[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Later Compendia, Diagnosis and Therapeutics](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha) › [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt) › 11 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 11 English (machine translation) 11 - **Language:** English ### [11.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.1) 1. Vāstūka, vāyasī greens, radish, suniṣaṇṇa, / unctuous substances such as oil, pastries made with milk, sugarcane juice, and jaggery, 1. ### [11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.2) curd, sour gruel, sour fruits, and clear liquor / are commended in cough due to vāta, along with sweet, sour, and saline \[foods\]. 2. ### [11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.3) One should feed beneficial śāli rice, barley, wheat, and ṣaṣṭika / with broths of domestic, wetland, and aquatic animals, or with soups of māṣa and ātmaguptā. 3. ### [11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.4) A decoction made of pañcamūla combined with pippalī powder, / taken daily while eating food with meat broth, drives out cough due to vāta. 4. ### [11.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.5) 2. Made with śṛṅgī, śaṭhī, kaṇā, bhārgī, jaggery, musta, and yavāsa, / mixed with oil, this unexcelled electuary destroys cough due to vāta. 5. ### [11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.6) 3. By licking powdered viśva, dusparśa, śṛṅgī, drākṣā, śaṭhī, and sugar / with oil, one overcomes severe cough arising from vāta. 6. ### [11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.7) An electuary made with bhārgī, drākṣā, śaṭhī, śṛṅgī, pippalī, and ginger, / combined with jaggery and oil, is beneficial for those suffering from cough due to vāta. 7. ### [11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.8) In cough due to pitta, when kapha is thin, the physician should administer trivṛt combined with sweet drugs; / when kapha is thick, he should combine it with bitter drugs for purgation. 8. ### [11.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.9) Śyāmāka, barley, and kodrava, taken in measured quantity with sweet broths of wild animals, / with soups of mudga and the like, and with bitter greens, are wholesome. 9. ### [11.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.10) Water decocted with balā, the two bṛhatīs, vāsā, and drākṣā, / combined with sugar and honey, is a drink that relieves cough due to pitta. 10. ### [11.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.11) Milk boiled with a decoction of śarādi-pañcamūla / and of pippalī and drākṣā should be drunk with honey and sugar. 11. ### [11.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.12) With the two kākolīs, the two bṛhatīs, and the two medās, together with vāsā and ginger, / one should prepare meat broths, milk, and soups in cough due to pitta. 12. ### [11.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.13) Drākṣā, āmalaka, and dates, combined with pippalī and black pepper; / one should indeed lick this with honey and clarified butter to dispel cough due to pitta. 13. ### [11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.14) Dates, pippalī, drākṣā, sugar, and puffed rice in equal parts, / as an electuary combined with honey and clarified butter, is pre-eminent in removing cough due to pitta. 14. ### [11.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.15) Having ground śaṭhī, hrībera, bṛhatī, sugar, and ginger, / one should drink the strained juice with clarified butter; it dispels cough due to pitta. 15. ### [11.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.16) Lotus seed powder with honey dispels cough due to pitta. / A strong patient who constantly suffers from cough due to kapha should first be treated with emesis, / and with barley food that is pungent, dry, hot, and destroying kapha. 16. ### [11.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.17) He should eat light foods with soups of kulattha and radish / containing pippalī and alkali, or with meat broths mixed with pungents. 17. ### [11.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.18) 4. One should drink a decoction prepared from pauṣkara, kaṭphala, bhārgī, ginger, and pippalī / when kapha is exacerbated, in cough, dyspnoea, and constriction of the chest. 18. ### [11.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.19) One should administer the fresh juice of fresh ginger combined with honey; / it relieves dyspnoea and cough, and dispels coryza and kapha. 19. ### [11.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.20) With mudga and āmalakī, barley and pomegranate, / jujube, radish, dry ginger, / dry ginger and pippalī, and kulattha, / this nine-part soup destroys diseases of kapha. 20. ### [11.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.21) In pain in the flanks, fever, dyspnoea, and cough arising from kapha, / one should drink daśamūla water combined with pippalī powder. 21. ### [11.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.22) 5. Kaṭphala, kattṛṇa, bhārgī, musta, coriander, vacā, harītakī, / śṛṅgī, parpaṭa, dry ginger, and devadāru boiled in water, 22. ### [11.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.23) mixed with honey and asafoetida, should be drunk in cough composed of vāta and kapha, / in throat disease, consumption, colic, dyspnoea, hiccup, and fever. 23. ### [11.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.24) 6. A decoction made of kaṇṭakārī with pippalī cures all coughs. / Bibhītaka smeared with clarified butter, wrapped in cow dung, 24. ### [11.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.25) and steamed in fire, certainly removes cough when kept in the mouth. / Fresh juice of vāsaka should be drunk with honey by one who eats wholesome food, 25. ### [11.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.26) in cough caused by pitta and kapha, especially in internal haemorrhage. / Pippalī, madhuka, drākṣā, lākṣā, śṛṅgī, śatāvarī, 26. ### [11.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.27) a double amount of tugākṣīrī, and sugar four times the whole: / one should lick that with honey and clarified butter to relieve cough due to chest injury. 27. ### [11.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.28) Pippalī, padmaka, lākṣā, and well-cooked bṛhatī fruit: / an electuary combined with clarified butter and honey destroys cough and dyspnoea. 28. ### [11.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.29) Powder of harītakī, ginger, and musta / mixed with an equal part of jaggery should be made into pills; / kept in the mouth, this stops / advanced dyspnoea and severe cough. 29. ### [11.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.30) 7. One karṣa, half a karṣa, one pala, two palas, and half a karṣa / of pippalī along with black pepper, pomegranate, jaggery, and barley-alkali respectively: 30. ### [11.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.31) For those coughs that are incurable by all medicines and abandoned by all physicians, / even for those vomiting pus, this medicine is wholesome. 31. ### [11.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.32) 8. Having taken parts of clove, nutmeg, and pippalī, / one akṣa each of these, / one should add half a pala of black pepper / and four palas of ginger; 32. ### [11.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.33) this powder with an equal amount of sugar forcibly / and quickly destroys these diseases by its power: / cough, fever, anorexia, urinary disorders, abdominal lump, / dyspnoea, impaired digestion, and disorders of malabsorption syndrome. 33. ### [11.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.34) 9. Harītakī, pippalī, dry ginger, and black pepper combined with jaggery: / this is declared to be a sweet bolus that destroys cough and eliminates thirst and anorexia. 34. ### [11.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.35) With equal parts of tālīsa, leadwort, dīpyaka, cavikā, dry ginger, amlavetasa, and the three pungents, combined with the three aromatics, a pill should be made with jaggery. ### [11.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.36) In cough, dyspnoea, anorexia, chronic rhinitis, obstruction of the heart, throat, and voice, and in ailments arising from the malabsorption syndrome and rectum, \[this\] is the pill called Vyoṣāntikā. ### [11.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.37) Here, since the three aromatics are for flavouring, \[a dose of\] four māṣas should be taken. / One should smoke \[a preparation made\] of realgar, orpiment, liquorice, jaṭāmāṃsī, mustā, and iṅguda. ### [11.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.38) For three days \[one should inhale\] the smoke, and after it one should drink milk with jaggery. / This cures coughs arising from each single doṣa, from pairs, or from all doṣas, ### [11.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.39) which have not been cured even by hundreds of applications. / A jujube leaf smeared with realgar and dried in the sun, ### [11.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.40) by smoking it with milk, destroys severe cough. / Arka bark and realgar in equal parts, and half as much of the three pungents: ### [11.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.41) powdered and thrown into fire, one who knows the formulation should inhale the smoke; / then he should chew betel, or drink milk or water. / The five types of cough quickly subside, without doubt. ### [11.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.42) Eggplant skin quickly impregnated with black pepper, realgar, and arka latex, and dried; / making a smoke pipe according to rule, for one who inhales it, coughs subside. ### [11.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.43) One should cook clarified butter with a decoction of daśamūla and a paste of bhārgī; / in a decoction of cock or partridge, it is superior for relieving vāta-cough. ### [11.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.44) In an āḍhaka of daśamūla \[decoction\], one should cook a prastha of clarified butter with an akṣa each of / puṣkaramūla, śaṭhī, bilva, surasā, the three pungents, and asafoetida. ### [11.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.45) That should be given with an after-drink of thin gruel in cough where vāta and kapha predominate, / and in all dyspnoea diseases characterized by kapha and vāta. ### [11.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.46) In four prasthas of daśamūla decoction, clarified butter measured at one prastha, / pasty with pañcakola along with alkali, properly prepared, ### [11.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.47) destroys cough, heart pain, and flank pain, and eliminates hiccup and dyspnoea. / Here the best physicians prescribe the paste as six palas. ### [11.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.48) From thirty palas each of juice of kaṇṭakārī and guḍūcī, a prastha of clarified butter / properly prepared relieves vāta-cough and stimulates the digestive fire. ### [11.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.49) Clarified butter cooked with a paste of rāsnā, balā, the three pungents, and gokṣura, / in juice of kaṇṭakārī—this clarified butter eradicates the five types of cough. ### [11.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.50) In an āḍhaka of juice of kaṇṭakārī with its leaves, roots, and branches, / a prastha of clarified butter should be cooked with \[a paste of\] balā, the three pungents, viḍaṅga, śaṭhī, leadwort, ### [11.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.51) sauvarcala salt, barley alkali, bilva, āmalakī, puṣkaramūla, / vṛścīra, bṛhatī, harītakī, ajamodā, pomegranate, ṛddhi, ### [11.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.52) grape, punarnavā, cavya, dhanvayāsa, amlavetasa, / śṛṅgī, āmalakī, bhārgī, rāsnā, and gokṣura. ### [11.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.53) With these pastes, the prepared Kaṇṭakārīghṛta is praised in all coughs, / and in hiccup and dyspnoea; it destroys diseases of kapha. ### [11.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.54) In a droṇa of water, one should boil one pala each of rāsnā, daśamūla, and śatāvarī, / three mānikā portions of horse gram, jujube, and barley, ### [11.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.55) and half a tulā of goat meat; and with that entirety, / an āḍhaka of clarified butter with an equal amount of milk, with one pala each of the jīvanīya \[drugs\] ### [11.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.56) prepared with those ten pastes, after examining \[the patient\], one should administer it in vāta diseases according to the condition, / by means of nasal drops, drinks, and unctuous enemas. ### [11.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.57) It overcomes the five coughs, phthisis, dyspnoea, flank pain, anorexia, / diseases of the entire body or a single limb, and upward vāta accompanied by splenomegaly. ### [11.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.58) Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, the two medās, the two kākolīs, the two parṇīs, / jīvantī, and liquorice: this group of ten is the jīvaka group. ### [11.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.59) Daśamūla, svayaṃguptā, śaṅkhapuṣpī, śaṭhī, balā, / gajapippalī, apāmārga, pippalī root, leadwort, ### [11.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.60) bhārgī, and puṣkaramūla, each two palas; an āḍhaka of barley; / and one hundred harītakīs: one should boil in five āḍhakas of water. ### [11.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.61) When the barley is boiled soft, that strained decoction and that hundred of harītakīs, / having added a tulā of jaggery, and a kuḍava each of clarified butter, ### [11.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.62) oil, and pippalī powder, one should cook; and when cooled after preparation, \[add a kuḍava\] of honey. / One should lick two harītakīs daily, eating from this rejuvenative tonic. ### [11.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.63) It destroys wrinkles and grey hair, increases strength, longevity, and bodily elements; / it destroys the five coughs, phthisis, dyspnoea, hiccups, irregular fevers, ### [11.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.64) and likewise malabsorption syndrome, haemorrhoids, heart disease, anorexia, and chronic rhinitis. / This auspicious, supreme rejuvenative tonic was prescribed by Agastya. ### [11.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.65) One should place a tulā of kaṇṭakārī with roots, flowers, and leaves, immersed in a droṇa of water, / and one hundred harītakīs; then, having cooked it until one quarter remains, ### [11.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.66) having added one hundred \[palas\] of jaggery, cooked over fire, taken down, and then well cooled, / two palas in quantity of the three pungents, six palas of flower-nectar (honey) there, ### [11.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.67) and one pala of the four aromatics one should throw in. This electuary, administered according to the digestive fire and rule, ### [11.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.68) destroys coughs arising from vāta, from pitta and kapha, / coughs from two doṣas, and those from all three doṣas, ### [11.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11.69) cough caused by wasting, and that born of injury, along with chronic rhinitis, dyspnoea, chest injury, / and severe wasting with eleven symptoms; for it is the rejuvenative tonic taught by Bhṛgu. ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.11.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.11) · Pramāṇa