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and pitta, aggravated by hot things, vitiating those very same \[dhatus\], likewise \[produces them\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.6) kṣīṇeṣu doṣeṣvavakṛṣya bastau dhātūn pramehānanilaḥ karoti/ doṣo hi bastiṃ samupetya mūtraṃ saṃdūṣya mehāñjanayedyathāsvam// > When the humors are depleted, wind, drawing the tissues into the bladder, produces urinary disorders; / for a humor, having reached the bladder and vitiated the urine, generates the urinary disorders according to its own nature. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.7) sādhyāḥ kaphotthā daśa, pittajāḥ ṣaṭ yāpyā, na sādhyaḥ pavanāccatuṣkaḥ/ samakriyatvādviṣamakriyatvānmahātyayatvācca yathākramaṃ te// > The ten arising from kapha are curable; the six born of pitta are manageable; the quartet from wind is incurable: / because of similarity of treatment, dissimilarity of treatment, and fatal nature respectively. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.8) kaphaḥ sapittaḥ pavanaśca doṣā medo 'asraśukrāmbuvasālasīkāḥ/ majjā rasaujaḥ piśitaṃ ca &dūṣyāḥ pramehiṇāṃ, viṃśatireva mehāḥ// &\`dūjyaṃ' iti pā-. jalopamaṃ cekṣurasopamaṃ vā ghanaṃ ghanaṃ copari viprasannam/ śuklaṃ saśukraṃ śiśiraṃ śanairvā lāleva vā vālukayā yutaṃ vā// > Kapha, along with pitta and wind, are the humors; fat, blood, semen, water, tallow, lymph, / marrow, chyle, ojas, and flesh are the vitiable tissues of those with urinary disorders; the urinary disorders are twenty in all. > Like water, or like sugarcane juice, thick, or thick and clear on top, / white, with semen, cold, or \[passed\] slowly, or like saliva, or accompanied by gravel: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.10) vidyāt pramehān kaphajān daśaitān kṣāropamaṃ kālamathāpi nīlam/ hāridramāñjiṣṭhamathāpi raktametān pramehān ṣaḍuśanti pittāt// > one should know these ten urinary disorders born of kapha; resembling alkali, black, and blue, / turmeric-colored, madder-colored, and blood-like—these six urinary disorders they consider to be from pitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.11) majjaujasā vā vasayā 'anvitaṃ vā lasīkayā vā satataṃ vibaddham/ caturvidhaṃ &mūtrayatīha vātāccheṣeṣu dhātuṣvapakarṣiteṣu// &\`mūtrayate+nilena' iti pā-. varṇaṃ rasaṃ sparśamathāpi gandhaṃ yathāsvadoṣaṃ bhajate pramehaḥ/ śyāvāruṇo vātakṛtaḥ saśūlo majjādisādguṇyamupaityasādhyaḥ// > Accompanied by marrow, or with ojas, or with tallow, or with lymph, continually obstructed, / of four kinds one passes urine here from vāta when the remaining tissues are drawn down. > A urinary disorder takes on color, taste, touch, and smell according to its own humor; / gray-red, produced by vāta, accompanied by pain, it assumes the good qualities of marrow and so on, and is incurable. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.13) svedo 'aṅgagandhaḥ śithilāṅgatā ca śayyāsanasvapnasukhe ratiśca/ hṛnnetrajihvāśravaṇopadeho ghanāṅgatā keśanakhātivṛddhiḥ// > Sweat, body odor, flaccidity of limbs, delight in the pleasure of bed, seat, and sleep, / coating of the heart, eyes, tongue, and ears, thickness of limbs, excessive growth of hair and nails, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.14) śītapriyatvaṃ galatāluśoṣo mādhuryamāsye karapādadāhaḥ/ bhaviṣyato mehagadasya rūpaṃ mūtre 'abhidhāvanti pipīlikāśca// > fondness for cold, dryness of throat and palate, sweetness in the mouth, burning of hands and feet, / and ants running to the urine—this is the prodrome of impending urinary disorder. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.15) sthūlaḥ pramehī balavānihaikaḥ kṛśastathaikaḥ paridurbalaśca/ saṃbṛṃhaṇaṃ tatra kṛśasya kāryaṃ saṃśodhanaṃ doṣabalādhikasya// > Here one patient with urinary disorder is corpulent and strong, and another is emaciated and extremely weak; / there, nourishing therapy is to be done for the emaciated one, and purificatory therapy for the one with excess strength of humors. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.16) snigdhasya yogā vividhāḥ prayojyāḥ kalpopadiṣṭā &malaśodhanāya/ ūrdhvaṃ tathā 'adhaśca male 'apanīte meheṣu saṃtarpaṇameva kāryam// &\`malśodhanā ye' iti pā-. gulmaḥ kṣayo mehanabastiśūlaṃ mūtragrahaścāpyapatarpaṇena/ pramehiṇaḥ syuḥ, &&paritarpaṇāni kāryāṇi &&tasya prasamīkṣya vahnim// &\`paribṛṃhaṇāni' iti pā-. &&\`tasmāt' iti pā-. saṃśodhanaṃ nārhati yaḥ pramehī tasya kriyā saṃśamanī prayojyā/ manthāḥ kaṣāyā yavacūrṇalehāḥ pramehaśāntyai laghavaśca bhakṣyāḥ// > For one who has been unctuated, various formulations taught in the Kalpasthāna are to be administered for cleansing waste. / Once waste is removed above and below, refreshing therapy alone should be given in urinary disorders. > From reducing therapy, the patient with urinary disorder might get abdominal lump, consumption, pain in the penis and bladder, and retention of urine; / therefore, after considering his digestive fire, replenishing therapies are to be performed. > For the patient with urinary disorder who is unfit for purification, pacifying treatment is to be employed: / churned drinks, decoctions, barley-powder linctuses, and light edibles are to be used for the pacification of urinary disorder. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.19) ye viṣkirā ye pratudā vihaṅgāsteṣāṃ rasairjāṅgalajairmanojñaiḥ/ yavaudanaṃ rūkṣamathāpi &vāṭyamadyāt sasaktūnapi cāpyapūpān// &\`vāṭyaṃ madyān' iti pā-. mudgādiyūṣairatha tiktaśākaiḥ purāṇaśālyodanamādadīta/ dantīṅgudītailayutaṃ pramehī tathā 'atasīsarṣapatailayuktam// > With pleasant broths of gallinaceous and pecking birds native to arid lands, / he should eat dry barley-boiled rice, or parched barley paste, along with parched barley flour and roasted barley cakes. > Or he should take old Śāli rice with soups of mung beans and the like, or with bitter vegetables, / combined with dantī or iṅgudī oil, or combined with linseed or mustard oil, for urinary disorder. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.21) saṣaṣṭikaṃ syāttṛṇadhānyamannaṃ yavapradhānastu bhavet pramehī/ yavasya bhakṣyān vividhāṃstathā 'adyāt kaphapramehī madhusaṃprayuktān// > His food may consist of wild grains with Ṣaṣṭika rice, but the patient with urinary disorder should make barley prominent. / One suffering from urinary disorder caused by kapha should eat various barley edibles mixed with honey. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.22) niśisthitānāṃ triphalākaṣāye syustarpaṇāḥ kṣaudrayutā yavānām/ tān sīdhuyuktān prapibet pramehī prāyogikānmehavadhārthameva// > Refreshing drinks of barley steeped overnight in a decoction of triphalā and combined with honey / should be drunk by the patient with urinary disorder along with sīdhu wine, strictly as an habitual measure to destroy the urinary disorder. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.23) ye śleṣmamehe vihitāḥ kaṣāyāstairbhāvitānāṃ ca pṛthagyavānām/ saktūnapūpān saguḍān sadhānān bhakṣyāṃstathā 'anyān vividhāṃśca khādet// > And he should eat parched flour, roasted cakes, \[edibles\] with jaggery, parched grains, and various other edibles / made from barley separately steeped in the decoctions prescribed for kapha-type urinary disorders. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.24) kharāśvagohaṃsapṛṣadbhṛtānāṃ tathā yavānāṃ vividhāśca bhakṣyāḥ/ deyāstathā veṇuyavā yavānāṃ kalpena godhūmamayāśca bhakṣyāḥ// > Various foods prepared from barley that has been eaten by asses, horses, cattle, geese, and spotted deer / should be given, as well as foods made from bamboo seeds, or made from wheat following the procedure for barley. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.25) saṃśodhanollekhanalaṅghanāni kāle prayuktāni kaphapramehān/ jayanti pittaprabhavān virekaḥ saṃtarpaṇaḥ saṃśamano vidhiśca// > Cleansing, vomiting, and fasting, applied at the proper time, conquer urinary disorders of kapha; / purgation, refreshing therapy, and pacifying measures conquer those arising from pitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.26) dārvīṃ surāhvāṃ triphalāṃ samustāṃ kaṣāyamutkvāthya pibet pramehī/ kṣaudreṇa yuktāmathavā haridrāṃ pibedrasenāmalakīphalānām// > The patient with urinary disorder should boil and drink a decoction of dāruharidrā, devadhāpa, triphalā, together with mustā; / or he should drink turmeric combined with honey together with the juice of āmalakī fruits. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.27) harītakīkaṭphalamustalodhraṃ pāṭhāviḍaṅgārjunadhanvanāśca/ ubhe haridre tagaraṃ viḍaṅgaṃ kadambaśālārjunadīpyakāśca// > 1. Harītakī, kaṭphala, mustā, and lodhra; 2. pāṭhā, viḍaṅga, arjuna, and dhanvana; / 3. the two turmerics, tagara, and viḍaṅga; 4. kadamba, śāla, arjuna, and dīpyaka; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.28) dārvī viḍaṅgaṃ khadiro dhavaśca surāhvakuṣṭhāgurucandanāni/ dārvyagnimanthau triphalā sapāṭhā pāṭhā ca mūrvā ca tathā śvadaṃṣṭrā// > 5. dāruharidrā, viḍaṅga, khadira, and dhava; 6. devadhāpa, kuṣṭha, aguru, and candana; / 7. dāruharidrā, agnimantha, triphalā, with pāṭhā; 8. pāṭhā, mūrvā, and likewise śvadaṃṣṭrā; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.29) yavānyuśīrāṇyabhayāguḍūcīcavyābhayācitrakasaptaparṇāḥ/ pādaiḥ kaṣāyāḥ kaphamehināṃ te daśopadiṣṭā madhusaṃprayuktāḥ// > 9. yavānī, uśīra, abhayā, and guḍūcī; 10. cavya, abhayā, citraka, and saptaparṇa: / these ten quarter-verse decoctions combined with honey are prescribed for those with kapha-type urinary disorder. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.30) uśīralodhrāñjanacandanānāmuśīramustāmalakābhayānām/ paṭolanimbāmalakāmṛtānāṃ mustābhayāpadmakavṛkṣakāṇām// > 1. Uśīra, lodhra, añjana, and candana; 2. uśīra, mustā, āmalaka, and abhayā; / 3. paṭola, nimba, āmalaka, and amṛtā; 4. mustā, abhayā, padmaka, and vṛkṣaka; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.31) lodhrāmbukālīyakadhātakīnāṃ nimbārjunāmrātaniśotpalānām/ śirīṣasarjārjunakeśarāṇāṃ priyaṅgupadmotpalakiṃśukānām// > 5. lodhra, ambu, kālīyaka, and dhātakī; 6. nimba, arjuna, āmrāta, niśā, and utpala; / 7. śirīṣa, sarja, arjuna, and keśara; 8. priyaṅgu, padma, utpala, and kiṃśuka; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.32) &aśvatthapāṭhāsanavetasānāṃ kaṭaṅkaṭeryutpalamustakānām/ paitteṣu meheṣu daśa pradiṣṭāḥ pādaiḥ kaṣāyā madhusaṃprayuktāḥ// &\`aśvatthayāsāsanavetasānāṃ' iti pā-. sarveṣu meheṣu matau tu pūrvau kaṣāyayogau vihitāstu sarve/ manthasya pāne yavabhāvanāyāṃ syurbhojane pānavidhau pṛthak ca// > 9. aśvattha, pāṭhā, asana, and vetasa; 10. kaṭaṅkaṭerī, utpala, and mustaka: / these ten quarter-verse decoctions combined with honey are prescribed in pitta-type urinary disorders. > The first two decoction formulations, however, are approved in all urinary disorders; indeed, all of them / may be used separately in preparing the churned drink, in steeping the barley, in meals, and in drinks. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.34) siddhāni tailāni ghṛtāni caiva &deyāni meheṣvanilātmakeṣu/ medaḥ kaphaścaiva kaṣāyayogaiḥ snehaiśca vāyuḥ śamameti teṣām// &\`yojyāni' iti pā-. kampillasaptacchadaśālajāni baibhītarauhitakakauṭajāni/ kapitthapuṣpāṇi ca cūrṇitāni kṣaudreṇa lihyāt kaphapittamehī// > Prepared oils and ghees should be administered in vāta-type urinary disorders; / their fat and kapha subside through decoction formulations, and their vāyu through unctuous substances. > One with kapha-pitta urinary disorder should lick with honey the powdered flowers of kampillaka, saptaparṇa, and śāla, / or of bibhītaka, rohitaka, kuṭaja, and kapittha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.36) pibedrasenāmalakasya cāpi kalkīkṛtānyakṣasamāni kāle/ jīrṇe ca bhuñjīta purāṇamannaṃ mehī rasairjāṅgalajairmanojñaiḥ// > Or he should drink at the proper time pastes of the same, equal to the size of an akṣa seed, with juice of āmalaka; / and when it is digested, the patient with urinary disorder should eat old grain with pleasant broths of meat native to arid lands. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.37) dṛṣṭvā 'anubandhaṃ pavanāt kaphasya pittasya vā snehavidhirvikalpyaḥ/ tailaṃ kaphe syāt svakaṣāyasiddhaṃ pitte ghṛtaṃ pittaharaiḥ kaṣāyaiḥ// > Observing the secondary involvement of kapha or pitta caused by vāyu, the unction regimen is to be varied: / in kapha, oil should be prepared with its appropriate decoctions; in pitta, ghee prepared with decoctions that remove pitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.38) trikaṇṭakāśmantakasomavalkairbhallātakaiḥ sātiviṣaiḥ salodhraiḥ/ &vacāpaṭolārjunanimbamustairharidrayā padmakadīpyakaiśca// &\`pāṭhāpaṭolārjunanimbamustaiḥ' iti pā-. mañjiṣṭhayā cāgurucandanaiśca sarvaiḥ samastaiḥ kaphavātajeṣu/ meheṣu tailaṃ vipaced, ghṛtaṃ tu paitteṣu, miśraṃ triṣu lakṣaṇeṣu// > With gokṣura, aśmantaka, somavalka, bhallātaka, together with ativiṣā, and with lodhra, / vacā, paṭola, arjuna, nimba, mustā, turmeric, padmaka, and dīpyaka, > and with mañjiṣṭhā, aguru, and candana—with all these together, he should cook oil in kapha-vāta / urinary disorders, ghee in pitta types, and a mixture \[of both\] when signs of all three are present. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.40) phalatrikaṃ dāruniśāṃ viśālāṃ mustāṃ ca niḥkvāthya niśāṃ sakalkām/ pibet kaṣāyaṃ madhusaṃprayuktaṃ sarvaprameheṣu samuddhateṣu// > Having boiled the three fruits, dāruharidrā, viśālā, and mustā, along with a paste of turmeric, / he should drink the decoction combined with honey in all fully developed urinary disorders. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.41) lodhraṃ śaṭīṃ puṣkaramūlamelāṃ mūrvāṃ viḍaṅgaṃ triphalāṃ yamānīm (yavānīm?)/ cavyaṃ priyaṅguṃ kramukaṃ viśālāṃ kirātatiktaṃ kaṭurohiṇīṃ ca// > Lodhra, śaṭī, puṣkaramūla, cardamom, mūrvā, viḍaṅga, triphalā, yavānī, / cavya, priyaṅgu, areca nut, viśālā, kirātatikta, and kaṭurohiṇī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.42) bhārṅgīṃ nataṃ citrakapippalīnāṃ mūlaṃ sakuṣṭhātiviṣaṃ sapāṭham/ kaliṅgakān keśaramindrasāhvāṃ nakhaṃ sapatraṃ maricaṃ plavaṃ ca// > bhārṅgī, nata, root of citraka and pippalī, with kuṣṭha, ativiṣā, and pāṭhā, / kaliṅgaka, keśara, indrasāhvā, nakha with patra, black pepper, and plava— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.43) droṇe 'ambhasaḥ karṣasamāni paktvā pūte caturbhāgajalāvaśeṣe/ rase 'ardhabhāgaṃ madhunaḥ pradāya pakṣaṃ nidheyo ghṛtabhājanasthaḥ// > boiling one karṣa of each in a droṇa of water, straining it when one-fourth part of the water remains, / and adding half a part of honey to the decoction, it should be kept placed in a ghee vessel for a fortnight. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.44) &madhvāsavo 'ayaṃ kaphapittamehān kṣipraṃ nihanyāddvipalaprayogāt/ pāṇḍvāmayārśāṃsyaruciṃ grahaṇyā doṣaṃ kilāsaṃ vividhaṃ ca kuṣṭham// &\`lodhrāsavo 'ayaṃ' iti pā-. iti madhvāsavaḥ/ kvāthaḥ sa evāṣṭapalaṃ ca dantyā bhallātakānāṃ ca catuṣpalaṃ syāt/ sitopalā tvaṣṭapalā viśeṣaḥ kṣaudraṃ ca tāvat pṛthagāsavau tau// > This madhvāsava quickly destroys kapha-pitta urinary disorders when used in a two-pala dose, / as well as anemia, piles, anorexia, disorder of the duodenum, kilāsa, and various kinds of kuṣṭha. Thus ends madhvāsava. > With that same decoction, there should be eight palas of dantī and four palas of bhallātaka; / the distinction is eight palas of sugar candy, and as much honey: these two are separate āsavas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.46) sārodakaṃ vā 'atha kuśodakaṃ vā madhūdakaṃ vā triphalārasaṃ vā/ sīdhuṃ pibedvā nigadaṃ pramehī mādhvīkamagryaṃ cirasaṃsthitaṃ vā// > Or the patient with urinary disorder should drink heartwood water, kuśa grass water, honey water, or triphalā juice, / or clear sīdhu, or excellent, long-stored mādhvīka wine. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.47) māṃsāni śūlyāni mṛgadvijānāṃ khādedyavānāṃ vividhāṃśca bhakṣyān/ saṃśodhanāriṣṭakaṣāyalehaiḥ saṃtarpaṇotthāñ śamayet pramehān// > He should eat roasted meats of deer and birds, and various barley foods; / with purificatory treatments, ariṣṭas, decoctions, and linctuses, he should pacify urinary disorders arising from over-nutrition. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.48) bhṛṣṭān yavān bhakṣayataḥ prayogācchuṣkāṃśca saktūnna bhavanti mehāḥ/ śvitraṃ ca kṛcchraṃ kaphajaṃ ca kuṣṭhaṃ tathaiva mudgāmalakaprayogān// > From regular consumption of parched barley and dry parched barley flour, urinary disorders do not occur, / nor white leprosy, difficult kapha-born kuṣṭha; likewise from the use of mung bean and āmalaka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.49) saṃtarpaṇottheṣu gadeṣu yogā medasvināṃ ye ca mayopadiṣṭāḥ/ virūkṣaṇārthaṃ kaphapittajeṣu siddhāḥ prameheṣvapi te prayojyāḥ// > The formulations that were taught by me for diseases arising from over-nutrition and for the obese, / proven effective for desiccation, are also to be applied in urinary disorders born of kapha and pitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.50) vyāyāmayogairvividhaiḥ pragāḍhairudvartanaiḥ snānajalāvasekaiḥ/ sevyatvagelāgurucandanādyair-&vilepanaiścāśu na santi mehāḥ// &\`vilepanaiśca praśamanti' iti pā-. kledaśca medaśca kaphaśca vṛddhaḥ pramehahetuḥ prasamīkṣya tasmāt/ vaidyena pūrvaṃ kaphapittajeṣu meheṣu kāryāṇyapatarpaṇāni// > Through various exercises, vigorous dry rubs, baths, water-sprinklings, / and pastes made with sevyā, tvac, elā, aguru, candana, and the like, urinary disorders quickly cease to be. / Moisture, fat, and increased kapha are the causes of urinary disorder; having fully considered this, therefore, / the physician must first perform depleting therapies in urinary disorders born of kapha and pitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.52) yā vātamehān prati pūrvamuktā vātolbaṇānāṃ vihitā kriyā sā/ vāyurhi meheṣvatikarśitānāṃ kupyatyasādhyān prati nāsti cintā// > The procedure previously stated for vāta urinary disorders is prescribed for those in whom vāta is dominant; / for vāyu is provoked in urinary disorders in those excessively emaciated; regarding the incurable, there is no consideration. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.53) yairhetubhirye prabhavanti mehāsteṣu prameheṣu na te niṣevyāḥ/ hetorasevā vihitā yathaiva jātasya rogasya bhaveccikitsā// > Those etiological factors by which particular urinary disorders arise must not be indulged in in those urinary disorders; / just as non-indulgence in the etiological factor is prescribed, so must be the treatment of the arisen disease. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.54) hāridravarṇaṃ rudhiraṃ ca mūtraṃ vinā pramehasya hi pūrvarūpaiḥ/ yo mūtrayettaṃ na vadet pramehaṃ raktasya pittasya hi sa prakopaḥ// > If one should pass turmeric-colored and blood-colored urine without the prodromal symptoms of urinary disorder, / one should not call that urinary disorder; for that is an aggravation of rakta and pitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.55) dṛṣṭvā pramehaṃ madhuraṃ sapicchaṃ madhūpamaṃ syāddvividho vicāraḥ/ kṣīṇeṣu doṣesvanilātmakaḥ syāt saṃtarpaṇādvā kaphasaṃbhavaḥ syāt// > Seeing a sweet, slimy, honey-like urinary disorder, there should be a twofold consideration: / when the doṣas are depleted, it may be vāta-natured, or it may arise from kapha due to over-nutrition. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.56) sapūrvarūpāḥ kaphapittamehāḥ krameṇa ye vātakṛtāśca mehāḥ/ sādhyā na te, pittakṛtāstu yāpyāḥ, sādhyāstu medo yadi na praduṣṭam// > Kapha and pitta urinary disorders with prodromal symptoms, and the urinary disorders caused by vāta in due order, / are not curable; those caused by pitta are palliable; but they are curable if fat is not corrupted. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.57) jātaḥ pramehī madhumehino vā na sādhya uktaḥ sa hi bījadoṣāt/ ye cāpi kecit kulajā vikārā bhavanti tāṃśca pravadantyasādhyān// > One born a patient with urinary disorder, or \[born\] of a patient with honey-urine, is said to be incurable; for that is from a seed defect; / and whatever disorders are familial, those too they declare incurable. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.58) pramehiṇāṃ yāḥ piḍakā mayoktā rogādhikāre pṛthageva sapta/ tāḥ śalyavidbhiḥ kuśalaiścikitsyāḥ śastreṇa saṃśodhanaropaṇaiśca// > The seven boils of patients with urinary disorder that were stated separately by me in the section on diseases / are to be treated by skilled surgeons with the knife, and with cleansing and healing measures. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.59) tatra ślokāḥ--- > Here are the verses:— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.59\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.59_1) heturdoṣo dūṣyaṃ mehānāṃ sādhyatānurūpaśca/ mehī &dvividhastrividhaṃ bhiṣagjitamatikṣapaṇadoṣaḥ// &\`dvividhaṃ' yogīndranāthasenasaṃmataḥ pāṭhaḥ ādyā yavānnavikṛtirmanthā mehāpahāḥ kaṣāyāśca/ tailaghṛtalehayogā bhakṣyāḥ pravarāsavāḥ siddhāḥ// > The cause, the doṣa, the dūṣya, and the manner of curability of urinary disorders; / the twofold patient with urinary disorder, the threefold medicine, and the fault of excessive depletion; / the primary preparations of barley food, the manthas that remove urinary disorders, and the decoctions; / formulations of oils, ghees, and linctuses, edibles, and proven excellent āsavas; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.61) vyāyāmavidhirvividhaḥ snānānyudvartanāni gandhāśca/ mehānāṃ praśamārthaṃ cikitsite diṣṭametāvat// > the varied regimen of exercise, baths, dry rubs, and fragrances; / this much has been instructed in therapeutics for the pacification of urinary disorders. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.6.61\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6.61_1) ityagniveśakṛte tantre carakapratisaṃskṛte cikitsitasthāne pramehacikitsitaṃ nāma ṣaṣṭho 'adhyāyaḥ//6// > Thus ends the sixth chapter, named "The Treatment of Urinary Disorders," in the Cikitsitasthāna of the compendium composed by Agniveśa and redacted by Caraka. //6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.6.6.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.159.37) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Basavarājīya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.cikitsa.daksina.basavarajiya.p1114) — Nīlakaṇṭhakoṭṭūru Basavarāja 1500, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.6) · Pramāṇa