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# Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 13

English (machine translation) 13

- **Language:** English

### [13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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

### [13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.13.3)

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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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

## Linked texts (1)

- [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.13.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit

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