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Ashtangasamgraha 8.18

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8.18

Specifically, in a disorder caused by ornaments, a warm poultice should be made with pastes of aśvagandhā, apāmārga, kiṇihī, khadira, and śirīṣa mixed with cow's bile.

In one caused by a footstool, a paste of śleṣmātaka, sarpasugandhā, and mango mixed with honey [should be used].

When [poison] is applied to an umbrella, there is appearance of pain and blisters that suppurate quickly and resemble ripe jambu fruits.

There, a warm poultice over the whole body [is applied] with pastes of madhuka, pāṭalā, kaśeruka, lodhra, añjana, kuṣṭha, sarpasugandhā, khadira, and śirīṣa.

By this, chowries and fans are explained.

The body also conforms to mental temperaments and the like;

Mental temperaments and the like also conform to the body.

That diarrhea, because of rapid evacuation, is swift-acting by nature.

Madhūka, madhuka, drākṣā, lotus, āmalaka, mustā,

Seed from karañja, flower from śirīṣa, and fruit and bark from the kapittha tree—

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