The Compendium of Bheḷa 7.1

Hear from me the three [varieties of] piṇḍītaka declared in summary: / the black and the white, both these, and that triad is known as madana.

Of all fruits, madana is the purifier of all [doshas]; / it is to be employed in emesis and non-unctuous enema, and likewise also in unctuous enema.

When they are not fully developed or fully ripe, / [yet] are full of juice, the physician should gather them then.

Then having kept these in a heap of barley and in a heap of husks / for seven nights, their fruit skin wrinkled,

knowing them to be well-processed and softened, the expert in the treatises / cleanses them twofold or threefold, and having cleansed them properly, deposits them,

having kept them in grains for a month, and smears them with clay / in a smokeless, windless house closed with door-panels.

And he should place them suspended in the air, so that perspiration may not occur. / Of these fruit-pulps, one should take a closed fistful [measured] with nails,

crush it on a grinding stone, and steep it in a vessel. / One should let it sit for one night with a decoction of madhuka.

Then, having gotten up in the forenoon and washed his hands, he should crush it. / Having strained it, salted it, mixed it with honey, and heated it,

he should make the unctuated patient drink it; by this the man vomits thoroughly. / And by this very procedure, [it is prepared] with jīmūtaka fruits also,

and one should prepare it with ikṣvāku and kuṭaja and salts, / with kṛtavedha, hastiparṇī, and also dhāmārgava fruits.

One should prepare a decoction of these, and steep the fruit seeds [in it]; / by this procedure, the physician should make him drink according to strength.

The physician should once again gather the fruits of madana, / such that they are not overly pale and likewise green,

fully developed, ripe, and having developed juice. / Having pierced them all over with a needle or with thorns,

the physician should steep them for three nights in a decoction of madana [fruits]. / And by this very procedure, with jīmūtaka fruits also,

and of ikṣvāku and kuṭaja, and also with dhāmārgava fruits, / and with kṛtavedha and hastiparṇī; by this he vomits thoroughly.

Indeed by this procedure, with the decoction of kuśa, varuṇa, / kākodumbarikā, and of that known as kuṣṭha, / of each individually, the physician should make the well-unctuated [patient] drink, / having observed his strength and weakness […] / […] / Third Chapter. […] thus said the venerable Ātreya: