Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 12
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12.1
In a patient afflicted with hiccup and dyspnoea, sudation is desired first, after anointing with oil, / and a gentle downward movement of vāta with unctuous salt preparations.
12.2
Upward and downward purification is accepted in a strong [patient]; in a weak one, pacification. / Jujube pulp, collyrium, puffed paddy, tikta, kāñcanagairika;
12.3
pippalī, āmalakī, sugar, dry ginger, iron sulfate, and curd; / the flower of pāṭalī along with its fruit; pippalī, dates, and mustā:
12.4
these six quarter-part electuaries, combined with honey, destroy hiccup. / Liquorice combined with honey; pippalī accompanied by sugar;
12.5
dry ginger combined with jaggery: these three snuffs destroy hiccup. / Fly dung with breast milk, or snuff with water of red lac,
12.6
or breast milk accompanied by sandalwood should be applied for one overcome by hiccup. / One should drink citron juice mixed with honey and sauvarcala salt.
12.7
For one afflicted with hiccup, goat's milk prepared with dry ginger is beneficial. / Powder of pippalī, āmalakī, and dry ginger, combined with honey and sugar,
12.8
should be administered repeatedly to dispel hiccup and dyspnoea. / One suffering from hiccup and dyspnoea should drink bhārgī with dry ginger with hot water, / or dry ginger, sugar, and bhārgī combined with sauvarcala salt.
12.9
Karkaṭaśṛṅgī, the three pungents, the three fruits, kaṇṭakārī,
bhārgy, puṣkaramūla, and the five salts:
one should drink the powder [of these] with warm water in hiccup,
dyspnoea, upward vāta, cough, anorexia, and catarrh. // 9
12.10
Paste of harītakī and dry ginger,
or paste of puṣkaramūla, barley-awn ash, and black pepper:
one suffering from dyspnoea and one suffering from hiccup should drink [either] with warm water for their relief. // 10
12.11
A decoction prepared with amṛtā, dry ginger, phañjī,
kaṇṭakārī, and holy basil,
drunk with powder of pippalī,
swiftly overcomes cough and dyspnoea. // 11
12.12
A decoction of daśamūla, indeed, powdered with puṣkaramūla,
relieves dyspnoea and cough, and destroys pain in the flanks and cardiac pain. // 12
12.13
Water boiled with horse gram, dry ginger, kaṇṭakārī, and vāsā,
drunk combined with puṣkaramūla, eradicates hiccup and dyspnoea. // 13
12.14
Having mixed jaggery with an equal amount of mustard oil, one should lick it;
by use for three weeks, one conquers dyspnoea from its root. // 14
12.15
Powder of karkaṭaśṛṅgī, dry ginger, pippalī, mustā, and puṣkaramūla,
combined with śaṭhī, black pepper, and sugar,
drunk with a decoction of guḍūcī, vāsā, and the lesser five roots,
allays even severe, acute dyspnoea caused by excessive doṣas within three days. // 15
12.16
Licking turmeric, black pepper, grapes, jaggery, rāsnā, pippalī, and śaṭhī
with oil, one destroys even life-threatening dyspnoeas. // 16
12.17
Ash of peacock feathers and pippalī
powder, mixed with honey and licked,
swiftly removes violent hiccup
and destroys severe dyspnoea. // 17
12.18
A karṣa of bibhītaka fruit powder
licked thoroughly mixed with honey
quickly removes dyspnoea
and violent spasmodic cough. // 18
12.19
With hiṃsrā, viḍaṅga, pūtīka, the three fruits, the three pungents, and citraka,
one prastha of clarified butter with two [prasthas] of milk, together with four times [as much] water, // 19
12.20
one should cook with [the pastes] in measures of a kola; for it removes cough, dyspnoea,
haemorrhoids, anorexia, abdominal lump, diarrhoea, and phthisis. // 20
12.21
Tejovatī, harītakī, kuṣṭha, pippalī, kaṭurohiṇī,
bhūtika, puṣkaramūla, palāśa, citraka, śaṭhī, // 21
12.22
sauvarcala salt, tāmalakī, rock salt, dried bilva pulp,
tālīsa leaf, jīvantī, and vacā: with these in measures of an akṣa each, // 22
12.23
and with a quarter [measure] of asafoetida, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter in four times [as much] water.
Having drunk this according to strength, a person conquers hiccup and dyspnoea, // 23
12.24
as well as oedema, vāta disorders, haemorrhoids, malabsorption syndrome, and pain in the heart and flanks.
Having taken one hundred [palas] of bhārgī, and likewise another [hundred palas] of daśamūla, // 24
12.25
and one hundred harītakī fruits, one should cook them in four times [as much] water.
When a quarter remains and that liquid has been strained through a cloth, // 25
12.26
having stirred in a purified tulā of jaggery and then the harītakīs,
one should cook it again over a gentle fire until it reaches the state of an electuary. // 26
12.27
When it has cooled, one should add six palas of honey to this,
and the three pungents and the three aromatics, one pala of each separately; // 27
12.28
having powdered two karṣas of barley ash, one should then throw it in.
One should eat one harītakī and lick half a pala of the electuary. // 28
12.29
It destroys very terrible dyspnoea, and likewise the fivefold cough;
for it bestows voice and complexion, and stimulates the digestive fire of the stomach. // 29
12.30
When a measure comes stated in palas, doubling is not desired here;
since one hundred harītakīs are [equivalent to] a prastha here, the water is an āḍhaka. // 30
12.31
Horse gram, daśamūla, and likewise liquorice:
having taken one hundred [palas] of each, one should cook them in a droṇa of water. // 31
12.32
When a quarter remains, one should throw in half a tulā of jaggery;
and when it is cooked and become cold, eight palas of honey, // 32
12.33
six palas of bamboo manna, two palas of pippalī,
combined with the three aromatics: one should eat that according to the strength of the digestive fire. // 33
12.34
It destroys dyspnoea, cough, fever, hiccup, and likewise bronchial asthma.
Due to the rule of a droṇa for each hundred, however, three droṇas are to be understood here. // 34
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