The Compendium of Caraka 7.3

English (machine translation) 7.3

Language: English

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Now we shall explain the formulation of ikṣvāku.

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

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Lambā, kaṭukālābū, tumbī, and piṇḍaphalā,

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

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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.

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

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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,

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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

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;

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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

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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,

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

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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

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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;

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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

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Here are the verses—

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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;

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

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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.

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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.

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Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit