doṣas. The hare is lighter, has six tastes, is bowel-binding, unctuous-less, and cold. One should prepare sweetmeats measuring an akṣa; they too possess those qualities. ### [7.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.87) Pungent in post-digestive effect, stimulating the digestive fire, wholesome in sannipāta where vāta is least; likewise the quail, yet un-dry; the grey partridge is slightly dry. With barley that has soaked overnight in alkaline water of arka and amṛtā, prepared into roasted groats and food items in case of excessive salivation, a strong person should eat and vomit. ### [7.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.88) Wild pigeons and doves, likewise praised, are slightly hot, heavy, unctuous, and nourishing, like the buttonquail and others. And dry foods that are very light, followed by the juice of chickpea and the like. ### [7.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.89) Even among them, the francolin is superior, promoting intellect, digestive fire, strength, and semen; it is bowel-binding, improves complexion, and supremely removes sannipāta aggravated by vāta. One should know that excessive salivation is from kapha, and overcome it with unctuous and hot things alone. ### [7.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.90) Because it roams in both arid and marshy lands, \[peacock meat\] is unctuous, hot, heavy, and nourishing; it is not overly wholesome, yet wholesome for hearing, voice, youth, and sight. Especially in catarrh, one should resort to oil-massages, unctuous substances, and sudation. ### [7.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.91) Likewise, the wild cock is aphrodisiac, but the domesticated one promotes śleṣman and is heavy. Karakara birds along with upacakrakas promote intellect and digestive fire, and are pleasing to the heart. And tastes that are salty, sour, pungent, and hot, combined with unctuous substances. ### [7.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.92) The one-eyed dove is heavy, slightly salty, and causes all doṣas. From here on, the groups are progressively heavy, hot, unctuous, and sweet. Warm poultices well-prepared with the flesh of aquatic and marshland animals. ### [7.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.93) They produce urine and semen, give strength, destroy vāta, and increase kapha and pitta. Among them, large deer are cooling; carnivorous animals and birds of prey, however, and an unguent with nata, yaṣṭyāhva, śatāhvā, kuṣṭha, and sandalwood. ### [7.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.94) are beneficial for the eyes, release feces and urine, build muscle, and have a pungent post-digestive effect; they are supremely beneficial for those suffering from chronic hemorrhoids, disorders of the duodenum, and wasting. Palaṅkaṣā, devadāru, sandalwood, madhuka, and ghee. ### [7.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.95) The monitor lizard subdues poison; the rat increases semen; \[beef subdues\] dry cough, fatigue, excessive digestive fire, irregular fever, catarrh, Abhīru, licorice, payasyā, kattṛṇa, and ghee. ### [7.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.96) emaciation, and isolated vāta disorders—beef subdues them. Sparrows promote śleṣman, are unctuous, destroy vāta, and are supremely aphrodisiac. They are recommended for those with combined doṣas who suffer from pain in the head, flanks, and shoulders. ### [7.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.97) Buffalo meat is heavy, hot, unctuous, and produces sleep, firmness, and bulk. Likewise, pork removes fatigue and imparts taste, semen, and strength. Oils suitable for massage, and an enema treatment likewise; or with horns and the like, according to the doṣa, one should remove their vitiated blood; a plaster with ghee, made of padmaka, uśīra, and sandalwood, is desirable. ### [7.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.98) The swan improves the voice, conquers pitta and blood, is fatty, and is cooling. Fish promote kapha and pitta, and are supreme destroyers of wind. Massage with Candanādi oil and hundred-times-washed ghee, and sprinkling with milk and water infused with licorice, is praised. ### [7.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.99) Because it swims against the current and leaps in the air, the rohita is the best among them, while the cilicima is the worst. For him, medicine prescribed for diarrhea and duodenal disorder is beneficial; one should make him drink indrayava seeds together with dry ginger in rice water. ### [7.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.100) Because it feeds on unwholesome things, it indeed aggravates all the doṣas. The crab is supremely aphrodisiac, nourishing, gratifying, and heavy. Or one should drink a powder of pāṭhā, neem, and ajwain with buttermilk. ### [7.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.101) Goat meat is not too cold, heavy, or unctuous, and does not aggravate the doṣas; because of its similarity to the human bodily tissues, it does not cause obstruction of channels and is nourishing. Or the pulp of rose apple, mango, and bilva, together with wood apple and dry ginger. ### [7.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.102) Mutton should be known as the opposite of this, yet it is nourishing. One should avoid meat that is excessively fatty, or killed by disease, poison, or water, and seasoned buttermilk soups cooked with legumes and grains, with fats, sours, and salts, with sprouts of vetasa, arjuna, jambū, mṛṇālī, and kṛṣṇagandhā, ### [7.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.103) or animal dead of itself, suffocated with smoke, fed on improper pastures, or emaciated; freshly killed, of prime age, clean, and fragrant meat is praised. and with tender shoots of cāṅgerī, madayantī, and yūthikā. ### [7.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.104) The eṇa, kuraṅga, and hariṇa antelopes, the hare, quail, grey partridge, francolin, krakara, monitor lizard, porcupine, vulture, and lion; one should administer seasoned buttermilk soups with curds cream, ghee, and pomegranate, which are appetizing, kindle digestion, and are superior in arresting diarrhea. ### [7.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.105) likewise the maina, nyaṅku deer, swan, rohita fish, tortoise, and vartmī are celebrated as the foremost in their own groups, and also among all meats. For a person afflicted by wasting of all bodily tissues, his strength is indeed the strength of feces. ### [7.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.106) Quail, eṇa, monitor lizard, and lion are praised; beef along with frog is condemned; the white-footed antelope and the one-eyed dove \[are condemned\]; the rest has been stated according to appropriateness. Consumption is indeed a cluster of many illnesses; therefore, it is extremely difficult to bear. ### [7.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.107) Eggs are heavy; the meat of young animals is astringent and sweet; that of old animals has an abundance of sinews, is not strengthening, and is heavy and vitiating to doṣas. Wetting and rubbing oneself with their milk, urine, and dung, surrounded by them, one should sleep in the mixture of their dung and dust. ### [7.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.108) Between male and female, the fore-half and the hind-half are heavy respectively; a pregnant female is heavy; among quadrupeds, the female is light, but among birds, the male. Ghee cooked with goat dung juice, milk, curd, and urine. ### [7.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.109) The heaviness of the head, shoulders, thighs, back, waist, and calves, as well as of the stomach and the intestines, should be indicated in preceding order. Eating only meat according to rule, and drinking wine from grapes thereafter, ### [7.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.110) And among the bodily tissues such as blood and the rest, each successive one is heavier than meat; heavier still are testicles, penis, kidneys, liver, and rectum. Thus ends the meat group. surā with its scum, wine from grapes, ariṣṭas, śīdhu, and mādhavī wines. ### [7.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.7.111) The leafy greens pāṭhā, śaṭī, śrūṣā, suniṣaṇṇa, and satīna / destroy all three doṣas, are light, astringent, together with rājakṣava and vāstuka; / they serve to relieve channel obstruction and to promote strength, vital essence, and nourishment. _First 111 of 265 passages. 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