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The Compendium of Caraka 7.5: pañcamo 'adhyāyaḥ/

Carakasaṃhitā 7.5

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Sanskrit

pañcamo 'adhyāyaḥ/

7.5.1

athāto vatsakakalpaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ//

Now we shall expound the procedure of vatsaka.

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7.5.2

iti ha smāha bhagavānātreyaḥ//

Thus declared the venerable Ātreya.

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7.5.3

atha vatsakanāmāni bhedaṃ strīpuṃsayostathā/
kalpaṃ cāsya &pravakṣyāmi vistareṇa yathātatham//

Now the names of vatsaka, and the distinction between female and male,
and its procedure, I shall declare in detail as it truly is.

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7.5.4

vatsakaḥ kuṭajaḥ śakro vṛkṣako girimallikā/
bījānīndrayavāstasya tathocyante kaliṅgakāḥ//

Vatsaka, kuṭaja, śakra, vṛkṣaka, girimallikā;
its seeds are indrayava, and likewise called kaliṅgaka.

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7.5.5

bṛhatphalaḥ &śvetapuṣpaḥ snigdhapatraḥ pumān bhavet/
śyāmā cāruṇapuṣpā strī &phalavṛntaistathā 'aṇubhiḥ//

Having large fruits, white flowers, and unctuous leaves is the male;
and the female is darkish, with reddish flowers and small fruit stalks.

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7.5.6

raktapittakaphaghnastu sukumāreṣvanatyayaḥ/
hṛdrogajvaravātāsṛgvīsarpādiṣu śasyate//

It destroys blood-pitta and kapha, causes no complications in delicate people,
and is commended in heart disease, fever, gout, erysipelas, and the like.

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7.5.7

kāle phalāni saṃgṛhya tayoḥ śuṣkāṇi &nikṣipet/
teṣāmantarnakhaṃ muṣṭiṃ jarjarīkṛtya &bhāvayet//

Having gathered the fruits of both at the proper time, one should store them dry.
Having crushed an antarnakhamuṣṭi of them, one should steep them

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7.5.8

madhukasya kaṣāyeṇa kovidārādibhistathā/
niśi sthitaṃ vimṛdyaitallavaṇakṣaudrasaṃyutam//

with a decoction of madhuka and likewise with kovidāra and the others;
having stood overnight, rubbed, and mixed with salt and honey,

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7.5.9

pibettadvamanaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ pittaśleṣmanibarhaṇam/
aṣṭāhaṃ payasā++ārkeṇa teṣāṃ cūrṇāni bhāvayet//

one should drink that: an excellent emetic destroying pitta and kapha.
For eight days one should steep their powders with milk of arka;

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7.5.10

&jīvakasya kaṣāyeṇa tataḥ pāṇitalaṃ pibet/
phalajīmūtakekṣvākujīvantīnāṃ pṛthak tathā//

then one should drink a pāṇitala with a decoction of jīvaka.
Likewise separately with [decoctions] of madana fruit, jīmūtaka, ikṣvāku, and jīvantī,

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7.5.11

sarṣapāṇāṃ madhūkānāṃ lavaṇasyāthavā 'ambunā/
kṛśareṇāthavā yuktaṃ vidadhyādvamanaṃ bhiṣak//

or with water of mustard seeds, madhūka, or salt,
or combined with spiced rice-and-lentil mash, the physician should administer emesis.

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7.5.12

tatra ślokaḥ---

Here is a verse:

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7.5.12_1

kaṣāyairnava cūrṇaiśca pañcoktāḥ salilaistrayaḥ/
ekaśca kṛśarāyāṃ syādyogāste 'aṣṭādaśa &smṛtāḥ//

Nine with decoctions, five with powders, three with liquids are spoken of, / and one would be in spiced rice-and-lentil mash; those eighteen formulations are recorded.

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7.5.12_2

ityagniveśakṛte tantre carakapratisaṃskṛte 'aprāpte dṛḍhabalasaṃpūrite kalpasthāne vatsakakalpo nāma pañcamo 'adhyāyaḥ//5//

Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, being incomplete, completed by Dṛḍhabala, in the Section on Formulation, the fifth chapter, titled "The Formulation of Vatsaka." //5

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