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# The Compendium of Bheḷa 8.4

Bheḷasaṃhitā 8.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [8.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.1)

adhobhāgordhvabhāgāni bheṣajāni prayatnataḥ | kalpayenmatimānvaidyo viṣaśastranibhāni tu ||

> The intelligent physician should diligently formulate / medicines acting downwards and upwards, which are indeed like poisons or weapons.  
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### [8.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.2)

kaṭutiktakaṣāyāṇividāhīnītarāṇi ca | sūkṣmāṇyuṣṇāni tīkṣṇāni viṣyandīni gurūṇi ca ||

> Pungent, bitter, and astringent, burning and other types, / subtle, hot, sharp, liquefacient, and heavy—  
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### [8.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.3)

tāni samprāpya hṛdayaṃdhamanīḥ pratipadyahi | tiryagūrdhvamadhaś caiva doṣānniṣyandayantyapi ||

> these, having reached the heart and entering the vessels, / cause the humors to flow transversely, upwards, and downwards.  
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### [8.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.4)

sūkṣmāñcharīrāvayavān saukṣmyādanusarinti ca | visrāvayanti dhātūṃś ca vimārgaurapi dehinām ||

> Due to their subtlety, they follow into the subtle parts of the body, / and they cause the bodily tissues of living beings to drain even along deviant paths.  
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### [8.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.5)

ānayantīva hṛdayaṃ doṣāṃstānatimūrcchitān | āmāśayaṃpūriyitvāhyūrdhvabhāgabhavāṃs tathā ||

> They lead those excessively aggravated humors as it were to the heart; / having filled the stomach, \[they expel\] those arising in the upper region.  
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### [8.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.6)

evam eva cabiṣyandīnyāpūryāmāśayaṃ punaḥ | adhobhāge pravartante vikāreṣv iha dehinām ||

> And likewise, the liquefacient medicines, having filled the stomach again, / proceed into the lower tract in the disorders here of embodied beings.  
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### [8.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.7)

viṣyandayanti doṣāṃś ca yāvattiṣṭhanti dehinām | saṃśodhayantyataḥ paścādūrdhvaṃ vā yadi vāpy adhaḥ ||

> They liquefy the humors as long as they reside in living beings; / thereafter, they cleanse either upwards or downwards.  
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### [8.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.8)

teṣāṃ tu duṣprayuktānāṃ vibhrāntānāṃ vidhāvatām | ayogāccātiyogācca jāyante vyāpado daśa ||

> Ten complications arise from those \[medicines\] improperly administered, / misdirected, running disorderly, and from insufficient or excessive action:  
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### [8.4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.9)

parisrāvastathādhmānaṃ vibandho gudaniḥsravaḥ | hṛdrogaś caiva śūlaṃ ca tathaiva parikartikā ||

> continual oozing, flatulence, constipation, discharge from the anus, / heart disease, abdominal colic, and likewise cutting rectal pain,  
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### [8.4.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.10)

jīvādānaṃ śirorogo daśamī ca pravāhikā | tāsāmekaikatassiddhiṃ vyāpadāṃ tu nibodha me ||

> loss of blood, head disease, and tenth, tenesmus. / Learn from me the management of each of those complications.  
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### [8.4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.11)

athaiti pītaṃ vamanaṃtac ca tīkṣṇataraṃ pibet | anupānānnasiddhiś ca saṃśodhyāsthāpayennaram ||

> When the emetic taken comes up \[insufficiently\], he should drink a sharper one; / through successful administration of a post-drink, having cleansed the man, one should give him a non-unctuous enema.  
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### [8.4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.12)

asidhyati vireke ' pi bhūyastamanuvāsayet | asminnapi jarāṃ yāti tryahādūrdhvaṃ pibed ghṛtam ||

> When purgation does not succeed, one should administer an unctuous enema to him again; / when this also has undergone digestion, after three days he should drink ghee.  
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### [8.4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.13)

snehasvedopapannaś ca laghu ca pratibhojitaḥ | virecanaṃ ca vamanaṃ narastīkṣṇataraṃ pibet ||

> Provided with oleation and fomentation, and fed light food, / the man should drink a sharper purgative or emetic.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.14)

yadā virecanaṃ pītaṃ vamanāyopapadyate | prayoga evaṃ vamane vireke ' pi cayaḥ smṛtaḥ ||

> When a purgative taken results in vomiting, / such is the application traditionally taught for emesis as well as for purgation.  
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### [8.4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.15)

snehasvedavimuktaṃ ca krūrakoṣṭhaṃ ca dehinam | ajīrṇe cauṣadhaṃ pītamādhyāpayati mānavam ||

> In a person devoid of oleation and fomentation and having a hard bowel, / medicine taken during indigestion causes him to swell with flatulence.  
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### [8.4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.16)

laṅghitasya subhaktasya rūkṣasyānaśanasya ca | parikartaḥ parisrāvaḥpralepo ' sveditasya ca ||

> In one who has fasted, one who has eaten heavily, one who is un-unctuous, or one who has not eaten, / and in one unfomented, there occurs cutting pain, continual oozing, and coating.  
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### [8.4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.17)

snehasvedavimuktasya mṛdukoṣṭhasya dehinaḥ | doṣāstathāvaśiṣṭās tu janayantipravāhikām ||

> In an embodied being devoid of oleation and fomentation who has a soft bowel, / the remaining humors generate tenesmus.  
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### [8.4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.18)

atiraukṣyādatisvehādauṣadhānāṃ ca sambhramāt | nṛṇāṃ śūlaṃ prabhavati gudasraṃsaś ca dāruṇaḥ ||

> From extreme dryness, from excessive unctuousness, and from confusion of the drugs, / abdominal colic and severe rectal prolapse arise in men.  
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### [8.4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.19)

vamane recane vāpipīte vegavidhārite | vātapittakaphāḥ kruddhāḥ kurvanti hṛdayagraham ||

> When an emetic or a purgative has been drunk and its urge is suppressed, / wind, bile, and phlegm become provoked and cause cardiac spasm.  
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### [8.4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.20)

tasya gātrāṇisīdanti klamaḥ śūlaś ca dāruṇaḥ | śirograhaś cakoṣṭhārtirvisaṃjñaś ca bhavaty api ||

> His limbs droop, exhaustion and severe colic \[occur\], / as well as head seizure, abdominal distress, and he even becomes unconscious.  
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### [8.4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.21)

svinnasya mṛdukoṣṭhasya snehitasya virecanam | atimātrauṣadhaṃpītaṃjīvādānāya kalpate ||

> For a person who is fomented, has a soft bowel, and has been oleated, a purgative / medicine drunk in excess leads to loss of blood.  
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### [8.4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.22)

sṛjecchuklaṃ sa śakṛtā kṛṣṇaṃ vā raktam eva vā | lodhrapuṣpasavarṇaṃ vā bhaṇḍipuṣpanibhaṃ tathā ||

> Together with feces he discharges white, black, or even blood, / or resembling the color of a lodhra flower, or appearing like a bhaṇḍī flower.  
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### [8.4.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.23)

pravirikto yadā śītāṃ kriyāṃ samupasevate | śaraṇāni ca śītāni vāri śītaṃ ca sevate ||

> When one who has been purged resorts to cold treatment, / frequents cold shelters, and takes cold water,  
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### [8.4.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.24)

srotāṃsi kupito vāyus tasya cāvṛtya tiṣṭhati | kharībhavati tenāsya doṣāḥ skandanti dehinaḥ ||

> the provoked wind stays obstructing his channels; / by that it becomes rough, \[and\] the humors of this embodied being coagulate.  
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### [8.4.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.25)

vātamūtrapurīṣāṇāmapravṛttistṛṣā jvaraḥ | vibandha eṣa vyākhyātobhiṣajāṃ buddhivibhramāt ||

> Non-passage of flatus, urine, and feces, thirst, and fever \[ensue\]; / this obstruction has been explained \[as arising\] from confusion of the intellect of physicians.  
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### [8.4.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.26)

asnigdhaṃ tuyadā rūkṣamauṣadhaṃ pāyayed bhiṣak | gṛhṇāti kupitas tasya sarvagātrāṇi mārutaḥ ||

> When, however, a physician causes a non-unctuous person to drink dry medicine, / provoked wind seizes all his limbs.  
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### [8.4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.27)

kaṭipṛṣṭhaśirogrīvāhṛdayaṃ ca yadānilaḥ | prapadyatetadā mohaṃ cittanāśaṃ ca gacchati ||

> When wind reaches the waist, back, head, / neck, and heart, then he falls into stupor and loss of consciousness.  
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### [8.4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.28)

daśaitā vyāpadaḥ proktā rūpairnānāvidhaiḥ pṛthak | cikitsāṃ tāsu kurvīta yathātreyasya śāsanam ||

> These ten complications have been declared, each with diverse signs; / in them one should apply treatment according to the instruction of Ātreya.  
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### [8.4.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.29)

tatrāyoginamabhyajya tailena lavaṇena ca | saṅkaraprastarasvedairnāḍīsvedairathapi vā ||

> There, having anointed one suffering from inadequate effect with oil and salt, / using saṅkara or prastara fomentations, or else tube fomentations,  
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### [8.4.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.30)

samyaṅ nirūḍhaṃ viśrāntaṃpariṣicya sukhāmbunā | jāṅgalena rasenaiva bhojayenmṛdumodanam ||

> properly evacuated by non-unctuous enema, rested, sprinkled with comfortable water, / one should feed him soft boiled rice with meat soup of arid animals alone.  
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### [8.4.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.31)

phalatailena koṣṇena tatastamanuvāsayet | ādhmānaṃ parikartaśca parisrāvaś ca śāmyati ||

> Then one should administer an unctuous enema to him with lukewarm fruit-oil; / meteorism, cutting pain, and discharge are relieved.  
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### [8.4.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.32)

sālo rubūkastriphalā dantī citraka eva ca | sarpirebhir vipakvaṃ ca pāyayec ca yathābalam ||

> Sāla, castor, triphalā, croton root, and plumbago— / and one should cause him to drink clarified butter cooked with these according to strength.  
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### [8.4.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.33)

tatsnehapītaṃ susnigdhaṃ svedakarmopapāditam | vamanaṃ recanaṃ vāpi pāyayet tīkṣṇamauṣadham ||

> To him who has drunk that unctuous substance, is well oleated, and provided with the act of fomentation, / one should cause to drink sharp medicine, either an emetic or a purgative.  
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### [8.4.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.34)

hṛdrogo gātraharṣaś ca śīrṣaskandhagrahas tathā | vibandhaḥ parikartaśca śūlaś cānena śāmyati ||

> Heart disease, horripilation of the body, and seizure of the head and shoulders, / obstruction, cutting pain, and colic are relieved by this.  
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### [8.4.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.35)

parikartaḥ parisrāvo yathātattvena śāmyati | kaṣāyavastiṃpraṇayetpicchāvastimathāpi vā ||

> So that cutting pain and discharge are truly relieved, / one should administer a decoction enema or a slimy enema;  
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### [8.4.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.36)

śṛtaṃ madhughṛtaṃ vāpi kṣīravastiṃ pradāpayet | jīvanīyopasiddhena sarpiṣā cānuvāsayet ||

> or one should give a milk enema \[with\] boiled honey and clarified butter, / and administer an unctuous enema with clarified butter prepared with the vitalising drugs.  
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### [8.4.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.37)

eraṇḍamūlaṃ triphalā drākṣā kāśmaryameva ca | ebhiḥ śṛtaṃ payo dadyādvividhair apimiśrayet ||

> Castor root, triphalā, grape, and kāśmarya— / one should give milk boiled with these, and may mix it with various \[substances\].  
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### [8.4.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.38)

yāvaśūko bhavetkṣāraḥ saindhavaṃ sāmlavetasam | hiṅgu dāḍimasāraś ca pippalyo viśvabheṣajam ||

> Barley ash, rock salt with amlavetasa, / asafoetida, pomegranate pulp, long pepper, and dry ginger—  
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### [8.4.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.39)

sarpiṣā payasā vāpi madyenoṣṇodakena vā | pītaṃ nivartayecchūlaṃ tīvraṃ ca parikartikām ||

> \[these\] drunk with clarified butter, milk, liquor, or hot water, / turn back colic and severe cutting pain.  
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### [8.4.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.40)

devadāru sabilvaṃ ca rāsnā karkaṭakāhvayā | eraṇḍo ' pyatha pūtiśca tailamebhir vipācayet ||

> Devadāru with bilva, rāsnā, that called karkaṭaka, / castor too, and pūti—with these one should cook oil.  
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### [8.4.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.41)

tenānuvāsayeccainaṃ tadā sampadyate sukham | gātrastambhaś ca śūlaś caparikartaś ca śāmyati ||

> One should administer an unctuous enema with it, and then comfort ensues; / stiffness of the limbs, colic, and cutting pain are relieved.  
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### [8.4.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.42)

upadravāṇām eteṣāṃ śāntir yadi na vidyate | teṣāṃ cikitsitaṃ kuryād yathāsvaṃ svaṃ cikitsitam ||

> If pacification of these complications is not found, / one should perform their treatment according to each specific therapy.  
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### [8.4.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.43)

evaṃ cikitsitaṃ proktam ayoge vistareṇa me | atiyoge tu vakṣyāmi vyāpadāṃ yac cikitsitam ||

> Thus the treatment for inadequate effect has been declared by me in detail; / but now I shall state the treatment of complications in excessive effect.  
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### [8.4.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.44)

atipravṛttau vamane virecanam upācaret | virecane cātiyukte vamanaṃ pāyayed bhiṣak ||

> In excessive evacuation of emesis, one should employ purgation; / and when purgation is excessively applied, the physician should cause him to drink an emetic.  
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### [8.4.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.45)

vamane cātiyukte tu kāryam āsthāpanaṃ bhavet | ubhayor atiyoge tu stambhanaṃ hitamucyate ||

> When emesis is excessively applied, a non-unctuous enema should be performed; / but in the excessive application of both, astringing therapy is said to be beneficial.  
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### [8.4.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.46)

ullikhetkṣaudrayuktena sa narastaṇḍulāmbunā | pādauca secayed dhastau tathā vāpy avagāhayet ||

> That man should scrape \[the throat\] with rice-water combined with honey; / and one should sprinkle his feet and hands, or bathe them.  
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### [8.4.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.47)

lāmajjakamṛṇālaiś ca candanaiś ca sapadmakaiḥ | sandihyāt sarvagātrāṇi kaṣāyaiś cāvasecayet ||

> With lāmajjaka, lotus stalk, sandalwood, and padmaka, / one should anoint all his limbs, and sprinkle them with astringent decoctions.  
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### [8.4.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.48)

dhātakī madhukaṃ lodhraṃ padmaṃ mocarasas tathā | nīlotpalaṃ samaṅgā ca kaṭphalaṃ padmakesaram ||

> Dhātakī, madhuka, lodhra, lotus, and mocarasa, / blue water lily, samaṅgā, kaṭphala, and lotus filament—  
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### [8.4.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.49)

etairlohitaśālīnāṃsiddhāṃ peyāṃ suśītalām | pibenmākṣikasaṃyuktaṃtadasya sthāpanaṃ param ||

> with these, a very cool gruel of red rice cooked \[and\] / drunk combined with honey is an excellent arresting \[measure\] for him.  
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### [8.4.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.50)

lākṣālodhrassamaṅgā ca mākṣikaṃ kamalotpalam | ājena payasā pītaṃraktastambhanamucyate ||

> Lac, lodhra, samaṅgā, honey, lotus, and blue water lily, / drunk with goat's milk, is said to arrest bleeding.  
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### [8.4.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.51)

rasaṃ kapitthapatrasya pāyayenmadhusaṃyutam | payasā bādaraṃ drākṣāṃ madhunā ca piben naraḥ ||

> One should cause him to drink juice of wood-apple leaves combined with honey; / a man should drink jujube with milk and grapes with honey.  
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### [8.4.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.52)

rasāś ca jāṅgalā deyā vyaktā dāḍimasārakaiḥ | ghṛtadāḍimasaṃyuktā deyāḥ syuḥ kṣīravastayaḥ ||

> Soups of arid animals seasoned with pomegranate pulp should be given; / milk enemas combined with clarified butter and pomegranate should be given.  
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### [8.4.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.53)

atipravṛtte rakte tu raktam evānuvāsayet | śāśaṃ mārgamathaurabhraṃchāgaṃ māhiṣam eva vā ||

> When blood flows excessively, one should administer an unctuous enema with blood itself: / of rabbit, deer, sheep, goat, or buffalo.  
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### [8.4.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.54)

odanaṃ payasā++āmṛdya paripūtaṃ samākṣikam | pibed ikṣurasair vāpi parimardyaudanaṃ punaḥ ||

> Having crushed boiled rice with milk \[…\] strained and with honey, / one should drink it, or again boiled rice crushed with sugarcane juice.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.55)

nyagrodhodumbaraplakṣavetasāśvatthajais tathā | śṛṅgairathaiṣāṃ kṣīreṇa yavāgūḥ sthāpanaṃ param ||

> With sprouts produced from banyan, glomerous fig, plakṣa, vetasa, and sacred fig, / gruel \[prepared\] with their milk is an excellent arresting \[measure\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.56)

padmaṃ śālmaliniryāsaḥ samaṅgā dhātakī tathā | jambvāmrasāro madhukaḥ lājā lākṣā priyaṅgavaḥ ||

> Lotus, exudate of silk-cotton, samaṅgā, dhātakī, / pulp of rose apple and mango, madhuka, puffed grain, lac, and priyaṅgu—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.57)

etaiḥ śṛtaṃ payaḥ peyaṃ yavāgūṃcāpi pāyayet | taṇḍulodakayuktāni pibedvā madhunā saha ||

> milk boiled with these is to be drunk, or one should cause him to drink gruel; / or one should drink them combined with rice-water together with honey.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.58)

odanaḥ koradūṣāṇāṃ madhunā sasyasaṃbhṛtaḥ | palaṅkaṣāsamāyuktaś cātisāraṃ nivartayet ||

> Boiled rice of kodo millet gathered as grain, with honey / and combined with guggulu, halts diarrhea.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.59)

saṃyuktaṃ tilatailena saptarātrasthitaṃ dadhi | koradūṣaudanopetamatisārapraṇāśanam ||

> Curd kept for seven nights combined with sesame oil, / eaten with boiled rice of kodo millet, destroys diarrhea.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.60)

saptarātraṃ sthite takre mūlakaṃ sādhayed bhiṣak | koradūṣaudano yojyaḥ tenātīsāranāśanaḥ ||

> In buttermilk kept for seven nights the physician should cook radish; / boiled rice of kodo millet is to be employed with it as a destroyer of diarrhea.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.61)

vaṭāṅkuro mocaraso lodhramāmrāsthikandakaḥ | taruṇāni ca bilvāni dhātakīkusumāni ca ||

> Sprouts of banyan, mocarasa, lodhra, mango seed stone, / tender bilva fruits, and dhātakī flowers—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.62)

pañcarātrasthite takre yūṣamebhis tu kārayet | koradūṣaudano yojyaḥ tathātīsāranāśanaḥ ||

> one should make a soup with these in buttermilk kept for five nights; / boiled rice of kodo millet is to be employed likewise as a destroyer of diarrhea.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.63)

nīlotpalaṃ nīlatilāḥsamaṅgā lodhram eva ca | kṣīraṃ vipācayed ebhir atīsāravināśanam ||

> Blue water lily, black sesame, samaṅgā, and lodhra— / with these one should cook milk, which destroys diarrhea.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.64)

tilatailaṃ tathā lodhramājaṃ kṣīraṃ vipācayet | pravāhikā gudabhraṃśaḥ sarvametena śāmyati ||

> One should cook sesame oil, lodhra, and goat's milk; / tenesmus and rectal prolapse are all relieved by this.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.65)

balā cātibalābilvameraṇḍaścorakas tathā | ebhir vipācayet kṣīraṃ kaphapittapraṇāśanam ||

> Balā, atibalā, bilva, castor, and coraka— / with these one should cook milk that destroys phlegm and bile.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.66)

hanustambhe ca pātavyamarśaḥśūle ca dāruṇe | anenaiva ca kalkena kuryād ācchāditaṃ śiraḥ ||

> It should be drunk in lockjaw and in severe pain of hemorrhoids; / and with this very paste one should cover the head.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.67)

tena mūrcchā bhramaś caiva praśāmyati śarīriṇām | upadravāś ca ye ' pyanyeteṣāṃ tattaccikitsitam ||

> By that, fainting and dizziness of embodied beings are relieved; / and whatever other complications there are, their respective treatments \[should be done\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.68)

śarkarāpadmakośīranyagrodhodumbarāstathā | ebhir vipācayet kṣīraṃ tṛṣṇādāhapraṇāśanam ||

> Sugar, padmaka, uśīra, banyan, and glomerous fig— / with these one should cook milk that destroys thirst and burning sensation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.69)

kṣīravastiṃ vidadyāc ca picchāvastimathāpi vā | atiyoge praśasyante śītāś ca ghṛtavastayaḥ ||

> And one should administer a milk enema or a slimy enema; / cold ghee enemas are praised in excessive administration.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.70)

jīvādānacikitsāyāṃ yatpūrvaṃ parikīrtitam | tatkartavyaṃ gudabhraṃśe tathā sampadyate sukham ||

> What was stated previously in the treatment of loss of blood / should be done for prolapse of the rectum; thus comfort is attained.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.71)

vātaśūle tu sañjāte saṅkaraprastarādikān | svedāṃścaivopadehāṃścasvabhyaktānāṃ prayojayet ||

> When wind-pain arises, however, one should apply / fomentations like saṅkara and prastara, as well as poultices, to those who have been well-anointed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.72)

vacāṃ śvadaṃṣṭrāṃ pūtīkāṃ pañcamūlīṃ ca sādhitām | yadi vā++āsthāpanaṃ dadyāt sukhoṣṇaṃ cānuvāsanam ||

> Prepared vacā, śvadaṃṣṭrā, pūtīkā, and pañcamūlī / \[…\] if one should give a non-unctuous enema, and a pleasantly warm unctuous enema.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.73)

kṣāraiḥ kṣāraghṛtaiś cāpi śūlaghnaissamupācaret | dādhikaṃ ṣaṭpalaṃ vāpi pāyayenmātrayā ghṛtam ||

> One should also treat him with alkalis and alkali-ghees that relieve colic, / or have him drink Dādhika or Ṣaṭpala ghee in proper dosage.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.74)

evam eva vibandhe ' pi vidhiṃ kuryāc cikitsakaḥ | yāś ca vyāpattayaḥ paścādvamane ca virecane ||

> The physician should apply this very regimen in constipation too; / and regarding the complications that follow emesis and purgation,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.75)

tāścikitseta matimānyathā sve sve cikitsite | grāmyān paudakaṃ māṃsaṃ snehito yo ' pi sevate ||

> the intelligent \[physician\] should treat them according to each one's therapy. / If an unctuous person partakes of the meat of domestic, marsh, or aquatic \[animals\],  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.76)

kaphe pravṛddhe tasyāśu vireko vamanaṃ bhavet | ajīrṇe cauṣadhaṃpītamalpaṃ vā yadi vā bahu ||

> when phlegm is increased, purgation quickly becomes emesis for him; / or if medicine has been drunk during indigestion, whether a little or much,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.77)

utkleśe cordhvavāte ca duryukte vāpi bheṣaje | evaṃ virecanaṃ pītaṃ vamanāyopapadyate ||

> in nausea, in upward wind, or when the medicine has been improperly administered— / purgation drunk in this manner turns into emesis.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.78)

karśite rūkṣite vāpi sukumāre sudāruṇe | asaṃjātakaphasyaiva naca snigdhasya dehinaḥ ||

> In an emaciated or dry person, or in a delicate person, or in severe \[illness\], / of an embodied being in whom phlegm has not arisen and who is not unctuous,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.79)

chardanaṃ vāsthitaṃ kṣubdhaṃ virekāyopapādayet | tatrānupānamevāhuḥkecitkecittvasāmpratam ||

> emetic medicine, administered agitated, turns into purgation. / Some say it is an after-drink there, but others \[consider it\] inappropriate.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.80)

bheṣajaṃ hy atimātraṃ tu jīvādānāya kalpate | ūrdhvaṃ daśāhātparataḥ snehasvedopapāditam ||

> For medicine in excessive measure leads to loss of blood. / Beyond ten days, having treated him with oleation and fomentation,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.4.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.4.81)

pāyayet tīkṣṇamevaitaṃ bheṣajaṃ kalpakalpitam | siddhirvirecanasyaiṣā vamanasya ca kīrtitā | vyāpadaś ca cikitsā yā yathāvadanupūrvaśaḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | itibhele siddhisthāne caturtho ' dhyāyaḥ || || pañcamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto vastimātrīyāṃsiddhiṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |

> one should have him drink this very sharp medicine prepared according to the formulary. / This success of purgation and of emesis has been declared, / and the complications and their treatment, properly in sequence.  
> Thus spoke the blessed Ātreya.  
> Thus the fourth chapter in the Siddhisthāna of Bheḷa.  
> Chapter Five.  
> Now we shall explain the success \[of enema\] based on enema dosage—thus spoke the blessed Ātreya.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.8.4.1) — English, machine translation

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