[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) › 18 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 18 English (machine translation) 18 - **Language:** English ### [18.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.18.1) A churning preparation with dates, grapes, vṛkṣāmla, tamarind, and pomegranates, / with parūṣaka and āmalaka, removes disorders of alcohol. // 1 ### [18.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.18.3) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.18.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.18) · Pramāṇa