Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 16
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16.1
In thirst arising from vāta, curd with jaggery is recommended, / as well as nourishing, cold meat broths, and the juice of guḍūcī itself. // 1
16.2
Water prepared with the five groups of five plant parts that have been described, / or with the first group [among them], / a person should drink pleasantly warm in small measure; / one should never suppress thirst. // 2
16.3
[Thirst] arising from pitta is destroyed by water boiled with pitta-allaying [substances], / and milk as well. // 3
16.4
In thirst caused by pitta, one should drink water containing kāśmarya and sugar, / sandalwood, uśīra, and padmaka, / combined with grape and madhuka. // 4
16.5
In thirst arising from pitta, the juice of ripe udumbara, / or its decoction cooled down, or water of the śārivādi group [is recommended] likewise. // 5
16.6
In thirst arising from vāta and pitta, there should be milk / or clarified butter prepared with jīvanīya [drugs]; / likewise water combined with grape, sandalwood, / dates, uśīra, and honey. // 6
16.7
One should prepare decoctions appropriately with [drugs of] the śārivādi [group], the tṛṇapañcamūla, / likewise the utpalādi or the madhura group, / and others such as madhūka flowers. // 7
16.8
[Water] prepared with bilva, aṭakī, dhātakī, pañcakola, / and darbha destroys [thirst] arising from kapha. / Emesis with heated water of neem sprouts / is also beneficial in this condition. // 8
16.9
Pleasant and fragrant alcoholic drinks / containing cumin, ginger, dry ginger, / and sauvarcala salt, flooded with half [their measure of] water, / drunk, immediately pacify thirst. // 9
16.10
One should overcome [thirst] arising from injury by dispelling pain / and by drinks of meat broth and blood. / Water with milk, or meat broth, or honey-water / should destroy [thirst] arising from wasting. // 10
16.11
One should overcome thirst caused by heavy food through vomiting, / and all [forms of thirst] except that caused by wasting. // 11
16.12
Cold water of parched paddy combined with honey, stirred with jaggery, / and accompanied by kāśmarya and sugar, / a man afflicted with thirst should drink. // 12
16.13
In this condition, milk quickly pacifies the thirst / of people who are excessively dry and weak; / or goat's meat broth fried in clarified butter, / cold, sweet, and agreeable to the heart. // 13
16.14
Or one should drink a decoction of mango and jambū combined with honey; / it dispels all vomiting and removes thirst. // 14
16.15
Shoot-tips of vaṭa, sugar, lodhra, pomegranate, madhuka, and honey: / one should drink [these] with rice water to check vomiting and thirst. // 15
16.16
Severe thirst is surely pacified by snuff and drinks / of grape, sugarcane juice, milk, yaṣṭīmadhu, honey, and utpala. // 16
16.17
With milk, sugarcane juice, and grape wine; with honey, śīdhu, and jaggery water; // 17
16.18
and with the sour juice of vṛkṣāmla, a gargle checks dryness of the palate. / In dryness of the palate, one should drink clarified butter or ghee scum. // 18
16.19
Those severely emaciated by fainting, vomiting, thirst, burning sensation, women, or alcohol, / in internal haemorrhage, or in intoxication / should drink cold water. // 19
16.20
Fermented grain-water destroys distaste in the mouth, dirt, and foul odour; / that very [liquid], drunk without salt, is supreme in removing swelling of the mouth. // 20
16.21
Holding a gargle of honey brings about clarity in the mouth, / heals ulcers in the mouth, / and pacifies burning sensation and thirst. // 21
16.22
The juice of kola, pomegranate, vṛkṣāmla, cukrīkā, and cukrikā— / this paste of five sours applied to the mouth immediately checks thirst. // 22
16.23
Or one should make the thirsty person drink cold water mixed with honey up to the throat / and make him vomit; by that, thirst is pacified. // 23
16.24
A firm pill made of shoot-tips of vaṭa, kuṣṭha, honey, parched paddy, and blue water lily, / placed in the mouth, quickly checks thirst. // 24
16.25
One should feed [the patient] boiled red rice, cooled and mixed with honey; / by that, longstanding vomiting and thirst subside. // 25
16.26
A patient afflicted with a previous disease, depressed, tormented by thirst and begging for water, / if he does not receive it, quickly meets death or prolonged disease. // 26
16.27
A thirsty person falls into delusion; from delusion he loses his vital breaths. / Therefore, under all conditions, water is never withheld. // 27
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