Vasu, Srisa Chandra [Editor]: The Gheraṇḍa sanhita: a treatise on Hatha yoga (Bombay, 1895)

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KapAla-Randhra-Dhouti.
35. Rub with the thumb of the right hand the
depression in the forehead near the bridge of the
nose. By the practice of this Yoga, diseases arising
from derangements of phlegmatic humours are cured.
36. T ie vessels become purified and clairvoyance
is iuduced. This should be practised dady after
awakening from sleep, after meals, and in the
evening.
Hrid-Dhouti.
37. Hrid-Dhauti or purification of heart is
of three kinds, viz., by Danda (a stick), Yamana
(vomiting), and by Vastra (cloth).
Danda-Dhouti.
38. Take either a plantain stalk or a stalk of
(Haridra) turmeric, or a stalk of cane, and thrust it
slowly into the aesophagus and tlien dra v it out
slowly.
39. By this process all the phlegm, bile and
other impurities are expelled out of themouth. By
'this Danda- Dhouti every kind of heart-disease is
surely cured.
Yamana-Dhouti.
40. After meal let the wise practitioner drink
water full up to the throat, then looki ug for a short
while upwards, let him vomit it out again, By
daily practising this Yoga, disorders of piilegm
and bile are cured.
Vastra-Dhouti.
41. Let him swallow slowly a thin cloth, four