Ashtangasamgraha 8.18
English (machine translation) 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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- Śaśilekhā — Indu, Sanskrit
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- Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit