Ashtangasamgraha 8.19

8.19

When [poison] is applied as a head-rubbing, there is headache, formation of nodules, and falling out of hair.

There, an unction should be made with black earth well-impregnated with powders of śyāmā, pālindī, and taṇḍulīyaka, ghee, and bear's bile.

Or sprinkling should be done with cow dung, mālatī, or the juice of any [plant such as] mūṣikakarṇī, or chimney soot, or bark of śleṣmātaka, pāṭalā, śirīṣa, madhuka, and the two haridrās, stirred into goat's milk.

By this, head-bath water, combs, garlands, and turbans are explained.

That possession [of temperament], however, is produced by the latent impression of practice in the immediately preceding birth.

Therefore, one should examine the constitution of a person in accordance with gods, humans, animals, ghosts, and hell-beings, and their respective distinctions.

Or suddenly bound at one moment, suddenly loose at another.

Madhuka or ātmaguptā, or cold with dhātrī juice;

Having thoroughly impregnated it with he-goat's urine, one should make pills with cow's bile.