The Compendium of Bheḷa 6.24

jaw spasm, tingling in the feet, flank pain, fever, wasting, / scrotum-enlargement, dysuria with strangury, constriction of the heart, exhaustion born of the limbs—

this oil dispels eighty vātika diseases, / as well as those arising from a combination of all three, from two doṣas, and from a single doṣa,

disorders of the female genital tract, barrenness, and advanced menorrhagia; / it bestows strength and complexion, and destroys cough and wasting.

A hundred palas from balā root, likewise a hundred from daśamūla, / of śatāvarī, guḍūcī, rāsnā, madhuka, and deodar

one should make ten-pala portions; horsegram, jujube, barley, / and black gram in kuḍava portions, in five droṇas of water.

The decoction reduced to one droṇa, combined with an āḍhaka of oil, / one should cook with a prastha of ghee and a droṇa of milk;

the physician should add the paste-substances: tagara, uśīra, vālaka, / kuṣṭha, coriander, musta, cardamom, vacā, aguru, sandalwood,

paripelava, kālīya, māṃsī, śrīveṣṭaka, resin, / frankincense, takkola, sarala, nalikā, nakha,

spṛkkā, saffron, camphor, fruits of jātī and tinduka, / cinnamon leaf, coraka, nāgāhva, dill, with hareṇukā,

turushka, jīvanīya [herbs], priyaṅgu, and hapuṣā, / sthauṇeyaka, uśīra, and lichen, along with equal ghee.

With ground paste-substances one should cook this oil, which removes vāta diseases; / one should employ it in drink, inunction, nasal drops, and enema.

Whether the vātas residing in all the body are combined or single, / it is suitable for subduing them: so said Punarvasu.

All diseases avoid a man regularly gratified with this oil according to rule, / just as deer avoid the dwelling of a lion.

One should take a tulā of mature balā well crushed, / cook it in four droṇas of water, reduced to a fourth part.

One should put therein ten palas of ground balā, / and add two āḍhakas of oil of husked sesame seeds;

with four times as much milk one should cook it over a gentle fire. / In all vāta diseases, in bleeding disorders, in wasting due to injury,

in disorders of the female genital tract, and when semen is lost, it is praised; / dryness of the palate, thirst, burning, flank pain, menorrhagia,

it destroys consumption, epilepsy, erysipelas, with tightness in the head; / balā-oil is declared to bestow longevity and complexion, and to produce offspring.

One should take two hundred [palas] of rāsnā root and a hundred of balā, / and a hundred each of śatāvarī, guḍūcī, and varaṇa;

from āḍhakī, śigru, castor, śirīṣa, and āragvadha, / and from gokṣura and bhūtika, one should throw five palas each;

in ten droṇas of water one should boil them finely crushed; / when that is reduced to a droṇa, one should cook half a maṇa of oil,

ten droṇas of milk, and half an āḍhaka of ghee; / that should be cooked together, and one should cook it with paste inside.

Madhuka, jasmine flower, mañjiṣṭhā, madayantikā, / kāśmarya, ajamodā, śṛṅgī, brown mustaka,

ātmaguptā, āḍhakī, mūrvā, eggplants, madhūlikā, / sahadevā, then eraṇḍā, rohiṣa, navamālikā,

phaṇijjaka, madhūka flowers, vīrā, nīra-kadambaka, / pīlu and palāśa fruits, kumārī, aśvattha, tinduka,

hrībera, long pepper, kuṣṭha, grapes, kaṭukarohiṇī, / kāyasthā, vayasthā, madhuparṇī along with citraka,

mahāpuruṣadantā, modakī, and also sallakī, / devadāru, best aguru, sandalwood, paripelava,

blue water-lily, uśīra, raisins, along with amlavetasa— / with a paste made of these in equal parts of a pala each, one should cook an equal amount of oil.

It is praised in food, massage, drink, enema, and errhine; / in all vāta diseases, in the emaciated from chest-wounds, in head-stiffness,

in loss of voice, bleeding disease, hiccup, dyspnea, menorrhagia, / when vāta is joined with pitta, and joined with blood,

in irregular fever, heart disease, and likewise in trembling of the limbs, / in epilepsy, blood-gulma, and when semen is destroyed in men.

This Rāsnā oil is supreme, increasing strength and muscle. / One hundred [palas] of sahacara along with root, leaves, and branches,

finely crushed, one should boil down in four droṇas of water; / when strained with one droṇa remaining, one should cook an āḍhaka of oil slowly.

And one should apply a poultice to his head with the meat of aquatic and wetland animals; / he should perform errhine therapy and apply a swab on the head.

He should gently open his mouth with a pair of forceps, / and administer unctuous substance and meat broth with a spout-vessel;

likewise, for one not opening his jaws, having pried apart the clenched teeth. / When vāta has reached the stomach, the physician should not treat it with unctuous substances.

One should administer fasting for him, and likewise purifications; / wind arising from the coating of āma, having gone to the seat of phlegm,

increases when unctuously treated with fats and meat broths; / therefore, the one skilled in the treatise should prescribe for him

un-unctuous and pungent foods in diet and for medicine. / When it is situated in the stomach: emesis, alkalis, and alkali-treacles,

ariṣṭas, śīdhus, and beneficial meat of wild animals; / śyāmāka grains, kodo millets, mudga beans, and red rice,

sudation, and barley food are beneficial when wind has reached the stomach. / When wind, having gone to the colon, produces symptoms,

or having gone to the vessels, to all the limbs, or to bone and marrow, / having ascertained the symptom of that, one should perform the treatment for it

which was taught in full as the treatment of vāta diseases. / When wind has gone to the seat of blood, the treatment stated earlier

in vāta-blood, that one should perform when wind has gone to the blood. / When sciatica has arisen, Balā oil is praised,

or supreme radish oil, or the oil of sahacara. / Enemas, unctuous drinks, oiling, and massages

are praised in sciatica, as well as bloodletting. / Whichever eighty vāta-born diseases were previously stated,

for them this is the treatment across the seven seats of wind. / The curable and incurable diseases arising from wind

arise and abide in the seven seats of wind. / Wind gone to bone and marrow produces fracture, trembling, wasting of limbs,

hemiplegia, epilepsy, insanity, and facial paralysis, / jaw spasm, deformed arm, hunchback, lameness, dislocation of joints,

and other vāta diseases also occur. / One should treat those curable ones in proper sequence based solely on the location.

Thus this treatment of vāta patients has been spoken in detail. / For wind is the cause of life for living beings, and likewise of destruction.

It moves the sun and the moon constantly in continuity; / raining in the world is caused by wind, and likewise stopping [it].

And it carries the aerial chariots of the heaven-dwellers everywhere; / wind causes the tide in the ocean, and it creates clouds;

the dispersal of cloud is by wind; lightning occurs by wind; / wind is the supporter of the three worlds; everything proceeds from wind.

Wind brings forth flowers and fruits; it supports the waters; / it causes meteor-showers, earthquakes, and the supportings of the earth;

endowed with immense strength, wind holds the Gaṅgā in the sky. / These and many other manifestations of wind's qualities [are known].

Therefore, the best of physicians should treat it with effort / according to the treatise; thus he will achieve success. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the twenty-fourth chapter in Bheḷa. / Twenty-fifth chapter. / Now therefore we shall explain the treatment of spleen and halīmaka; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.