The Compendium of Caraka 7.6

English (machine translation) 7.6

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7.6.1

Now, therefore, we shall explain the chapter on the formulation of kṛtavedhana.

7.6.3

Learn the names and formulation of kṛtavedhana: / kṣveḍa, kośātakī, and mṛdaṅgaphala are its names.

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It is exceedingly pungent, sharp, and hot, and desired in deep-seated diseases: / in dermatosis, anemia, splenomegaly, edema, abdominal swelling, artificial poison, and the like.

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The milk and the like of the flowers and others, and liquor, are used among these as before. / But of the thoroughly dried and mature [fruits], one or two according to strength,

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one should drink with the nine decoctions of madhuka and the rest, like madana fruit. / Having boiled its fruit and strained it, one should prepare an electuary:

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one part of paste of kṛtavedhana, combined with half a part of the fruit and others, / infused separately with thirteen [decoctions] of āragvadha and the rest,

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and likewise with ten mucilaginous extracts of powders of śālmalī roots; / six suppository preparations like madana fruit, likewise the clarified butter of the fruit and others.

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One should cook fifty kośātakas in the juice of kovidāra; / that decoction one should cook again into an electuary with pastes of the fruit and others.

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There should be one part of kṣveḍa, but the rest half-parts; / one should prepare that separately in this way with decoctions of kovidāra and the rest.

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In decoctions of the fruit and others, having cooked marshy meat separately / with an equal amount of kośātakī, one should drink the salted broth.

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Equal to the fruit-seeds and the others, one should likewise drink the juice of kṣveḍa. / One suffering from cough should drink cooked kṣveḍa mixed with sugarcane juice.

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Two in milk, two [in each], and one in liquor, likewise twenty-two decoctions, / ten mucilages, and one clarified butter, and six auspicious suppository preparations;

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eight in electuary, and seven in meat, and another formulation in sugarcane juice; / in this chapter on the formulation of kṛtavedhana, sixty formulations are proclaimed.

Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, being incomplete, completed by Dṛḍhabala, in the Section on Formulation, the sixth chapter, titled "The Formulation of Kṛtavedhana." //6

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Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit