[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) › 17 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 17 English (machine translation) 17 - **Language:** English ### [17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.1) Sprinkling, immersion bath, gems together with necklaces, / cold plasters, wind from fans, / and cold, fragrant drinks / are indicated in all types of fainting. // 1 ### [17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.2) Milks prepared with the sweet group, / meat broths of wild animals with pomegranate, / likewise barley and red rice, / and satīna with green gram are recommended in faintings. // 2 ### [17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.3) One should administer decoctions that destroy fever according to the doṣa; / in fainting arising from blood, however, the regimen of cooling measures is beneficial. // 3 ### [17.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.4) In \[fainting\] arising from alcohol, one should vomit the alcohol and indulge in sleep as comfortable; / in \[fainting\] arising from poison, one should apply poison-destroying medicaments. // 4 ### [17.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.5) Jujube pulp, black pepper, uśīra, and saffron drunk with cold water / overcomes fainting, or licked with honey, \[it overcomes\] thirst. // 5 ### [17.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.6) One should drink a decoction produced from ginger, guḍūcī, kaṇṭakārī, pauṣkara, and granthika, / combined with pippalī, in faintings and in intoxications. // 38 ### [17.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.7) One should drink milk prepared with śatāvarī, balā root, and grapes, / with sugar, for the destruction of vertigo, or seeds of vāṭyālaka. // 7 ### [17.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.8) One should drink a decoction of durālabhā with clarified butter to pacify vertigo; / or the use of triphalā, or the use of milk, / or of rejuvenators, or of ten-year-old clarified butter is praised. // 8 ### [17.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.9) Triphalā used with honey at night, / and jaggery and fresh ginger in the morning, / in a person eating wholesome food, destroys in seven days / intoxication, fainting, cough, jaundice, and insanity. // 9 ### [17.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.10) Collyria, nasal drops, smoke inhalation, and insufflations, / pricking with needles, cauterisation, and pinching under the nails are recommended; // 10 ### [17.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17.11) and plucking of head hair and body hair, biting with the teeth, / and rubbing with cowhage are beneficial in arresting it. // 11 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.17.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.17) · Pramāṇa