The Compendium of Kāśyapa 8.14.16-2

lotus, blue water-lily, ironwood flowers, dry ginger along with durālabhā — / having boiled and cooled this, it should be drunk with honey for the alleviation of erysipelas.

Pointed gourd, sandalwood, mūrvā, guḍūcī, kaṭurohiṇī,

mustā, pāṭhā, along with licorice, one should cook according to the previous recipe.

Aragvadha, both turmerics, kurchi bark, kaṭurohiṇī,

guḍūcī, licorice, and sandalwood: that one should drink.

Neem, pointed gourd, tree turmeric, and kaṭukarohiṇī,

guḍūcī, licorice, and sandalwood: that one should drink.

Neem, pointed gourd, tree turmeric, and kaṭukarohiṇī,

[and] trāyamāṇā with liquorice, to alleviate erysipelas.

Or of paṭola, neem, and mustā, and also of sandalwood and uśīra;

or again of mustaka, āmalaka, uśīra, and sārivā;

one should administer a decoction as a drink to alleviate pitta-erysipelas.

Or he should drink a decoction of paṭola, mustā, and āmalaka with clarified butter.

The bark of udumbara, liquorice, priyaṅgu, and nāgakeśara,

and the filaments of lotus and blue water-lily, applied warm as a poultice with clarified butter, is beneficial.

With the barks of aśvattha, udumbara, plakṣa, vaṭa, vetasa, and jambu,

finely ground and saturated with hundred-times-washed ghee, an unguent [is prepared].

Equal parts of the barks of śakubha, udumbara, aśvattha, vaṭa, and lodhra,

and the bark of vetasa along with lotus root […] one should grind.

This application mixed with clarified butter removes burning sensation and redness.

Uśīra, sandalwood, fresh grass, conch shell, blue water-lily,

and roots of vetasa, mixed with rice, should be a poultice.

Hrībera, sandalwood, uśīra, Indian madder, white water-lily, blue water-lily,

sārivā, and lotus filaments make an unsurpassed ointment.

Vidārī, sandalwood, uśīra, as well as candanasārivā,

liquorice, and kṣīraśuklā: the physician should apply these as an unguent.

Tālīśa, padmaka, uśīra, Indian madder, the two sandalwoods,

prapauṇḍarīka, and liquorice: this application destroys burning sensation.

And with pastes of pearl, conch shell, oyster shell, crystal, and red ochre,

mixed with clarified butter, one should cover him with all of these or whatever is obtained.

Roots of plantain, kuśa, and kāśa, and likewise of naḍa and reed;

sandalwood, uśīra, padmaka, ṛṣabhaka, and jīvaka;

leaves of white water-lily and blue water-lily, mūrvā, and white water-lily;

lotus stalk, lotus root, lotus tuber, tṛṇaśūla, and ikṣuvālikā;

prapauṇḍarīka, liquorice, tālīśa, and water chestnut;

roots of sugarcane and vetasa, sānantā, barks of the latex-bearing trees,

śatāvarī, Indian madder, and kumbhīkā: he should collect these.

Crushing these, the wise physician should soak them in water overnight.

Then, straining that liquid, he should administer an affusion.

Or he should boil medicated ghee with these and with milk as an anointing salve.

With this very decoction, the physician should cook an equal amount of milk;

and when a fourth part remains, he should churn it thoroughly with a churning stick.

The clarified butter produced therein, again cooked with eight times the amount of milk,

along with pastes of payasyā, liquorice, and sandalwood,

he should administer for massage, food, and drink, as a destroyer of erysipelas.

[A child] sprinkled with clarified butter […]

With liquorice water, with milk, or with sugarcane juice,

or with the cold decoction of the bark of vaṭa and others, he should shower [the body].

Or he should apply a poultice made with the paste of vaṭa and others mixed with clarified butter;

likewise with thousand-times-washed or hundred-times-washed

clarified butter, or with that extracted from fresh milk, he should cover him when there is burning sensation.

When a swelling accompanied by burning sensation, redness, and suppuration is spreading,

one should draw blood using leeches in those whose bodies have been internally purified.

Having drained the vitiated blood, he should bring about blood purification

with pastes of the latex-bearing trees mixed with clarified butter, or with the aforesaid cooling [medicaments].

At the outset, in kapha-erysipelas, one should administer emesis;

or fasting for those with mild humours; after that, he should perform this treatment:

Mustā, pāṭhā, the two turmerics, kuṣṭha, tejovatī, sweet flag,

śārṅgiṣṭhā, triphalā, mūrvā, leadwort, and haimavatī,

vatsaka, ativiṣā, and kaṭukarohiṇī:

boiling them down, he should make him drink [the decoction], and should apply them ground as an ointment.

Āragvadha, somavalka, kuṭaja, ativiṣā, mustā,

pāṭhā, mūrvā, śārṅgiṣṭhā, and kuṣṭha the physician should decoct.

He should drink that decoction at the proper time and apply them finely ground as an unguent.

By that, his itching, urticarial eruptions, and swelling are quickly pacified.

Or a decoction made from amṛtā, ginger, parpaṭa, along with durālabhā,

the one afflicted by erysipelas and fever should drink with honey.

Triphalā, uśīra, mustā, castor, and devadāru,

having decocted [them], he should be sprinkled, or with water prepared with neem leaves,

with bark of drumstick, holy basil, āsphoṭā, kālamāla, and phaṇijjaka,

together with vāsā; he should administer sprinkling with the boiled water,

or sprinkling with khadira-water, or with cow's urine, is beneficial.

Soot, the two kinds of turmeric, and tender leaves of royal jasmine,

the two kinds of turmeric, false black pepper, long pepper, and earthworm castings,

nutgrass, guḍūcī, the two kinds of turmeric, trichosanthes, and tender neem leaves,

kuṭaja, ativiṣā, nutgrass, and kuṣṭha: he should grind these,

as well as soot, turmeric, and rock salt, as a plaster.

These formulations, set forth in half-verses, combined with a little clarified butter,

should be applied as thick pastes; they remove swelling, itching, and pain.

Saptaparṇa with khadira, nutgrass, and bark of āragvadha,

kuraṇṭaka, and devadāru make an unsurpassed plaster.

And palāśa ash mixed with cow's urine is an application for a single limb.

Mustard oil with alkali or with rock salt,

or karañja oil, should be employed for anointing,

or rubbing [the body] of one smeared with oil with powder of kuṣṭha and rock salt.

With svarjikā alkali, ativiṣā, nutgrass, cinnamon bark, cardamom, elavālu, and indrayava,

dill, agallochum, and kuṣṭha ground together, one should cook oil;

that should be used for his inunction; it destroys itching, urticaria, and superficial boils.

Having ground drumstick root and ahiṃsrā, one should cook clarified butter;

with that one should anoint his body, or again with kuṣṭha-oil.

If by this procedure the disease does not subside,

and the burning patches continue to burn with itching,

then one should administer purgation and draw his blood.

When the vitiated blood has been removed, one should perform blood clarification

with triphalā pastes together with clarified butter, accompanied by licorice and cluster fig.

Thus the treatment of erysipelas conditions born of vāta and the rest has been described to you,

through summary and detailed formulations and individually.

And one should employ this same combined [treatment] in combined [affections].

Barley food, śāli rice, mung beans, lentils, along with peas,

aged ones, should be used for eating, as well as meat of wild mammals and birds.

Smallpox with eruptions, shingles, and likewise scabies,

arising from combined pitta and blood, he should treat like erysipelas.