Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 13

English (machine translation) 13

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13.1

In vāta, oil with salt; in pitta, clarified butter with honey;
in kapha, honey with alkali and pungents: a kuḍava [of gargle] is desired. // 1

13.2

The kapha residing in the throat, palate, tongue, and roots of the teeth
is extracted by that, and the voice of this [patient] becomes clear. // 2

In the first, warm water is to be drunk after consuming rice with clarified butter and jaggery;
in that arising from pitta, one should tirelessly consume food and drink with milk, and drink clarified butter. // 3

13.4

Pippalī, pippalī root, black pepper, and dry ginger:
a wise person should drink [these] with urine in loss of voice born of kapha. // 4

13.5

In hoarseness born of fat, the procedure is desired to be as in kapha;
and in that born of wasting or born of all [doṣas], one should treat it only after declaring [the poor prognosis]. // 5

13.6

With equal parts of cavya, amlavetasa, the three pungents, tamarind,
tālīsa, cumin, bamboo manna, and citraka,
a powder rubbed with jaggery and combined with the three aromatics
is praised in hoarseness, catarrh, kapha, and anorexia. // 6

13.7

Or in hoarseness, one should keep in the mouth khadira smeared with oil,
or harītakī combined with pippalī or combined with dry ginger. // 7

13.8

Having powdered ajamodā, turmeric, āmalakī, alkali, and citraka,
and licked it combined with honey and clarified butter, it removes hoarseness. // 8

13.9

Powder of bibhītaka fruit, rock salt, and pippalī
licked with buttermilk removes hoarseness;
or powder of āmalakī
drunk with cow's milk [does likewise]. // 9

13.10

Or paste of jujube leaves fried in clarified butter with rock salt:
one should apply this electuary in hoarseness and cough. // 10

13.11

One whose voice has been injured from speaking loudly
should drink milks boiled with sweet [herbs] and mixed with sugar and honey. // 11

13.12

Clarified butter properly cooked with fresh juice of kaṇṭakārī
and with [pastes of] rāsnā, balā, gokṣura, and the three pungents
destroys hoarseness
and the five kinds of cough. // 12

13.13

Taking dry ingredients when fresh juices are unavailable,
one must cook in eight times [as much] water and take what remains to a quarter. // 13

13.14

Clarified butter prepared with the juices of bhṛṅgarāja, guḍūcī,
vāsā, daśamūla, and kāsamarda,
together with pippalī,
overcomes hoarseness and cough when [taken] with honey. // 14

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit