Ashtangasamgraha 9.12
English (machine translation) 9.12
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9.12
In these cases, one should quickly perform purification or pacification with substances contrary to them, / or beforehand prepare the body with those very substances.
If it floats for one swimming, his life is for six months.
Through this, there is retention of vāta, feces, and urine, and abdominal distension.
That is vātāṣṭhīlā.
Vitiated vāta, having coiled in the bladder, accompanied by intense colic, stiffness, and heaviness, wanders about, scattering urine or discharging it in small amounts; that is vātakuṇḍalikā.
When urine, having been suppressed for a long time, does not flow when being released, but when straining flows with difficulty and in small amounts, that is mūtrātīta.
With citron, vṛkṣāmla, kola, pomegranate, and dīpyaka.
Pale, dejected, constantly fainting, he laments, weeping 'alas, alas!'.
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- Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit