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# The Compendium of Bheḷa 8.5

Bheḷasaṃhitā 8.5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [8.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.1)

saṃsṛṣṭabhakte śaṃsanti vastikarma cikitsakāḥ | virikteṣv apare vaidyā nirūḍhe tvapare janāḥ ||

> Physicians praise the administration of enema when a meal has been digested; / other doctors \[praise it\] in those who have purged; yet other people, in one evacuated by a non-unctuous enema.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.2)

trīṇyetānyavarāṇyāhuḥ na śaṃsanti viśāradāḥ | mataṃ teṣāmahaṃ samyagvyāhaniṣyāmi hetubhiḥ ||

> The experts say that these three are inferior, and do not praise them. / I shall properly refute their opinion with reasons.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.3)

satatantu viriktasya śītībhavati pāvakaḥ | hṛdāśrayāṇi srotāṃsi gudakoṣṭhāśrayāṇi ca ||

> For one who is constantly purged, the digestive fire becomes cold, / and the channels residing in the heart, rectum, and abdomen \[become empty\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.4)

pravṛddho mārutastasyapakvādhānaṃ pradhavati | śītīkaroti kāyāgniṃ balaṃ cāsyāpakarṣati ||

> Wind, increased in him, rushes to the colon; / it cools the body-fire and drags down his strength.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.5)

srotassuśuddhāśuddheṣu yadi vastiḥ pradīyate | sa gambhīro gataḥ kāye sarvaśo na nivartate ||

> If an enema is given when the channels are partially cleansed and partially uncleansed, / it, having gone deep into the body, does not return completely.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.6)

chardiṃ pipāsāṃ hṛdrogaṃ pāṇḍutvaṃ śvayathuṃ tathā | janayed iha tasmād dhi viriktaṃ nānuvāsayet ||

> It may produce vomiting, thirst, heart disease, pallor, and swelling here; / therefore, indeed, one should not give an unctuous enema to one who has purged.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.7)

saṃsṛṣṭabhaktasya punaḥ jātadoṣasya dehinaḥ | srotassu malalipteṣu bhavetsneho nirarthakaḥ ||

> Moreover, for an embodied being who has had a mixed meal, in whom the humors have arisen, / and whose channels are smeared with waste, unction would be useless.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.8)

tīkṣṇetaranirūheṇanirūḍhasya śarīriṇaḥ | samutkliṣṭeṣu doṣeṣu snehavastirna śasyate ||

> For an embodied being who has been evacuated by a non-unctuous enema with a sharp or other \[formula\], / an unctuous enema is not praised when the humors are agitated.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.9)

kecic cāpi śarīrasya rātriparyuṣitasya ca | praśāntā doṣasaṃjñānaḥ(?) praśaṃsantyanuvāsanam ||

> And some praise an unctuous enema for a body / that has rested overnight, whose humors have calmed down \[…\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.10)

vastikarmavidhānaṃ tu śṛṇu me nirupadravam | snehitasya yathānyāyaṃ viriktasya ca kalpaśaḥ ||

> Hear from me, however, the procedure of enema administration free from complications, / for one who has been oleated properly and purged according to the formulary,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.11)

saṃsṛṣṭabhaktasya tathā punaś ca snehitasya ca | pañcarātrātparaṃ tasya kārayed anuvāsanam ||

> and likewise after eating a light diet, and oleated again: / after five nights, one should have an unctuous enema administered to him.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.12)

noparyasnigdhakoṣṭhasya kartavyamanuvāsanam | vāto hyūrīkṛtas tasya hṛdaye paritiṣṭhati ||

> An unctuous enema must not be given above an abdomen that is not unctuous; / for the wind, forced upwards, settles in his heart.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.13)

ucitādbhaktamānādapyardhamātraṃ tu bhojayet | tanunā mudgayūṣeṇa jāṅgalena rasena vā ||

> One should feed him only half the measure of his customary meal, / with thin mung-bean soup or meat broth of wild animals.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.14)

bhuktvā kṛtasamāśvāsaḥ śakṛnmūtre visṛjya ca | savyena pārśvena naraḥ saṃviśecchayane same ||

> Having eaten, taken rest, and passed feces and urine, / a man should lie down on a level bed on his left side.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.15)

saṃkocayed dakṣiṇaṃ ca sakthi vāmaṃ prasārayet | vāmopadhānaṃ kurvīta śirasyupahitaṃ naraḥ ||

> He should contract the right thigh and extend the left; / the man should make a left-side pillow placed beneath his head.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.16)

athāsya praṇayed vastiṃ pṛṣṭhavaṃśānugaṃ sukham | yathākarmabalaṃ caiva nadrutaṃ na vilambitam ||

> Then one should comfortably administer the enema into him along the vertebral column, / according to the strength of the procedure, neither swiftly nor slowly.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.17)

nirvyalīko mṛdurvastirvyapanītānilastathā | gāḍhānilānubandho ' syāpraśasto vastikarmaṇi ||

> An enema that is smooth, soft, and has its air removed \[should be used\]; / one with dense entrapped air is not praised for him in the enema procedure.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.18)

netraṃ vastimukhe dhṛtvā samyagekena pāṇinā | prapīḍayeccāpareṇa hastau cāpi na kampayet ||

> Holding the nozzle at the mouth of the enema bladder properly with one hand, / one should press with the other, and not shake the hands.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.19)

pūrvaṃ cagudamabhyajya yantraṃ hastau ca mānavaḥ | pravartayed athottānaṃ pādau vāsyaprasārayet ||

> Having first smeared the rectum, the instrument, and both hands, the man / should insert it; then one should turn him supine or extend his legs.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.20)

muhūrtānna nigṛhṇīyāddatte vastau yathāsukham | tataḥ paramato vegānāgatānna vidhārayet ||

> When the enema has been comfortably given, he should not suppress it for a muhūrta; / thereafter, he should not hold back the urges that have arrived.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.21)

avibandhassavātaśca sapurīṣassa sidhyati | dattamātre punaryasya tailavastirnivartate ||

> It succeeds without obstruction, with flatus, and with feces. / But for one whose oil enema returns immediately after being given,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.22)

na sa karyakaraḥ proktastasyānyaṃ praṇidhāpayet | tṛṣitassa tathā rātriṃ kālyamuṣṇodakaṃ pibet ||

> it is said not to be effective; one should have another administered to him. / If he is thirsty at night, he should drink hot water in the early morning.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.23)

ekāntare ca dātavyo bastirna satataṃ nṛṇām | abhyaṅgonmardanaṃ caiva koṣṇatoyāvasecanam ||

> And enema should be given on alternate days, not continuously to men; / massage, rubbing down, pouring over with lukewarm water,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.24)

uṣṇodakānupānaṃ ca vastikarmaṇi śasyate | caturṣutriṣu vā vaidyo yāvadvā snigdhatā punaḥ ||

> and an after-drink of warm water are praised in enema therapy. / When three or four \[enemas have been given\], or until unctuousness appears again,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.25)

snehavastiṣu datteṣu kuryād āsthāpanaṃ tataḥ | ārdrīkṛteṣu srotassu snehena vihitena ca ||

> after unctuous enemas have been administered, the physician should then perform a non-unctuous enema; / when the channels are moistened by the administered unction,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.26)

śuddhaye srotasāṃ dadyānnirūhānyuktitaḥ sukham | aśuddhe maline koṣṭhe snehavastiḥ prayojitaḥ ||

> he should comfortably administer non-unctuous enemas according to proper method for cleansing the channels. / An unctuous enema applied in an uncleaned, soiled abdomen  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.27)

pradarśayati vaiśiṣyaṃ śukle parvavyayīkṛtam |(?) virecanopacāraśca kartavyo vastikarmaṇi ||

> \[…\] / And the regimen of purgation should be observed during enema therapy.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.28)

yavāgūpratipānaṃ ca bastikarmaṇi varjayet | caturviṃśatisaṅkhyātāḥ nirūhāssānuvāsanāḥ ||

> One should avoid drinking gruel in enema therapy. / Twenty-four non-unctuous enemas along with unctuous enemas are counted;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.29)

etatkarmetinirdiṣṭamūrdhvavāte pradāpayet | mṛdumadhyamatīkṣṇeṣu rogeṣu kuśalo bhiṣak ||

> this is specified as a course \[of therapy\]; one should administer it in upward wind. / In mild, moderate, and sharp diseases, the skilled physician  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.30)

mṛdumadhyamatīkṣṇaṃca vastikarma ca kārayet | grāmyānūpaudakaṃ māṃsaṃ piṣṭānnaṃ palalaṃ dadhi ||

> should perform mild, moderate, and sharp enema therapy. / The meat of domestic, marsh, and aquatic \[animals\], foods made of flour, sesame paste, yogurt,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.31)

amlaśākavikārāṃś ca bhakṣyāṇi vividhāni ca | śītodakasya pānaṃ ca tathā śītāvagāhanam ||

> sour vegetable preparations, various fried cakes, / drinking cold water, and cold bathing,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.32)

gurūṇicānnapānāni vastikarmaṇi varjayet | śāliṣaṣṭikamudgāṃś ca bhojanārthaṃ pradāpayet ||

> and heavy foods and drinks should be avoided during enema therapy; / and one should provide śāli rice, ṣaṣṭika rice, and mung beans for food.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.5.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.5.33)

vyañjanārthaṃ pradeyāḥ syuḥ śaśatittirilāvukāḥ | jñānavānsumitāhāro vaidyaśuśrūṣureva ca | yaś cavastimupāsīta sa jīveccharadāṃ śatam || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele siddhisthāne pañcamo ' dhyāyaḥ || || ṣaṣṭo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāta upakalpasiddhiṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |

> Hare, partridge, and quail should be given as cooked meat. / A person who is knowledgeable, eats measured food, attends upon a physician, / and undergoes enema therapy will live for a hundred autumns. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the fifth chapter in the Siddhisthāna of Bheḷa. / Sixth Chapter. / Now we shall explain the successful management of equipment, thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.8.5.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Suśrutasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.susruta.4.38.65) — Suśruta & Nāgārjuna (siddha/alchemist), Sanskrit

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