The Compendium of Bheḷa 6.7

He should associate with women moderately, and he should avoid daytime sleep; / for him who is devoted to bathing in decoctions and who uses decoction-water,

one should manage especially the phlegm-born urinary disorders with sharp measures alone, / and one should employ astringent and bitter [remedies] in those born of bile.

One should avoid the four wind-born urinary disorders, which are incurable. / Anorexia, body-aches, thirst, cough, dizziness, darkness of vision,

pains, carbuncles, and itching are the complications of urinary diseases. / Through omission of treatment, in urinary diseases carbuncles also develop.

For those suffering from urinary disease accompanied by complications and carbuncles as well, / this supreme medication has been declared by me.

With these formulations separately and together, according to their divisions, / the physician should devise the treatment according to the doṣa and according to the [patient's] strength.

Having observed the signs of the twenty urinary diseases / and the causes of combination of the doṣas, he should then prepare formulations.

Therefore, I shall declare only a summary of their medication / for the further alleviation of urine [disorders], and hear that classification:

Juice of śatāvarī root in equal parts with honey and ghee / should be drunk in sugar-cane urine disease for the alleviation of kapha and pitta.

Fresh juice of kirātatikta, and likewise of paṭola and aruka, / along with honey, or a decoction, alleviates the urinary disorder called water-urine.

Pippalī, ginger, and marica likewise: / one should drink this with lukewarm water; he is freed from thick-urine disease.

Cavya, citraka roots, and the bark of pūtika / prepared in a sour drink or in soups: eating [this], he becomes at ease.

With barley cooked in milk as foods, what is approved is mixed with asafoetida; / repeatedly drinking ghee, one is freed from ash-urine disease.

Kapittha, ajamodā, and marica likewise; / then one should administer salt combined with these, known as kāca.

Combined with grains of pippalī, mixed with honey and with sugar, / drunk with cold water, it overcomes salt-urine disease.

One afflicted with urinary disease or having thick flow should eat [this]; / this constantly overcomes the urinary disorder arising from salt.

Elā, pravāla, asafoetida, and salt should be in equal parts; / drunk with wine or with warm [water], it overcomes urinary disease with gravel.

Tumburu, resin of kapittha mixed with honey, / and resort to barley food are praised in white-urine disease.

Soups containing horsegram, especially liquid ones, / and preparations of barley food should be eaten in white-urine diseases.

Milk boiled simply with śvadaṃṣṭrā and darbha roots: / the person should drink [it] with sugar; he is freed from alkali-urine disease.

Or a man should drink [milk] boiled with drākṣā, or boiled with kṣīrī; / he is freed from bile-urine disease and entirely from alkali-urine disease.

One should administer the two powders, haridrā and mañjiṣṭhā, in case of discharge; / always accompanied by barley food, with honey, in cold-urine disease.

One should drink a paste of madayantī leaves mixed with honey, / and likewise of darbha root; one suffering from blood-urine disease becomes at ease.

He should drink them with milk; he is freed from blue-urine disease. / One should drink milk boiled with the shoots of latex-bearing trees,

with sugar; he is freed from blue-urine disease born of pitta. / And boiled with the stalks of kumuda and utpala along with their stems,

he should drink [it] generally according to his capacity; he is freed from water-urine disease / for a year, eating milk and eating a measured diet of barley food.

One should mix an equal part of sugar with honey; / drinking [it] with cold water, he is freed from water-urine disease.

Thus, this treatment destroying urinary diseases, / dispelling kapha and pitta separately, has been declared by me for the sixteen.

And those born of wind should be known as incurable and extremely terrible; / […] because of excessive subtlety, the flow [is] boiled […].

Seeing one suffering from marrow-urinary disease, one should treat him frequently / with wind-dispelling non-unctuous enemas and well-prepared unctuous enemas.

And every morning he should consume solely honey and ghee, / and especially foods of kodo millet and barley that have stood [overnight].

Thus one should conquer elephant-urinary disease with effort through enemas and fomentations. / Diligent against wind-urinary disease, he should indeed administer goat's urines,

and he should have [him] drink and administer [them] for fearsome elephant-urinary disease. / With astringent, bitter, and pungent tastes—with these he should drink milk.

Now, observing this procedure declared in the treatise, / the wise physician should cure urinary diseases having properly weighed [them] according to their nature.

This treatment of urinary disease has been declared in full, properly in succession, / for the attainment of the students' goal. Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the seventh chapter in the therapeutics of Bheḷa. / Eighth chapter. / Now we shall explain the treatment of insanity; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.