The Compendium of Caraka 7.11

English (machine translation) 7.11

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Now we shall explain the formulation of saptalā and śaṅkhinī.

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Saptalā is also named carmasāhvā and bahuphenarasā; / and śaṅkhinī is tiktalā, yavatiktā, and akṣipīḍaka.

They are to be employed in gulma, heart disease, skin disease, swelling, abdominal disease, and the like, / because of their depressant, sharp, and rough qualities, especially where phlegm predominates.

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The not excessively dry fruit of śaṅkhinī should be taken, freed from its husk; / and having gathered the roots of saptalā, he should put them into a vessel.

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A bolus of the two, the size of an akṣa, combined with prasannā and salt, / he should administer in heart disease arising from phlegm and wind, and in gulma.

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With priyāla, pīlu, karkandhu, jujubes, āmrātaka, and pomegranates, / with grapes, jackfruit, dates, badara, sour fruit, and parūṣaka,

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in maireya, sour curd scum, sauvīraka, husk-water, / and in sīdhu, this formulation would produce easy and rapid purgation.

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He should cook oil in milk boiled with vidārigandhā and the rest, / with a paste of saptalā and śaṅkhinī containing half a māṣa of trivṛt and śyāmā.

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Mixed with curd scum, he should give that cooked [oil] to drink; / or two parts of śaṅkhinī powder and one of sesame powder,

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he should drink that oil pressed with a decoction of harītakī; / this same procedure applies to linseed, mustard, castor, and karañja.

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The ghee that arises from milk boiled with śaṅkhinī and saptalā, / with a paste portion of those two along with half of trivṛt and śyāmā,

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stirred with milk and cooked, he should drink that purgative; / this formulation of dantī and dravantī, or of ajaśṛṅgī and ajagandhā,

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and of kṣīriṇī, nīlikā, and likewise of the two karañjas, / of masūravidalā, and likewise of pratyakparṇī,

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ghee is again to be cooked in the same way with a paste of half a part of the two groups; / he should cook ghee in a decoction of śaṅkhinī, saptalā, and dhātrī.

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Ghee [is prepared] like the trivṛt formulation, and three electuaries like that of lodhra; / and the combination with wine and kampillaka should be made just like that of lodhra.

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In the formulation of dantī and dravantī, in sauvīraka and husk-water, / and of ajagandhā and ajaśṛṅgī, they would likewise act for purgation.

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Here are two verses:

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Ten decoctions, six in oil, and eight in ghee, / five in wine, three electuaries, and a formulation in kampillaka:

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these thirty-nine formulations are spoken of for saptalā and śaṅkhinī, / successful when combined together, and also beneficial singly.

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

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Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit