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# The Compendium of Caraka 7.4

English (machine translation) 7.4

- **Language:** English

### [7.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.4.1)

Now we shall expound the procedure of dhāmārgava.

### [7.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.4.2)

Thus declared the venerable Ātreya.

### [7.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.4.3)

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

### [7.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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,

### [7.4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.4.9)

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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.4.13)

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

### [7.4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.4.16)

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

### [7.4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.4.17)

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

### [7.4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.4.19)

Here are the two verses—

### [7.4.19\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.4.1) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit

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