Ashtangasamgraha 8.24

8.24

Through habitual exposure to sharp poison, slow poison is intensely consumed;
therefore, a skilled physician should bind sharp poison to his hand.

Moreover, due to particular karmas, there are men who live less or more than a hundred years.
Having ascertained the measure of their lifespan by the specific constitutions as described, one should divide age into three stages.

Pain in the flanks, thighs, groin, and neck, and frequent cholera-like vomiting and diarrhea.
Likewise viḍaṅga, triphalā, kṛmighna, and paripelava.
Subsidence of foam indicates [the perfection] of medicated ghee, but its emergence indicates [that of medicated] oil;
for a linctus, it is stringiness, sinking in water, and not spreading.
With pāṭalī, hiṅgu, white mustard, siṃhī, the two kinds of turmeric, and latārohiṇī;