Ashtangasamgraha 8.5

8.5

And while he is eating, one should beat kettledrums smeared with antidotes.

They descend to their natural states.

Under the influence of time and other factors, they support or vitiate the body through the combination of increase and decrease in their own measure.

Likewise, the superior vital essence situated in the heart, measuring eight drops, is the support of the fluid vital essence consisting of nutritive juice that is subject to decrease and increase.

It leads to diarrhea; its sign of what is to come [is]:

Fasting, as well as clear vegetable broths, meat broths, kāmbalikā soups, and seasoned buttermilk drinks.

In this way, they remain unvitiated and fuller in their taste and potency.

From the donkey, horse, dog, porcupine, camel, bear, monitor lizard, mongoose, and hedgehog;