[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [The Compendium of Bheḷa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela) › 6.17 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 6.17 Bheḷasaṃhitā 6.17 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.1) yaḥ kṣīṇamāṃso mandāgniḥ vyādhiyuktas sudurbalaḥ | gurūṇi sevate ' tyartham amlapittakarāṇi ca || > A person whose flesh is wasted, whose digestive fire is weak, who is afflicted with disease and very weak, / who indulges exceedingly in heavy foods and those that cause acid indigestion, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.2) sadyo vānto virikto vā gurūṇyannāni sevate | upoṣitaś ca yo ' tyarthaṃ śākamūlaphalāśanaḥ || > or who, having just vomited or purged, partakes of heavy foods, / and who, after fasting exceedingly, eats vegetables, roots, and fruits, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.3) matsyān dadhi payo bhuṅkte divāsvapnaratiś ca yaḥ | apathyājīrṇabhojī ca naro vyāyāmasevitaḥ || > who eats fish, curd, and milk, and delights in sleeping by day, / and a person who eats unwholesome and undigested food and engages in physical exercise, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.4) yaś ca tiktakaṣāyāṇi kṣārāmlakaṭukāni ca | laghūni sevate ' tyarthaṃ rūkṣāṇi tu viśeṣataḥ || > and who indulges exceedingly in bitter, astringent, / alkaline, sour, and pungent foods that are light, but especially dry— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.5) tasya vātaḥ prakupitaḥ śirā bāhyāḥ prapadyate | sa pittaṃ kopayatyāśu raktaṃ śleṣmāṇam eva ca || > his aggravated vāta resorts to the external vessels; / it quickly provokes pitta, blood, and phlegm as well. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.6) sirās tā doṣasampūrṇāḥsaṃvisarpanti dāruṇāḥ | samupetyaikadeśe vā sarvagātreṣu vā punaḥ || > Those dreadful vessels, filled with the doṣas, spread out, / gathering either in one part of the body or over all the limbs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.7) evaṃ tacchvayathurnāma vyādhir bhavati dāruṇaḥ | doṣaiḥ pakvāśayasthais taiḥ so+adhastāc chvayathur bhavet || > Thus arises that dreadful disease called swelling. / Through those doṣas residing in the colon, that swelling arises in the lower part. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.8) pādapravṛttaḥ śvayathur narāṇāṃ nāśayaty asūn | yoṣitāṃ mukhasambhūta ubhayor api guhyajaḥ || > Swelling beginning in the feet destroys the life of men; / in women, that arising in the face; and in both, that arising from the genitals. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.9) bhūyiṣṭhamiha śophas tudoṣasaṅghātasaṃbhavaḥ | yas teṣāṃtvadhiko hi syāt sa svarūpaṃ hi darśayet || > Mostly here, swelling arises from a combination of the doṣas; / whichever of them is predominant, that one manifests its own form. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.10) śvayathurvātiko rūkṣaḥ kṛṣṇavarṇassavedanaḥ | karoti pīḍito nimnamanimittaṃ ca naśyati || > Vāta swelling is dry, black in color, and painful; / when pressed, it makes a depression, and it disappears without apparent cause. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.11) paittikaśvayathurnīlo lohitaḥ pīta eva vā | rujādāhaparītaś ca kṣiprapāko jvarānvitaḥ | > Swelling born of pitta is dark blue, red, or yellow, / accompanied by pain and burning, ripens quickly, and is accompanied by fever. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.12) śuklāvabhāso bahalaḥ śvetapītaḥ sthiras tathā | ālambaś cāpy anāśaś cabhṛśaṃ śophaḥ kaphātmakaḥ || > Appearing white, dense, whitish-yellow, and firm, / sagging, and not disappearing quickly—such is kapha-born swelling. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.13) vātapittakaphānāntu rūpaṃ syāt sānnipātike | asādhyaścopasargaś ca śvayathuḥ prasṛtaś ca yaḥ || > In sānnipātika \[swelling\], the signs of vāta, pitta, and kapha appear. / Incurable is that which is secondary, and the swelling that is widespread. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.14) nīlapītāruṇaṃ jyotirdṛśyate śvayathau yadi | kiñcitkṣaratyaslilaṃ tamasādhyaṃ vinirdiśet || > If a blue, yellow, or reddish luster is seen in the swelling, / \[and\] some watery fluid oozes out, one should declare it incurable. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.15) śastradaṇḍaprahārābhyāṃ prāpātādasthibhaṅgataḥ | śvayathuḥ pañcamo dṛṣṭo bhūyiṣṭhaṃ satu raktajaḥ || > From blows with weapons or sticks, from falling, or from bone fracture, / a fifth swelling is observed, which arises mostly from blood. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.16) abhighātāc ca jātānāṃ māṃsamasthi ca pīḍitam | sirāḥ sandūṣayatyāśu tato raktaṃ praduṣyati || > And in those caused by trauma, the bruised flesh and bone / quickly vitiate the vessels, and thereupon the blood is vitiated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.17) sa dāharāgāhulo vardhate tīvravedanaḥ | kṣatavaisarpikīṃ tasya kriyāṃ kuryāc cikitsakaḥ || > It grows with intense burning and redness, accompanied by severe pain. / The physician should perform the treatment for erysipelas from wounds for it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.18) etallakṣaṇamuddiṣṭaṃ śvayathūnāṃ yathāvidhi | cikitsitaṃ pravakṣyāmi yathāvadanupūrvaśaḥ || > Thus the characteristics of swellings have been indicated according to rule; / I shall now set forth the treatment properly in due order. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.19) kalyāṇakaṃ pibetsarpirmahātiktamathāpi vā | mahadyatpañcagavyaṃ vā tatassaṃśodhayennaram || > One should drink Kalyāṇaka ghee or Mahātiktaka \[ghee\], / or the great Pañcagavya; then one should purify the person. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.20) harītakīṃ samadhukāṃ sakṣaudraṃ vāpi lehayet | mākṣikeṇa ca kṛṣṇāṃ ca lihyāt kṣīreṇa vā pibet || > One should have him lick harītakī with madhuka and honey, / or lick long pepper with honey, or drink it with milk. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.21) harītakī śṛṅgaberaṃ devadāru ca tatsamam | etatsukhāmbunā pītaṃ śvayathūnāṃ nivāraṇam || > Harītakī, ginger, and devadāru in equal parts— / this, drunk with warm water, wards off swellings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.22) ayor ajastrikaṭukaṃ trivṛtā tiktarohiṇī | triphalārasapītaṃ tacchvayathūnāṃ nivāraṇam || > Iron filings, the three pungents, trivṛt, and tiktarohiṇī, / drunk with triphalā juice, wards off swellings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.23) mahauṣadhaṃ devadāru sudhāvarṣābhureva ca | etaiḥkṣīraṃ samaiḥ siddhaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ śvayathunāśanam || > Ginger, devadāru, sudhā, and varṣābhū— / milk prepared with equal parts of these is the best destroyer of swelling. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.24) gomūtrasya prayogo vā śreṣṭhaḥ śvayathunāśanaḥ | sakṣīraṃ vā pibenmūtraṃ māhiṣaṃ mūtram eva vā || > Or the administration of cow's urine is the best destroyer of swelling; / or one should drink urine with milk, or buffalo's urine alone. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.25) auṣṭraṃ mūtraṃ pibeccaiva taduṣṭrīkṣīram eva vā | yathābalaṃ yathādoṣaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ śvayathunāśanam || > And one should drink camel urine, or that camel's milk, / according to strength and according to the doṣa, the best destroyer of swelling. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.26) mūlakāni ca siddhāni sānile bhakṣayen naraḥ | rasena mūlakānāṃ tu kurvīta pariṣecanam || > A person should eat cooked radishes when vāta is present, / and should perform effusion with the juice of radishes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.27) naktamālārkamūlānāṃ vṛṣasyāragvadhasya ca | kaṣāyaṃ pariṣiktaṃ tu śvayathūnāṃ nivāraṇam || > The decoction of naktamāla, arka roots, vṛṣa, and āragvadha, / used for effusion, wards off swellings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.28) suvarcalā vyāghranakhaṃ kuṣṭhaṃ kaṭukarohiṇī | kākamāci ṛṣabhako rāsnā mūrvā punarnavā || > Suvarcalā, tiger's claw, kuṣṭha, kaṭukarohiṇī, / black nightshade, ṛṣabhaka, rāsnā, mūrvā, punarnavā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.29) vārtākī niculaṃ mūlaṃ triphalā citrako vacā | kuṭherako haridre dve śyāmā mūṣakaparṇikā || > eggplant, root of nicula, triphalā, citraka, vacā, / kuṭheraka, the two turmerics, śyāmā, mūṣakaparṇikā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.30) viḍaṅgaṃ śigruvalkaṃ ca naktamālaṃ mahauṣadham | gomūtrapiṣṭaṃ śvayathau mukhyamudvartanaṃ bhavet || > viḍaṅga, bark of moringa, naktamāla, and ginger, / ground with cow's urine, is the principal paste for rubbing in swelling. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.31) dantī viḍaṅgaṃ triphalā trayūṣaṇaṃ kaṭurohiṇī | citrakaṃ devakāṣṭhaṃ ca trivṛtā hastipippalī || > Dantī, viḍaṅga, triphalā, the three pungents, kaṭurohiṇī, / citraka, devakāṣṭha, trivṛt, and hastipippalī— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.32) cūrṇany etāni tulyāni dviguṇaṃ syādayor ajaḥ | kṣīreṇāloḍya pītāni śreṣṭhaṃ śvayathunāśanam || > these powders in equal parts, and iron filings double in quantity, / stirred into milk and drunk, are the best destroyer of swelling. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.33) triphalāyās tu kuḍavaṃ pippalīkuḍavaṃ tathā | viḍaṅgamaricānāntu dvedvepale smṛte || > A kuḍava of triphalā, and a kuḍava of long pepper, / and two palas each of viḍaṅga and black pepper are prescribed, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.34) palaṃ palaṃ ca kurvīta dantīcitrakayor api | palaṃ ca pippalīmūlaṃtuṣṭebhyaś ca palaṃ tathā || > and one pala each one should take of dantī and citraka, / and a pala of pippalī root, and likewise a pala of \[…\], > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.35) śṛṅgaberapale dve ca gavyāt pañca palāni ca | śeṣāṇyardhapalīnāni yāni tāni nibodha me || > and two palas of ginger, and five palas of cow's \[ghee/urine?\]; / learn from me those remaining ingredients of half a pala each: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.36) rāsnā balā gokṣurakaṃ madhukaṃ devadāru ca | vacā sātiviṣā pāṭhā mustā kaṭukarohiṇī || > Rāsnā, balā, gokṣuraka, madhuka, and devadāru, / vacā, with ativiṣā, pāṭhā, mustā, and kaṭukarohiṇī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.37) kaṭphalaṃ sāribe dve ca śyāmā bhallātakāni ca | punarnavāsatejohvā tvak ca patraṃ śatāvarī || > kaṭphala, both sāribās, śyāmā, bhallātaka, / punarnavā, tejohvā, tvak, patra, and śatāvarī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.38) nidigdhikā vyāghranakhaṃ mañjiṣṭhā kuśaśambhalī | triphalā trivṛtā bhārṅgī kuṭajasya phalatvacaḥ || > nidigdhikā, vyāghranakha, mañjiṣṭhā, kuśa, śambhalī, / the three fruits, trivṛt, bhārṅgī, and the fruit and bark of kuṭaja— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.39) etadāhṛtya sambhāraṃdvistāvatsyādayor ajaḥ | tadaikathyaṃ kṛtaṃ yuktyā lehayenmadhusarpiṣā || > collecting this supply, there should be twice as much iron filings; / combining that properly, one should have \[the patient\] lick it with honey and ghee. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.40) kṣīraṃ cānupibedyuktyā nirannakṣīrasevitā | ayor ajīyam ity etat khyātaṃ siddharasāyanam || > And one should properly drink milk afterwards, partaking of milk without grain-food. / This is known as 'Ayorajīya', an established rasāyana. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.41) saṃvatsaraprayogeṇa śatavarṣāṇi jīvati | varṣadvayena manujo dve jīveccharadāṃśate || > By use for one year, one lives for a hundred years; / by two years, a man would live two hundred autumns. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.42) nihanyācchvayathuṃ ghoraṃ vṛkṣamindrāśaniryathā | pāṇḍurogamathārśāṃsi mandamagniṃ kṛmīnapi || > It destroys terrible swelling, like Indra's thunderbolt a tree, / and anemia, hemorrhoids, sluggish digestion, and worms, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.43) bhagandaraṃ kāmilāṃ ca kuṣṭhāni jaṭharāṇi ca | saplīhānamapasmāraṃ śūlāni parikartikām || > fistula-in-ano, jaundice, dermatoses, abdominal enlargements, / \[splenomegaly\] with plīhodara, epilepsy, colic pains, dysenteric tenesmus, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.44) atisāraṃ pramehāṃś cakṣatakāsaṃ kṣayaṃ tathā | yasminyasminvikāre tu yogo ' yaṃ samprayujyate || > diarrhea, urinary disorders, chest-wound cough, and consumption; / for whatever disorder this formulation is employed, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.45) taṃ taṃ nihanti vai rogaṃ devārīn keśavo yathā | anuprayogo lājānāṃ saktavo madhunā saha || > that very disease it indeed destroys, as Keśava destroys the enemies of the gods. / The subsequent administration is roasted grain-flour along with honey; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.46) kṣīrānupānaṃ lehyo ' yaṃ divasān spta pañca vā | arśassvāmātisāreṣu vidhiḥ syāt parikartane || > with a milk vehicle, this electuary should be licked for five or seven days. / In hemorrhoids and acute diarrhea, it would be the rule in rectal cutting pain, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.47) tathā kṣīṇeṣu kāseṣu jvareṣu viṣameṣu ca | varṣothito ' pi śvayathustasmānmāsena śāmyati || > likewise in consumptive coughs and in irregular fevers; / swelling even of a year's standing subsides from it within a month. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.48) rasāyanaprayogāc ca pūrvoddiṣṭādyathāvidhi | śālīn saṣaṣṭikāṃś caivanavānnavikṛtīs tathā || > And after the administration of the rasāyana as prescribed beforehand, / śāli and ṣaṣṭika rices, and preparations of freshly harvested grain, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.49) kṣārāmlalavaṇāṃś cāpi sadādhūmaṃ vivarjayet | āgantuśvayathurvāpi yo vā syāddoṣasambhavaḥ || > alkalis, sours, and salts, and smoke one must always avoid. / Swelling whether exogenous or arisen from doshas, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.17.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17.50) laṅganaiś ca vilepaiś caraktasekaiḥ praśāmyati | avipāko jvaraśchardirdaurbalyaṃ parikartikā | śvāso ' tisāro hikkā caśophasyopadravāḥ smṛtāḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhelesaptadaśo ' dhyāyaḥ || || aṣṭādaśo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāta udāvartacikitsitaṃ vyākhayāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > subsides by fastings, applications of pastes, and bloodletting irrigations. / Indigestion, fever, vomiting, weakness, cutting pain, / dyspnea, diarrhea, and hiccup are remembered as complications of swelling. / Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. / Thus the seventeenth chapter in Bheḷa. / / Eighteenth chapter. / Now therefore we shall expound the treatment of upward wind, as the venerable Ātreya said: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.6.17.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Suśrutasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.susruta.4.1.138) — Suśruta & Nāgārjuna (siddha/alchemist), Sanskrit - [Cikitsāsārasaṅgraha (Vaṅgasena)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.vangasena.36.118) — Vaṅgasena, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.17) · Pramāṇa