Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 14
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14.1
One should administer emesis in vāta, purgation in pitta, and emesis in kapha;
and in that born of psychological distress, one should provide things that are pleasing to the heart, agreeable, and exhilarating. // 1
14.2
Having vomited with vacā water in [anorexia of] vāta, one should drink according to rule
with unctuous substance, warm water, or wine, whichever [is suitable], the powder
of pippalī, viḍaṅga, barley ash, hareṇu, bhārgī,
rāsnā, cardamom, asafoetida, rock salt, and dry ginger. // 2
14.3
In [anorexia] of pitta, emesis with jaggery-water and sweets is recommended; / an electuary with rock-salt, sugar, honey, and clarified butter is desirable. / For one who has vomited in [anorexia] of kapha, however, the drink should be neem water, / [or] water of the golden shower tree rich in cumin, together with honey. // 3
14.4
Or rather, the powder that was stated in the case of vāta-born [anorexia] is to be used, / and one should treat that produced by all [doṣas] with all of them together. // 4
14.5
Kuṣṭha, black salt, cumin, sugar, black pepper, and biḍa-salt; / emblic myrobalan, cardamom, padmaka, uśīra, long pepper, sandalwood, and blue water lily; // 5
14.6
Lodhra, tejovatī, harītakī, the three pungents, and barley-ash; / and the fresh juice of pomegranate combined with cumin and sugar; // 6
14.7
These four gargles with oil and honey / conquer the four kinds of anorexia: those arising individually from vāta and the others, and that arising from all [three]. // 7
14.8
Cinnamon, musta, cardamom, and coriander; musta and emblic myrobalan; / cinnamon, tree turmeric, and ajowan; long pepper and tejovatī; // 8
14.9
And ajowan and tamarind—these five mouth-cleansers, / declared in [successive] quarter-verses, destroy all kinds of anorexia. // 9
14.10
Tamarind and jaggery-water, accompanied by cinnamon, cardamom, and black pepper, / kept in the mouth in the measure of a kuḍava, is praised in loss-of-appetite disorders. // 10
14.11
Caraway, cumin, black pepper, grapes, sour jujube, pomegranate, / black salt, jaggery, and honey destroy all kinds of anorexia. // 11
14.12
The three pungents, triphalā, and the two turmerics / powdered, mixed with awned barley-ash, / and combined with honey, should be administered to be kept in the mouth, / as well as other bitter and pungent medicaments. // 12
14.13
Pomegranate juice combined with biḍa-salt powder and honey, / held in the mouth, overcomes even incurable anorexia. // 13
14.14
One should take one karṣa each of / ajowan, tamarind, dry ginger, amlavetasa, / pomegranate, and sour jujube; // 14
14.15
Half a karṣa each of coriander, black salt, parched grain, and cinnamon; / one hundred [fruits] of long pepper, and two hundred of black pepper; // 15
14.16
And four palas of sugar: these should be powdered together. / That powder cleanses the tongue, is agreeable to the heart, and creates a relish for food. // 16
14.17
It relieves cardiac distress and flank pain, cures constipation and abdominal distension, / alleviates cough and dyspnoea, is bowel-binding, and dispels disorders of malabsorption syndrome and haemorrhoids. // 17
14.18
Eighteen moringa fruits, / then ten black peppers and twenty long peppers, / one pala of fresh ginger, one pala of jaggery, / and three prasthas of sour gruel; // 18
14.19
Combined with biḍa-salt, / stirred with a churning-stick, fragrant, and rich in perfume: / this is known by the name Kalahaṃsaka, / which overcomes a thousand food preparations. // 19
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