[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) › 6.5 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 6.5 Bheḷasaṃhitā 6.5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.1) pañca gulmāḥ samuddiṣṭā nidāneṣu savistaram | gulmatvaṃ teṣu vakṣyāmi cikitsāṃ tu pṛthak pṛthak || > Five gulmas are explained in full detail in the Etiology; / I shall state the gulma-nature among them, and their treatment separately. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.2) mārutaḥ kupito dehe srotāṃsyunnahya sarvaśaḥ | abhyāgatya dūṣayati pūrvaṃ pittaṃ kaphaṃ tataḥ || > Wind, provoked in the body, obstructing the channels on all sides, / invading, vitiates first bile and then phlegm; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.3) dūṣayatyatha raktaṃ ca medo māṃsaṃ vidhāvati | sa saṅghātasthirībhūto gulmatvam upapadyate || > then it vitiates blood, and runs through fat and flesh; / that, becoming solid as a mass, attains the nature of a gulma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.4) duṣṭānāṃ hantukāmānāṃ paraṃ prāṇabhṛtāṃ yathā | hastyaśvarathayānānāṃ saṃghāto gulma iṣyate || > Just as a collection of corrupt men desirous of slaying living beings / \[consisting of\] elephants, horses, and chariots is deemed an army (gulma), > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.5) evaṃdehe rasādīnāṃ dhātūnāṃ viprakarṣaṇam | saṃsargo gulma ity uktaḥ saṃghāto gulma ucyate || > so in the body, the violent pulling together and blending / of chyle and other tissues is called a gulma; an agglomeration is called a gulma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.6) stambinistambinīnāṃ tu vallīnāṃ vīrudhām api | saṃghāto gahanaṃ gulmaḥ tadvad gulmas tu dehinām || > And just as an agglomeration, a dense thicket (gulma), of climbing and creeping vines / and shrubs \[is formed\], so also is a gulma in embodied beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.7) amūrtatvād dhi vātasyasaṃvittirnopajāyate | sandhāya pittaśleṣmāṇau māruto gulmatāṃ vrajet || > Because wind lacks physical form, it cannot be directly perceived; / combining with bile and phlegm, wind attains the nature of a gulma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.8) madhūcchiṣṭamayaṃ piṇḍaṃ cinvanti bhramarā yathā | tathā koṣṭheṣu pavano dhātūṃstānvicinoty api || > Just as bees build up a lump made of beeswax, / so also wind accumulates those bodily tissues in the visceral organs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.9) sthānāni tasya gulmasya śaṃmanti gurulāghavam | kukṣikastigato gulmo vātabhūyiṣṭha ucyate || > The locations of that gulma indicate heaviness and lightness. / A gulma situated in the belly or urinary bladder is said to be dominated by wind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.10) sa vātagulmarūpāṇi kuryāt sthānavaśena tu | tathaiva pittasthānasthaḥ pittarūpāṇi darśayet || > It produces the symptoms of a wind-gulma by virtue of its location; / likewise, situated in the site of bile, it displays the symptoms of bile. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.11) evaṃ śleṣmaṇi rakte ca sannipāte ca sarvaśaḥ | sarveṣāṃ sannipāte tu svaṃ svaṃ rūpaṃ nidarśanam || > In the same manner, \[it manifests\] entirely in phlegm, in blood, and in a combined humoral disorder; / but in a combination of all \[humors\], its manifestation is by each showing its own symptom. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.12) āganturdūṣayatyatradhātuṃ sthānasthaulbaṇaḥ | cikitsitaṃ tusthānasya sa hi tatra balādhikaḥ || > Here, an invading humor, being aggravated, corrupts the tissue residing in that site; / but the treatment is directed to the site, for there \[the resident humor\] is stronger. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.13) yadi vastigataḥ pākaṃ vātagulmas tu gacchati | hṛnnābhyor antaraṃ gulmaḥ pākaṃ gacchati paittikaḥ || > If a wind-gulma is situated in the urinary bladder, it goes on to suppurate; / a bilious gulma goes on to suppurate in the region between the heart and the navel. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.14) hṛdi ca śleṣmagulmas tu pākaṃ yāty ananuṣṭhitaḥ | pacyate sannipātāt tu gulmaśśoṇitajas tathā || > And in the heart, a phlegm-gulma goes on to suppurate if left untreated; / a gulma arising from a combined humoral disorder suppurates, as does one born of blood. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.15) doṣadvayena saṃsṛṣṭāḥ sarve gulmāḥ pramāthinaḥ | tasmāt teṣāṃ bhedanīyāḥ kriyāssarvāḥ prayojayet | atyarthaṃ snihyamāno ' pi gulmo vṛddhim avāpnuyāt || > All gulmas combined with two humors are churning. / Therefore, one should apply all breaking treatments to them; / yet even when excessively unctuated, a gulma may attain increase. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.16) atas tu vātagulmasya pravakṣyāmi cikitsitam | prabhurhi sarvabhūtānāṃ vāyuḥ prāṇeśvaro balī || > From here on, I shall explain the treatment of a wind-gulma. / For wind is the sovereign of all living beings, the mighty lord of life-breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.17) harītakī trikaṭukaṃvacā kaṭukarohiṇī | sauvarcalaṃ yavakṣāro viḍaṅgaṃcitrakas tathā || > Harītakī, trikaṭuka, vacā, kaṭukarohiṇī, / sauvarcala salt, yavakṣāra, viḍaṅga, and citraka— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.18) akṣapramāṇairetais tu ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet | tasmiddhaṃ srāvayitvā tu pāyayet tu yathābalam || > with an akṣa measure of these, one should cook a prastha of ghee. / Having strained it when prepared, one should administer it to drink according to \[the patient's\] strength. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.19) vātagulmaṃ krimiṃ kāsaṃ śvāsaṃ plīhānam eva ca | daśāṅgaṃ nāśayatyetadrogān vajramivāsurān || > This ten-ingredient \[ghee\] destroys wind-gulma, worms, cough, dyspnea, and spleen \[disease\], / destroying diseases just as the vajra destroys the asuras. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.20) dvepañcamūlyau suṣavīmaśvagandhāṃ punarnavām | kālāṃ chinnaruhāṃ rāsnāṃ bhārṅgīṃ gokṣurakaṃ balām || > The two pañcamūlas, suṣavī, aśvagandhā, punarnavā, / kālā, chinnaruhā, rāsnā, bhārṅgī, gokṣuraka, balā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.21) śaṭiṃ puṣkaramūlaṃ ca palāśaṃ gandhasaṃjñakam | eteṣāṃdvipalān bhagān jaladroṇe vipācayet || > śaṭī, puṣkaramūla, and the palāśa named gandha— / one should cook two-pala portions of these in a droṇa of water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.22) kolānāṃ sakulutthānāṃ māṣāṇāṃ ca yavaissaha | prasthaṃ prasthaṃ pṛthak kṛtvā tasminn evasamāvapet || > Taking a prastha each separately of jujubes, kuluttha, / and black gram along with barley, one should throw them into that very decoction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.23) tena pādāvaśiṣṭena ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet | dadhyādibhis samaṃ śuktamāranālaṃ tuṣodakam || > When that is reduced to one-fourth, one should cook a prastha of ghee \[with it\], / with an equal amount of curd and the like: vinegar, āranāla, tuṣodaka, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.24) dāḍimāmrātakarasaṃ mātuluṅgarasaṃ tathā | caturguṇaṃ cātra dadhi garbhe caiṣāṃsamāvapet || > pomegranate juice, āmrātaka juice, and citron juice, / and four times as much curd; and into the paste of these, one should throw: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.25) kāravīṃ tryūṣaṇaṃ dantīṃtrīṇyeva lavaṇāni ca | hiṃsrāṃ rāsnāṃvacāṃ caiva yavānīmamlavetasam || > kāravī, tryūṣaṇa, dantī, the three salts, / hiṃsrā, rāsnā, vacā, yavānī, amlavetasa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.26) viḍaṅgaṃ dāḍimaṃ hiṅgu nīlikāṃ trivṛtām api | dvau kṣārau cājamodāṃ ca pāṭhāṃ pāṣāṇabhedakam || > viḍaṅga, pomegranate, asafoetida, nīlikā, trivṛt, / the two alkalis, ajamodā, pāṭhā, pāṣāṇabheda, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.27) ūṣakaṃ vṛṣakaṃ bhārṅgīṃ śvadaṃṣṭrāṃ hapuṣām api | trapusorvārubījāni śatavīryopakuñcike || > ūṣaka, vṛṣaka, bhārṅgī, śvadaṃṣṭrā, hapuṣā, / seeds of cucumber and ervāru, śatavīryā, upakuñcikā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.28) ajājīṃ citrakaṃmūrvāṃ tumburuṃ gajapippalīm | dhānyakaṃ surasaṃ caiva dadyādakṣeṇa sammitam || > ajājī, citraka, mūrvā, tumburu, gajapippalī, / coriander, and surasā—one should add \[each\] measured as an akṣa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.29) garbheṇānena tatsiddhaṃ pāyayetsarpiruttamam | raktagulmādṛte sarvān gulmānetatpraṇāśayet || > Cooked with this paste, one should administer this excellent ghee to drink. / Except for blood-gulma, this destroys all gulmas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.30) ekāṅgage pakṣagate gṛdhrasyāṃ plīhni caiva hi | hṛdroge grahaṇīdoṣe vātagulme ca dāruṇe || > In hemiplegia, paralysis, sciatica, and disease of the spleen, / in heart disease, digestive disorder, and severe wind-gulma, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.31) dādhikaṃ nāma vikhyātaṃ sarpiretanmahāguṇam | unmādaṃ koṣṭhaśūlāni cāpasmāraṃ ca nāśayet || > this ghee known by the name Dādhika possesses great qualities: / it destroys insanity, abdominal colic, and epilepsy. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.32) yāvaśūkaṃ tathā kṣāraṃ saindhavaṃ hastipippalīm | pippalīṃ śṛṅgaberaṃ ca maricaṃ ca samāvapet || > One should throw in barley alkali, rock salt, hastipippalī, / pippalī, ginger, and black pepper— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.33) eṣāṃ ṣaṇṇāṃ ṣaḍeva syuḥ pṛthagbhāgāḥ palaṃ palam | eṣāmardhapalān bhāgān kaṣāyam upasādhayet || > of these six, let there be six separate portions of a pala each; / from half-pala portions of these, one should prepare a decoction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.34) peṣyairardhapalīnais tu ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet | snehatulyaṃ kaṣāyaṃ tu kṣīraṃ taddviguṇaṃ bhavet || > With the ingredients to be ground in half-pala amounts, one should cook a prastha of ghee; / the decoction should be equal to the unctuous substance, and milk should be twice that amount. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.35) ity etat ṣaṭpalaṃ nāma sarpirgulmavināśanam | plīhānamarśāṃsi tathā grahaṇīdoṣam eva ca || > This ghee, known as Ṣaṭpala, is a destroyer of gulma, / and likewise spleen \[enlargement\], piles, and digestive disorder. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.36) vastikuṇḍalavardhmāni pānādevāpakarṣati | eṣāmanyatamaiḥ svehaiḥ snehitaṃ vātagulminam | virecanena snigdhena yuktyā saṃśodhayed bhiṣak || > It pulls away cystic bladder-masses and scrotal enlargements simply by being drunk. / Having unctuated the patient suffering from wind-gulma with any one of these unctuous preparations, / the physician should systematically cleanse him with an unctuous purgative. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.37) ghṛtaṃ ca saktuṃ ca tathā citrakaṃ saindhavaṃvacām | pippalīṃ ca pacetkṣīraṃ praśastaṃ cāvatārayet || > One should cook ghee, roasted barley flour, citraka, rock salt, vacā, / and pippalī with milk, and take it down when well prepared. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.38) tato biḍālapadakaṃ pibeduṣṇena vāriṇā | ghṛtena payasā vāpi madyenoṣṇena vāriṇā || > Then one should drink a biḍālapadaka dose with hot water, / or with ghee, or milk, or wine with hot water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.39) vātagulmaṃ nudatyeṣa gulmaśūlāni yāni ca | saplīhānamudāvartaṃ śleṣmagulmaṃ ca nāśayet || > This expels wind-gulma and whatever gulma colics there are; / it destroys \[wind-gulma\] accompanied by spleen \[disease\], upward movement of wind, and phlegm-gulma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.40) mahauṣadhaṃ devadāru vāsā kaṭukarohiṇī | citrakaḥ pippalīmūlaṃ pippalyo hastipippalī || > Ginger, devadāru, vāsā, kaṭukarohiṇī, / citraka, pippalī-root, pippalī, hastipippalī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.41) kuṣṭhaṃ ca sarpagandhā ca pañcaiva lavaṇāni ca | dvau kṣārau trivṛtā dantī dravantī copakuñcikā || > kuṣṭha, sarpagandhā, the five salts, / the two alkalis, trivṛt, dantī, dravantī, and upakuñcikā— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.42) eṣāmardhapalān bhāgān lavaṇānāṃ palaṃ palam | cūrṇāni dadhnaḥ prasthārdhe samāloḍya vipācayet || > taking half-pala portions of these, and a pala of each of the salts, / having stirred the powders into half a prastha of curd, one should cook it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.43) vasātailaghṛtānāṃ ca prasthaṃ prasthaṃ pradāpayet | pradīptaṃ ca yathāśāntamathainamavatārayet || > And one should add a prastha each of muscle fat, oil, and ghee; / and when the blazing fire has subsided, one should then take it down. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.44) tato biḍālapadakaṃ pibeduṣṇena vāriṇā | ghṛtena payasā vāpi madyenāmlena vā punaḥ || > Then one should drink a biḍālapadaka dose with hot water, / or with ghee, or milk, or wine, or again with sour liquid. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.45) eṣakṣārāgado nāma vātagulmavināśanaḥ | plīhānamarśaḥśūlāni vardhmodāvartakuṇḍalam || > This medicament named Kṣārāgada destroys wind-gulma, / spleen \[disease\], piles, colic, scrotal enlargement, upward movement of wind, and bladder cystic mass, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.46) krimīn sagrahaṇīdoṣān viṣān vātāpatānakau | sarpamūṣakadaṃśāṃś ca granthitān gadayojitān || > worms, digestive disorders, poisons, apata-traka caused by wind, / bites of snakes and mice, and knotty swellings afflicted by disease. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.5.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5.47) vātaśleṣmasamutthānaṃ sannipātātmakaṃ tathā | prasahya nāśayed gulmaṃ chinnābhrāṇīva mārutaḥ || vandhyā ca labhate garbhaṃ garānapi ca naśayet | apasmārānathonmādān || ṣaṣṭho ' dhyāyaḥ || > A gulma arising from wind and phlegm, as well as one of a combined humoral nature, / it forcefully destroys, just as wind \[scatters\] torn clouds; / and a barren woman obtains offspring, and it destroys artificial poisons, / as well as epilepsies and insanities. || Sixth Chapter > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.6.5.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.5) · Pramāṇa