[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt) › 7.3 # The Compendium of Caraka 7.3 English (machine translation) 7.3 - **Language:** English ### [7.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.3.1) Now we shall explain the formulation of ikṣvāku. ### [7.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.3.2) Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya: ### [7.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.3.3) I shall now speak of the proven formulation of ikṣvāku, \[and\] for whom it is praised. ### [7.3.3\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.3.3_1) Lambā, kaṭukālābū, tumbī, and piṇḍaphalā, ### [7.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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, ### [7.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.3.6) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.3.21) Here are the verses— ### [7.3.21\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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. ## Linked texts (1) - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.3.1) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.3) · Pramāṇa