[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) › [The Compendium of Bheḷa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela) › 8.1 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 8.1 Bheḷasaṃhitā 8.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.1) riktakoṣṭhasya vamane mārutaḥ samprakupyati | plīhāpracalati sthānāttasmād doṣānnihantyasūn || > When one vomits with an empty alimentary canal, vāta is aggravated; / the spleen shifts from its position; therefore, because of the dosha, it destroys life. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.2) peyāṃ maṇḍaṃ pibettasmāt susnigdhaṃ lavaṇānvitam | saumye tithau muhūrte ca nakṣatre karaṇe śubhe || > Therefore he should drink peyā or maṇḍa, well unctuous and combined with salt, / under an auspicious lunar day, muhūrta, constellation, and favorable karaṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.3) śuklavastraḥ śucirbhūtvāhyarcayitvā dvijanmanaḥ | tato ' smai vamanaṃ deyaṃ pūjayitvā bhiṣagvarān || > Clothed in white garments, having become pure, and having worshipped the twice-born, / and having honored excellent physicians, then emetic medicine should be given to him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.4) prāṅmukhena tupātavyaṃ nivāte śaraṇe śubhe | na cāsya kuryād āyāsaṃ maṇḍaṃ bhojyaṃ praśasyate || > It should be drunk facing east, in a comfortable windless shelter; / and one should not cause him exertion; a diet of maṇḍa is praised. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.5) vidhireṣa bhavetkāryo vamane ca virecane | niṣkvāthasya trayaḥ prasthāḥ māgadhās tu kanīyasi || > This procedure should be performed in emesis and purgation: / three prasthas of decoction, but by Māgadha measure, for the smallest dose. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.6) jyeṣṭhe tu puruṣe jyeṣṭhaṃ vamanaṃ na kanīyasi | catuḥprasthaṃ tumadhyaṃ syājjyeṣṭhaṃ prasthās tu te nava || > For a strong man, a strong emetic, not a small one; / four prasthas would be medium, and nine prasthas is the strong dose. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.7) kanīyo madhyamaṃ jyeṣṭhaṃ trividhāni pṛthak pṛthak | apītapūrvaṃ vamanaṃ vireko vāpi yena tu || > Small, medium, and large are distinct in threefold ways. / For one by whom emetic or purgative has not been taken before, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.8) kanīyasā pramāṇena parīkṣeta ca buddhimān | tripalaṃ śreṣṭham ākhyātaṃ kanīyas tu palaṃ bhavet || > the intelligent physician should test with a small measure. / Three palas is declared the highest, while the smallest would be one pala; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.9) madhyaṃ dve pale vidyāditi me niścitā matiḥ | viṣakuṣṭhahatā ye tu kāsaśvāsaprapīḍitāḥ || > one should know the medium to be two palas: such is my definite conclusion. / Those who are struck with poison or dermatosis, or afflicted with cough and dyspnea, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.10) taruṇā balavantaś ca vāmayed uttamena tān | madhyame prāṇavayasi madhyamaṃ tatra kārayet || > and are youthful and strong—he should induce emesis in them with the highest dose. / In the case of medium vitality and age, he should administer the medium dose there; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.11) kanīyasikanīys tu tathā prāṇe kanīyasi | viparītaṃ prayuñjāno na rogānvijayiṣyati || > in the case of the smallest \[age\], the smallest dose, and likewise when vitality is lowest. / One who administers the reverse will not conquer diseases; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.12) upadravānvājanayed āturaṃ vā vināśayet | aṅkolasyātha nimbasya niṣkvāthaṃ sādhu yojayet || > he may produce complications or destroy the patient. / Then he should properly employ a decoction of aṅkola or nimba, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.13) sarpiṣā bheṣajaiścemaiḥ sukhoṣṇaṃ śītam eva vā | madanasya phalaṃ piṣṭvā devadālīphalaissaha || > with ghee and these medicines, pleasantly warm or cold: / having ground the fruit of madana together with fruits of devadālī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.14) nimbapatrāṇi sārdrāṇi saindhavaṃ maricāni ca | saindhavena samāyuktaṃ takramaṇḍena vā punaḥ || > fresh leaves of nimba, rock salt, and black peppers, / combined with rock salt, or else with buttermilk scum; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.15) bandhujīvo ' tha pippalyo madanaṃ sarpireva ca | tatkaṣāyeṇa saṃyuktaṃ pradhānaṃ vamanauṣadham || > bandhujīva, then pippalīs, madana, and ghee: / combined with that decoction, it is a foremost emetic medicine. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.16) madanaṃ bandhujīvaś ca śatapuṣpā śukānanā | saindhavena samāyuktaṃ pradhānaṃ vamanauṣadham || > Madana, bandhujīva, śatapuṣpā, and śukānanā, / combined with rock salt, is a foremost emetic medicine. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.17) madanasya ca patrāṇi puṣpāṇi saphalāni ca | saindhavaṃ bandhujīvaś ca rājakośātakāni ca || > Leaves, flowers, and fruits of madana, / rock salt, bandhujīva, and rājakośātakīs: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.18) evaṃ pracchardano yogaḥ pradhānaṃ vamanauṣadham | śreṣṭhaś ca viṣayukteṣu kāsaśvāse tu pūjitaḥ || > such an emetic recipe is a foremost emetic medicine, / best in cases of poisoning, and praised in cough and dyspnea. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.19) yadā tu vamanaṃ pītaṃna chardayati mānavam | kiṃ tatra bheṣajaṃ kuryāt kathaṃ vaidyaḥ samācaret || > When the emetic has been drunk, but does not make the person vomit, / what medicine should he administer there? How should the physician act? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.20) darśayet tasyatu bhiṣak pālitāni pṛthak pṛthak | makṣikākeśacūrṇāni tac ca maṇḍe niyojayet || > The physician should show him, one by one, gray hairs / and powders of flies and hairs, and should mix that into maṇḍa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.21) etena tu prayogeṇa kṣipraṃ chardayate naraḥ | eṣā kriyā samākhyātā durbalānāṃ viśeṣataḥ || > By this procedure, the person vomits quickly. / This intervention is proclaimed especially for the weak. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.22) hṛdayaṃ pṛṣṭhadeśaṃ ca vigṛhya ca vamen naraḥ | tathāsya calatisthānātpītaṃ hy asminnupakrame || > Having supported the region of the heart and the back, the person should vomit; / thus, in this treatment, what was drunk moves from its location. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.23) kaphaṃ hi pūrvaṃ vamati tataḥ pittamanantaram | pittasthānte bhavedvātaḥ tato vamati śoṇitam || > For first he vomits kapha, and immediately thereafter pitta; / at the end of the location of pitta there will be vāta, and then he vomits blood. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.24) lakṣaṇāni tu vakṣyāmi samyagvāntasya dehinaḥ | laghurāmāśaye śuddhirhṛcchuddhiś cāpy atandritā || > Now I shall state the signs of a person who has vomited properly: / lightness, purity in the stomach, clarity of the heart, absence of torpor, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.25) kṣutpipāse yathākālaṃsrotaḥśuddhiryathāgnitā | ślaiṣmikāṇāṃ ca sarveṣāṃ vyādhīnāṃ vinivartanam || > hunger and thirst at the proper time, clarity of the channels, proper digestive fire, / and disappearance of all phlegmatic diseases, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.26) na ca vairasyamāsyasya samyagvāntasya lakṣaṇam | hṛllāso ' tha sirāharṣo manyā kaṇṭhaś ca dīryate || > and no bad taste in the mouth: these are the signs of one who has vomited properly. / Nausea, throbbing of the vessels, and tearing pain in the nape of the neck and throat; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.27) atyudgārastamaḥ kāso hikkā śvāsaḥ svarakṣayaḥ | vātajvaraḥ śuṣkavamistṛṣṇā śūlo hy anidratā || > excessive eructation, darkness, cough, hiccup, dyspnea, loss of voice, / vāta-fever, dry vomiting, thirst, colic, and sleeplessness; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.28) āsyahṛcchoṣaṇaṃ caivakṣatāc ca rudhirāgamaḥ | indriyāṇyuparudhyante mūrcchā cāsyopajāyate || > drying of the mouth and heart, and arrival of blood from injury; / the senses are impaired, and fainting arises in him; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.29) hanustambhaś ca kampaś cahyativānte pravartate | ūrdhvaraktī pramehī ca gulmī cārśobhagandarī || > jaw stiffness and tremor arise in one who has vomited excessively. / One with upward bleeding, urinary disorder, abdominal lump, hemorrhoids, fistula-in-ano, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.30) udarī pāṇḍurogī ca hṛdrogī kṛmikoṣṭhakaḥ | apasmārī viṣārtaś caśophastambhaś ca vātikaḥ || > abdominal disease, anemia, heart disease, worms in the gut, / epilepsy, affliction with poison, and swelling and stiffness due to vāta; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.31) viṣamajvaravīsarpī vātaśoṇitikaś ca yaḥ | arśo ' tiviṣamāgniś ca kuṣṭhaśvayathupīḍitaḥ || > irregular fever, erysipelas, and one suffering from vāta-blood, / hemorrhoids, intensely irregular digestive fire, and one afflicted with dermatosis or swelling; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.32) udāvartī tathonmādīpipluvyaṅganipīḍitaḥ | pittaśleṣmasamutthānā vyākulā ye ca dhātavaḥ || > one with upward vāta, similarly one with insanity, one afflicted with piplu or vyaṅga, / and whose bodily elements arising from pitta and kapha are disturbed; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.33) sannipātasamutthāś ca yoniduṣṭāś ca yāḥ striyaḥ | śūlārtā raktagulminyoyāś ca saumyena pīḍitāḥ || > those arising from sannipāta; and women whose genital tracts are corrupted, / women suffering from colic, those with ovarian blood-masses, and those afflicted by saumya: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.34) asnigdhāraktatāṅgānāṃ lāghavaṃ gātramārdavam | hṛdayodgāramūtrāṇāṃ śuddhirvātānulomataḥ || > non-unctuousness and red-tinged skin, lightness of the limbs, softness of the body, / purification of the heart, eructation, and urine, downward course of vāta, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.35) prasannasvaravarṇatvaṃbubhukṣā vyādhinigrahaḥ | śleṣmaṇā ca svayaṃ sthānaṃ suviriktasya laksaṇam || > clarity of voice and complexion, desire to eat, suppression of disease, / and kapha remaining in its own place: these are the signs of one properly purged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.36) udaraṃ vātasampūrṇaṃ kaṇḍūmaṇḍalasambhavaḥ | piṭakājanma gātreṣu bhramaṇaṃ jvarasamplavaḥ || > Abdomen filled with vāta, occurrence of itching and skin circular patches, / eruption of pustules on the limbs, dizziness, onset of fever, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.37) hṛdayāveṣṭanaṃvahneḥ sādassyāt kukṣigauravam | kṛcchraviṇmūtravātatvaṃ durviriktasya lakṣaṇam || > constriction of the chest, depression of the digestive fire, heaviness in the belly, / and difficult passage of feces, urine, and flatus: these are the signs of one inadequately purged. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.38) pārśvaśūlaṃ gudabhraṃśaḥ śākhāsaṃkocasambhramaḥ | vātavṛddhirvisaṃjñatvaṃ gudaśūlastṛṣā klamaḥ || > Flank pain, prolapse of the rectum, contraction and agitation of the limbs, / increase of vāta, loss of consciousness, anal pain, thirst, fatigue, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.39) śūnyatā jarjarībhāvastataścimacimāyanam | rūpāṇyativiriktānāṃśūlaḥ śophaś ca jāyate || > emptiness, shattered feeling, and tingling sensations: / these are the features of those excessively purged; colic and swelling arise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.40) gauravedurviriktasya yadajīrṇaṃ tadullikhet | sātmyaṃ tu peyaṃ bhaiṣajyaṃ nirūhogāḍhavarcasām || > In case of heaviness in one inadequately purged, he should regurgitate whatever is undigested; / but a habituated medicinal drink and non-unctuous enema are for those with hardened stool. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1.41) rūpāṇyativiriktasya haretkṣīraghṛtādibhiḥ | snehaiścaivopanāhaiś casābhyaṅgaiś ca bhiṣagjayet || |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. || dvitīyo ' dhyāyaḥ || |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. |.. > The physician should remove the symptoms of one excessively purged with milk, ghee, and the like; / and he should overcome them with unctuous substances, poultices, and massage. || \[…\] || Second Chapter || \[…\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.8.1.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.115.25) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.1) · Pramāṇa