[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) › 8.31 # Ashtangasamgraha 8.31 English (machine translation) 8.31 - **Language:** English ### [8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.31) Free from mutual conflict and factions, beneficial to the king; / the single qualified physician should watch over them with \[attentive\] mind. Four finger-breadths each are the chin, lips, nose, interocular space, ears, and forehead; / a third of a finger-breadth broad is the margin of the nostrils; / two finger-breadths long and the width of the thumb's middle is the eye; / therein, one-third of the white is the black; / one-ninth of the black, measuring the size of a lentil grain, is the pupil; / six finger-breadths in height and thirty-two in circumference is the head. The entire body again is eighty-four finger-breadths; / that which is equal in length and breadth is declared harmonious; / therein, the aforementioned measurement is desirable; deficient or excessive is undesirable; / likewise short or tall, fair or dark, hairy or hairless, corpulent or emaciated. In cardiac disease born of vāta, one should drink oil with whey, sauvīra, or buttermilk, / agreeably warm, with biḍa salt; it also conquers abdominal swelling, constipation, and pain. \[The cooking of oil is\] mild when the residue is like paste, and smooth when it resembles wax. In the northern direction, even there, he should offer a bali oblation to the deity. - [Previous: 8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.30) - [Next: 8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.32) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.8.31) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.31) · Pramāṇa