The Compendium of Caraka 6.26

English (machine translation) 6.26

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Now we shall explain the chapter on the treatment of the three vital spots.

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Of the one hundred and seven vital spots mentioned regarding the enumeration of the body, / those who know them state that the bladder, the heart, and the head are foremost,

because they are the seat of the vital breaths; for vāta and the other doshas, when tormenting these, torment life itself. / Hear, gentle one, the protection against great diseases affecting them, for the purpose of preserving [them].

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When apāna becomes vitiated in the colon by astringent, bitter, pungent, and dry foods, / and by suppression of natural urges, fasting, and sexual intercourse, it, being powerful, obstructs the downward channels,

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and causes retention of stool, flatus, and urine; then, gradually, a dreadful upward movement of wind. / Severe and exceedingly terrible pain occurs frequently in the bladder, heart, belly, and abdomen, and in the back and flanks;

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tympanites, nausea, cutting pain, piercing pain, indigestion, along with swelling of the bladder, / non-passage of stool, lumps in the belly, and the wind, obstructed at the rectum, moves upward.

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The passage of dry feces occurs with difficulty after a long time, or it is thin, rough, dry, and cold; / and from that arise diseases: fever, dysuria, dysentery, disorders of the heart and grahaṇī,

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vomiting, blindness, deafness, burning headache, abdominal enlargement due to vāta, prostate enlargement, mental disorders, / thirst, internal hemorrhage, anorexia, abdominal lump, cough, dyspnea, coryza, facial paralysis, and flank disorders;

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and many other very dread diseases arising from wind are produced by the upward movement of wind. / Its proper treatment will now be spoken; hear it, Agniveśa!

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Having anointed him with oil that destroys cold fever, and having liquefied the doshas with the prescribed sudations, / one should treat him with suppositories, non-unctuous enemata, unctuous enemata, purgatives, and foods that promote downward peristalsis.

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One should prepare a suppository resembling the thumb in size: śyāmā, trivṛt, long pepper, and dantī, / ground with cow's urine, ten parts of māṣa, nīlī, double the quantity of salt, with jaggery;

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or with oilcake, sauvarchala salt, and asafoetida, or with mustard, the three pungents, and barley-ashes, / with vidanga, kampillaka, and śāṅkhinī, combined with the milky sap of snuhī and arka and with jaggery.

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There may be a suppository made of pippalī, mustard, coriander, and chimney-soot, with cow's urine and jaggery; / or one may blow that powder of śyāmā, fruits, bottle-gourd, and pippalī with a tube.

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Or the powder of white mustard, bitter gourd, madana fruit, and black pepper, with jīmūtaka and rock salt; / when the rectum is lubricated, these bring downward a man's stool and the retention of wind and urine.

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When these fail, the physician should administer a non-unctuous enema to the well-anointed and well-fomented body, / very sharp, containing upward- and downward-evacuating drugs, urine, oil, alkali, sours, and vāta-dispelling substances.

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If vāta is predominant, [the enema should be] sour and salty with oil; if pitta, with milk; if kapha, with urine. / It quickly clears the retention of urine, stool, and wind, and restores the rectum and channels to their proper function.

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He should eat barley food with potherbs such as trivṛt, snuhī leaves, sesame, and the like, or with meat juices of domestic, wetland, and marsh animals, / and with other things that release wind, urine, and stool, drinking the clear upper part of wine or jaggery rum.

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If [the condition] persists further, he should be purged with urine, clear wine, whey, and fermented gruel; / but when he is restored to health, one should subsequently give him an unctuous enema, if the retention of wind and stool was due to dryness.

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Asafoetida, twice increased vacā, plumbago, kuṣṭha, and suvarcikā, and powder of viḍaṅga, / [taken] with tepid water, destroys constipation, the distress of visūcikā, heart disease, abdominal lump, and upward movement of wind.

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Vacā, harītakī, citraka, barley-ashes, long pepper, ativiṣā, and kuṣṭha / drunk with hot water destroys constipation and bewildered vāta quickly, the patient eating rice with meat soup.

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Asafoetida, vacā, biḍa salt, dry ginger, cumin, harītakī, puṣkaramūla, and kuṣṭha, / in parts increasing successively by one part: this [is used] in spleen enlargement, abdominal diseases, indigestion, and visūcikā.

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A prastha of ghee processed in a decoction of the sthirādi group, / punarnavā, śampāka, and pūtīkakarañja, each measuring two palas, is for obstructed vāta.

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Fruits and roots prescribed for purgation, asafoetida, arka root, the foremost daśamūla, / snuk, citraka, and punarnavā, along with all the five salts in equal parts:

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These, crushed with fats and urine, should be cooked in a well-smeared joint of two earthen saucers; / that cooked salt, finely ground, one should eat with foods and drinks to relieve constipation and pain.

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Constipation arising from āma, accompanied by cardiac stiffness, heaviness from head-disease, / retention of eructations, and chronic catarrh, one should conquer through vomiting, fasting, and digestive measures.

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In phantom tumor, abdominal enlargement, bradhna, piles, spleen enlargement, udāvarta, disorders of the female genital tract and semen, / in mārutarakta mixed with fat and kapha, and when deep-seated;

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in sciatica, hemiplegia, and the like, in vāta disorders fit for purgation, / when the path of vāta is obstructed by fat, kapha, pitta, and blood;

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with milk or meat broths, or with triphalā juice, vegetable soup, cow's urine, or madirā wine, / according to the association of doṣas, castor oil is commended.

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By its nature it removes vāta; by combinations and purgation it conquers [the rest]; / therefore it conquers wind diseases commingled with fat, blood, pitta, and kapha.

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The dose should be up to five palas according to strength, bowel temperament, and disease; / for those of soft bowel and little strength, it should be administered with food. Thus ends the treatment of udāvarta.
From exercise, sharp drugs, dry wine, excessive indulgence [in sex], habitual riding on fast mounts, / eating marshy fish, overeating, and indigestion, there arise in men eight dysurias.

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The morbid humors, aggravated individually by their own causes or all together entering into aggravation in the bladder, / compress the passage of urine; then one passes urine with difficulty.

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From vāta, severe pain in the groin, bladder, and penis, and one passes urine in small quantities repeatedly; / from pitta, one passes urine yellow, bloody, painful, burning, and with difficulty, repeatedly.

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Heaviness and swelling of the bladder and penis, and slimy urine in kapha dysuria; / but all the symptoms occur in sannipāta: that indeed is the most difficult to cure of the dysurias.

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When wind dries up the semen, urine, or kapha together with pitta situated in the bladder, / then a urinary calculus is gradually produced, like the rocanā in the bile of a cow.

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Shaped like a kadamba flower, like a stone, smooth, three-cornered, or even soft, / if it reaches the passage of urine, obstructing the urine, it causes pain in the bladder.

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It causes pain in the perineal raphe, penis, and bladder, and makes the stream of urine scattered; / distressed with pain, he squeezes the penis, and repeatedly passes stool and urinates.

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When injured by its agitation, he passes urine with blood; upon its displacement, he urinates with ease; / this calculus, shattered by wind, becomes gravel flowing from the urinary path.

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When dysuria arises in a man injured by an injury to semen, / there is pain in the groin, bladder, and penis, and extreme pain in the scrotum when exceedingly displaced.

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With its course and flow obstructed by semen, he passes urine with difficulty; / they say it is stiffened in the testicles, and declare it to be dysuria from injury to semen.

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Semen and the morbid humors, separately or together, situated in the urinary bladder, hold [it] back; / obstructed by them, the urine causes pain in the penis and bladder, mixed with semen and detained.

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Stiff, swollen, severely painful, and pricked is his bladder, as well as both testicles; / from a wound, trauma, or depletion, blood provoked and situated in the bladder becomes obstructed.

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Accompanied by severe pain, along with urine, it attains calculus form; and when it is excessively accumulated, / he experiences distension and heaviness, and lightness of the bladder when it has passed out.
Thus ends the diagnosis of dysuria.
In wind dysuria, one should administer inunction, unctuous non-retention enemas, unctuous poultices, urethral enemas, affusions, / and broths prepared with the sthirādi group and wind-relieving drugs.

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With punarnavā, eraṇḍa, śatāvarī, pattūra, vṛścīra, balā, aśmabhid, / the two pañcamūlas, kulattha, kola, and barley, boiled in water to make a decoction:

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Oil, fat of boar and bear, and ghee should be prepared with these very pastes and salts; / that, drunk in proper dose, quickly arrests wind dysuria accompanied by colic.

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These and other excellent medicines, ground, are also commended as a poultice; / as available, oily seeds accompanied by unctuous and sour substances, comfortably warm, should be applied.

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Affusions, tub-baths, cool plasters, the summer regimen, enemas, milk, and purgation / with grapes, vidārī, sugarcane juice, and ghees should be carried out in dysurias arising from pitta.

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A decoction of śatāvarī, kāśa, kuśa, śvadaṃṣṭrā, vidārī, rice, sugarcane, and kaśeruka, / well cooled, combined with honey and sugar, a patient suffering from pitta dysuria should drink.

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He should drink a decoction of lotuses, blue water-lilies, śṛṅgāṭaka, or vidārī, / or the roots of daṇḍairakā according to the previous formulation, likewise cold water.

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Ervāru seeds, cucumber seeds, safflower seeds, saffron, and vāśā should be drunk / with grape juice: this is praised in calculi, gravel, and all dysurias.

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In pitta dysuria, he should drink ervāru seeds, liquorice, and devadāru with rice-water; / likewise dārvī with amalaki juice and honey in dysuria caused by pitta.

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Alkaline, hot, and sharp drugs, food and drink, sudation, barley food, emesis, non-retention enemas, / buttermilk, and oil processed with bitter drugs for inunction and drink, in kapha dysuria.

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The three pungents, śvadaṃṣṭrā, cardamom, and the bone of a crane, in the measure of a kola, combined with honey and urine; / or one should drink cardamom combined with honey, with juice of plantain or juice of kaiḍarya.

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One should drink seeds of śitivāraka combined with buttermilk for the destruction of dysuria; / likewise, in kapha dysuria, one should drink coral powder with rice-water.

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Cooking saptacchada, āragvadha, kebuka, cardamom, dhava, karañja, kuṭaja, and guḍūcī / in water, with that one should drink gruel, or the prepared decoction combined with honey.

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In [dysuria] arising from all three doṣas, however, everything should be done after considering the location of vāyu in order: / when kapha is predominant among the three, vomiting should come first; in pitta, purging; but in vāta, an enema.
Thus ends the treatment of dysuria.
The treatment which is beneficial for dysuria caused by kapha and vāta is suitable here for calculus and gravel: / it should be performed to break up and expel the calculus; hear the proven procedure endowed with specific details:

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Pāṣāṇabheda, vṛṣaka, śvadaṃṣṭrā, pāṭhā, abhayā, the three pungents, śaṭī, nikumbha, / hiṃsrā, kharāśvā, śitivāraka, and the seeds of ervāruka and trapuṣa,

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Utkuñcikā, asafoetida, sour cane, the two bṛhatīs, hapuṣā, and vacā: / one should drink the powder to break the calculus, and ghee cooked with four times as much cow's urine with them.

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Roots of śvadaṃṣṭrā, kṣuraka, and urubūka, ground with milk, and of the two bṛhatīs, / stirred into sweet curd, should be drunk for seven days to break the calculus.

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Punarnavā, iron filings, śvadaṃṣṭrā, phalgu sprouts, along with darbha flowers, / well-ground with milk, water, wine, or sugarcane juice, should be a drink for calculus and gravel.

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Cardamom, deodar, the five salts, barley-alkali, kunduruka, aśmabhedaka, / kampillaka, gokṣuraka seed, ervāru seed, trapuṣa seed,

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Pulverized together with equal parts of citraka, asafoetida, māṃsī, and yavānī, and two parts of triphalā, / should indeed be drunk with sour non-vinegar liquids, meat-broth, wine, or bean soups, in order to break gulma and calculus.

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A soup made from a paste of horseradish-tree root in the measure of a bilva, fried in ghee and oil, / cooled, combined with whey, and combined with salt, is a stone-breaker, to be drunk at will.

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A paste of horse-radish tree root taken cool with water is beneficial in calculus and gravel; / or sugar candy along with an equal amount of barley-alkali is medicine for all dysurias.

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Then, having drunk unadulterated wine, one should ride swiftly in a chariot or on a horse; / by these means gravel descends; if the calculus does not subside, however, a surgical specialist should extract it.

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In dysuria arising from semen injury, however, having examined the doṣa, one should perform counter-measures: / cotton root, vṛṣaka, aśmabheda, balā, the group beginning with sthirā, gavedhukā,

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Vṛścīra, aindrī, punarnavā, śatāvarī, and the leaves called madhūka and asana: / a meat broth prepared from their decoction should be taken in vāyu; in excess of pitta, milk or ghee;

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And in kapha, food and drink such as soup; in combined conditions, a regimen beneficial for all should be employed; / if it does not subside in this way, one should administer old wine or madhūka-spirit to him,

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Along with flesh of birds for nourishing, and enemas to cleanse the seminal tract; / and to the man who has been purified and satiated with aphrodisiac recipes, loving and pleasing women should be provided.

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In that arising from blood, however, one should drink lotus stems, tāla, kāsa, sugarcane, bāla, ikṣu, and kaśeruka / mixed with sugar and honey; and one should eat sugarcane, vidārī, and cucumbers.

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Ghee prepared with fresh juice of śvadaṃṣṭrā and eight times as much milk should be drunk; / or singly from the drugs beginning with sthirā, or those beginning with kanaka, by the very same method.

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An enema should be made with milk along with sweet herbs, or with oil pressed from svāduphala; / whatever is prescribed for pitta dysuria should also be performed in blood dysuria.

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One must not indulge in exercise, suppression of urges, dry, unctuous-less flour-foods, wind, sunrays, or sexual intercourse, / nor dates, śālūka, wood-apple, rose apple, lotus fiber, or astringent taste.
Thus ends the treatment of calculus.
Exercise, sharp purgatives and enemas in excess, anxiety, fear, fright, persistent disease, / vomiting, food indigestion, suppression of urges, emaciation, and trauma produce heart disease.

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Discoloration, fainting, fever, cough, hiccup, dyspnea, bad taste in the mouth, thirst, stupor, / vomiting, nausea with kapha, pain, and anorexia, as well as various others, arise from heart disease.

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An empty feeling in the heart, palpitation, wasting, cutting pain, stiffness, along with confusion, are specific to vāta; / from pitta come darkness before the eyes, burning sensation, scorched feeling, delusion, fright, heat, fever, and yellowness.

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Stiffness, heaviness, and numbness of the vital organ occur from kapha, along with excessive salivation, fever, cough, and drowsiness; / one should recognize that tridoṣa disease exhibits all signs, while that produced by parasitic worms has sharp distress, piercing pain, and itching.

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Oil with sauvīraka, curd-whey, and buttermilk, salted and comfortably warm, should be drunk in vāta; / oil prepared with urine and water along with salts cures tympanites, gulma, distress, and heart disease.

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Boiling punarnavā, dāru, pañcamūla, rāsnā, barley, bilva, kulattha, and kola / in water, oil thoroughly cooked with that is used for massage and drinking to destroy wind heart disease.

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Supreme ghee prepared with pastes of harītakī, dry ginger, puṣkaramūla, / vayaḥsthā, kāyasthā, salts, and asafoetida, / is excellent in gulma accompanied by heart and flank disease arising from wind.

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Root of phalapūra with puṣkarāhva, dry ginger, śaṭī, and abhayā as pastes, / mixed with alkaline water, ghee, and salt, destroy vāta heart disease and griping pain.

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A decoction made of puṣkaramūla, mātuluṅga, palāśa, bhūtīka, śaṭī, and deodar, / with dry ginger, cumin, vacā, yavānī, alkali, and salt, should be drunk comfortably warm.

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A paste of pathyā, śaṭī, puṣkaramūla, and pañcakola, with mātuluṅga and a pair of unctuous substances, / fried with jaggery, clear wine, and salts, is taken in pain of the heart, flanks, back, abdomen, and female genital organ.

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There should be the three pungents, the two triphalās with pāṭhā, nidigdhikā, gokṣuraka, the two balās, / ṛddhi, cardamom, tāmalakī, svaguptā, the two medās, madhūka, madhuka, sthirā,

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Śatāvarī, jīvaka, and pṛśniparṇī: with these substances ground finely in equal parts of an akṣa, / an expert who knows the method should cook a prastha of ghee with a prastha of buffalo curd.

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One should administer a dose of a pala, half a pala, or a picu, combined with honey, / in dyspnea, in cough, and also in jaundice, halīmaka, and impairment of the heart and grahaṇī.

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Cold plasters, affusions, and purgation are indicated when the heart is vitiated by pitta; / with grapes, sugar candy, honey, and parūṣaka; and when one is purified, food and drink that pacifies pitta.

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One should also drink the paste of liquorice and kaṭurohiṇī with sugar water; / and ghees beneficial for chest wounds, and the ghee-jaggery preparations—having evaluated them properly,

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The physician should give them, as well as meat broth of arid animals, to those who consume cow's milk in pitta heart disease; / by these very remedies all pitta ailments that reside in the blood go to pacification.

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With grapes, balā, śreyasī, sugar, / dates, vīrā, ṛṣabhaka, and utpala, / kākolī, the pair of medā, and jīvaka, / buffalo ghee should be prepared with milk.

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Kaśeruka, śaivala, ginger, prapauṇḍarīka, liquorice, and lotus-root / node—with these one should cook ghee with milk; / combined with honey, it destroys pitta heart disease.

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Ghee cooked with pastes of sthirā and the rest and with milk, or with grape juice, or with sugarcane juice, / is beneficial; and cold juices derived from sweet fruits and sugarcane / [are beneficial] when the heart is vitiated by pitta.

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For one who has been fomented, vomited, and fasted, the treatment destroys kapha in kapha vital organ disease: / barley food with broth of horse gram and coriander, / and sharp and auspicious drinks.

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Kaṭphala, ginger, pītadru, pathyā, and ativiṣā boiled in cow's urine should be given, / as well as powder of kṛṣṇā, śaṭī, puṣkaramūla, rāsnā, vacā, abhayā, and dry ginger.

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In a decoction of what are called udumbara, aśvattha, vaṭa, arjuna, / palāśa, rohītaka, and khadira, / an electuary prepared with powder of trivṛt and the three pungents destroys kapha when taken with warm water.

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Or the heedful physician may employ bitumen, prescribed according to the rules of preparation, / and likewise the electuary of Agastya, or the Brahmic rasāyana, or that of āmalakī.

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In that born of all three doṣas, fasting should be done from the start, and food beneficial in all of them should be prescribed; / and considering the mildness, excess, or moderate nature [of the doṣas], / the commended action for all three should be carried out.

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If the pain is severe when food is eaten, mild as it digests, and persistent when digested, / he should drink deodar, kuṣṭha, / along with tilvaka, the two salts, and viḍaṅga, with ativiṣā, along with hot water.

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When it is severe upon digestion, unctuous purgation is indicated; if during digestion, he should be purged with fruits; / but when the colic is severe at all three times, / sharp root purgation is beneficial.

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Generally, vāta whose path is obstructed becomes aggravated in the stomach; therefore purification / should be done, as well as fasting and digestion; / and all worm-destroying remedies [are indicated] in parasite heart disease. / Thus ends the treatment of heart disease. / By suppression of urges, indigestion, dust, excessive talking, anger, seasonal irregularities, heat to the head, / insomnia, excessive sleep, cold water, dew, sexual intercourse, tears, and smoke—

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when the doṣas are congealed in the head, aggravated vāta brings about coryza: / nasal ache and piercing pain, water-like sneezing and discharge / from vāta, accompanied by hoarseness and head disease.

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Suppuration at the tip of the nose, fever, dry mouth, thirst, and hot, yellow discharge are from pitta; / cough, anorexia, dense flow and watering of the mouth are from kapha, as well as heaviness in the channels and itching.

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All these symptoms occur from sannipāta in severe coryza with sharp pain and great distress; / every [coryza], excessively aggravated by unwholesome food, when neglected, becomes chronic coryza.

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From that arise diseases: sneezing, nasal dryness, pratīnāha, and rhinorrhea; / foul odor of the nose, apīnasa, / suppurating swelling, tumors, and discharge of pus and blood,

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boils, diseases of the head, ears, and eyes, baldness, and tawny or white discoloration of the hair; / thirst, dyspnea, cough, fever, internal hemorrhage, hoarseness, and wasting arise from it.

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When the nose is accompanied by obstruction, injury, discharge, dryness, and suppuration, and does not perceive smell, / and the mouth is foul-smelling, with frequent aggravation, / one should pronounce it chronic coryza.

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Vāta, having touched the vital points in the head, situated in paths in every direction, produces sneezing; / when enraged, having dried up kapha, it produces desiccating of the nose, śṛṅgāṭaka, and smelling organ.

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Kapha accompanied by vāta obstructs the path of respiration: that one should declare to be pratīnāha; / that thick, yellow, mature kapha which discharges from the brain, this is rhinorrhea.

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Discoloration and foul smell through neglect result in ozena, swelling, and dizziness; / whose nose is obstructed, dried up, excessively moist, and burning,

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and the person who does not perceive smells and tastes—one should determine him to be afflicted by apīnasa; / and that disorder born of vāta and kapha one should declare to have symptoms equal to coryza.

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Swelling with burning, redness, and suppuration is nasal suppuration, also from raktapitta; / and the wastes, having vitiated the blood and other [dhātus] residing in the nose, produce swelling of the nose.

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So also, having obstructed the passage of respiration in the nose, tumors arise from vitiation of muscle and blood; / or from the nose, ears, or mouth, blood smeared with pitta or pus and blood may discharge.

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Vāta along with pitta, vitiating the skin and so forth, produces boils that undergo suppuration; / the disease in which a man's nose is as if ablaze they declare to be dīpta. / Thus ends the etiology of nasal diseases. / The head throbs here with intense ache and colic from vāta; from pitta it has burning and ache; from kapha it is heavy; / from all [three] it has all [symptoms]; and from worms the head has itching, foul odor, piercing pain, and ache. / Thus ends the etiology of head diseases. / In disease of the mouth born of vāta, there are dryness, roughness, dryness, and shifting pains; / blackish-red desquamation, with cold, drooping, throbbing, piercing pain, and tearing pain.

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Thirst, fever, eruptions, burning of the palate, sensation of smoking, and cracking of the surface, / along with fainting and varied pains, and colors other than white and reddish-brown, occur from pitta.

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Itching, heaviness, white slipperiness, unctuousness, anorexia, stupor, salivation of kapha, / nausea, sluggish digestive fire, drowsiness, and mild pain in mouth disease of kapha.

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That mouth disease in which all symptoms are present is born of all [three doṣas]; / and by differences of location, dūṣya, appearance, and name, these are of sixty-four kinds.

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Their causes, symptoms, forms, and remedies have been declared in the treatise on minor surgery; / but I shall set forth in due order the treatment of the fourfold mouth disease. / Thus ends the etiology of mouth diseases. / Anorexia arises from vāta and the rest, from grief, fear, excessive greed, anger, and disagreeable food, smell, and visual appearance; / from vāta, one's teeth are sensitive and the mouth is astringent.

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From pitta one should know the mouth to be pungent, sour, hot, tasteless, foul-smelling, and salty; / from kapha it is endowed with sweetness, sliminess, heaviness, coldness, and obstructed tightness.

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In anorexia born of grief, fear, greed, anger, and so forth, and of unappealing food and smell, / the mouth is normal, but there is aversion to food; in that born of all three doṣas it has manifold tastes. / Thus ends the etiology of anorexia. / Ringing, excessive pain, drying of earwax, thin discharge, and deafness are from vāta; / swelling with redness, tearing, burning sensation, and yellow, foul discharge are from pitta.

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Impaired hearing, itching, firm swelling, white, unctuous discharge, and slight pain are present in [ear disease] originating from kapha; / but all the symptoms appear from a combination of all three, and the discharge there has the colour of the predominant doṣa. / Thus ends the etiology of ear diseases. / Slight redness, lack of coating, and piercing and splitting pain occur in eye disease born of vāta; / from pitta there is burning sensation, intense pain, redness, yellow coating, and copious hot flow;

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from kapha the eye has white coating, much slimy tearing, heaviness, and itching; / and from a combination of all three, all symptoms appear. Eye diseases are ninety-six through subdivision.

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Their manifestations and treatment have been fully explained in the treatises on minor surgery; / an extensive description in the province of another is not approved, therefore no effort of ours is made here. / Thus ends the etiology of eye diseases. / Pitta, along with vāta and the others, burning the scalp, rapidly causes baldness in a person; / but slightly burning, it causes greying and tawny colour of the hair.

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Thus this portion of diseases arising above the clavicle has been included in the treatise so that it may not be deficient; / hereafter, understand the collection of remedies being stated in brief. / Thus ends the etiology of the disease baldness. / In coryza born of vāta with cough and hoarseness, one should drink ghee with alkali; / or one should drink meat broth, hot milk, or indeed unctuous smoke.

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One should inhale a suppository [made] of dill, cinnamon bark, balā, and root born of syonāka, castor, and bilva, / along with āragvadha, with beeswax, muscle fat, and ghee.

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Or having placed roasted grain flour mixed with ghee between two earthen saucers, / the physician should administer the smoke to those suffering from acute coryza.

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In pain of the temples, head, and forehead, [he should apply] hand-fomentation and a poultice; / on [a head] well anointed, in sneezing, obstruction of discharge, and the like, saṃkara-fomentation and others [should be used].

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And rohiṣa, cumin, vacā, tarkārī, and coraka should be smelled; / or powders of cinnamon bark, cinnamon leaf, black pepper, and cardamom with upakuñcikā.

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In dryness of the channels, the junction of vessels, nose, and eyes, an oil nasal drop [is prescribed]. / Having impregnated sesame seeds in goat's milk, ground them with that [milk], and by its vapor

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mildly steamed them, mixed them with powder of yaṣṭīmadhu, he should press them with that very [liquid]; / in a decoction of daśamūla, along with a paste of rāsnā and madhuka,

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oil prepared ten times with rock salt is remembered as that aṇutaila. / For one who has been unctuated, he should expel the doṣa by non-unctuous enemas in vāta coryza.

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And light food with unctuous, sour, and hot broths of domesticated and other animals is wholesome; / bathing and drinking with hot water, and a windless, warm shelter.

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A wise person, desiring his own welfare in coryza born of vāta, / should refrain from anxiety, exercise, talking, exertion, and sexual intercourse.

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In that born of pitta, one should drink medicated ghee, and drink milk boiled with ginger / for ripening; when ripe, head-evacuation should be performed.

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Oil prepared with pāṭhā, the two rajānīs, mūrvā, pippalī, jasmine shoots, / and dantī serves as nasal drops in ripe coryza.

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In bloody pus, decoctions and nasal drops that pacify bleeding-disease [are indicated]; / when there is excessive suppuration, burning, and dryness, cold pastes with affusions [are indicated],

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as well as treatments with sniffed substances and nasal drops, and sweet, cold astringent decoctions; / in coryza with mild pitta, one should perform purgation with unctuous [substances].

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Ghee, milk, barley, śāli-rice, wheat, broths of wild animals, / cold and sour [foods], bitter vegetables, and soups made from mung beans and the like are beneficial.

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In heaviness and anorexia in kapha-coryza, fasting [is prescribed] at first; / fomentations and affusions [are given] for the sake of ripening after anointing the head with ghee.

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Garlic mixed with mung bean powder, the three pungents, alkali, and ghee / should be given; a kapha-destroying emetic is wholesome for one with provoked kapha.

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In apīnasa, ozena, nasal discharge, and itching, / smoke and nasal press with pungent [drugs] are approved in kapha-coryza.

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Realgar, vacā, the three pungents, viḍaṅga, asafoetida, and guggulu / are a powder to be sniffed, as is blowing [powder] with pungent fruits as well.

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In urine boiled with bhārgī, madana, tarkārī, the surasādi group, and others, / having made a paste of lac, vacā, lambā, viḍaṅga, kuṣṭha, pippalī,

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and karañja, he should cook mustard oil with them; / when relieved from suppuration and the kapha is thick and fat-like, this is nasal drops.

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For one who is unctuated, when the urge is obstructed in kapha-coryza, vomiting [should be induced] / with gruel made of emetic-boiled milk, sesame, and black gram.

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Soups made of eggplant, kulaka, the three pungents, horse gram, pigeon pea, and mung bean, / and kapha-destroying food are approved, along with the use of hot water.

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In chronic coryza, [treatment] conquering all [doṣas] is to be done; in swelling, that which conquers swelling; / alkali in tumors and fleshy growths; and in the remaining [diseases], the procedure [is done] after considering [the condition]. / Thus ends the treatment of coryza and nasal diseases. / In disease of the head caused by vāta, unctuous substances, fomentations with nasal drops, / and food, drinks, and poultices that alleviate vāta diseases should be applied.

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A pleasantly warm poultice made of [drugs of the] aguru group fried in oil, / with vitality-promoting drugs, jasmine, fish, and meats is recommended.

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Prepared with rāsnā, sthirā, and the rest, with milk, nasal drops relieve the distress; / or indeed oil [prepared] with rāsnā, the two kākolīs, and sugar.

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Prepared with balā, madhūka, yaṣṭīmadhu, vidārī, sandalwood, and blue water lily, / and with jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, grapes, and sugar,

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a prastha of oil with milk in half a tulā of broth of wild game / is nasal drops that destroy all vāta-pitta diseases arising above the clavicle.

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Along with daśamūla, balā, rāsnā, triphalā, and madhuka, / a peacock devoid of wings, bile, intestines, excrement, beak, and feet

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having cooked in water, he should cook a prastha of ghee in that with an equal quantity of milk, / along with karṣa-measures of pastes of sweet drugs; it cures head disease and facial paralysis,

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and cures diseases of the ears, eyes, nose, tongue, palate, mouth, and throat; / famed as māyūraghṛta, it cures diseases above the clavicle. / Thus ends māyūraghṛta. / With this very decoction, he should cook a prastha of ghee / with four times as much milk and karṣa-measures of these pastes:

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jīvantī, triphalā, medā, raisins, ṛddhi, parūṣaka, / samaṅgā, cavikā, bhārgī, kāśmarī, deodar,

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ātmaguptā, mahāmedā, crowns of palmyra and date palm, / lotus stalk, lotus root, lotus tuber, śṛṅgī, jīvaka, padmaka,

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śatāvarī, vidārī, sugarcane, bṛhatī, the two sārivās, / mūrvā, puncture vine, ṛṣabhaka, water chestnut, kaseruka,

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rāsnā, sthirā, tāmalakī, small cardamom, śaṭī, pauṣkara, / punarnavā, tugākṣīrī, kākolī, dhanvayāsa,

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and dates, walnuts, almonds, muñjāta, and pistachios; / prepared according to availability with these ingredients by the previous method,

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one should administer it in nasal drops, drink, anointing, and enema / in all head diseases, and in severe cough and dyspnea,

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in torticollis, back stiffness, consumption, hoarseness, and facial paralysis; / in disorders of the vaginal tract, catamenia, and semen it is praised, and it grants sons to barren women.

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And a woman having bathed after her period, having drunk it, gives birth to a son. / This is mahāmāyūraghṛta, revered by Ātreya.
Thus ends mahāmāyūraghṛta.
With rats, roosters, geese, and hares as well, the wise physician / should cook ghee by this procedure to remove diseases of the upper body.

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In [headache] caused by pitta: ghee, milk, affusions, cold applications, together with nasal drops; / jīvanīya ghees, and drink and food that pacify pitta.

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With sandalwood, uśīra, yaṣṭyāhva, balā, vyāghranakha, and blue water lily, / ground with milk, there should be a poultice, or affusion with their decoction.

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A paste of cinnamon bark, cinnamon leaf, and sugar, finely ground with rice water, / should be made into nasal drops (avapīḍa); and following that, ghee as nasal drops in a pittaja condition.

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Ghee prepared with yaṣṭyāhva, sandalwood, anantā, and milk is beneficial; / or nasal drops with sugar, raisins, and madhūka flowers in the condition born of pitta.

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In [headache] born of kapha, one should manage [the patient] who has been fomented, / purified by smoke, nasal medication, insufflation, and the like, with poultices, drinks, and foods that pacify kapha.

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With drinks of aged ghee and sharp enemas; / in that arisen from kapha and vāta, cauterization [is indicated]; in the remaining two, bloodletting.

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With castor, nalada, flax, guggulu, aguru, and sandalwood, / along with fragrant substances, excluding kuṣṭha and tagara, one should inhale a smoking wick.

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In that arisen from a combination of all three doṣas, the treatment beneficial for sannipāta should be performed; / and in that caused by worms, sharp head evacuation must be done.

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Cinnamon bark, dantī, vyāghranakha, karaja, viḍaṅga, navamālikā, / seeds of apāmārga, and seeds of naktamāla and śirīṣa, / kṣavaka, aśmantaka, bilva, turmeric, asafoetida, yūthikā,

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and phaṇijjhaka—with these, oil cooked in four times as much sheep's urine / should be used as nasal drops; and a powder of these is beneficial as insufflation.

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Fruits of śigru and karañja along with vyoṣa make an avapīḍa nasal drop; / a decoction, fresh juice, alkali, powder, or paste is used as an avapīḍa.

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Gargles [should be done] with fermented gruel, bitter and pungent substances, honey, and astringents.
Thus ends the treatment of head diseases.
Medicated smoke, insufflation, downward purification, emesis, fasting,

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and food appropriate to pacify each particular doṣa are beneficial in mouth diseases. / Long pepper, aguru, dārvī bark, barley alkali, rasāñjana,

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pāṭhā, tejovatī, and pathyā: one should powder these in equal parts; / one should hold that with honey [in the mouth] in all mouth diseases.

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With sīdhu, mādhava, and mādhvīka wines, this gargle is excellent. / Tejohvā, abhayā, cardamom, samaṅgā, kaṭukā, mustā,

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pāṭhā, jyotiṣmatī, lodhra, dārvī, and kuṣṭha: one should powder these; / rubbing the teeth [with this] relieves bleeding, itching, and pain.

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Pañcakola, tālīsa leaf, cardamom, black pepper, and cinnamon bark, / and palāśa alkali, muṣkaka alkali, and barley alkali, powdered,

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boiled with double the quantity of aged jaggery, made into pills / the size of a jujube fruit, and kept for seven days in muṣkaka ash;

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held [in the mouth], they are like ambrosia in all throat diseases. / Soot from the house, barley alkali, pāṭhā, vyoṣa, rasāñjana,

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tejohvā, triphalā, lodhra, and citraka, powdered; / one should hold this with honey: it destroys throat diseases.

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This powder, named kālaka, cures diseases of the teeth, mouth, and throat.
Thus ends kālakacūrṇa.
Realgar, barley alkali, orpiment, along with rock salt,

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and dārvī bark—this powder, combined with honey, / mixed with the scum of ghee, one should hold [in the mouth] in throat diseases.

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It is also excellent in mouth diseases, renowned under the name pītaka.
Thus ends pītakacūrṇa.
Raisins, kaṭukā, vyoṣa, dārvī bark, triphalā, mustā,

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mixed with the scum of ghee, one should hold [in the mouth] in throat diseases; / or pāṭhā, rasāñjana, mūrvā, and tejohvā, powdered,

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combined with honey, should be administered as medicine in throat disease. / These three formulations are stated to relieve vāta, pitta, and kapha.

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Kaṭukā, ativiṣā, pāṭhā, dārvī, mustā, and indrayava, / boiled in cow's urine, are to be drunk to destroy throat diseases.

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The fresh juice of dārvī boiled down to a thick extract (rasakriyā), / with honey, relieves mouth diseases, vitiations of blood, and sinus tracts.

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In dryness of the palate without thirst, ghee taken after food, / nasal drops, and sweet, unctuous, and cool meat juices are beneficial.

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In stomatitis: vein-puncturing, head evacuation, and bodily purging; / and gargles with urine, oil, ghee, honey, and milk.

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Triphalā, pāṭhā, raisins, and jasmine leaves, with honey, / and astringent, bitter, cold decoctions are used as mouth washes.

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A tulā of khadira heartwood and double that of arimeda, / having washed and crushed them, one should cook in four droṇas of water.

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When reduced to one droṇa, having strained that decoction, one should cook it again gently; / then, when it has thickened, one should add an akṣa each, reduced to powder, of:

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sandalwood, padmaka, uśīra, madder, dhātakī, mustā, / prapauṇḍarīka, yaṣṭyāhva, cinnamon bark, cardamom, lotus filaments,

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lac, rasāñjana, māṃsī, triphalā, lodhra, bālaka, / the two turmerics, phalinī, cardamom, samaṅgā, kaṭphala, sweet flag,

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yavāsa, aguru, pattaṅga, red ochre, and antimony; / and one pala each of cloves, nakha, kakkola, and mace;

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and when it has cooled and been taken off [the fire], one should add a kuḍava of camphor. / From that, pills should then be made; and dried, one should hold them in the mouth.

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And one should prepare an oil with this paste and decoction; / it cures looseness, falling, sponginess of the teeth, and dental caries,

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and destroys stomatitis, foul breath, stiffness, and anorexia, / and cures discharge, coating, sliminess, hoarseness, and dryness of the throat.

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In all diseases of the teeth, mouth, and throat, this is the sovereign remedy; / this is the khadirādi pill and the khadirādi oil.
Thus ends the khadirādi pill and oil.
In anorexia, gargles, medicated smokes along with mouth washes, / and pleasing food and drink, as well as cheering and consoling words, [are indicated].

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Kuṣṭha, sauvarcala salt, cumin, sugar, black pepper, and biḍa salt; / āmalakī, cardamom, padmaka, uśīra, long pepper, blue water lily, sandalwood;

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