The Compendium of Caraka 7.2: dvitīyo 'adhyāyaḥ/
Carakasaṃhitā 7.2
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dvitīyo 'adhyāyaḥ/
7.2.1
athāto jīmūtakakalpaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ//
Now we shall explain the formulation of jīmūtaka.
7.2.2
iti ha smāha bhagavānātreyaḥ//
Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya:
7.2.3
kalpaṃ jīmūtakasyemaṃ phalapuṣpāśrayaṃ śṛṇu/
garāgarī ca veṇī ca tathā syāddevatāḍakaḥ//
Hear this formulation of jīmūtaka, which depends on its fruits and flowers:
its synonyms are garāgarī, veṇī, and likewise devatāḍaka.
7.2.4
jīmūtakaṃ tridoṣaghnaṃ yathāsvauṣadhakalpitam/
prayoktavyaṃ jvaraśvāsahikkādyeṣvāmayeṣu ca//
Jīmūtaka destroys the three doṣas when prepared with its respective medicinal drugs,
and is to be employed in fever, dyspnea, hiccough, and other diseases.
7.2.5
yathoktaguṇayuktānāṃ deśajānāṃ yathāvidhi/
payaḥ puṣpe 'asya, nirvṛtte phale peyā payaskṛtā//
Grown in regions possessing the stated qualities, according to rule:
its flower in milk; when the fruit has formed, a drink made with milk;
7.2.6
lomaśe kṣīrasaṃtānaṃ, dadhyuttaramalomaśe/
śṛte payasi dadhyamlaṃ &jātaṃ haritapāṇḍuke//
when hairy, milk-cream; when hairless, the upper layer of curd;
and when boiled in milk, sour curd formed when it is pale-green;
7.2.7
jīrṇānāṃ ca suśuṣkāṇāṃ nyastānāṃ bhājane śucau/
cūrṇasya payasā śuktiṃ vātapittārditaḥ pibet//
and of those that are mature, well dried, and kept in a clean vessel,
one afflicted with wind and pitta should drink a śukti of the powder with milk.
7.2.8
āsutya ca surāmaṇḍe mṛditvā prasrutaṃ pibet/
kaphaje 'arocake kāse pāṇḍuroge sayakṣmaṇi//
And after steeping it in the scum of surā wine and crushing it, one should drink it strained
in kapha-born anorexia, cough, pāṇḍu disease, along with consumption.
7.2.9
dve cāpothyāthavā trīṇi guḍūcyā madhukasya vā/
kovidārādikānāṃ vā nimbasya kuṭajasya vā//
Having crushed two or three [fruits], steeped in the decoction
of guḍūcī, madhuka, kovidāra and the like, nimba, or kuṭaja,
7.2.10
kaṣāyeṣvāsutaṃ pūtvā tenaiva vidhinā pibet/
athavā++āragvadhādīnāṃ saptānāṃ pūrvavat pibet//
and strained, one should drink it by the very same method;
or one afflicted with fever from pitta and śleṣman should drink it, as before,
7.2.11
ekaikasya kaṣāyeṇa pittaśleṣmajvarārditaḥ/
mātrāḥ syuḥ phalavaccāṣṭāu kolamātrāstu tā matāḥ//
with the decoction of each one of the seven [drugs] beginning with āragvadha;
and there should be eight pills like those of the fruit, but they are considered to be of the size of a jujube berry.
7.2.12
jīvakarṣabhakekṣūṇāṃ śatāvaryā rasena vā/
pittaśleṣmajvare dadyādvātapittajvare 'athavā//
Or one should give it with the juice of jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, sugarcane, or śatāvarī
in fever caused by pitta and śleṣman, or in fever caused by wind and pitta.
7.2.13
tathā jīmūtakakṣīrāt samutpannaṃ pacedghṛtam/
phalādīnāṃ kaṣāyeṇa śreṣṭhaṃ tadvamanaṃ matam//
Likewise, one should cook ghee produced from jīmūtaka milk
with the decoction of the fruit and others; that is considered an excellent emetic.
7.2.14
tatra ślokau---
Here are the two verses:
7.2.14_1
ṣaṭ kṣīre &madirāmaṇḍe eko dvādaśa cāpare/
sapta cāragvadhādīnāṃ kaṣāye 'aṣṭau ca vartiṣu//
Six in milk, one in the scum of madirā wine, and twelve others,
seven in the decoction of āragvadha and the like, eight in pills,
7.2.15
jīvakādiṣu catvāro ghṛtaṃ caikaṃ prakīrtitam/
kalpe jīmūtakānāṃ &ca yogāstriṃśannavādhikāḥ//
four in jīvaka and the like, and one ghee is declared:
and in the formulation of jīmūtaka there are thirty-nine formulations.
7.2.15_1
ityagniveśakṛte tantre carakapratisaṃskṛte 'aprāpte dṛḍhabalasaṃpūrite kalpasthāne jīmūtakakalpo nāma dvitīyo 'adhyāyaḥ//2//
Thus ends the second chapter, named Formulation of Jīmūtaka, in the Section on Formulation of the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, being incomplete, completed by Dṛḍhabala. //2
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