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The Compendium of Caraka 7.10

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Now we shall explain the formulation of sudhā.

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Thus said the reverend Ātreya:

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Of all purgatives, sudhā is considered the sharpest; / for it swiftly breaks through the accumulation of doṣas, with violent perturbation.

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Therefore, it should never be used in a mild bowel, / nor when the accumulation of doṣas is small, provided the channels are clear.

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In anemia, abdominal disease, gulma, dermatosis, one afflicted with latent poison, / swelling, madhumeha, and when the mind is perturbed by doṣas—

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knowing a patient gripped by such diseases to be strong, / one should administer mahāvṛkṣa; for when properly applied,

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it immediately removes even a great accumulation of doṣas. / It is considered twofold: with few thorns and with many thorns.

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The one with many thorns is superior to the one with few very sharp thorns; / by name it is snuk, guḍā, nandā, sudhā, and nistriṃśapatraka.

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Having slit those two, the intelligent physician should extract the milky sap with a knife, / [from a plant] two or three years old, especially at the end of the dewy season.

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Making it equal in amount to a decoction of bilva and the rest, or of bṛhatī, or of kaṇṭakārī individually, / he should dry it over coals.

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Then he should drink a dose equal to a jujube fruit with saubīraka, / or with husk-water, or with juice of jujubes, or of āmalaka,

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or with wine, curd scum, or citron juice; / sātalā, kāñcanakṣīrī, śyāmā and the rest, and the three pungents,

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As available, he should impregnate them with the latex of sudhā for seven days; / then he should drink a jujube-sized dose with ghee or with meat broth.

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The three pungents, triphalā, dantī, citraka, and trivṛt, / well impregnated with the latex of snuk, he should prepare as a jaggery drink.

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Trivṛt, āragvadha, dantī, śaṅkhinī, and saptalā in equal parts, / he should put in cow urine for a night, then dry in the sun.

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Having thus impregnated them for seven days, he should again impregnate them / for another seven days with the latex of snuk; then [perfumed powders] impregnated with that and dried,

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or smelling a garland of fragrant flowers [so treated], or wrapping himself in a cloth [steeped in it], / kings with soft bowels purge easily and quickly.

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Cooking an electuary with a decoction of śyāmā and trivṛt, / with latex of snuk, ghee, and molasses, he should have a person lick it in proper dose for purgation.

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Or he should make him drink the latex of sudhā with vegetable broths, meat broths, or ghees; / or a person should eat dried fish or meat impregnated with it.

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He should cook ghee with milk and āmalaka as in the case of caturaṅgula, / or prepare wine in milk, or cook ghee as before.

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Here are two verses:

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Seven with sauvīraka and the like, with ghee, and with broth, / the drink, smelling, electuary, and three formulations with vegetable broth and the rest;

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two with dried fish and meat, one wine, and two ghees: / these twenty formulations of mahāvṛkṣa are proclaimed.

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Thus ends the tenth chapter, titled "Formulation of Sudhā," in the Section on Formulation of the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, where unavailable, completed by Dṛḍhabala.

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