The Compendium of Bheḷa 8.2

Squeezed juice, unctuous enemas, smokes, and blowing powders: / nasal medication is said to be of four kinds; now hear them from me individually: (8)

Throat obstruction, rohiṇikā, śaṅkhaka, ardhāvabhedaka, / catarrh, cough, dyspnea, hiccup, biḍālikā,

mouth disease, epilepsy, abscess of the teeth and palate, / boil on the gums, foul-smelling nose and mouth,

the four ophthalmias, torpor originating in the eyes, / adhīmanthas with tumors, nasal polyp, and fistulae-in-ano.

In uvulitis, throat ganglion, and kaṇṭhaśālūka, / in uvular swelling and alasaka, head purgation should be performed.

Black peppers, viḍaṅga, pippalī, and phaṇirjaka, / kṣavaka, yavana, śigru seed, and mayūraka,

asafoetida, black salt, bhārṅgī, and fruits of naktamāla, / jyotiṣmatī, dry ginger, and seeds of śirīṣa—

these should be employed for the purpose of head purgation in the stated diseases, / as pressed juice or as smoke, either pairwise or all together.

The wise physician should boil oil with these very groups of herbs / combined with sheep urine; it is the best head purgative.

And smoke of all aromatic substances, excluding nata and kuṣṭha; / he should inhale that smoking stick, which is the best head purgative.

By the purgation of the head, the ears, tongue, eyes, and nostrils / are purified according to the humor, as well as the channels carrying [breath] to the mouth and nose.

There is clear opening in the cavities, and phlegm is not secreted; / when the head is properly purified, pain also subsides.

There is breaking and crushing of the disease, and thorough purity of the channels; / similarly, when the channels are excessively purified, the head becomes strained.

In looseness of teeth, lockjaw, torticollis, tightness in the head, / deafness, earache, and tearing pain from the base of the ear,

in apatantraka, loss of hair, stupor, impairment of vision, / hiccup, discharge from the eyes and mouth, hoarseness of voice, or loss of speech,

in trembling of the cheeks, lips, and mouth, in cataracts and timira diseases, / in foul odor from the mouth and nostrils, or in premature graying,

and whatever diseases situated above the clavicles are proclaimed: / the administration of errhine, either oil or ghee, is beneficial for them.

Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, grapes, pippalī, liquorice, balā, / prapauṇḍarīka, medā, sugar, blue water lily,

nidigdhikā, aṃśumatī, nīlikā, rock salt, vacā, / rāsnā, śvadaṃṣṭrā, mañjiṣṭhā, bṛhatī, along with punarnavā—

oil or else ghee prepared with equal palas of these, / with four parts of milk, is declared to be a supreme errhine.

From errhine and internal oil-intake, a man acquires black hair, / firm sense organs, freedom from wrinkles, graying, and facial blemishes, and good vision.

Nourishment by coating the ears, eyes, nose, and mouth with unction, / freedom of the sense faculties, clarity of voice and complexion,

and cleanliness of the channels are to be known as signs of being properly oleated. / Dryness and emptiness of the channels are the signs of being non-oleated.

Heaviness and pain of the head, fullness of the channels with unctuous substance, / and coating of the ears and palate are signs of excessive oleation by errhine.

One should not administer it during indigestion, nor with a wet head, nor to one desiring to travel on a path, / nor to one who has just drunk water, nor to one suffering from fever,

nor to one who has engaged in sexual intercourse, nor indeed to one who has drunk liquor, / nor to one who has overeaten, nor to one un-oleated or un-sudated, nor likewise to an uneasy person.

For a man who has been properly evacuated by non-unctuous enema, pain completely subsides, / since wind departs along with his urine and feces.

The physician should recognize him as properly evacuated. The symptoms of the un-evacuated / are persistence of the disease, flatulence, abdominal colic, and suppression of stool and urine.

Fullness of the abdomen and distension are the characteristics of the poorly evacuated. / Furthermore, the blood becomes severely corrupted in one [improperly] evacuated.

In one excessively evacuated and devoid of feces, wind, / encircling with colic, afflicts all his limbs.

Thus the fivefold [procedure] described and explained should be administered; / a physician knowing the ordinances of the five procedures is said to be fit for a king. Thus said the venerable Ātreya. Thus ends the second chapter in Bheḷa. Fourth chapter. Now we shall explain the successful management of the ten complications of emesis and purgation; thus said the venerable Ātreya.