The Compendium of Caraka 8.9.8
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8.9.8
Moreover, when the heart is afflicted, one should make [the patient] drink asafoetida powder combined with powder of any of the salts with the juice of citron or another sour or heart-pleasing [liquid]; the juice of the sthirādi pañcamūla with sugar for drinking; gruel prepared with the juice of the bilvādi pañcamūla; and the treatment prescribed for heart disease. When the head is afflicted by vāta: massage, sudation, poultice, intake of unctuous substances, errhine therapy, nasal drops, medicated smoking, and the like. When the bladder [is afflicted]: pot-sudation, suppositories, a non-unctuous enema prepared with cow's urine with śyāmā and the others, or with surā with bilva and the others, or a non-unctuous enema prepared with milk boiled with roots of śara, kāśa, ikṣu, darbha, and gokṣura, and pasted with trapuṣa, ervāru, kharāśvā seeds, barley, ṛṣabhaka, and vṛddhi; an unctuous enema with oil prepared with pītadāru; tailvaka ghee for purgation; or an oil cooked with a decoction of four parts of milk and the roots of śatāvarī, gokṣuraka, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārikā, guḍūcī, punarnavā, uśīra, madhuka, both sārivās, lodhra, śreyasī, kuśa, and kāśa, with a paste of balā, vṛṣa, ṛṣabhaka, kharāśvā, upakuñcikā, vatsaka, seeds of trapuṣa and ervāru, śitivāraka, madhuka, vacā, śatapuṣpā, aśmabhedaka, varṣābhū, and madanaphala, [administered] as an uttarabasti or a non-unctuous enema to one who is cleansed, oleated, and fomented, which dispels bladder pain and urinary disorders.
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- Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit