Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 15

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15.1

Indeed, all types of vomiting are considered to arise from irritation in the stomach; therefore, / one should first make [the patient] fast, excepting [vomiting] born of vāta, / or else [give] an evacuation therapy that removes kapha and pitta. // 1

15.2

Milk and water, when drunk, removes vomiting caused by emesis. / One should drink clarified butter with rock-salt to prevent vāta vomiting. // 2

15.3

Or one should drink soup of mung bean and emblic myrobalan with clarified butter and rock-salt, / or thick gruel made with the lesser five roots, mixed with honey. // 3

15.4

Juice of wood apple combined with long pepper and black pepper, / mixed with honey—this electuary pacifies severe vomiting. // 21

15.5

At the proper time, for one who is cleansed, one should provide a cooling churned drink with honey, sugar, / and parched grain, or else a thin gruel, / or boiled śāli rice with mung bean soup, / or with broths of wild animals. // 5

15.6

Having combined emblic myrobalan juice with an akṣa measure of sandalwood, / one should drink it mixed with honey: through this, vomiting ceases. // 6

15.7

Sandalwood, lotus root, bālaka, dry ginger, and vāsā: / this paste, drunk with rice-water and honey, conquers vomiting. // 7

15.8

A decoction of roasted mung beans with parched grain, honey, and sugar / is taught to destroy vomiting, diarrhoea, thirst, burning sensation, and fever. // 8

15.9

One should lick the powder of harītakī combined with honey; / once the doṣa has been directed downward, vomiting ceases quickly. // 9

15.10

One should drink a boiled [decoction] of guḍūcī, triphalā, neem, and pointed gourd; / combined with honey, it promptly cures vomiting arising from pitta and sourness. // 10

15.11

A decoction produced from parpaṭa, drunk with honey, destroys vomiting. // 11

15.12

In [vomiting] of the nature of kapha, however, emesis is praised / with long pepper, mustard, and neem water, / along with emetic nut combined with rock-salt, / for the purpose of purifying kapha and the stomach in vomiting. // 12

15.13

A powder of viḍaṅga, triphalā, and dry ginger with honey / or of viḍaṅga, nut grass, and dry ginger overcomes phlegm-born vomiting. // 13

15.14

Or one should lick jujube powder mixed with jambu seeds, / or crab's claw gall-nut with mustā, / or durālabhā combined with honey, / in order to check kapha-vomiting. // 14

15.15

Or a soothing drink with honey is a medicament for all three [types]. // 15

15.16

A decoction duly prepared from guḍūcī, termed a cold infusion, / combined with honey, is wholesome in all three. // 16

15.17

The extract that emerges from a substance placed in water / that has been boiled, and kept overnight, is designated a cold [infusion]. // 17

15.18

One pala of medicament is steeped in six or four palas / of water for a cold infusion and a hot infusion [respectively]; in that called fresh juice, [it is steeped in] two palas. // 18

15.19

A cold decoction of bael fruit or of guḍūcī, combined with honey, / should be drunk in the triad of vomitings, or mūrvā with rice-water. // 19

15.20

When one drinks little by little the water of tender shoots of jambu and mango, gavedhuka, coriander, sevya, / and hrībera with honey, / vomiting subsides; or durālabhā combined with the three aromatics, / licked with honey, destroys it. // 20

15.21

The juice of jātī [or] of kapittha, combined with pippalī and marica, / mixed with honey, taken as a linctus, pacifies severe vomiting. (21)

15.22

Having ground emblic myrobalan fruit, grapes, and one pala measure of sugar, / and having added here one pala of honey and a kuḍava of water, // 22

15.23

[this,] filtered through a cloth and drunk, removes vomiting born of all three doṣas.

15.24

Licking the powders of cardamom, cloves, nagakesara, jujube marrow, / parched grain, priyaṅgu, musta, sandalwood, and long pepper, / together with honey and sugar, / destroys vomiting born of kapha, vāta, and pitta. // 23

15.25

The marrow of jujube and emblic myrobalan, iron-pyrites ash, sugar, and honey, / with long pepper and roasted grains: this electuary quickly restrains vomiting. // 24

15.26

Having burned dried bark of aśvattha and extinguished it in water, / merely drinking that water overcomes vomiting that is difficult to cure. // 25

15.27

Liquorice combined with sandalwood, properly ground with milk, / should be stirred into that very [milk] and drunk; it destroys vomiting of blood. // 26

15.28

Of parched paddy, kapittha, honey, māgadhikā, and black pepper; / of honey, abhayā, trikaṭu, coriander, and cumin; / and of pathyā, amṛtā, black pepper, honey, and pippalī: / [these] three linctuses are for the pacification of all vomiting and anorexia. // 27

15.29

One should cook one prastha of clarified butter with the paste and decoction of padmaka, amṛtā, and neem, / and of coriander and sandalwood; it checks vomiting, / pacifies thirst and anorexia, and is supreme in removing burning sensation and fever. // 28

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit