[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) › 8.6 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 8.6 Bheḷasaṃhitā 8.6 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.1) upakalpamato vasternetraṃ snehaṃ ca sarvaśaḥ | teṣāṃ prayogayuktiṃ ca kriyāṃ karma ca me śṛṇu || > Listen from me to the equipment for enemas: the nozzle and the unctuous substance in every detail, / as well as the method of their application, their preparation, and their administration. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.2) bālānāmatha vṛddhānāṃ yuvamadhyamayostathā | svasthānāmāturāṇāṃ ca vastikarma praśasyate || > For children and for the elderly, as well as for the young and the middle-aged, / for the healthy and for the diseased, enema therapy is praised. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.3) sauvarṇaṃrājataṃ tāmraṃ kāṃsyaṃtrapujamāyasam | śṛṅgavaṃśāsthivaṃśāgrāṇyāhurnetrāṇi paṇḍitāḥ || > The wise state that nozzles are made of gold, silver, copper, / bell-metal, tin, iron, horn, bamboo, bone, and bamboo tips. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.4) yathākramamathaitāni pradhānānītarāṇi ca | uttamādhamamadhyeṣu manuṣyeṣu prayojayet || > In accordance with rank, one should employ these superior and other \[materials\] / respectively in superior, inferior, and middling persons. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.5) gulikāsyaṃ tu netraṃ syādanūnadvādaśāṅgulam | aṅgule karṇikāvāsaḥ tāṃ ca nakramayed gude || > The nozzle should have a rounded tip and be no less than twelve finger-breadths \[long\]; / the ring should be situated at \[the distance of a\] finger-breadth, and one must not insert it \[past that\] into the rectum. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.6) tatra gopucchasaṃsthānaṃ suślakṣṇaṃ sukhakarṇikam | pradeśinīparīṇāhaṃdānaṃ tena praśasyate || > Administration is commended with that which has the shape of a cow's tail, / is very smooth, has a comfortable ring, and has the thickness of the index finger. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.7) tatra mātrāśataṃ sthitvāsvenaiva vinivartate | yadyakāle navasneho madyamāṃsaprakalpitaḥ || > Having stayed there for one hundred measures of time, it returns on its own, / provided that fresh unctuous substance, prepared with liquor and meat, is not given at the wrong time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.8) nyūnakālanivṛttaśca śīghratvānna nirūhati | tatas tumadhyamaḥ kiñcinnivartetaśataistribhiḥ || > And that which returns in less time, because of its swiftness, does not purge; / then a moderate \[enema\] should return somewhat within three hundred \[measures\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.9) evaṃ kālagatikrānto yo vastirna nivartate | tīkṣṇenāsthāpanenaivaṃ kṣipraṃ pratinivartate || > Thus, an enema which exceeds the course of time and does not return / returns quickly through a sharp non-unctuous enema. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.10) tasmāt tīkṣṇataraṃ vastiṃ pūrvamevopakalpayet | prāṇasaṃdhāraṇe hyuccairvibandho na praśasyate || > Therefore, one should prepare a sharper enema at the very outset; / for severe obstruction is not commended when preserving the vital breaths. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.11) tasmāt kālaṃ ca yo vyādhiṃ nirūhāṇāṃ balābalam | pūrṇarūpaṃ cayo vetti sa mohaṃ na nigacchati || > Therefore, he who understands the time, the disease, the relative strength of non-unctuous enemas, / and the complete symptom complex does not succumb to confusion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.12) natathā hy anyato hanyānnāśanirna hutāśanaḥ | duṣprayuktoyathā vastiḥprāṇaissadyoviyojayet || > Neither a thunderbolt nor fire could kill from elsewhere in such a manner / as an ill-applied enema could instantly deprive one of vital breaths. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.13) śastaḥ prāṇihito vastissadyo rogaharas tathā | samyaṅ nivṛtto,rogaughairhyanivṛttas tu prāṇahā || > An enema is praised and beneficial to living beings, immediately removing disease when properly returned; / but when not returned, it destroys life through hordes of diseases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.14) sa nivṛttas tu vegena doṣān gambhīramāsthitān | unmārgasthānnayenmārgaṃ mārgasthāṃś cānulomayet || > Returning with force, it brings the deeply seated doṣas / that have strayed from their courses back to their path, and directs downward those situated in their course. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.15) vastivego ' nilaṃ hanti parjanyaṃ ca yathānilaḥ | kaphapittavikārāhi sarvevātavaśānugāḥ || > The impulse of an enema destroys vāta just as the wind destroys a rain-cloud; / for all disorders of kapha and pitta are subservient to vāta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.16) aśītirvātikā rogāścatvāriṃśat tu pittajāḥ | viṃśatiḥ ślaiṣmikāś cāpi saṃsṛṣṭānāmasaṃgrahāt || > There are eighty vātika diseases, forty born of pitta, / and twenty born of kapha; and combinations are not enumerated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.17) sarveṣām eva caiteṣāṃ rogāṇāṃ saṃgrahaissadā | arditānāṃhi bhūtānāṃ vastiragryaṃ parāyaṇam || > For living beings afflicted always by collections of all these diseases, / the enema is indeed the foremost refuge. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.18) anilaprabhavā hyete sarve vastivaśānugāḥ | tasmād ardhaṃ cikitsāyāḥ sarvaṃ vā vastir ucyate || > For all these originate from vāta and are under the sway of the enema; / therefore, the enema is called half of all treatment, or even the whole. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.19) yas tu vastiṃ niṣeveta cāturmāsyaṃ sadā naraḥ | rogāssaṃvarjayeyustaṃ siṃhāvāsaṃ yathā gajāḥ || > A person who regularly resorts to enemas during the four months of the rainy season— / diseases avoid him just as elephants avoid the abode of a lion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.20) ete guṇaviśeṣāś ca vyākhyātā vastikarmaṇi | nirūhasyāsya sāmarthyam upacāraṃ ca me śṛṇu || > These specific benefits have been explained in the therapy of enemas; / now hear from me the efficacy and the procedure of this non-unctuous enema. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.21) svinne paryuṣite jīrṇe tvatyantaṃ ca nirūhayet | so ' sya mūtraṃ purīṣaṃ ca śleṣmāṇaṃ cāpakarṣati || > When \[the patient\] has been sweated, overnighted, and the food is fully digested, one should administer a non-unctuous enema; / it draws out his urine, feces, and phlegm. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.22) vātānulomyaṃ kurute balaṃ sañjanayaty api | viṣasthiraṃ doṣabalaṃ yac canāḍīṣu saṃsthitam || > It produces the downward movement of vāta and generates strength as well; / the strength of the doṣas, which is fixed like poison and located in the channels— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.23) viśodhayati tat sarvaṃ nirūhaḥ sa prayojitaḥ | rogānīkasya sarvasyaparo nāsti hi tatsamaḥ || > that administered non-unctuous enema cleanses it all; / for there is no other equal to it against the entire army of diseases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.24) vyākulānāṃ ca keśānāṃ sīmantakaraṇaṃ yathā | tathā bhṛśaṃ vyākulānāṃ doṣāṇāṃ syānnirūhataḥ || > Just as the parting of disheveled hair \[brings order\], / so it is through a non-unctuous enema for severely disordered doṣas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.25) nirūho hi samāyuktassamyagvīryassamairguṇaiḥ | vyādhīnathoddharetkṣipraṃ puṇyaṃ yuktaṃ naraṃ yathā || > For a non-unctuous enema administered with proper potency and balanced qualities / will quickly eradicate diseases, just as religious merit \[uplifts\] a righteous man. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.26) kṛcchramūtrapurīṣāṇāṃśūlināṃ vātagulminām | virecanādyudāvarte hṛdroge pārśvaśūlini || > In those with difficulty in urination and defecation, in those with colic, in those with abdominal tumors due to vāta, / in upward movement of wind from purgation and the like, in heart disease, in flank pain, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.27) udareṣu prameheṣu kuṣṭheṣu kṛmikoṣṭhiṣu | śleṣmaṇā saha saṃsṛṣṭe śoṇitena ca dūṣite || > in abdominal enlargements, in urinary disorders, in skin diseases, in those with intestinal parasites, / when combined with phlegm and corrupted by blood, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.28) saṃsṛṣṭeṣu ca sarveṣu sannipātodbhaveṣu ca | gambhīrādhātugā ye ca teṣāṃśreṣṭhaṃ nirūhaṇam || > in all combined \[doṣas\] and in those arising from sannipāta, / and in those that have gone into the deep tissues, non-unctuous enema is superior. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.29) yadā kaphaṃ viricyeta śaṅkhasphaṭikasannibham | ṛte mūtrapurīṣābhyāṃtannirūhasya lakṣaṇam || > When kapha resembling a conch or crystal is purged, / apart from urine and feces, that is the sign of \[successful\] non-unctuous enema. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.30) suśodhitaṃ nirūheṇanātiparyuṣitaṃ tathā | sukhoṣitaṃ samāśvastaṃ bhojitaṃ cānuvāsayet || > One should administer an unctuous enema to one who is well cleansed by a non-unctuous enema, not too long past, / well rested, comforted, and fed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.31) ekato vastikarmāṇi hyekato ' nyaccikitsitam | amṛtārthaṃ vastikarma kurutesuprayojitam || > Enema therapies are on one side, and the other treatments on the other; / an enema therapy, when properly applied, acts like nectar. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.32) śuklaṃ bahvavarodhasya nakṣayaṃ yāti dehinaḥ | strīṣupradharṣaṇaṃ kuryānnarāṇāṃ kṣīṇaretasām || > The semen of a person whose massive obstruction is cleared does not undergo depletion; / it brings about potency with women for men whose semen was diminished. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.6.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6.33) vastiprayogāt ṣaṇḍo ' pi pumān bhavati sarvaśaḥ | kṛśānām apimartyānāṃ māṃsasaṃjananaṃ smṛtam || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele siddhisthāne ṣaṣṭho ' dhyāyaḥ || || saptamo ' dhyāyaḥ | | athātaḥphalamātrāsiddhiṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > Even a eunuch becomes a man in every respect through the use of enemas; / and it is held to generate flesh even in emaciated mortals. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the sixth chapter in the Siddhisthāna of Bheḷa. / Seventh Chapter. / Now we shall explain the success of dosages of fruits, 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.8.6.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.6) · Pramāṇa