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The Compendium of Caraka 7.2

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7.2.1

Now we shall explain the formulation of jīmūtaka.

7.2.2

Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya:

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

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Jīmūtaka destroys the three doṣas when prepared with its respective medicinal drugs,
and is to be employed in fever, dyspnea, hiccough, and other diseases.

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Grown in regions possessing the stated qualities, according to rule:
its flower in milk; when the fruit has formed, a drink made with milk;

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when hairy, milk-cream; when hairless, the upper layer of curd;
and when boiled in milk, sour curd formed when it is pale-green;

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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.

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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.

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

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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,

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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.

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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.

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Likewise, one should cook ghee produced from jīmūtaka milk
with the decoction of the fruit and others; that is considered an excellent emetic.

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Here are the two verses:

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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,

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four in jīvaka and the like, and one ghee is declared:
and in the formulation of jīmūtaka there are thirty-nine formulations.

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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

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