The Compendium of Caraka 7

English (machine translation) 7

Language: English

7.1 — 45 parts
7.2 — 17 parts
7.3 — 26 parts
7.4 — 22 parts
7.5 — 14 parts
7.6 — 16 parts
7.7 — 82 parts
7.8 — 20 parts
7.9 — 20 parts
7.10 — 24 parts
7.11 — 21 parts
7.12 — 112 parts

7.1.1

Now we shall expound the chapter on the formulation of madana [emetic nut].

Now then, O Agniveśa, for the purpose of emesis and purgation, for the formulation of emetic and purgative substances together with other various substances that are most pleasant to consume—meaning for the purpose of division and classification—and for the proper preparation of comfortable measures for the procedure of their formulations, we shall teach the Section on Formulation (Kalpasthāna).

7.1.4

There, eliminating doshas through the upper part is designated as emesis; through the lower part, designated as purgation; or both acquire the designation of purgation (virecana) from the evacuation (virecana) of bodily wastes.

7.1.5

There, hot, sharp, subtle, permeating, and relaxing drugs, reaching the heart by their own potency and following the channels, liquefy the mass of doshas situated in the entire body from the coarse and subtle channels owing to their fiery nature, and cleave them owing to their sharpness. That [dosha], cleaved and flowing, not adhering in a body impregnated with oleation like honey situated in an oiled vessel, reaching the stomach due to its subtlety and descending tendency, propelled by udāna, is cast upward because of its fiery-airy nature and the specific action of the drug toward the upper part; it proceeds downward because of its watery-earthy nature and the specific action of the drug toward the lower part; and both ways because of possessing both qualities.

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Such is the enumeration of characteristics.

7.1.6

There, regarding phala, jīmūtaka, ikṣvāku, dhāmārgava, kuṭaja, and kṛtavedhana; and śyāmā, trivṛt, caturaṅgula, tilvaka, mahāvṛkṣa, saptalā, śāṅkhinī, dantī, and dravantī; because of apprehending their origin in diverse places and seasons, their tastes, rasas, potencies, post-digestive effects, and specific actions; and because body, dosha, constitution, age, strength, digestive fire, disposition, habituation, stages of disease, and so forth have manifold specific actions; we shall explain six hundred purgative formulations of these substances possessing diverse smell, color, taste, and touch, for the sake of ease of use and to demonstrate the method of options, even though their combinations are innumerable.

7.1.7

Moreover, those substances become most capable of action through the acquisition of potency and strength from the excellence of place, time, quality, and container.

7.1.8

Land is indeed threefold: arid, marshy, and common.

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There, the arid [land] has open sky in abundance; is dense with forests of trees such as kadara, khadira, asana, aśvakarṇa, dhava, tiniśa, śallakī, sāla, somavalka, badarī, tinduka, aśvattha, vaṭa, and āmalakī; is dominated by numerous śamī, kakubha, and śiṃśapā; has young branches continually bent by the force of steady, dry winds; abounds in thin, sharp, coarse sand and gravel encompassed by perpetual mirages; has tracts of land frequented by lāva, quail, and cakora; is rich in vāta and pitta; and is to be known as generally having firm and hard men. Next, the marshy [land] is dense with forests of hintāla, tamāla, coconut, and plantain; borders generally on rivers and oceans; is rich in cold winds; has tracts of land bordered by rivers whose banks are covered with groves of vañjula and vānīra; is adorned with mountain thickets; is dense with trees fanned by gentle winds; has tracts of land dense with flowering forests in many rows; is embraced by glossy trees and creepers; has tree branches echoing with geese, cakravākas, cranes, nandīmukhas, puṇḍarīkas, kādambas, madgus, bhṛṅgarājas, woodpeckers, and intoxicated cuckoos; has delicate men; and is to be known as dominated by wind and kapha. And that [land] which has the assemblies of shrubs, forest-trees, trees, birds, and animals of both of these two lands, and whose men are endowed with common qualities—possessing firmness, delicacy, strength, complexion, and compact build—is to be known as common.

7.1.9

In that common or arid land, medicines are praised that grow in an area visited seasonally by cold, heat, wind, and water; even; clean; with water flowing to the right; free of cremation grounds, caityas, sacrificial altars, assembly halls, crevices, pleasure-gardens, anthills, and saline soil; strewn with kuśa and rohiṣa grass; having glossy black sweet soil or golden-colored sweet soil; soft; not plowed by a plowshare; and not damaged by other, more powerful trees.

7.1.10

There, [those medicines] that are born in due season, have attained full measure, taste, potency, and smell, whose smell, color, taste, touch, and specific action have not been damaged by time, sunlight, fire, water, wind, or vermin, and which are fresh and situated in the northern direction: their branches and tender leaves should be gathered when newly sprouted in the rainy and spring seasons; roots in summer or winter when the leaves are fallen or just grown; bark, tubers, and latex in autumn; heartwood in dewy season; flowers and fruits according to the season. Observing auspicious conduct, of beneficial practice, clean, dressed in white, having worshipped the deities, the Aśvins, cows, and brāhmaṇas, having fasted, facing east or north, one should gather them.

7.1.11

Having gathered them, one should place them in appropriate, quality containers in rooms with eastern or northern doors, with areas free of drafts and areas with air circulation, where offerings of flowers and bali-rites are performed daily, inaccessible to fire, water, humidity, smoke, dust, mice, and quadrupeds, well covered, hung in sling-baskets, and preserve them.

7.1.12

And one should employ them according to the dosha: for vāta, macerated and stirred with surā, sauvīraka, tuṣodaka, maireya, medaka, fermented gruel, sour fruit juice, sour curd, and the like; for pitta, with grape juice, āmalaka, honey, madhuka, parūṣaka, half-boiled molasses, milk, and the like; but in the case of śleṣman, with honey, urine, decoction, and the like. Such is the summary.

7.1.12_1

We shall explain it in detail, distinguishing the substances, bodies, doshas, habituations, and so forth.

7.1.13

Among emetic substances, the fruits of madana are said to be the foremost, because of being harmless.

7.1.13_1

One should gather them between spring and summer, under Puṣya, Aśvayuj, or Mṛgaśiras, during the Maitra muhūrta.

7.1.13_2

Those that are ripe, undamaged, not green, pale, free of worms, not putrid, not eaten by insects, and not stunted—having wiped them clean, bound them in a packet of kuśa grass, smeared them with cow dung, one should place them inside any one of barley chaff, black gram, śāli rice, horse gram, or green gram straw for eight nights.

7.1.13_3

After that, having taken out those that have become soft and possess a pleasant smell like honey, one should dry them.

7.1.13_4

When they are thoroughly dry, one should extract the seeds of the fruit.

7.1.13_5

Having rubbed them with ghee, curd, honey, and sesame paste, and dried them again, one should fill a new earthen jar that is well-cleaned of sand and free of dust up to its neck, cover it well, guard it well, hang it in sling-baskets, and properly preserve it.

7.1.14

Then, having prepared the patient who is to be vomited with unction and sudation for two or three days, intending to vomit him the next day, having provoked his śleṣman with meat soup of domesticated, marshy, or aquatic animals, milk, curd, black gram, sesame, vegetables, and the like, on the morning after his night's sleep when his food has digested, after he has performed the bali, homa, auspicious rites, and expiations, fasting, not excessively unctuous, having drunk a measure of ghee with gruel—crushing an antarnakhamuṣṭi, or as much as one deems fit, of those fruit-seeds, steeping them overnight in a decoction of yaṣṭimadhu, or in any one of the decoctions of kovidāra, karbudāra, nīpa, vidula, bimbī, śaṇapuṣpī, sadāpuṣpī, or pratyakpuṣpī, having rubbed it, strained it, added honey and rock salt, made it comfortably warm, and filled a shallow earthen bowl, one should consecrate it with this mantra: 'Om! May Brahmā, Dakṣa, the Aśvins, Rudra, Indra, the Earth, Moon, Sun, Wind, and Fire,

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the ṛṣis along with the assemblies of herbs, and the hosts of beings protect you!

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As rasāyana is to the ṛṣis, as amṛta is to the gods,

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as nectar is to the supreme serpents, so let this medicine be to you!' Having consecrated it thus, one should have the patient who faces north or east drink it—especially one afflicted with kapha-fever, gulma, or coryza—again and again until pitta appears, by which means he vomits properly. But if the urge is weak, one should repeatedly promote it with pippalī, āmalaka, mustard, and vacā paste with salted warm water until the sighting of pitta.

7.1.14_4

Such is the entire rule for emetic formulations.

7.1.15

In all emetics, moreover, one should prescribe honey and rock salt to liquefy and cleave the kapha.

7.1.15_1

Nor is there an incompatibility of heat with honey when it is combined in an emetic formulation, because it is returned undigested and because of its extraction of the doshas.

7.1.16

One should filter two parts each of the fruit-seeds with the decoction of kovidāra and the rest twenty-one times; grinding the third part with that liquid, one should roll pills equal in size to a harītakī, bibhītaka, or āmalaka. Rubbing one or two of them with an añjali measure of any one of the aforementioned decoctions, one should administer it in strong salivation of śleṣman, glandular swellings, fever, abdominal enlargement, and anorexia; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.17

[One should give] milk of seeds of the fruit, or a milk-gruel made with it, in down-coursing internal hemorrhage and in burning of the heart; or the upper layer of curd produced from it in vomiting of kapha, tamaka-asthma, and excessive salivation; or an añjali of cream from that cold milk when pitta is aggravated and the chest, throat, and heart are coated with thin kapha; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.18

Butter produced from milk boiled with seeds of the fruit, prepared with the paste and decoction of the fruit and others, should be given to drink in proper measure to one whose digestive fire is overpowered by kapha and whose body is wasting away; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.19

With powder that looks like flower pollen, thoroughly impregnated twenty-one times with the decoction of the fruit and others, one should dust in the evening a large lotus growing in a lake; taking it up in the morning after it has stayed the night and been dusted again, one should have it smelled by a delicate person whose pitta and kapha are agitated and who is averse to medicine, after he has drunk to the throat any one of haridrā-kṛsarā or milk-gruel combined with rock salt, jaggery, and treacle; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.20

Cooking the fresh juice of seeds of the fruit strained by the method for bhallātaka until it becomes treacle-like, one should have him lick it until thread-formation occurs; or one should have him drink it dried in the sun and powdered, along with a decoction of jīmūtaka and others, when pitta has gone to the site of kapha; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.21

Powders of seeds of the fruit strained through the decoction of any of the six—the fruit and others—as before, made into pills and accompanied by decoctions of the fruit and others, are to be drunk; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.22

An electuary prepared with the decoction of any one of the seeds of the fruit, āragvadha, vṛkṣaka, svādukaṇṭaka, pāṭhā, pāṭalā, śārṅgeṣṭā, mūrvā, saptaparṇa, naktamāla, picumarda, paṭola, suṣavī, guḍūcī, somavalka, dvīpikā, pippalī, pippalīmūla, hastipippalī, citraka, and ginger [is given]; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.23

An utkārikā prepared in the manner of an utkārikā, or modakas in the manner of modakas, with the decoction of any one of twenty drugs—seeds of the fruit, elā, hareṇukā, śatapuṣpā, kustumburu, tagara, kuṣṭha, tvak, coraka, marubaka, aguru, guggulu, elavāluka, śrīveṣṭaka, paripelava, māṃsī, śaileyaka, sthauṇeyaka, sarala, pārāvata-padī, and aśokarohiṇī—should be administered according to the doṣa, disease, and preference; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.24

Flour of sesame and śāli rice impregnated with the fresh juice and decoction of seeds of the fruit, accompanied by that decoction, made into pancakes according to the method for pancake, or into cakes according to the method for cake [should be given]; the rest is the same as before.

7.1.25

And by this very method, one should prepare [them] with the decoction of any one of sumukha, surasā, kuṭheraka, kāṇḍīra, kālamālaka, parṇāsa, kṣavaka, phaṇijjhaka, gṛñjana, kāsamarda, bhṛṅgarāja, poṭa, ikṣuvālikā, kālaṅkataka, and daṇḍairaka.

7.1.26

Likewise, combining madana fruits with any one of jujube-ṣāḍava, rāga, electuary, modaka, utkārikā, refreshing drink, pānaka, meat broth, vegetable soup, and liquor, one should give it according to the doṣa, disease, and preference; by means of these he vomits well.

7.1.27

Madana, karahāṭa, rāṭha, piṇḍītaka, phala,
and śvasana: its preparations are stated under these synonyms.

7.1.28

Here are the verses:

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Nine formulations among the decoctions, eight among the pills, five in milk and ghee,
two as treacle and powder, one to be smelled, six in the form of suppositories,

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twenty each in electuaries, modakas, and utkārikās,
and sixteen formulations each are stated in pancakes and cakes,

7.1.30

ten other [formulations] in ṣāḍava and the rest: these one hundred and thirty-three
formulations have been duly taught by the great sage in the chapter on the formulation of the fruit.

7.1.30_1

Thus ends the first chapter, named Formulation of Madana, in the Section on Formulation of the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, being incomplete, completed by Dṛḍhabala. //1

7.2.1

Now we shall explain the formulation of jīmūtaka.

7.2.2

Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya:

7.2.3

Hear this formulation of jīmūtaka, which depends on its fruits and flowers:
its synonyms are garāgarī, veṇī, and likewise devatāḍaka.

7.2.4

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

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

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

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

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

Having crushed two or three [fruits], steeped in the decoction
of guḍūcī, madhuka, kovidāra and the like, nimba, or kuṭaja,

7.2.10

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

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

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

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

Here are the two verses:

7.2.14_1

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

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

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

7.3.1

Now we shall explain the formulation of ikṣvāku.

7.3.2

Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya:

7.3.3

I shall now speak of the proven formulation of ikṣvāku, [and] for whom it is praised.

7.3.3_1

Lambā, kaṭukālābū, tumbī, and piṇḍaphalā,

7.3.4

ikṣvāku, and phalinī: its preparations are stated [under these synonyms].
In one afflicted with cough, dyspnea, poison, vomiting, and fever, emaciated by kapha,

7.3.5

and in a person who is fainting, it is desired for emesis.
A span-long fistful of the shoots of one without flowers,

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boiled in a prastha of milk, one should give in kapha-fever with increased pitta;
and in flowers and the rest, four [formulations] in milk, as in jīmūtaka.

7.3.7

Formulations [are made] of green-yellowish [fruits]; the fifth is with wine-scum.
And one part of fruit juice prepared with threefold milk

7.3.8

one should give when kapha is located in the chest, and in hoarseness and chronic catarrh.
Into a mature [fruit] whose interior has been extracted, one should pour milk; when that becomes curds,

7.3.9

one should drink it in cough with kapha, in dyspnea, and in vomiting.
One should steep the seeds with goat's milk and have it drunk

7.3.10

in artificial poison, gulma, abdominal disease, glandular swellings, goitre, and elephantiasis.
Or, afflicted with jaundice, kuṣṭha, and poison, [one should drink] the pulp from the fruit with curd-whey;

7.3.11

or one should drink buttermilk cooked with it, along with honey and salt.
[A garland] dusted with the dried fruit juices of tumbī together with its flowers

7.3.12

one should smell and vomit, if accustomed to comfort through the excellence of fragrance.
Or one should eat the fruit pulp with jaggery and sesame paste,

7.3.13

or oil of the ikṣvāku fruit, or ghee prepared as before.
Fifty [seeds], increased successively by tens, from the fruit and the rest,

7.3.14

up to a hundred, one should drink after crushing the seeds separately in the decoctions.
One should drink an antarnakhamuṣṭi with yaṣṭyāhva and the kovidāra and other

7.3.15

decoctions—the kovidāra and other [decoctions]; and the doses are considered like [those of] madana.
One should cook an añjali of tumbī seeds with a decoction of bilva root;

7.3.16

of this strained [decoction] there are three parts, and the fourth is of treacle,
and a part of seeds along with ghee, and likewise ground [seeds] in half-parts

7.3.17

of mahājālinī, jīmūta, kṛtavedhana, and vatsaka.
Stirring with a ladle over a gentle fire, one should cook that electuary

7.3.18

until it becomes thread-like and does not disperse when dropped in water.
One should lick that electuary in proper measure and drink a carminative decoction after it.

7.3.19

This procedure is stated separately for the group of four beginning with agnimantha.
Or one should drink a churned beverage made with roasted barley flour steeped in tumbī juice

7.3.20

in kapha-born fever, cough, throat diseases, anorexia,
gulma, urinary disorder, and excessive salivation; or one should drink the paste with meat broths:
thus a person vomits well and does not suffer weakness.

7.3.21

Here are the verses—

7.3.21_1

Eight in milk, and three in wine-scum, curd-whey, and buttermilk;
one to be smelled, with sesame paste, oil, and six increasing [doses] in fruits;

7.3.22

one ghee; nine others in decoctions of madhuka and the rest;
eight in pills; five electuaries; and likewise a churned drink and meat broth.

7.3.23

These forty-five formulations in the procedure of ikṣvāku
have been properly spoken by the great sage out of desire for the welfare of mankind.

7.3.23_1

Thus ends the third chapter, named 'The Procedure of Ikṣvāku', in the Section on Formulation in the treatise made by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and completed by Dṛḍhabala when unavailable.

7.4.1

Now we shall expound the procedure of dhāmārgava.

7.4.2

Thus declared the venerable Ātreya.

7.4.3

Karkoṭakī, koṭhaphalā, and mahājālinī,
and rājakośātakī: these are synonyms of dhāmārgava.

7.4.4

In slow poison, gulma, abdominal disease, cough, wind situated in the kapha receptacle,
and when kapha is situated in the throat and mouth, and in diseases born of kapha accumulation—

7.4.5

in these diseases it should be used, and in those which are firm and heavy.
One should harvest its fruit, flower, and sprout according to rule.

7.4.6

Having dried the expressed juice of the sprout, individual pills
are to be drunk with kovidāra and other [decoctions] and with decoctions of madhuka.

7.4.7

In flowers and the rest, there are four formulations in milk, and wine is the fifth,
as before. Hereafter, the procedure for the mature and dried ones will be declared.

7.4.8

A fruit with its seeds and pulp removed, left overnight with jaggery
in a decoction of madhuka, and likewise with kovidāra and the others,

7.4.9

one should give to those afflicted with gulma and abdominal disease, and whatever other kapha diseases there are;
one should give it combined with food for the pacification of vomiting and heart disease.

7.4.10

Or water-lilies and the like repeatedly steeped with its powders,
one, satiated with meat broth, milk, barley gruel, or the like, smells and vomits with ease.

7.4.11

Or making a jujube-sized pill of the powdered [fruit]
and dissolving it in just an añjali measure, one should drink it in the liquid of cow or horse dung;

7.4.12

and in the liquid of dung of the spotted deer, white-footed antelope, deer, elephant, camel, mule, sheep,
dog, donkey, and rhinoceros, it is likewise to be drunk.

7.4.13

Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, vīrā, ātmaguptā, śatāvarī,
kākolī, śrāvaṇī, medā, mahāmedā, madhūlikā—

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having powdered these one by one together with dhāmārgava,
they are electuaries combined with sugar and honey for those coughing with burning in the heart;

7.4.15

they should have warm water as the subsequent drink when kapha is accompanied by pitta heat.
With a soup of coriander and tumburu, the paste destroys all poisons.

7.4.16

In [a decoction] of jātī, saumanasāyinī, rajanī, and coraka,
of vṛścīra, mahākṣudrasahā, and haimavatī,

7.4.17

or of bimbī, punarnavā, or kāsamarda separately,
having rubbed one or two dhāmārgavas in the decoction,

7.4.18

one should drink the strained [liquid] in mental disorders: it is an excellent emetic.
Or ghee born of its boiled milk, or prepared with the fruits and the rest.

7.4.19

Here are the two verses—

7.4.19_1

Nine in the sprout, four in milk, one in wine-ferment;
twenty in decoctions, ten in paste, and twelve in dung liquid;

7.4.20

one in food, and one to be smelled; ten electuaries, and likewise a ghee:
sixty formulations in the procedure of dhāmārgava have been declared by the great sage.

7.4.20_1

Thus ends the fourth chapter, named 'The Procedure of Dhāmārgava', in the Section on Formulation in the treatise made by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and completed by Dṛḍhabala when unavailable.

7.5.1

Now we shall expound the procedure of vatsaka.

7.5.2

Thus declared the venerable Ātreya.

7.5.3

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

7.5.4

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

7.5.5

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

7.5.6

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

7.5.7

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

7.5.8

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

7.5.9

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

7.5.10

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

7.5.11

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

7.5.12

Here is a verse:

7.5.12_1

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.

7.5.12_2

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

7.6.1

Now, therefore, we shall explain the chapter on the formulation of kṛtavedhana.

7.6.2

Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya:

7.6.3

Learn the names and formulation of kṛtavedhana: / kṣveḍa, kośātakī, and mṛdaṅgaphala are its names.

7.6.4

It is exceedingly pungent, sharp, and hot, and desired in deep-seated diseases: / in dermatosis, anemia, splenomegaly, edema, abdominal swelling, artificial poison, and the like.

7.6.5

The milk and the like of the flowers and others, and liquor, are used among these as before. / But of the thoroughly dried and mature [fruits], one or two according to strength,

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one should drink with the nine decoctions of madhuka and the rest, like madana fruit. / Having boiled its fruit and strained it, one should prepare an electuary:

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one part of paste of kṛtavedhana, combined with half a part of the fruit and others, / infused separately with thirteen [decoctions] of āragvadha and the rest,

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and likewise with ten mucilaginous extracts of powders of śālmalī roots; / six suppository preparations like madana fruit, likewise the clarified butter of the fruit and others.

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One should cook fifty kośātakas in the juice of kovidāra; / that decoction one should cook again into an electuary with pastes of the fruit and others.

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There should be one part of kṣveḍa, but the rest half-parts; / one should prepare that separately in this way with decoctions of kovidāra and the rest.

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In decoctions of the fruit and others, having cooked marshy meat separately / with an equal amount of kośātakī, one should drink the salted broth.

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Equal to the fruit-seeds and the others, one should likewise drink the juice of kṣveḍa. / One suffering from cough should drink cooked kṣveḍa mixed with sugarcane juice.

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Here are two verses:

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Two in milk, two [in each], and one in liquor, likewise twenty-two decoctions, / ten mucilages, and one clarified butter, and six auspicious suppository preparations;

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eight in electuary, and seven in meat, and another formulation in sugarcane juice; / in this chapter on the formulation of kṛtavedhana, sixty formulations are proclaimed.

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Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, being incomplete, completed by Dṛḍhabala, in the Section on Formulation, the sixth chapter, titled "The Formulation of Kṛtavedhana." //6

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Now, therefore, we shall explain the chapter on the formulation of śyāmā and trivṛt.

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Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya:

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The wise declare the root of trivṛt to be best for purgation. / Its names, qualities, action, varieties, and formulation will be spoken of.

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Tribhaṇḍī, trivṛtā, śyāmā, and kūṭaraṇā, / sarvānubhūti, and suvahā are its synonymous designations.

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It is astringent, sweet, dry, and pungent in post-digestive effect; / pacifying kapha and pitta, and exciting vāta on account of its dryness.

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Now, combined with medicines destroying vāta, pitta, and kapha, / attaining distinction of formulation, it becomes an expeller of all diseases.

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Its root is twofold: black and reddish; / of the two, know that the root which is reddish in appearance is the superior.

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In the delicate, the child, the elderly, and one of gentle bowels, that is beneficial. / The black one would confuse [the senses] due to quick action, cause injury, and produce fainting.

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Because of sharpness, it irritates the heart and throat, and also expels morbidity quickly; / it is praised for men of extensive morbidities and hard bowels.

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One should dig up the root of the two grown in excellent soil, / having fasted, pure, in the bright fortnight, wearing white garments, concentrated in mind.

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That which has penetrated deep, is smooth, and not spread out horizontally, / splitting that open, one should remove the central pith and store the dried rind.

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A person unctuated and fomented is to be purged; having fasted pleasantly with only thin gruel, / taking a bolus the size of an akṣa of the two dissolved with sour [liquid], he should drink.

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With urine of cow, sheep, goat, and buffalo, with sauvīraka and tuṣodaka, / with clear wine, and with boiled triphalā, one should drink separately.

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Each one of the twelve beginning with rock salt, along with ginger, / combined with twice the amount of trivṛt powder, one should drink with hot water:

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pippalī, pippalī root, black pepper, gajapippalī, / sarala, kilima, asafoetida, bhārgī, likewise tejovatī,

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musta, haimavatī, pathyā, citraka, turmeric, sweet flag, / svarṇakṣīrī, ajamodā, and ginger—with each of these separately,

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combined with half a part each, one should drink mixed with cow's urine; / combined with half a part of madhuka, one should drink mixed with sugar-water.

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Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, medā, śrāvaṇī, called karkaṭa, / and the two named mudgaparṇī and māṣaparṇī, and great śrāvaṇī,

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kākolī, kṣīrakākolī, indrā, chinnaruhā, / kṣīraśuklā, payasyā, and that called yaṣṭī—one should drink according to rule.

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These are beneficial for vāta and pitta, while the others are for kapha and vāta. / Separately with the juices of milk, meat, sugarcane, kāśmarya, grape, and pīlu,

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or with clarified butter, one should drink powder of the two with half a part of abhayā; / or one should lick it combined with honey and clarified butter, along with sugar candy.

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Ajagandhā, tugākṣīrī, vidārī, sugar, and trivṛt / powdered and licked with honey and clarified butter: one is well purged.

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A man afflicted with fever of combined doshas, rigidity, burning, and thirst, / with a decoction and paste of śyāmā and trivṛt, together with sugar,

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should prepare an electuary according to rule; then he should lick a pāṇitala. / Having boiled sugar with honey, one should place it in a new earthen vessel;

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when cool, one should cast in trivṛt powder along with cinnamon, tejapatra, and black pepper. / One should administer this in proper dose as an electuary: a purgative for lords.

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Kuḍava parts of juices from sugarcane, grape, pīlu, and parūṣaka, / one pala of sugar candy, and half a kuḍava of honey, one should cook.

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When cold, the expert in the science should mix that electuary with trivṛt powder. / This is a purgative for lords whose pitta is elevated.

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Sugar confections, suppositories, pills, and meat cakes / one should prepare by this method: a purgative for those of pitta nature.

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Pippalī, ginger, alkali, and śyāmā along with trivṛt / one should cause to be licked with honey: a purgative for those possessing kapha.

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From mātuluṅga, abhayā, dhātrī, śrīparṇī, kola, and pomegranate, / one should cook the fresh juices thoroughly fried in oil; and there one should add

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from mango, and from wood apple, and whatever fruit is moderately sour; / when it has thickened as before, one should add trivṛt powder,

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powder of cinnamon, tejapatra, saffron, and cardamom, and honey in proper measure: / this electuary is a purgative for lords filled with kapha.

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Syrups, meat broths, vegetable broths, modakas, and seasoned sauces / one should prepare by this method for the purpose of purgation when kapha is predominant.

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Equal parts of bhṛṅga and cardamom, [equal to both] nīlī, trivṛt equal to those [combined], and sugar equal to all of them; / having powdered [them], one should drink it as a tarpaṇa with fruit juice, honey, and roasted barley meal.

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In diseases arising from vāta, pitta, and kapha, and in those with weak digestive fire, / [and] in delicate men, it is a safe purgative.

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With sugar, triphalā, śyāmā, trivṛt, pippalī, and honey, / a modaka is made that eliminates sannipāta, upward internal haemorrhage, and fever.

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Three śāṇas of trivṛt are prescribed, and three [śāṇas] of the rinds of triphalā, / and viḍaṅga, pippalī, and kṣāra, three śāṇas powdered together;

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one should lick it with ghee and honey, or consume it as a modaka with jaggery; / this is an excellent evacuative that requires no dietary restrictions.

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Gulma, spleen enlargement, dyspnoea, halīmaka, and anorexia, / and other diseases caused by kapha and vāta, this formulation dispels.

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Viḍaṅga, pippalī root, triphalā, coriander, and citraka, / black pepper, indrayava, cumin, pippalī, and hastipippalī,

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the salts, and ajamodā, each powdered to a karṣa measure; / sesame oil and trivṛt powder, two portions measuring eight palas each;

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three prasthas of the juice of āmalakī fruit, and half a tulā of jaggery; / having cooked them over a gentle fire, one should eat pills resembling jujube or udumbara fruits,

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having formed them into jaggery balls; and herein there are no restrictions on conduct or food. / Weak digestive fire, fever, fainting, dysuria, anorexia,

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sleeplessness, body ache, cough, dyspnoea, dizziness, wasting, / dermatosis, piles, jaundice, urinary disorders, gulma, abdominal enlargement, and fistula-in-ano,

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and grahaṇī disorders and anaemia they destroy; and they are virility-promoting. / They are known as the 'Kalyāṇakas', suitable in all seasons. / Thus the Kalyāṇakaguḍa.
The physician should take equal parts of vyoṣa, cinnamon, tejapatra, mustā, cardamom, viḍaṅga, āmalakī, and harītakī, and twice as much mukūlaka,

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Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit

The Compendium of Caraka 7

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