Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 4.6
English (machine translation) 4.6
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4.6.1
Blood-letting is of four kinds:
by venesection, and likewise by gourds,
by smooth horns, and by leeches the wise physician should draw blood.
4.6.2
In the forenoon and in the afternoon, neither when it is excessively hot nor excessively cold,
the physician should let the blood of one who has drunk gruel.
4.6.3
In all head diseases, and in the middle fold of the nostril,
the excellent physician should always carefully let blood.
4.6.3.p1
In the middle of the forehead, leaving [a space of] two finger-breadths above the eyebrows, one should open the vein.
4.6.3.p2
Between the elbows of the arms one should bind the vein.
4.6.3.p3
At the wrist-joint, leaving [a space of] four finger-breadths from the base of the thumb, one should bind the vein.
4.6.3.p4
Leaving four finger-breadths [from] the sides of the navel, one should bind the vein.
4.6.3.p5
At the foot, one should bind the vein at the ankle.
4.6.4
The rest has not been stated for fear of making the text too extensive;
blood-letting by means of gourds and horns should be known by all.
4.6.5
Blood that is blackish, frothy, and dark arises from wind disorder;
that which possesses all characteristics is to be known as arisen from all three humours.
4.6.5.p1
Thus, in the Hārītottara spoken by Ātreya, in the fourth section, the sūtrasthāna, [this is] the rule for blood-letting,
4.6.5-2
the fifth chapter.