The Compendium of Bheḷa 6.21

with that, when cold, frequent effusion should be performed.

From constant suppression of natural urges, and also from overeating while food is undigested, / blood and vāyu become aggravated and settle in the head.

That vāyu lodged in the head and the blood, congregated together, / afflicted by the sun's rays upon the contact of sunrise,

produce severe pain in the temples, head, and cheeks. / As if someone were beating his head severely, he clutches it constantly with his hands.

The brain exudes, excited by the heat of the sun; / hence, the headache increases as the sun increases.

And that brain cools down with the decline of the day. / For this reason, the sages call it sūryāvarta.

One afflicted with sūryāvarta should drink Kalyāṇaka ghee; / and purgation should be performed, and head-cleansing there […].

Likewise, one should perform errhine therapy, and an unctuous drink after meals; / and head-enemas should be retained with ghee, oil, and muscle fat.

One should cook peacocks, cocks, and quail with milk; / then one should extract the butter produced by churning that milk.

That should be cooked in six times as much milk along with the vitalizing herbs; / from that, errhine therapy should be administered to him, destroying sūryāvarta.

Bilva, aṃśumatī, rāsnā, sahadevā, punarnavā, / kālā, guḍūcī, suṣavī, padmaka, madhuka, balā—

these, prepared with goat's milk, are for effusion; / goat's ghee prepared with these very herbs cures [it].

And one should have a poultice made with wild meats; / by that, his dread disease, sūryāvarta, is pacified.

In one who indulges in meat paste, curd, fish, flour preparations, milk, / and daytime sleeping, the three humors become aggravated.

They produce severe pain in the tendons of the neck and the nape; / and rising sharply from there, it lodges in the eyebrows and eyes.

It causes throbbing in the cheeks and stays fixed in the jaws; / it causes disorders of the eyes and pricking pain in his temples.

This is anantavāta, a terrible disease of the head / arising from all three humors together; I shall explain its medicine.

One should puncture a vein located on the forehead and administer the drinking of unctuous substances; / one should purge his body, and also cleanse his head.

The treatment explained for sūryāvarta and head-stiffness / should be performed in anantavāta; then relief is attained.

From irregular eating, daytime sleeping, suppression of vomiting and sneezing, / injury, exposure to heat, and suppression of natural urges,

both kapha and wind violently seize the vessels leading to the head / and remain there, splitting half the head and the base of the temple.

Swelling arises in the cheek, and the eye becomes discolored; / this is the head disease named ardhāvabhedaka, difficult to overcome.

One should perform head-cleansing and errhine therapy; / and, according to availability, all muscle fat, ghee, and oil should be used appropriately.

One should make him drink a large dose of that very [fat]; thereby he recovers. / Cottonseed, māṣa, wheat, mustard seeds, barley,

and the two pañcamūlīs should be boiled with milk; / with that bearing heat, one should foment him with tube-sudation.

And with those warm [ingredients] boiled in milk, one should apply a poultice for him. / Karañja, śigru seeds, bark, leaves, and sugar—

this is a head-cleanser for all diseases of the head. / At the edge of the head, at the edge of the forehead, at the boundary of the temples,

and also on the neck tendons, one should burn with pippalī or with a stalk; / in the same way, it should be done for ardhāvabhedaka by the very same method.

And burning is [indicated] in head disease born of vāta and in that born of śleṣman; / therefore, in head diseases that are severely advanced, the wise physician

should burn with wild pippalīs or with a stalk. / In those who constantly consume dry food and those suffering from upward movement of wind,

the wind, having ascended upwards, produces head tremor; / one should make him drink a mild unctuous substance, or Balā oil,

errhine therapy, drinking of unctuous substances, and constant unctuous enema. / In one who consumes all tastes indiscriminately, and from overeating when food is undigested,

the three provoked humors cause swelling in the head. / For that, one should first puncture a vein and he should drink aged ghee,

cleansing, smoke-inhalation, and purgation of the head. / Thus this section on head diseases has been declared.

I shall explain the diseases situated inside the throat along with their treatments. / From speaking loudly, violent exertion, excessive overeating, and the like,

and from consuming dry food and drinks, the wind is extremely disturbed. / His throat feels smoky, and likewise burns with a smoldering heat;

and his chest aches, and hoarseness of voice arises from wind. / In errhine therapies and in drinking, Balā oil is recommended;

and when kapha and vāta are predominant, gargles should likewise be retained. / Pippalī, pippalī root, black pepper, and harītakī—

Ginger, barley-alkali, lodhra, and tejovatī— / these powders in equal parts with honey

are the primary mouthwash in anorexia arising from phlegm. / The two pippalīs, madhuka, mūrvā, sandalwood, lotus, blue water lily,

uśīra, padmaka, lodhra, cardamom, and lāmajjaka— / one should prepare these equal parts with honey,

adding double the amount of sugar, for anorexia born of pitta. / Cumin, black pepper, kuṣṭha, bilva, and sauvarcala salt,

madhuka, sugar, and oil: a mouthwash for that born of vāta. / Young leaves of jambu and mango, lodhra, triphalā, cavya, citraka,

paṭola, naktamāla, śirīṣa, khadira, asana, / dārvī, haridrā, mustā, tejohvā, madhuka, and balā—

one should prepare a decoction from these in equal parts. / This gargle should be administered mixed with honey.

Or fresh ginger and kapittha, with the three pungents, honey, and sugar, / held in the mouth, is praised in all kinds of anorexia.

Cumin, black pepper, grapes, tamarind, together with pomegranate, / sauvarcala salt, and caraway, mixed with jaggery and honey,

[…] cleansing the mouth; / it is the supreme gargle praised in all kinds of anorexia.

The three doṣas arise in the throat […] / and cause the dreadful uvular swelling spreading in the throat to increase.

Venesection, drinking of unctuous substances, sharp head-purging, / surgical intervention, and fumigation will destroy uvular swelling.

Vāta-type earache, and vāta-type noise in the ear, / and deafness is declared to arise from vāta and phlegm.

Drinks of unctuous substances, errhines, tube-sudation, and poultices, / and fat and marrow of marsh animals are praised for ear-filling.

The two pippalīs, bilva root, kuṣṭha, madhuka, / lodhra, vyāghranakha, māṃsī, small cardamom, and devadāru—

with this paste one should cook one prastha of oil over a gentle fire, / along with the juices of radish and fresh ginger equal to the unctuous substance.

With that, one should apply a swab to the ear and administer errhine therapy; / by that, severe earache quickly subsides.

Śirīṣa oil, hundred-times-cooked [oil], and Balā oil mixed / swiftly draw out earache and deafness.

Of goat, snake, and peacock, and of crocodile and pangolin as well, / one should cook one tulā of meat in seven droṇas of milk.

When a quarter remains, cooled and strained, one should churn it. / The butter obtained from it, one should cook with equal parts of these:

kṣava, […] phaṇijjaka, […] rock salt, balā, / vacā, vyāghranakha, māṃsī, devadāru, and agarwood,

jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, medā, karkaṭaśṛṅgī, / ātmaguptā fruit, grapes, cinnamon leaf, and vāluka.

Having strained all of that, one should store it well-concealed. / One should administer it as a swab, an unguent, a drink, and an enema therapy.

By this, head diseases, whatever earaches there are, / and ear discharges subside, as well as diseases located above the collarbone.

This treatment is declared for earache where vāta is predominant. / Hereafter I shall explain that which arises from blood and from worms.

When vitiated pitta and blood rush right into the ear, / swelling, redness, and earache arise.

One should pierce a vein of the forehead and give him purgation; / […] head-drinking […] and head-purging.

Through non-treatment or through improper treatments, it undergoes suppuration in the ear; / for that, one should apply a poultice and healing wound-oil,

and cleanse the ear discharge with ear-probes. / The three pungents, rock salt, kuṣṭha, mañjiṣṭhā, madhuka,

rāsnā, haridrā, tejohvā, cinnamon, the bark of tilvaka, / lac, mūrvā, castor, kākakeśara, asana, vīraṇa,

small cardamom, tagara, cinnamon leaf, cinnamon bark, vyāghranakha, / āramāla, sesame, black gram, birch-nodule, and nidigdhikā—

with these made in equal parts, one should cook one prastha of oil, / and add serpent fat and the meat of a brown mongoose and a donkey.

One should fill the ear with this and tilt the head down after a moment. / Ear discharge, earache, deafness, ear pain,

and all head diseases this oil controls. / When the channels of the ear are obstructed, in the palate and head

severe pain arises, with burning, piercing sensation, and disorientation. / These, the wise say, are all the signs

of earache caused by worms, and it is said here to be incurable. / Flying insects, centipedes, and worms and ants,

having entered the ear canal, cause intense pain; / his ears are pierced, and there is a gurgling sound.

When the creature moves, the pain is intense; when it is still, there is no pain. / With honey-vinegar, milk, liquor, or […] āsava,

warm, one should fill the ear and tilt the head down after a moment. / When the creature has flowed out, if his ear discharge persists, / one should administer the treatment for ear discharge as described. / […] / Twenty-second chapter. / […]