[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) › 14 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 14 English (machine translation) 14 - **Language:** English ### [14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.14.8) Cinnamon, musta, cardamom, and coriander; musta and emblic myrobalan; / cinnamon, tree turmeric, and ajowan; long pepper and tejovatī; // 8 ### [14.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.14.9) And ajowan and tamarind—these five mouth-cleansers, / declared in \[successive\] quarter-verses, destroy all kinds of anorexia. // 9 ### [14.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.14.11) Caraway, cumin, black pepper, grapes, sour jujube, pomegranate, / black salt, jaggery, and honey destroy all kinds of anorexia. // 11 ### [14.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.14.13) Pomegranate juice combined with biḍa-salt powder and honey, / held in the mouth, overcomes even incurable anorexia. // 13 ### [14.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.14.14) One should take one karṣa each of / ajowan, tamarind, dry ginger, amlavetasa, / pomegranate, and sour jujube; // 14 ### [14.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.14.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.14) · Pramāṇa