The Compendium of Caraka 1.2

English (machine translation) 1.2

Language: English

1.2.1

Now we shall expound the chapter on the dehusked seeds of apāmārga.

1.2.3

Seeds of apāmārga, pippalī, black pepper,
viḍaṅga, then śigru, mustard, and tumburu—

1.2.4

Ajājī, ajagandhā, pīlu, cardamom, hareṇukā,
pṛthvīkā, surasā, śvetā, kuṭheraka, phañijjhaka,

1.2.5

Seeds of śirīṣa, garlic, the two turmerics, the two salts,
jyotiṣmatī, and dry ginger should be given for head evacuation

1.2.6

In heaviness of the head, headache, chronic coryza, hemicrania,
parasitic disease, epilepsy, loss of smell, and stupor.

1.2.7

Madana, madhuka, neem, jīmūta, kṛtavedhana,
pippalī, kuṭaja, ikṣvāku, cardamom, and dhāmārgava—

1.2.8

When phlegm and bile are aroused in a disease located in the stomach,
the physician should employ [these] for emesis, without harming the body.

1.2.9

Trivṛt, triphalā, dantī, nīlinī, saptalā, vacā,
kampillaka, gavākṣī, kṣīriṇī, udakīryakā,

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Pīlu, āragvadha, grapes, dravantī, and nicula—
when the humor has moved to the lower bowel, one should employ [these] for purgation.

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Pāṭalā, agnimantha, bilva, and śyonāka,
kāśmarya, śālaparṇī, pṛśniparṇī, nidigdhikā,

1.2.12

Balā, śvadaṃṣṭrā, bṛhatī, castor together with punarnavā,
barley, horse gram, jujubes, guḍūcī, and madana fruits,

1.2.13

Palāśa, kattṛṇa, unctuous substances, and salts
one should employ in upward movement of wind, constipations, and in non-unctuous enemas.

1.2.14

From this very group of drugs, an unctuous enema
that destroys wind is to be formulated. Thus has been stated the compendium of the five actions.

1.2.15

When the humors have been aroused, one should perform those
five actions through applications of unction and sudation, considering dose and time.

Proper application depends on dose and time; success is established on proper application;
the one who knows proper application always stands superior to those who merely possess knowledge of substances.

1.2.17

Hereafter I shall proclaim the gruels with various medicaments
for the cessation of various disorders curable by them.

1.2.18

Prepared with pippalī, pippalī root, cavya, citraka, and dry ginger,
a gruel stimulates digestion and relieves colic.

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Prepared with wood apple, bilva, cāṅgerī, buttermilk, and pomegranate,
it promotes digestion and binds [the bowels]; a drink [prepared with the herbs of] the minor five roots is for [diarrhea with] wind.

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Prepared with śālaparṇī, balā, bilva, and pṛśniparṇī,
and soured with pomegranate, this drink is wholesome for those with diarrhea of bile and phlegm.

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Prepared in goat's milk mixed with half water, with hrīvera, blue water lily, dry ginger,
and pṛśniparṇī, the drink cures blood-diarrhea.

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One should give a drink with ativiṣā and dry ginger, soured, in [diarrhea with] unripe waste;
with śvadaṃṣṭrā and kaṇṭakārī, along with half-boiled treacle, in dysuria.

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With viḍaṅga, pippalī root, śigru, and black pepper,
a gruel prepared in buttermilk, together with saltpetre, destroys worms.

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With raisins, sārivā, parched paddy, pippalī, honey, and dry ginger,
it destroys thirst; and cooked with somarājī, it destroys poison.

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A gruel prepared in pork broth is considered nourishing;
[made] of roasted gavedhukā seeds with honey, it produces emaciation.

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Containing ghee, abundant sesame, and combined with salt, it is oleating;
[made] of wild panicum seeds in a decoction of kuśa and āmalaka, it produces dryness.

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Boiled with the ten roots, it cures cough, hiccup, dyspnea, and phlegm;
prepared with wine and the two unctuous substances, it cures pain in the lower bowel.

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Prepared with vegetables, meats, sesame, and black gram, it expels feces;
with jambu and mango seeds, and sour wood apple and bilva, it is considered bowel-binding.

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With alkali, citraka, asafoetida, and amlavetasa, it is considered purgative;
with harītakī, pippalī root, and dry ginger, it regulates downward wind.

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A gruel prepared with buttermilk destroys disorders caused by [misuse of] ghee;
prepared with buttermilk and oil cake, it is commended in disorders caused by [misuse of] oil.

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With beef broth and soured, it destroys intermittent fever;
boiled with barley, the two unctuous substances, pippalī, and āmalaka, it is beneficial for the throat.

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Prepared in rooster broth, it cures pain in the seminal tract;
with split black gram, prepared with ghee and milk, it is aphrodisiac.

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Prepared with upodikā and curd, it destroys intoxication;
boiled with apāmārga [seeds], milk, and monitor-lizard broth, it suppresses [morbid] hunger.

1.2.34

Here is a verse:
Thus have these twenty-eight gruels been proclaimed,
and based upon the five actions, a compendium of medicaments has been taught.

1.2.35

The medicaments which were earlier stated for the purpose of knowing roots and fruits,
have been proclaimed again here for the purpose of knowing the basis of the five actions.

1.2.36

Possessed of memory, knowing cause and application, self-controlled, resourceful—
such a physician is worthy of performing treatment by combining medicines.

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Thus ends the second chapter, named 'The Dehusked Seeds of Apāmārga', in the Sūtrasthāna of the treatise composed by Agniveśa and redacted by Caraka. //2

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Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit