The Compendium of Caraka 7.8

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7.8.1

Now we shall explain the formulation of caturaṅgula.

7.8.3

Āragvadha, rājavṛkṣa, śampāka, caturaṅgula, / pragraha, kṛtamāla, karṇikāra, and avaghātaka [are synonyms].

7.8.4

In patients with fever, heart disease, wind-blood, udāvarta, and the like, / rājavṛkṣa is especially wholesome: mild, sweet, and cooling.

7.8.5

In children, the elderly, the chest-wounded, the emaciated, and delicate persons, / caturaṅgula is to be employed because it is mild, harmless, and pure.

7.8.6

In the fruiting season, its fruit that is mature should be taken; / one should place a load of those high-quality [fruits] in sand.

7.8.7

Having extracted them after seven nights, the physician should dry them in the sun; / then, having extracted the pulp, he should place it in a clean vessel.

7.8.8

He should give it combined with grape juice to one afflicted with burning sensation and udāvarta, / in a child from four years old up to twelve years old.

7.8.9

A prasṛti or an añjali of the pulp of caturaṅgula / combined with the scum of wine or with jujube wine,

7.8.10

or mixed with curd scum, or with juice of āmalaka; / or having made that cold infusion, he should drink it with saubīraka,

7.8.11

or he should drink the paste of the pulp with a decoction of trivṛt, / or likewise with a decoction of bilva combined with salt and honey.

7.8.12

Or, with its decoction, having slowly cooked powder of trivṛt mixed with jaggery into an electuary, / he should have the man lick it in proper dose.

7.8.13

Or whatever ghee arises from milk prepared with caturaṅgula, / he should drink that cooked with paste of the pulp in juice of dhātrī;

7.8.14

he should drink that same ghee cooked in a decoction of daśamūla, kulattha, and barley / with pastes of śyāmā and the others.

7.8.15

Having added an añjali of pulp of śampāka and jaggery into a decoction of dantī, / he should have him drink the ariṣṭa that has stood for a month or half a month.

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Whatever drink or food is agreeable to someone—sweet, pungent, / or salty—combined with that he should give the purgative.

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In grape juice; in wine and sīdhu; in curd; and in āmalakī juice; / in saubīraka; and in decoction of trivṛt and of bilvaka;

7.8.18

in an electuary; in an ariṣṭa; and two in ghee: twelve formulations are proclaimed / in this formulation of caturaṅgula, gentle and leading to ease.

Thus ends the eighth chapter, titled "Formulation of Caturaṅgula," in the Section on Formulation of the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, being unavailable, completed by Dṛḍhabala.

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Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit