[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) › 16 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 16 English (machine translation) 16 - **Language:** English ### [16.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.16.3) \[Thirst\] arising from pitta is destroyed by water boiled with pitta-allaying \[substances\], / and milk as well. // 3 ### [16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.16.16) Severe thirst is surely pacified by snuff and drinks / of grape, sugarcane juice, milk, yaṣṭīmadhu, honey, and utpala. // 16 ### [16.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.16.17) With milk, sugarcane juice, and grape wine; with honey, śīdhu, and jaggery water; // 17 ### [16.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.16.27) A thirsty person falls into delusion; from delusion he loses his vital breaths. / Therefore, under all conditions, water is never withheld. // 27 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.16.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.16) · Pramāṇa