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# The Compendium of Caraka 7.5

English (machine translation) 7.5

- **Language:** English

### [7.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.1)

Now we shall expound the procedure of vatsaka.

### [7.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.2)

Thus declared the venerable Ātreya.

### [7.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.3)

Now the names of vatsaka, and the distinction between female and male,  
and its procedure, I shall declare in detail as it truly is.

### [7.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.4)

Vatsaka, kuṭaja, śakra, vṛkṣaka, girimallikā;  
its seeds are indrayava, and likewise called kaliṅgaka.

### [7.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.5)

Having large fruits, white flowers, and unctuous leaves is the male;  
and the female is darkish, with reddish flowers and small fruit stalks.

### [7.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.6)

It destroys blood-pitta and kapha, causes no complications in delicate people,  
and is commended in heart disease, fever, gout, erysipelas, and the like.

### [7.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.7)

Having gathered the fruits of both at the proper time, one should store them dry.  
Having crushed an antarnakhamuṣṭi of them, one should steep them

### [7.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.8)

with a decoction of madhuka and likewise with kovidāra and the others;  
having stood overnight, rubbed, and mixed with salt and honey,

### [7.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.9)

one should drink that: an excellent emetic destroying pitta and kapha.  
For eight days one should steep their powders with milk of arka;

### [7.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.10)

then one should drink a pāṇitala with a decoction of jīvaka.  
Likewise separately with \[decoctions\] of madana fruit, jīmūtaka, ikṣvāku, and jīvantī,

### [7.5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.11)

or with water of mustard seeds, madhūka, or salt,  
or combined with spiced rice-and-lentil mash, the physician should administer emesis.

### [7.5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.12)

Here is a verse:

### [7.5.12\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.12_1)

Nine with decoctions, five with powders, three with liquids are spoken of, / and one would be in spiced rice-and-lentil mash; those eighteen formulations are recorded.

### [7.5.12\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.7.5.12_2)

Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, being incomplete, completed by Dṛḍhabala, in the Section on Formulation, the fifth chapter, titled "The Formulation of Vatsaka." //5

## Linked texts (1)

- [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.7.5.1) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit

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