The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.23

Feces, hardened, knotted, and dried, impelled by vāta: / by that his channel is obstructed, and it produces swelling in the rectum.

Vāta, enraged in that very creature, goes upward / and settles in the side, the pelvis, the back, and the heart;

And seizing upon the head as well, it produces many disorders: / deafness, cataract, and also catarrh.

Then wind displaces pitta or kapha from its own site; / then, as it courses about with the doṣas, chyle and the other [dhatus] are vitiated.

Then strong fever arises in him, and also paleness; / and swelling occurs in him, and his grahaṇī is vitiated.

Therefore, one whose bowel is harsh and who has hardened feces / should avoid dry food, nor should one purge him downward [drastically].

One should always give the person unctuous, agreeable foods and various meats / combined with horsegram soup.

A vāta-dispelling non-unctuous enema and also an unctuous enema with oil: / for disorders do not arise in a man who takes preventive measures.

Now, a man who is perplexed and desires offspring, / whose wife has high standards, and who is devoid of action,

And who is both stout and emaciated, and fancies himself a physician, / and likewise […], nor those twice-born […]

Those with fractures, delicate persons, a pregnant woman, a young woman then, / and difficult people who have arrived, those coughing, […] women,

And the pale king, the ear, and one who constantly coughs: / the physician should make them drink emesis along with purgation with warm [medications]. / Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the twenty-third chapter in Bheḷa. // // Chapter twenty-five // Now we shall explain the chapter on the classification of seasons; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.