Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 18

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18.1

A churning preparation with dates, grapes, vṛkṣāmla, tamarind, and pomegranates, / with parūṣaka and āmalaka, removes disorders of alcohol. // 1

18.2

One pala of the crushed substances should be thrown into four palas of cold water / and rubbed thoroughly in an earthen vessel; from this, one should drink two palas. // 2

Or [drinks] mixed with pea and mung bean, accompanied by pomegranate and āmalaka, / or with the juice of grapes, āmalaka, dates, and parūṣaka, / one should prepare as various kinds of refreshing drinks, soups, and meat juices. // 3

18.4

Alcohol mixed with black salt and trikaṭu, combined with a little water, / should be given to one whose wine has digested, removing alcoholism born of vāta. // 4

18.5

Mung bean soup combined with sugar, or sweet meat broth, / should be used in alcoholism born of pitta, as well as cooling treatments on all sides. // 5

18.6

In alcoholism arisen from kapha, fasting [is prescribed] according to strength; / concentrating [the mind], one should drink alcohol combined with appetising medicines. // 6

18.7

When caused by all [three doṣas], this entire treatment is to be applied. / Through these combined treatments, intoxication-disorder goes to quietude. // 7

18.8

Otherwise, abandoning the alcohol regimen, he should administer milk to him / when kapha has dwindled through fasting and other [measures], and lightness and weakness have set in. // 8

18.9

Milk has properties equal to bodily vigour (ojas) and is the opposite of alcohol; / one should practice the use of milk or wine gradually, little by little. // 9

18.10

Clarified butter prepared with milk, decoction of punarnavā, and a paste of yaṣṭīmadhu, / produces nourishment when drunk by one whose bodily vigour is ruined by drinking alcohol. // 10

18.11

Black salt, cumin, vṛkṣāmla, together with amlavetasa, / cinnamon, cardamom, and half a part of black pepper, joined with a share of sugar— // 11

18.12

the eight-limbed salt is wholesome, supreme in kindling the digestive fire; / one should give it in alcoholism dominated by kapha, as a purifier of the channels. // 12

18.13

Cavya, black salt, asafoetida, citron, dried ginger, and ajwain: / this powder should be given with alcohol, relieving the pain of alcoholism. // 13

18.14

Bathed in water, his limbs smeared with sandalwood, / wearing garlands, taking boiled rice along with meat side-dishes, / drinking wine, he will not incur diseases at all, / nor does he fall into intoxication that destroys mind and intellect. // 14

18.15

That beverage of grapes, kapittha fruit, and pomegranate / which is rich in honey and sugar removes the derangement caused by drinking. // 15

18.16

Clarified butter prepared with decoction of harītakī or with juice of āmalakī, / or Kalyāṇaka clarified butter, one should drink to cure intoxication and fainting. // 16

18.17

Intoxication produced from areca nut, accompanied by vomiting, fainting, and diarrhoea, / is quickly pacified by cold water drunk to satisfaction. // 17

18.18

By smelling wild dry cow-dung, by drinking water, or by consuming salt, / intoxication from areca nut subsides, as does pain from lime by taking a mouthful of sugar. // 18

18.19

Smelling a small amount of conch powder-dust dispels intoxication. / Juice of ash gourd with jaggery pacifies intoxication caused by kodo millet, / and milk with sugar pacifies [poisoning] caused by datura through drinking. // 19

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit