[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) › 8.3 # Ashtangasamgraha 8.3 English (machine translation) 8.3 - **Language:** English ### [8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.3) Moreover, kings have many dependents; / and there are rapidly acting conditions such as colic, loss of consciousness, and the like. / Moreover, sick persons—especially kings—are in a condition that must be examined at every moment. / For they are attended by negligence, intolerant of pain, naturally inclined to what is unwholesome, and have attendants who mostly speak harmful pleasantries; therefore, the king should have a residence built for the physician close to the royal palace. / For thus he has direct observation over all equipment used for the sovereign's body. And his body is restored by those very qualities; / and consequently he is not suddenly afflicted by the opposites of those qualities. / But in that state, when the doṣa is impaired and predominant, the embryo is formed; / at its very formation it perishes, / or becomes deformed. By wines, dry foods, excessive food, hemorrhoids, and confusion in oleation, / then purgation gradually, pleasing to the heart, with wines and fruit juices. Unctuous, cool, near water, mostly with unctuous grass, crops, and tender trees, white, and abundant in clear water properties \[is earth\] with a predominance of water quality. / Having diverse colors, light, sparse flowers, and scattered pale tree shoots \[is earth\] with a predominance of fire quality. / Rough, the color of an ass or ash, mostly with rough, slender, hollowed trees and shoots with little sap \[is earth\] with a predominance of wind quality. / Soft, level, with chasms, water of unmanifest taste, large mountains and trees, and dark \[is earth\] with a predominance of ether quality. / There, \[plants\] grown in soils predominant in the qualities of water and earth are commended for purgatives and nourishing therapies. / In those predominant in fire, wind, and ether qualities, \[they are commended\] for emetics. / In those endowed with all qualities, \[they are commended\] for dual-acting therapies. / In those predominant in ether quality, \[they are commended\] for pacifying therapies. / Thus they are most potent. Ajalomī, golomī, bhūtakeśī, vacā, and latā. - [Previous: 8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.2) - [Next: 8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.4) - [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.8.3) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.8.3) · Pramāṇa