Persons unfit for venesection

Those with breathlessness, cough, wasting, fever or fatigue from travel, the emaciated, the dry, the wounded, the very old, children, those with consumption, those just purified by emesis or purgation, those depleted by excess sex or fasting, those with convulsions or hemiplegia, pregnant women, those with depleted semen and those affected by gara poison are not to be bled. If such a person has a life-threatening disease curable by venesection, blood is let in that emergency.