[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) › 12 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 12 English (machine translation) 12 - **Language:** English ### [12.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.12.4) these six quarter-part electuaries, combined with honey, destroy hiccup. / Liquorice combined with honey; pippalī accompanied by sugar; ### [12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.12.13) Water boiled with horse gram, dry ginger, kaṇṭakārī, and vāsā, drunk combined with puṣkaramūla, eradicates hiccup and dyspnoea. // 13 ### [12.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.12.16) Licking turmeric, black pepper, grapes, jaggery, rāsnā, pippalī, and śaṭhī with oil, one destroys even life-threatening dyspnoeas. // 16 ### [12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.12.18) A karṣa of bibhītaka fruit powder licked thoroughly mixed with honey quickly removes dyspnoea and violent spasmodic cough. // 18 ### [12.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.12.21) Tejovatī, harītakī, kuṣṭha, pippalī, kaṭurohiṇī, bhūtika, puṣkaramūla, palāśa, citraka, śaṭhī, // 21 ### [12.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.12.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.12) · Pramāṇa