Astanga Hrudaya

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उष्णार्तानां शीताञ्छीतार्तानां तथा सुखोष्णांश्च । तद्योग्यौषधयुक्तान् वस्तीन् सन्तर्क्य युञ्जीत ॥ ७१ ॥

Patients suffering from heat (increase of body temperature, feeling of burning sensation inside etc.) should be administered cold enema while those suffering from cold (shivering feeling of cold inside etc.) should be administered comfortably warm enema. Such enema shall be administered, prepared with respectively appropriate herbs, selected after careful consideration.

english translation

uSNArtAnAM zItAJchItArtAnAM tathA sukhoSNAMzca । tadyogyauSadhayuktAn vastIn santarkya yuJjIta ॥ 71 ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript

वस्तीन्न बृंहणीयान् दद्याद्व्याधिषु विशोधनीयेषु । मेदस्विनो विशोध्या ये च नराः कुष्ठमेहार्ताः ॥ ७२ ॥

Enemas which are Brmhaniya (stoutening the body) should not be given in diseases which require prefatory therapies to persons who are very fatty, who are to undergo purifactory therapies and to those suffering from skin disease and diabetes.

english translation

vastInna bRMhaNIyAn dadyAdvyAdhiSu vizodhanIyeSu । medasvino vizodhyA ye ca narAH kuSThamehArtAH ॥ 72 ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript

न क्षीणक्षतदुर्बलमूर्छितकृशशुष्कशुद्धदेहानाम् । दद्याद्विशोधनीयान् दोषनिबद्धायुषो ये च ॥ ७३ ॥

Enemas which are visodhaniya (purifactory) should not be given to persons who are wasted (thin), wounded, debilitated, fainted (unconscious), emaciated and dry (by loss or depletion of Dhatus) and to whom sodana (purifactory therapies) have already been administered, and whose life is bound up with the Doshas (who might die if the Doshas are expelled out of the body).

english translation

na kSINakSatadurbalamUrchitakRzazuSkazuddhadehAnAm । dadyAdvizodhanIyAn doSanibaddhAyuSo ye ca ॥ 73 ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript