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/ it bestows strength and complexion, and destroys cough and wasting. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.4) balāmūlātpalaśataṃdaśamūlācchataṃ tathā | śatāvaryā guḍūcyāś ca rāsnāmadhukadāruṇaḥ || > A hundred palas from balā root, likewise a hundred from daśamūla, / of śatāvarī, guḍūcī, rāsnā, madhuka, and deodar > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.5) kuryād daśapalānbhāgān kulutthān badarān yavān | māṣāṃś ca kuḍavāṃśena jaladroṇeṣu pañcasu || > one should make ten-pala portions; horsegram, jujube, barley, / and black gram in kuḍava portions, in five droṇas of water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.6) kvāthaṃ droṇāvaśiṣṭantu tailāḍhakasamāyutam | ghṛtaprasthena vipacet kṣīradroṇena cāpy atha || > 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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.7) peṣyān pradadyādvaidyo vai tagarośīravālakam | kuṣṭhadhānyakamustailāvacāñcāgurucandanam || > the physician should add the paste-substances: tagara, uśīra, vālaka, / kuṣṭha, coriander, musta, cardamom, vacā, aguru, sandalwood, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.8) paripelavakālīyaṃ māṃsīṃ śrīveṣṭakaṃ rasam | kunduruṣkaṃ ca takkolaṃ saralaṃ nalikāṃ nakham || > paripelava, kālīya, māṃsī, śrīveṣṭaka, resin, / frankincense, takkola, sarala, nalikā, nakha, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.9) spṛkkākuṃkumakarpūraṃ jātitindukayoḥ phalam | patraṃ corakanāgāhvaṃ śatāhvāṃ sahareṇukām || > spṛkkā, saffron, camphor, fruits of jātī and tinduka, / cinnamon leaf, coraka, nāgāhva, dill, with hareṇukā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.10) saturuṣkaṃ jīvanīyaṃ priyaṃguṃhapuṣāṃ tathā | sthauṇeyakamuśīrāṇi śaileyaṃ ca samaṃ ghṛtam || > turushka, jīvanīya \[herbs\], priyaṅgu, and hapuṣā, / sthauṇeyaka, uśīra, and lichen, along with equal ghee. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.11) kalkapiṣṭaiḥ pacettailametadvātāmayāpaham | pāne cābhyañjanenasye vastau cāpi prayojayet || > With ground paste-substances one should cook this oil, which removes vāta diseases; / one should employ it in drink, inunction, nasal drops, and enema. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.12) sarvadehāśrayā vātāḥ saṃsṛṣṭāś caikajāś ca ye | teṣāṃ nigrahaṇe yuktam ity uvāca punarvasuḥ || > Whether the vātas residing in all the body are combined or single, / it is suitable for subduing them: so said Punarvasu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.13) tailenānena satataṃ vidhivattarpitaṃ naram | sarvāmayā varjayanti sihmāvāsaṃ yathā mṛgāḥ || > All diseases avoid a man regularly gratified with this oil according to rule, / just as deer avoid the dwelling of a lion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.14) balāyā jātasārāyāstulāṃ kuryāt sukuṭṭitām | pacettoye caturdroṇe caturbhāgāvaśeṣitam || > One should take a tulā of mature balā well crushed, / cook it in four droṇas of water, reduced to a fourth part. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.15) palāni daśa piṣṭāni balāyās tatra dāpayet | luñcitānāṃ tilānāntu dadyāt tailāḍhakadvayam || > One should put therein ten palas of ground balā, / and add two āḍhakas of oil of husked sesame seeds; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.16) caturguṇena payasā pacettanmṛdunāgninā | vātavyādhiṣu sarveṣu raktapitte kṣatakṣaye || > 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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.17) vyāpannāsu ca yonīṣu śastaṃ naṣṭe ca retasi | tāluśoṣaṃ tṛṣāṃ dāhaṃ pārśvaśūlamasṛgdaram || > in disorders of the female genital tract, and when semen is lost, it is praised; / dryness of the palate, thirst, burning, flank pain, menorrhagia, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.18) hanti śoṣamapasmāraṃ visarpaṃ saśirograham | āyurvarṇakaraṃ proktaṃ balātailaṃ prajākaram || > it destroys consumption, epilepsy, erysipelas, with tightness in the head; / balā-oil is declared to bestow longevity and complexion, and to produce offspring. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.19) rāsnāmūlasya kurvīta dve śate ca balāśatam | śatāvarīguḍcībhyāṃvaraṇāc ca śataṃ śatam || > One should take two hundred \[palas\] of rāsnā root and a hundred of balā, / and a hundred each of śatāvarī, guḍūcī, and varaṇa; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.20) āḍhakīśigrukairaṇḍaśirīṣāragvadhād api | śvadaṃṣṭrābhūtikābhyāṃ ca pṛthakpañcapalaṃ kṣipet || > from āḍhakī, śigru, castor, śirīṣa, and āragvadha, / and from gokṣura and bhūtika, one should throw five palas each; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.21) toyadroṇeṣudaśasu sādhayetsūkṣmakuṭṭitam | droṇāvaśeṣe tasmiṃs tu tailasyārdharmaṇaṃ pacet || > 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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.22) droṇān daśa ca dugdhasya ghṛtasyārdhaḍhakaṃ tathā | tadaikadhyaṃ vipaktavyaṃ garbhe cātra vipācayet || > ten droṇas of milk, and half an āḍhaka of ghee; / that should be cooked together, and one should cook it with paste inside. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.23) madhukaṃ mālatīpuṣpaṃ mañjiṣṭhāṃ madayantikām | kāśmaryāmajamodāṃ ca śṛṅgīṃ kapilamustakam || > Madhuka, jasmine flower, mañjiṣṭhā, madayantikā, / kāśmarya, ajamodā, śṛṅgī, brown mustaka, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.24) ātmaguptāḍhakīmūrvāvārtākāni madhūlikām | sahadevāmathairaṇḍāṃ rohiṣaṃ navamālikām || > ātmaguptā, āḍhakī, mūrvā, eggplants, madhūlikā, / sahadevā, then eraṇḍā, rohiṣa, navamālikā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.25) phaṇijjakaṃ madhūkānivīrānīrakadambakam | phalaṃ ca pīlupālāśaṃ kumāryaśvatthataindukam || > phaṇijjaka, madhūka flowers, vīrā, nīra-kadambaka, / pīlu and palāśa fruits, kumārī, aśvattha, tinduka, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.26) hrīberaṃ pippalīkuṣṭhaṃ drākṣāṃ kaṭukarohiṇīm | kāyasthāṃ ca vayasthāṃ ca madhuparṇīṃ sacitrakām || > hrībera, long pepper, kuṣṭha, grapes, kaṭukarohiṇī, / kāyasthā, vayasthā, madhuparṇī along with citraka, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.27) mahāpuruṣadantāṃ ca modakīṃ sallakīm api | devadārvaguruśreṣṭhaṃ candanaṃ paripelavam || > mahāpuruṣadantā, modakī, and also sallakī, / devadāru, best aguru, sandalwood, paripelava, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.28) nīlotpalamuśīrāṇi mṛdvīkāṃ sāmlavetasām | etaiḥ palasamaiḥ piṣṭaissamaṃ tailaṃ vipācayet || > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.29) bhojane ' bhyañjane pāne vastau nasye ca śasyate | vātavyādhiṣu sarveṣu kṣatakṣīṇe śirograhe || > It is praised in food, massage, drink, enema, and errhine; / in all vāta diseases, in the emaciated from chest-wounds, in head-stiffness, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.30) svarakṣaye raktapitte hikkāśvāseṣv asṛgdare | mārute pittasaṃsṛṣṭe saṃsṛṣṭe śoṇitena ca || > in loss of voice, bleeding disease, hiccup, dyspnea, menorrhagia, / when vāta is joined with pitta, and joined with blood, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.31) viṣamajvarahṛdroge gātrakampe tathaiva ca | apasmāre raktagulme puṃsāṃ naṣṭe ca retasi || > in irregular fever, heart disease, and likewise in trembling of the limbs, / in epilepsy, blood-gulma, and when semen is destroyed in men. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.32) rāsnātailam idaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ balamāṃsavivardhanam | samūlapatraśākhasya śataṃ sahacarasya ca || > This Rāsnā oil is supreme, increasing strength and muscle. / One hundred \[palas\] of sahacara along with root, leaves, and branches, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.33) caturṣu toyadroṇeṣu sādhayetsūkṣmakuṭṭitam | droṇāvaśeṣapūte capacettailāḍhakaṃ śanaiḥ || > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.34) ambujānūpamāṃsaiś ca śirastasyopanāhayet | nasyakarma ca kurvītapicuṃ mūrdhni ca dāpayet || > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.35) mukhaṃvighaṭayet tasya sandaṃśena yathāsukham | bhṛṅgāreṇa prayacchec ca snehamāṃsarasaṃ tathā || > He should gently open his mouth with a pair of forceps, / and administer unctuous substance and meat broth with a spout-vessel; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.36) avyādadānasya tathā dantānuddhāṭya saṃhatān | āmāśayagate vātesnehairnopacared bhiṣak || > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.37) laṅghanaṃ tasya kurvīta tathā saṃśodhanāni ca | āmapralepasambhūtaḥ śleṣmasthānagato ' nilaḥ || > One should administer fasting for him, and likewise purifications; / wind arising from the coating of āma, having gone to the seat of phlegm, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.38) snehairmāṃsarasaiś caiva snehyamāno vivardhate | tasmāt tasya virūkṣāṇi bhojanāni kaṭūni ca || > increases when unctuously treated with fats and meat broths; / therefore, the one skilled in the treatise should prescribe for him > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.39) āhāre cauṣadhārthe ca vidadhyācśāstrakovidaḥ | āmāśayasthe vamanaṃ kṣārāḥ kṣāraguḍās tathā || > un-unctuous and pungent foods in diet and for medicine. / When it is situated in the stomach: emesis, alkalis, and alkali-treacles, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.40) ariṣṭāśśīdhavaś caiva hitaṃ māṃsaṃ ca jāṅgalam | śyāmākāḥ koradūṣāś ca mudgā lohitaśālayaḥ || > ariṣṭas, śīdhus, and beneficial meat of wild animals; / śyāmāka grains, kodo millets, mudga beans, and red rice, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.41) svedo yavānnaṃ ca hitamāmāśayagate ' nile | yadā pakvāśayagato rūpāṇi kurute ' nilaḥ || > sudation, and barley food are beneficial when wind has reached the stomach. / When wind, having gone to the colon, produces symptoms, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.42) sirāsu sarvagātreṣu majjasvasthigato ' pi vā | nirūpya rūpamuktasya tasya kuryāc cikitsitam || > 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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.43) kṛtsnaṃ yadupadiṣṭaṃ tu vātavyādhicikitsitam | raktasthānagate vāyau pūrvamuktaṃ cikitsitam || > which was taught in full as the treatment of vāta diseases. / When wind has gone to the seat of blood, the treatment stated earlier > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.44) vātaśoṇitake tat tu kuryād raktagate ' nile | samutthitāyāṃ gṛdhrasyāṃ balātailaṃ praśasyate || > in vāta-blood, that one should perform when wind has gone to the blood. / When sciatica has arisen, Balā oil is praised, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.45) śreṣṭhaṃ mūlakatailaṃ vā tailaṃ sahacarasya vā | vastayaḥ snehapānāni snehaśconmardanani ca || > or supreme radish oil, or the oil of sahacara. / Enemas, unctuous drinks, oiling, and massages > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.46) gṛdhrasyāṃ tu praśasyante śoṇitasya ca mokṣaṇam | aśītirvātajā rogāḥ ye ye pūrvaṃ prakīrtitāḥ || > are praised in sciatica, as well as bloodletting. / Whichever eighty vāta-born diseases were previously stated, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.47) teṣāmeṣā cikitsā tu vāyoḥ sthāneṣu saptasu | sādhyā ye cāpy asādhyās tu rogā mārutasambhavāḥ || > for them this is the treatment across the seven seats of wind. / The curable and incurable diseases arising from wind > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.48) utpatantyatha tiṣṭhanti vāyoḥ sthāneṣu saptasu | asthimajjāgato bhaṅgaṃ kampanaṃ gātraśoṣaṇam || > arise and abide in the seven seats of wind. / Wind gone to bone and marrow produces fracture, trembling, wasting of limbs, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.49) pakṣagrahamapasmāramunmādam api cārditam | hanugrahaṃ kuṇiṃkubjaṃ pāṅgulyaṃ sandhivicyutim || > hemiplegia, epilepsy, insanity, and facial paralysis, / jaw spasm, deformed arm, hunchback, lameness, dislocation of joints, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.50) karoti māruto ' nye ca vātarogā bhavanty api | sādhyān sthānavaśādeva tāṃścikitsedyathākramam || > and other vāta diseases also occur. / One should treat those curable ones in proper sequence based solely on the location. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.51) itīyaṃ vistareṇoktā cikitsā vātarogiṇām | vāto hi jīvite hetuḥ prāṇināṃ catathātyaye || > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.52) santatyā gamayennityaṃ sūryaṃ candramasaṃ tathā | varṣaṇaṃ vāyunāloke tathaiva ca nivāraṇam || > It moves the sun and the moon constantly in continuity; / raining in the world is caused by wind, and likewise stopping \[it\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.53) vahate ca vimānāni sarvaśaḥ svargavāsinām | sāgare kurute velāṃ vāyurmeghān sṛjaty api || > And it carries the aerial chariots of the heaven-dwellers everywhere; / wind causes the tide in the ocean, and it creates clouds; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.54) vigatirvāyunā meghovidyudbhavati vāyunā | trailokyadhārī pavanassarvaṃ vātātpravartate || > the dispersal of cloud is by wind; lightning occurs by wind; / wind is the supporter of the three worlds; everything proceeds from wind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.55) nirvartayetpuṣpaphalaṃ vāyurdhārayate jalam | ulkāpātān mahīkampāndharaṇīdhāraṇāni ca || > Wind brings forth flowers and fruits; it supports the waters; / it causes meteor-showers, earthquakes, and the supportings of the earth; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.56) ākāśe dhārayed gaṅgāṃ vāyus tv atibalānvitaḥ | etāś cānyāś ca bahavo vāyor guṇavibhāvanāḥ || > endowed with immense strength, wind holds the Gaṅgā in the sky. / These and many other manifestations of wind's qualities \[are known\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.24.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24.57) tasmāt prayatnatas tasya cikitsāṃ bhiṣajāṃ varaḥ | kuryāc chāstrānusāreṇa tathā siddhim avāpnuyāt || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele caturviṃśo ' dhyāyaḥ || || pañcaviṃśo ' dhyāyaḥ || athātaḥ plīhahalīmakacikitsitaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.6.24.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.24) · Pramāṇa