[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 Caraka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka) › 7.10 # The Compendium of Caraka 7.10: daśamo 'adhyāyaḥ/ Carakasaṃhitā 7.10 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### daśamo 'adhyāyaḥ/ ### [7.10.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.1) athātaḥ sudhākalpaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ/ > Now we shall explain the formulation of sudhā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.2) iti ha smāha bhagavānātreyaḥ// > Thus said the reverend Ātreya: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.3) virecanānāṃ sarveṣāṃ sudhā tīkṣṇatamā matā/ saṅghātaṃ hi bhinattyāśu doṣāṇāṃ kaṣṭavibhramā// > Of all purgatives, sudhā is considered the sharpest; / for it swiftly breaks through the accumulation of doṣas, with violent perturbation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.4) tasmānnaiṣā mṛdau koṣṭhe prayoktavyā kadācana/ na doṣanicaye cālpe sati &mārgaparikrame// > Therefore, it should never be used in a mild bowel, / nor when the accumulation of doṣas is small, provided the channels are clear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.5) pāṇḍurogodare gulme kuṣṭhe dūṣīviṣārdite/ śvayathau madhumehe ca doṣavibhrāntacetasi// > In anemia, abdominal disease, gulma, dermatosis, one afflicted with latent poison, / swelling, madhumeha, and when the mind is perturbed by doṣas— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.6) rogairevaṃvidhairgrastaṃ jñātvā saprāṇamāturam/ prayojayenmahāvṛkṣaṃ samyak sa hyavacāritaḥ// > knowing a patient gripped by such diseases to be strong, / one should administer mahāvṛkṣa; for when properly applied, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.7) sadyo &harati doṣāṇāṃ mahāntamapi saṃcayam/ dvividhaḥ sa mato 'alpaiśca bahubhiścaiva kaṇṭakaiḥ// > it immediately removes even a great accumulation of doṣas. / It is considered twofold: with few thorns and with many thorns. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.8) sutīkṣṇaiḥ kaṇṭakairalpaiḥ pravaro bahukaṇṭakaḥ/ sa nāmnā snugguḍā nandā sudhā nistriṃśapatrakaḥ// > The one with many thorns is superior to the one with few very sharp thorns; / by name it is snuk, guḍā, nandā, sudhā, and nistriṃśapatraka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.9) &tau vipāṭyāharet kṣīraṃ śastreṇa matimān bhiṣak/ dvivarṣaṃ vā trivarṣaṃ vā śiśirānte viśeṣataḥ// > Having slit those two, the intelligent physician should extract the milky sap with a knife, / \[from a plant\] two or three years old, especially at the end of the dewy season. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.10) bilvādīnāṃ bṛhatyā vā kaṇṭakāryāstathaikaśaḥ/ kaṣāyeṇa samāṃśaṃ taṃ kṛtvā 'aṅgāreṣu śoṣayet// > Making it equal in amount to a decoction of bilva and the rest, or of bṛhatī, or of kaṇṭakārī individually, / he should dry it over coals. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.11) &tataḥ kolasamāṃ mātrāṃ pibet sauvīrakeṇa vā/ tuṣodakena kolānāṃ rasenāmalakasya vā// > Then he should drink a dose equal to a jujube fruit with saubīraka, / or with husk-water, or with juice of jujubes, or of āmalaka, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.12) surayā dadhimaṇḍena mātuluṅgarasena vā/ sātalāṃ kāñcanakṣīrīṃ śyāmādīni &kaṭutrikam// > or with wine, curd scum, or citron juice; / sātalā, kāñcanakṣīrī, śyāmā and the rest, and the three pungents, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.13) yathopapatti saptāhaṃ sudhākṣīreṇa bhāvayet/ kolamātrāṃ ghṛtenātaḥ pibenmāṃsarasena vā// > As available, he should impregnate them with the latex of sudhā for seven days; / then he should drink a jujube-sized dose with ghee or with meat broth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.14) tryūṣaṇaṃ triphalāṃ dantīṃ citrakaṃ trivṛtāṃ tathā/ snukkṣīrabhāvitaṃ samyagvidadhyādguḍapānakam// > The three pungents, triphalā, dantī, citraka, and trivṛt, / well impregnated with the latex of snuk, he should prepare as a jaggery drink. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.15) trivṛtāragvadhaṃ dantīṃ śaṅkhinīṃ saptalāṃ samam/ gomūtre rajanīṃ &kṛtvā śoṣayedātape tataḥ// > Trivṛt, āragvadha, dantī, śaṅkhinī, and saptalā in equal parts, / he should put in cow urine for a night, then dry in the sun. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.16) saptāhaṃ bhāvayitvaivaṃ snukkṣīreṇāparaṃ punaḥ/ saptāhaṃ bhāvayecchuṣkaṃ tatastenāpi bhāvitam// > Having thus impregnated them for seven days, he should again impregnate them / for another seven days with the latex of snuk; then \[perfumed powders\] impregnated with that and dried, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.17) gandhamālyaṃ &tadāghrāya prāvṛtya paṭameva ca/ sukhamāśu viricyante mṛdukoṣṭhā narādhipāḥ// > or smelling a garland of fragrant flowers \[so treated\], or wrapping himself in a cloth \[steeped in it\], / kings with soft bowels purge easily and quickly. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.18) śyāmātrivṛtkaṣāyeṇa snukkṣīraghṛtaphāṇitaiḥ/ lehaṃ &paktvā virekārthaṃ lehayenmātrayā naram// > Cooking an electuary with a decoction of śyāmā and trivṛt, / with latex of snuk, ghee, and molasses, he should have a person lick it in proper dose for purgation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.19) pāyayettu sudhākṣīraṃ yūṣairmāṃsarasairghṛtaiḥ/ bhāvitāñchuṣkamatsyān vā māṃsaṃ vā bhakṣayennaraḥ// > Or he should make him drink the latex of sudhā with vegetable broths, meat broths, or ghees; / or a person should eat dried fish or meat impregnated with it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.20) kṣīreṇāmalakaiḥ sarpiścaturaṅgulavat pacet/ surāṃ vā kārayet kṣīre ghṛtaṃ vā pūrvavat pacet// > He should cook ghee with milk and āmalaka as in the case of caturaṅgula, / or prepare wine in milk, or cook ghee as before. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.21) tatra ślokau--- > Here are two verses: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.21\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.21_1) sauvīrakādibhiḥ sapta sarpiṣā ca rasena ca/ pānakaṃ ghreyalehau ca yogā yūṣādibhistrayaḥ// > Seven with sauvīraka and the like, with ghee, and with broth, / the drink, smelling, electuary, and three formulations with vegetable broth and the rest; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.22) dvau śuṣkamatsyamāṃsābhyāṃ suraikā dve ca sarpiṣī/ mahāvṛkṣasya yogāste viṃśatiḥ samudāhṛtāḥ// > two with dried fish and meat, one wine, and two ghees: / these twenty formulations of mahāvṛkṣa are proclaimed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.10.22\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10.22_1) ityagniveśakṛte tantre carakapratisaṃskṛte 'aprāpte dṛḍhabalasaṃpūrite kalpasthāne sudhākalpo nāma daśamo 'adhyāyaḥ//10// > Thus ends the tenth chapter, titled "Formulation of Sudhā," in the Section on Formulation of the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, where unavailable, completed by Dṛḍhabala. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.10.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.5338) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.2.48_3) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.10) · Pramāṇa