The Compendium of Caraka 7.4

English (machine translation) 7.4

Language: English

7.4.1

Now we shall expound the procedure of dhāmārgava.

7.4.3

Karkoṭakī, koṭhaphalā, and mahājālinī,
and rājakośātakī: these are synonyms of dhāmārgava.

7.4.4

In slow poison, gulma, abdominal disease, cough, wind situated in the kapha receptacle,
and when kapha is situated in the throat and mouth, and in diseases born of kapha accumulation—

7.4.5

in these diseases it should be used, and in those which are firm and heavy.
One should harvest its fruit, flower, and sprout according to rule.

7.4.6

Having dried the expressed juice of the sprout, individual pills
are to be drunk with kovidāra and other [decoctions] and with decoctions of madhuka.

7.4.7

In flowers and the rest, there are four formulations in milk, and wine is the fifth,
as before. Hereafter, the procedure for the mature and dried ones will be declared.

7.4.8

A fruit with its seeds and pulp removed, left overnight with jaggery
in a decoction of madhuka, and likewise with kovidāra and the others,

one should give to those afflicted with gulma and abdominal disease, and whatever other kapha diseases there are;
one should give it combined with food for the pacification of vomiting and heart disease.

7.4.10

Or water-lilies and the like repeatedly steeped with its powders,
one, satiated with meat broth, milk, barley gruel, or the like, smells and vomits with ease.

7.4.11

Or making a jujube-sized pill of the powdered [fruit]
and dissolving it in just an añjali measure, one should drink it in the liquid of cow or horse dung;

7.4.12

and in the liquid of dung of the spotted deer, white-footed antelope, deer, elephant, camel, mule, sheep,
dog, donkey, and rhinoceros, it is likewise to be drunk.

7.4.13

Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, vīrā, ātmaguptā, śatāvarī,
kākolī, śrāvaṇī, medā, mahāmedā, madhūlikā—

7.4.14

having powdered these one by one together with dhāmārgava,
they are electuaries combined with sugar and honey for those coughing with burning in the heart;

7.4.15

they should have warm water as the subsequent drink when kapha is accompanied by pitta heat.
With a soup of coriander and tumburu, the paste destroys all poisons.

7.4.16

In [a decoction] of jātī, saumanasāyinī, rajanī, and coraka,
of vṛścīra, mahākṣudrasahā, and haimavatī,

7.4.17

or of bimbī, punarnavā, or kāsamarda separately,
having rubbed one or two dhāmārgavas in the decoction,

7.4.18

one should drink the strained [liquid] in mental disorders: it is an excellent emetic.
Or ghee born of its boiled milk, or prepared with the fruits and the rest.

7.4.19

Here are the two verses—

7.4.19_1

Nine in the sprout, four in milk, one in wine-ferment;
twenty in decoctions, ten in paste, and twelve in dung liquid;

7.4.20

one in food, and one to be smelled; ten electuaries, and likewise a ghee:
sixty formulations in the procedure of dhāmārgava have been declared by the great sage.

7.4.20_1

Thus ends the fourth chapter, named 'The Procedure of Dhāmārgava', in the Section on Formulation in the treatise made by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and completed by Dṛḍhabala when unavailable.

Linked texts (1)

Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit