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(1) ### [1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.2) By Cakrapāṇi, a compendium possessing sentences that explain hidden passages / is composed with well-tested formulations renowned across various works of Āyurveda. (2) ### [1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.3) The physician should first examine the disease, and immediately thereafter the medicine; / subsequently, having acquired knowledge beforehand, he should perform the treatment. (3) ### [1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.4) In acute fever, one should avoid daytime sleep, bathing, inunction, food, sexual intercourse, / anger, a direct draft of wind, physical exercise, and decoctions. (4) ### [1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.5) In fever, fasting alone is prescribed at the beginning, except in fever / arising from wasting, vāta, fear, anger, passion, grief, and physical exertion. (5) ### [1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.6) The doṣa located in the stomach, having destroyed the digestive fire, associated with āma, obstructing the channels, / produces fever; therefore one should practice fasting. (6) ### [1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.7) For one whose doṣas and digestive fire are unstable, fasting digests the doṣas, / dispels fever, is appetising, and produces appetite, taste, and lightness. (7) ### [1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.8) And one should treat him with fasting that does not conflict with the vital breath; / health has its basis in strength, and that is the purpose for which this procedure of treatment exists. (8) ### [1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.9) Fasting, however, must not be done when accompanied by vāta, hunger, thirst, dryness of the mouth, or dizziness, / nor in a child, an elderly person, a pregnant woman, or a weak person. (9) ### [1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.10) When there is discharge of flatus, urine, and faeces, when there is lightness of the body, / when there is clarity of the chest, eructation, throat, and mouth, when stupor and fatigue are gone, (10) ### [1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.11) when perspiration has occurred, when anorexia \[has ceased\], and when hunger and thirst arise together, / and when the inner self is free from distress, fasting is to be declared \[properly\] accomplished. (11) ### [1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.12) Splitting pain in the joints, body-aches, cough, dryness of the mouth, / loss of hunger, anorexia, thirst, weakness of the ears and eyes, (12) ### [1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.13) confusion of the mind, frequent upward-moving wind, darkness in the heart, / and loss of the body, the digestive fire, and strength will occur if fasting is overdone. (13) ### [1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.14) Or when fever has arisen in one who has just eaten, originating from excessive nourishment, / emesis is commended for one fit for emesis; so says Vāgbhaṭa. (14) ### [1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.15) Having recognised that the doṣas, predominated by kapha, aggravated, and located in the stomach, / are causing fever, one should remove them at the proper time with emetics in those fit for emesis. (15) ### [1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.16) Emesis in acute fever when the doṣas have not reached \[the stomach\] / severely causes heart disease, dyspnoea, abdominal distension, and delusion. (16) ### [1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.17) To one who is thirsty, one should give hot water in vāta-kapha fever; / in a recently arisen pitta fever, on the other hand, \[water\] boiled with bitter \[herbs\] and cooled. (17) ### [1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.18) Both are appetising, digestive, fever-destroying, / purifying to the channels, strength-giving, conferring taste and perspiration, and auspicious. (18) ### [1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.19) One should give water boiled and cooled with musta, parpaṭaka, uśīra, candana, udīcya, and nāgara / for the alleviation of thirst and fever. (19) ### [1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.20) Direct contact with strong medicament is prohibited in acute fever; / the medicament, through its preparation in water, thin gruel, and the like, is thereby harmless. (20) ### [1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.21) When the ṣaḍaṅga and other \[recipes\] are employed in water that has been boiled and cooled, / having added just a karṣa of it, one should prepare it in a prastha of water. (21) ### [1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.22) Reduced by boiling to one half, it should be administered as a drink and in the preparation of thin gruel and the like. / At the proper time, one should treat one who has vomited or fasted with thick gruels, (22) ### [1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.23) prepared with appropriate medicines, preceded by the scum of boiled rice from the start. / The fever patient, hungry and with weak digestive fire, should drink from the beginning (23) ### [1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.24) a thin gruel of parched paddy, easy to digest, boiled with pippalī and nāgara, which destroys fever; / or, in pain of the flanks, urinary bladder, and head, a thin gruel of red rice (24) ### [1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.25) prepared with śvadaṃṣṭrā and kaṇṭakārī, which dispels fever, he should drink. / When the alimentary tract is constipated, with appetite, the fever patient should drink a boiled thin gruel (25) ### [1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.26) with mṛdvīkā, pippalīmūla, cavya, citraka, and nāgara. / With the lesser five roots, with the greater \[five roots\], with both together with dhanyāka, (26) ### [1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.27) and with kaṇā, preparation of soup, thin gruel, and the like should be done respectively / in vāta-pitta, vāta-kapha, tridoṣa, and kapha-pitta \[fever\]. (27) ### [1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.28) A thick gruel with vyāghrī, dusparśa, and gokṣura destroys the three doṣas. / One should dissolve half a karṣa of kaṇā and śuṇṭhī, or a pala of paste ingredients, (28) ### [1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.29) and with a prastha of water cook another \[gruel\] properly. / The rule of the six ingredients (ṣaḍaṅga) itself is generally accepted for thin gruel and the like. (29) ### [1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.30) One should state that thick gruel is made from one-fourth the usual amount of boiled rice. / Scum of boiled rice is devoid of boiled grains; thin gruel is accompanied by boiled grains. (30) ### [1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.31) Thick gruel has many boiled grains; thick rice-gruel has sparse liquid. / Boiled rice is to be cooked in five times \[as much water\], but thick rice-gruel in four times; (31) ### [1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.32) scum of boiled rice in fourteen times \[as much\], and thick gruel in six times as much water. / Just as rain on a dusty place makes it excessively muddy, (32) ### [1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.33) so thick gruel increases kapha when kapha is already increased. / After alcoholism, in a chronic drinker, in summer, when pitta and kapha are in excess, (33) ### [1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.34) and in upward bleeding, thick gruel is unwholesome in fever. / There, a refreshing drink alone should be given first, made with parched-paddy flour (34) ### [1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.35) mixed with fever-dispelling fruit juices, along with honey and sugar; / that parched-paddy flour, stirred with liquid, makes a refreshing drink. (35) ### [1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.36) In \[fever\] born of exertion, fasting, or vāta, boiled rice with meat juice is always wholesome; / and boiled rice with mudga soup should be given in \[fever\] arisen from kapha. (36) ### [1.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.37) That very \[soup\], combined with sugar, is wholesome in cold-fever and pitta-fever. / Old red rice and other \[grains\], along with the sixty-day rice, are commendable (37) ### [1.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.38) for thick gruel, boiled rice, and parched paddy, dispelling fever for fever patients. / A soup of mudga and āmalaka is wholesome in \[fever\] characterized by vāta and pitta; (38) ### [1.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.39) a soup of small radishes is wholesome in \[fever\] characterized by kapha and vāta; / and a soup of nimba and radish is wholesome in \[fever\] characterized by pitta and kapha. (39) ### [1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.40) Mudga, masūra, caṇaka, kulattha, and āḍhakī / one should administer for the purpose of soup to the fever patient at mealtime. (40) ### [1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.41) Patola leaves, brinjal, kulaka, bitter gourd, / karkoṭaka, parpaṭaka, gojihvā, young radish, (41) ### [1.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.42) and the leaves of guḍūcī one should administer to the fever patient as vegetables. / The fever patient should eat wholesome food, even if he has anorexia; (42) ### [1.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.43) for not eating at mealtime, he wastes away or even dies. / In anorexia, one should hold in the mouth the filaments of mātuluṅga with clarified butter and rock salt, (43) ### [1.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.44) or a paste of dhātrī, drākṣā, and sugar. / When wholesome food has become disliked due to constancy or lack of pleasant taste, (44) ### [1.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.45) one should make it appealing again through various preparation methods. / One should feed the patient, whether suffering from fever or freed from fever, light food at the end of the day. (45) ### [1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.46) When kapha is depleted, body-heat is increased and the digestive fire is strong then; / but at the wrong time and with heavy and channel-blocking \[food\], the fever patient should by no means eat. // 46 ### [1.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.47) For food unwholesome to him leads neither to longevity nor to ease. / Fasting, sudation, passage of time, thick gruel and bitter taste— // 47 ### [1.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.48) these are digestive agents for the unripened doṣas in an acute fever. / Up to seven nights, the wise call a fever acute. // 48 ### [1.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.49) The middle \[stage\] lasts twelve nights, while beyond this it is chronic. / One should give him to drink a digestive or pacifying decoction, // 49 ### [1.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.50) to the fever patient, when six days have passed and he has been fed light food. / After a week, when fever is not stiffened \[by coldness\] and is associated with āma, a digestive \[decoction\] should be \[given\]. // 50 ### [1.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.51) When free of āma, a pacifying one; when stiffened and associated with āma, one should not administer medicine. / Salivation, nausea, impurity of the cardiac region, anorexia, // 51 ### [1.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.52) drowsiness, lassitude, indigestion, bad taste in the mouth, heaviness of the limbs, / loss of appetite, excessive urination, rigidity, and severe fever: // 52 ### [1.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.53) these are the signs of fever with āma; one should not give medicine in that \[condition\]. / For medicine further inflames the fever of an āma-doṣa. // 53 ### [1.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.54) When the fever is mild, the body is light, and the wastes move freely, / one should know the doṣa to be ripened; in that fever, medicine should be given. // 54 ### [1.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.55) Dry ginger, deodar, coriander, and the two bṛhatīs: / one should first give this fever-dispelling digestive to the fever patient. // 55 ### [1.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.56) One who has drunk water, is fasted, emaciated, suffering from indigestion, full of food, or thirsty / should not drink medicine, whether purificatory or otherwise. // 56 ### [1.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.57) Medicine becomes superior in potency without food; / it certainly and quickly destroys disease. / But if drunk by children, the elderly, young women, or delicate persons, / it brings about great exhaustion and swift loss of strength. // 57 ### [1.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.58) Downward movement of vāta, ease, hunger, thirst, cheerfulness, / lightness, purity of the sense faculties and of belching—these are the characteristics of digested medicine. // 58 ### [1.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.59) Exhaustion, burning sensation, weakness of the limbs, dizziness, fainting, headache, / restlessness, and loss of strength—these are the characteristics of undigested medicine. // 59 ### [1.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.60) Food eaten while medicine still remains \[undigested\], and likewise medicine drunk while food still remains, / causes the pacification of disease, yet provokes other diseases. // 60 ### [1.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.61) It quickly undergoes digestion, does not harm strength, / is not enclosed by food, and does not repeatedly come out of the mouth: / one should give this very medicine taken before meals / to the aged, infants, the timid, and delicate women. // 61 ### [1.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.62) There is no fixed rule for dosage; looking to the doṣa, the digestive fire, strength, age, / disease, substance, and the alimentary tract, one should administer the dose. // 62 ### [1.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.63) The dose for a superior person is one pala; for a middling one, three akṣas; / and for an inferior person, half a pala, in the case of unctuous substances, decoction-drugs, and medicines. // 63 ### [1.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.64) Beginning with a karṣa up to a pala, one should add sixteen times as much water; / thereafter up to a kuḍava, the water should be eight times as much. // 64 ### [1.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.65) For a pala of decoction-substance, one should prepare half a prastha reduced to one fourth. / By thirty-two māṣakas is Caraka's māṣa, and by them \[a pala\]. // 65 ### [1.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.66) By forty-eight \[grains\] is Suśruta's māṣaka; / by twelve grains of barley \[it is also made\], and by sixty-four of them is a pala. // 66 ### [1.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.67) And this pala, weighed, consists of five-rakti māṣas. / The measure of Caraka's half-pala in Caraka is by ten-rakti \[māṣas\]; // 67 ### [1.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.68) the pala which is formed by sixty-four māṣas is explained in the same way. / Therefore, the pala of sixty-four māṣakas of ten raktis each, // 68 ### [1.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.69) approved by Caraka, is employed by physicians in treatments. / The decoction of the bilvādi-pañcamūla should be \[given\] in fever born of vāta; // 69 ### [1.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.70) or a digestive composed of pippalī-root, guḍūcī, and dry ginger. / With kirāta, mustā, amṛtā, udīcya, the two bṛhatīs, and gokṣura, // 70 ### [1.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.71) along with sthirā, kalasī, and dry ginger, the decoction destroys fever born of vāta. / Rāsnā, vṛkṣādanī, deodar, sarala, and elavāluka: // 71 ### [1.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.72) this decoction combined with sugar and honey removes fever born of vāta. / An additive is considered to be one-fourth of the decoctible substance, and equal to paste in unctuous substances. // 72 ### [1.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.73) Others have also stated this technical rule for additives: / a karṣa each of powder, paste, and pills in every case. // 73 ### [1.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.74) It should be licked with a śukti of liquid, and four liquids should be drunk. / The dose of honey, clarified butter, and the like in unctuous substances and decoctions is like that of powder. // 74 ### [1.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.75) The bilvādi-pañcamūlī, guḍūcī, and likewise āmalaka, / with an equal amount of coriander: this decoction is indeed for fever born of vāta. // 75 ### [1.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.76) A decoction prepared from pippalī, śārivā, drākṣā, śatapuṣpā, and hareṇuka, / taken with jaggery, will destroy fever caused by vāta. // 76 ### [1.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.77) Guḍūcī, śārivā, drākṣā, śatapuṣpā, and punarnavā: / this decoction, taken with jaggery, destroys fever born of vāta. // 77 ### [1.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.78) Drākṣā, guḍūcī, kāśmarya, trāyamāṇā, along with śārivā: / having boiled them, one should drink the decoction with jaggery to cure fever born of vāta. // 78 ### [1.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.79) Expressed fresh juice of śatāvarī and guḍūcī pressed in a machine, / richly mixed with jaggery, instantly pacifies fever caused by vāta. // 79 ### [1.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.80) Kaliṅga, kaṭphala, mustā, pāṭhā, and bitter katukā, / boiled and drunk with sugar, is a digestive in fever of pitta; / a digestive made with tiktā, mustā, and indrayava, with honey, is \[given\] in pitta fever. // 80 ### [1.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.81) A decoction of lodhra, utpala, amṛtā, padma, and śārivā, with sugar, / or that made of parpaṭa, destroys fever born of pitta. // 81 ### [1.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.82) A decoction of paṭola and yavanī, sweetened with honey, / crushes intense fever of pitta, and on drinking destroys thirst and burning sensation. // 82 ### [1.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.83) Of durālabhā, parpaṭaka, priyaṅgu, / bhūnimba, vāsā, and kaṭurohiṇī: / one afflicted with thirst, bleeding disorder, fever, and burning sensation / should drink the water richly mixed with sugar. // 83 ### [1.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.84) Trāyamāṇā, licorice, pippalī-root itself, / kirātatiktaka, mustā, and madhuka along with bibhītaka: // 84 ### [1.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.85) drunk with sugar, this eliminates fever born of pitta. / Dried grapes, licorice, neem, and equal kaṭukā rohiṇī; / boiled and kept in the open overnight, this removes fever born of pitta. // 85 ### [1.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.86) Parpaṭaka alone is supreme in destroying fever born of pitta; / how much more so if it is combined with sandalwood, udīcya, and dry ginger? // 86 ### [1.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.87) One should give well-cooled water prepared with dry ginger, fragrant sticky mallow, parpaṭa, uśīra, mustā, and sandalwood; / it cures thirst, vomiting, fever, and burning sensation. // 87 ### [1.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.88) A decoction of parpaṭa, amṛtā, and āmalakī cures fever born of pitta; / and also that of drākṣā and āragvadha, or again of kāśmarya. // 88 ### [1.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.89) One should administer a decoction of drākṣā, abhayā, parpaṭaka, abda, and tiktā, / together with the fruit of sampāka, / in fever arising from pitta accompanied by / delirium, fainting, giddiness, burning sensation, wasting, and thirst. ### [1.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.90) Coriander-water kept overnight and drunk in the morning with sugar / quickly calms men's internal burning sensation, even if deep-rooted. ### [1.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.91) One should perform cooling treatment for a person tormented by pitta fever: / vidārī, pomegranate, lodhra, dadhittha, bījapūraka— ### [1.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.92) with these, one should plaster the head of the embodied being afflicted by thirst and burning sensation; / and dhātrī fried in clarified butter and ground with sour gruel, when applied as a paste, dispels burning sensation. ### [1.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.93) Or one may lick \[the paste of young shoots\] produced by the palāśa tree ground with sour gruel, very cold; / or with the froth produced from badarī sprouts and from ariṣṭaka. ### [1.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.94) A head-paste made of kāleya, candana, anantā, yaṣṭī, badara, and fermented rice-water, / mixed with clarified butter, serves to alleviate thirst, burning sensation, and pain. ### [1.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.95) Having placed a deep vessel of copper, / bell-metal, or the like upon the navel of one lying face upward, / a copious stream of water falling into it, / very cold, swiftly destroys burning sensation. ### [1.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.96) Wrapping \[the body\] in cloths soaked in cold fermented rice-water dispels burning sensation. / When there is dryness of the tongue, palate, throat, and trachea, however, one should apply to the head / filaments of mātuluṅga combined with honey and rock salt. ### [1.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.97) In kapha fever, water prepared with mātuluṅga root, ginger, brāhmī, and granthika with alkali, / or the digestive \[group\] beginning with kaṇā, \[should be given\]. ### [1.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.98) Pippalī, pippalī root, cavya, citraka, dry ginger, / black pepper, cardamom, ajamodā, indra\[yava\], pāṭhā, reṇukā, cumin, ### [1.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.99) bhārgī, fruit of mahānimba, asafoetida, rohiṇī, mustard, / viḍaṅga, ativiṣā, and mūrvā: this group has been proclaimed. ### [1.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.100) The pippalyādi group dispels kapha, catarrh, anorexia, and vāta; / it is appetising, cures abdominal lumps and colic, and is a digestive of undigested matter. ### [1.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.101) Kaṭukā, citraka, nimba, haridrā, ativiṣā, vacā, / kuṣṭha, indrayava, mūrvā, and paṭola decocted, ### [1.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.102) combined with black pepper and with honey, one should drink in kapha fever. / Nimba, ginger, amṛtā, dāru, śaṭī, bhūnimba, pauṣkara, ### [1.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.103) the two pippalīs, and bṛhatī: this decoction destroys kapha fever. / A decoction of sindhuvāra leaves is desiccating in kapha-born fever; ### [1.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.104) one should drink it when strength in the shanks is depleted or the ears are obstructed. / Āmalakī, abhayā, kṛṣṇā, and citraka: this group / breaks all fevers and kapha disorders, and is appetising and digestive. ### [1.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.105) Triphalā, paṭola, vāsā, / chinnaruhā, tiktarohiṇī, and ṣaḍgranthā, / taken with honey in \[fever\] arising from kapha, / or a decoction of daśamūlī and vāsaka. ### [1.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.106) Mustā, vatsaka seeds, triphalā, kaṭurohiṇī, / and parūṣaka: \[their\] decoction destroys kapha fever. ### [1.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.107) Kaṭphala, pauṣkara, śṛṅgī, and kṛṣṇā, taken with honey, / cures cough, dyspnoea, and fever; it is an excellent electuary that brings an end to kapha. ### [1.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.108) One karṣa of powder, of paste, and of pills, in all cases, / should be licked with a śukti of liquid, and drunk with four \[śuktis\] of liquid. ### [1.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.109) This electuary destroys diseases of the clavicle and above; / whereas that which cures diseases below is held to be \[taken\] before a meal. ### [1.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.110) The combination of honey and upakulyā relieves cough, dyspnoea, and fever; / it destroys \[enlargement of\] the spleen and hiccup, and is praised for children. ### [1.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.111) When doṣas are combined, a combined digestive is beneficial. / A decoction prepared from ginger, amṛtā, abda, and bhūnimba / combined with the minor pañcamūla quickly destroys fever arising from vāta and pitta. ### [1.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.112) Water boiled with triphalā, śālmalī, rāsnā, rājavṛkṣa, and parūṣaka / swiftly removes fever arising from vāta and pitta. ### [1.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.113) Having boiled kirātatikta, amṛtā, drākṣā, āmalakī, and śaṭhī, / one should drink that decoction with jaggery in \[fever\] arising from pitta and vāta. ### [1.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.114) A decoction of split lentils along with nidigdhikā, balā, rāsnā, trāyamāṇā, and amṛtā / overcomes vāta-pitta fever. ### [1.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.115) Guḍūcī, parpaṭa, mustā, kirāta, and ginger: / this auspicious Pañcabhadra is to be given in vāta-pitta fever. ### [1.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.116) Madhuka, the two sārivās, drākṣā, madhuka, candana, utpala, / kāśmarī, padmaka, lodhra, triphalā, lotus filaments, ### [1.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.117) parūṣaka, and lotus stalk one should place in pure water; / taken with honey, parched paddy, and sugar, drunk after standing overnight, ### [1.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.118) it calms vāta-pitta fever, burning sensation, thirst, fainting, vomiting, giddiness, / and bleeding disease, just as the wind \[disperses\] clouds. ### [1.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.119) The group of paṭola, candana, mūrvā, tiktā, pāṭhā, and amṛtā / removes pitta, kapha, anorexia, vomiting, fever, itching, and poison. ### [1.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.120) Guḍūcī, nimba, coriander, padmaka, and varieties of candana: / this Guḍūcyādi destroys all fevers, is appetising, / and eliminates nausea, anorexia, vomiting, thirst, and burning sensation. ### [1.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.121) Kirāta, ginger, mustā, and guḍūcī when kapha predominates; / one should drink \[them\] along with pāṭhā, udīcya, and lotus stalks when pitta predominates. ### [1.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.122) Kaṇṭakārī, amṛtā, bhārgī, ginger, indrayava, āsaka, / bhūnimba, candana, mustā, paṭola, kaṭurohiṇī: ### [1.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.123) one should administer this decoction to remove pitta-kapha fever; / it cures burning sensation, thirst, anorexia, vomiting, cough, and cardiac and flank pain. ### [1.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.124) The juice of vāsā with its leaves and flowers, combined with honey and sugar, / destroys kapha-pitta fever, along with bleeding disease and jaundice. ### [1.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.125) Paṭola, picumarda, triphalā, madhuka, and balā: / this decoction prepared serves for fever arising from pitta and kapha. ### [1.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.126) Guḍūcī, indrayava, ariṣṭa, paṭola, kaṭurohiṇī, / ginger, candana, mustā, combined with powder of pippalī: ### [1.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.127) this Amṛtāṣṭaka removes pitta-kapha fever, / and prevents nausea, anorexia, vomiting, thirst, and burning sensation. ### [1.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.128) Paṭola, barley, coriander, green gram, āmalaka, and candana / dispel thirst, vomiting, and burning sensation in paittika fever and in fever arising from kapha and pitta. ### [1.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.129) Along with kṣudrā and amṛtā, together with ginger, / pauṣkara, and kirātatikta: / one should drink here this Pañcatikta decoction; / it destroys all eight kinds of fever completely. ### [1.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.130) Having drunk kaṭukā in the dose of one akṣa with sugar and hot water, / a person overcomes fever arising from kapha and pitta. ### [1.131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.131) A decoction of coriander and paṭola is appetising, breaks up kapha, normalises vāta and pitta, / destroys fever, is digestive, and promotes bowel evacuation. ### [1.132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.132) In a fever of kapha and vāta, one should apply dry sudation. / By softening the channels, bringing the fire to its seat, / and destroying the stiffness of vāta and kapha, sudation drives away fever. ### [1.133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.133) Sand-sudation, roasted on an earthen potsherd, placed on a cloth, and sprinkled with kāñjika, / indeed alleviates diseases of vāta and kapha, headache, body-ache, and so forth. ### [1.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.134) Musta, nāgara, and bhūnimba—this triad, one karṣa each, / pacifies kapha, vāta, and āma, is digestive, and destroys fever. ### [1.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.135) Pippalī, pippalī root, cavya, citraka, and nāgara: / this group is known as appetising, and removes diseases of kapha and vāta. ### [1.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.136) Water boiled with pippalī is non-clogging, appetising, / destroys disorders of vāta and kapha, and eliminates splenomegaly and fever. ### [1.137](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.137) A decoction prepared with āragvadha, granthika, musta, tiktā, / and harītakī / is beneficial in fever associated with āma, accompanied by colic, and combined with kapha and vāta, and it is appetising and digestive. ### [1.138](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.138) A decoction prepared with kṣudrā, amṛtā, nāgara, and that named puṣkara / is recommended in fever arising from kapha and vāta / that causes dyspnoea, cough, anorexia, and flank-pain, as well as in fever arising from all three doṣas. ### [1.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.139) Decoction of daśamūlī combined with kaṇā should be drunk in kapha and vāta, / in indigestion, excessive sleepiness, flank-pain, dyspnoea, and cough. ### [1.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.140) Musta, parpaṭaka, śuṇṭhī, guḍūcī, together with durālabhā, / banishes kapha, vāta, anorexia, vomiting, burning sensation, wasting, and fever. ### [1.141](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.141) A decoction of dāru, parpaṭa, bhāṅrgī, abda, vacā, dhānyaka, and kaṭphala, / together with abhayā, viśvā, and bhūtikta, abundant in hiṅgu and honey, ### [1.142](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.142) when drunk in fever of kapha and vāta, strikes down hiccup, dyspnoea, constriction of the throat, / cough, wasting, and excessive salivation, as a thunderbolt strikes a tree. ### [1.143](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.143) The dose of honey, clarified butter, and so forth in an unctuous substance or in decoctions is like that of powder; / honey, hiṅgu, rock salt, and cumin seeds and the like, however, should be one śāṇa each. ### [1.144](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.144) The filament of citron fruit, combined with rock salt and black pepper and held in the mouth, / quickly destroys oral disease of vāta and kapha, / dryness, numbness, and anorexia. ### [1.145](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.145) Fasting, sand-sudation, nasal medication, spitting, / as well as linctus and collyrium should be employed first in \[fever\] born of all three doṣas. ### [1.146](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.146) In sannipāta fever, one should first do that which removes āma and kapha; / afterwards, when kapha has been diminished, one should pacify pitta and vāta. ### [1.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.147) One should administer fasting in sannipāta fevers for three nights, or five nights, / or even ten nights, until health is seen. ### [1.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.148) That capacity which endures fasting belongs only to the doṣas; / for when the doṣas are depleted, no one can endure fasting and the like. ### [1.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.149) Rock salt together with the three pungents, mixed with fresh ginger juice, / should be held in the mouth up to the throat, and one should spit again and again. ### [1.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.150) By this, kapha from the mouth, chest, nape of the neck, flanks, head, and throat, / even if adherent or dried up, is drawn out, and lightness arises for him. ### [1.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.151) Joint pain, body aches, fainting, cough, diseases of the throat, / heaviness of the face and eyes, dullness, and nausea are pacified. ### [1.152](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.152) One should do this once, twice, thrice, or four times, having observed the strength and weakness of the doṣas; / for they declare this to be the supreme medicine for patients of sannipāta. ### [1.153](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.153) One should administer lukewarm juice of citron and fresh ginger combined with the three salts, / or another sharp nasal medication prescribed in successful practice. ### [1.154](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.154) By this, kapha is broken up, and once broken up, it flows out; / and pain in the head, chest, throat, mouth, and flanks subsides. ### [1.155](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.155) Equal parts of heartwood of madhūka, rock salt, vacā, black pepper, and kaṇā, / finely ground with water, should be made into a nasal medication to awaken consciousness. ### [1.156](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.156) Rock salt, white pepper, mustard, and kuṣṭha, / ground with goat's urine, are a nasal medication that dispels drowsiness. ### [1.157](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.157) With śirīṣa seeds, cow's urine, kṛṣṇā, black pepper, and rock salt, / together with garlic, realgar, and vacā, there should be a collyrium for arousal. ### [1.158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.158) Kaṭphala, puṣkara, śṛṅgī, the three pungents, yāsa, and kāravī / made into a fine powder should be licked together with honey. ### [1.159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.159) This linctus destroys very severe sannipāta; / it checks hiccup, dyspnoea, cough, and throat disease. ### [1.160](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.160) In removing kapha that has moved upward, and in procedures such as hot sudation, / since honey is contraindicated with heat, it should be omitted, and this \[linctus\] should be prepared with fresh ginger juice. ### [1.161](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.161) Taking a handful each of barley, kola, horse gram, / mung bean, and pieces of radish, / one should cook them in eight times as much water. ### [1.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.162) This \[preparation\], named 'the five-handfuls' (pañcamuṣṭika), removes vāta, pitta, and kapha; / it is commended in abdominal lump, colic, dyspnoea, cough, consumption, and fever. ### [1.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.163) The group of pañcamūlī and kirātādi should be employed in \[fever\] born of all three doṣas; / with honey when pitta is predominant, and with kaṇā when kapha is predominant. ### [1.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.164) Bilva, syonāka, gambhārī, pāṭalā, and gaṇikārikā: / this is the greater pañcamūla, which is appetising and destroys kapha and vāta. ### [1.165](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.165) Śāliparṇī, pṛśniparṇī, the two kinds of bṛhatī, and gokṣura: / this lesser pañcamūla relieves vāta and pitta, and is aphrodisiac. ### [1.166](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.166) Both together, however, form daśamūla, which dispels sannipāta fever; / it is commended in cough, dyspnoea, drowsiness, and flank-pain; / combined with powder of pippalī, it destroys constriction of the throat and chest. ### [1.167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.167) In chronic fever, or in that wherein vāta and kapha are predominant, / or in that born of all three doṣas, the group of kirātatiktādi mixed with daśamūla should be employed; / or mixed with trivṛt for one who desires cleansing. ### [1.168](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.168) Daśamūlī, śaṭhī, śṛṅgī, pauṣkara, together with durālabhā, / bhāṅrgī, kuṭaja seeds, paṭola, and kaṭurohiṇī: ### [1.169](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.169) this \[formula\], called the eighteen-ingredient one (aṣṭādaśāṅga), dispels sannipāta fever / and relieves cough, tightness of the chest, pain in the flanks, dyspnoea, hiccup, and vomiting. ### [1.170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.170) A decoction of bhūnimba, dāru, daśamūla, mahauṣadha, abda, / tiktā, indrayava, coriander, and gajapippalī / quickly destroys every fever accompanied by drowsiness, delirium, cough, anorexia, burning sensation, stupor, / dyspnoea, and so forth. ### [1.171](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.171) Musta, parpaṭaka, uśīra, devadāru, mahauṣadha, / triphalā, dhanvayāsa, nīlī, kampillaka, trivṛt, ### [1.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.172) kirātatiktaka, pāṭhā, balā, kaṭukarohiṇī, / madhuka, and pippalī root: this is called the mustādi group. ### [1.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.173) This eighteen-fold formulation has been declared, or it destroys sannipāta. Wise men have declared it beneficial in sannipāta with predominant pitta, \[and\] in stiffness of the neck, chest injury, and pain in the chest, sides, and head. (173) ### [1.174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.174) Śaṭhī, puṣkaramūla, vyāghrī, śṛṅgī, durālabhā, guḍūcī, ginger, pāṭhā, kirātatikta, and kaṭurohiṇī: (174) ### [1.175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.175) This group beginning with śaṭhī destroys sannipāta fever; it is praised in cough, cardiac constriction, pain in the flanks, dyspnoea, and drowsiness. (175) ### [1.176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.176) The two bṛhatīs, puṣkara, bhārgī, śaṭhī, śṛṅgī, durālabhā, seeds of vatsaka, paṭola, and kaṭurohiṇī: (176) ### [1.177](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.177) The group beginning with bṛhatī is said to destroy sannipāta fever, and should be administered in all \[conditions\] such as cough, together with complications. (177) ### [1.178](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.178) One should boil in water bhārgī, puṣkaramūla, rāsnā, bilva, yavānī, ginger, daśamūla, and pippalī: (178) ### [1.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.179) It should be given in sannipāta fever to those suffering from pain in the heart and flanks and from abdominal distension; it removes cough, dyspnoea, sluggishness of the digestive fire, and drowsiness. (179) ### [1.180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.180) A decoction of the two pañcamūlas, ṣaḍgranthā, viśvā, and the two gṛdhranakhīs destroys kapha and vāta, and is superior in destroying sannipāta. (180) ### [1.181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.181) Kāravī, puṣkara, eraṇḍa, trāyantī, ginger, amṛtā, daśamūlī, śaṭhī, śṛṅgī, yāsa, bhārgī, and punarnavā (181) ### [1.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.182) in equal parts, boiled with \[cow's\] urine and drunk, cleanses the channels and quickly destroys terrible, severe abhinyāsa fever. (182) ### [1.183](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.183) A decoction prepared from mātuluṅga, aśvabhid, bilva, vyāghrī, pāṭhā, and urubūka, abundantly mixed with salt and \[cow's\] urine, relieves abhinyāsa, abdominal distension, and colic. (183) ### [1.184](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.184) One should know abhinyāsa to be accompanied by sleep, depleted, and with destroyed vitality; \[the patient\] is afflicted with throat obstruction, kapha, dyspnoea, hiccough, and loss of consciousness. (184) ### [1.185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.185) One should drink the juice of mātuluṅga and fresh ginger with the water of daśamūla; or the water \[prepared with\] the three pungents, musta, triphalā, tiktā, paṭola, ariṣṭa, and vāsaka, (185) ### [1.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.186) along with bhūnimba, amṛtā, and yāsa, destroys fever born of all three doṣas. A purgative decoction prepared with trivṛt, viśālā, triphalā, kaṭukā, and āragvadha, (186) ### [1.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.187) combined with alkali, is to be drunk to remove all fevers. When sweat appears in fever, powder of roasted kulattha should be applied. (187) ### [1.188](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.188) One should rub a sluggish tongue with rock salt, the three pungents, and amlavetasa; a completely dry and cracked tongue \[should be rubbed\] with grapes ground with honey. (188) ### [1.189](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.189) In a fever caused by sannipāta, one should also smear the mouth with clarified butter. The root of kākajaṅghā, placed on the head, induces sleep. (189) ### [1.190](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.190) One should not nourish \[a patient\] trembling and delirious in sannipāta; even when overcome by thirst and burning sensation, one should not give cold water. (190) ### [1.191](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.191) At the end of sannipāta fever, a terrible swelling arises at the root of the ear; scarcely anyone is released from it. (191) ### [1.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.192) One should overcome it first by blood-letting and by draughts of clarified butter, by poultices that destroy kapha and pitta, by emesis, and by gargles. (192) ### [1.193](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.193) Red ochre, alluvial earth, dry ginger, vacā, kaṭukā, and sour gruel make an application that greatly relieves ear swelling in sannipāta fever. (193) ### [1.194](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.194) With equal parts of kulattha, kaṭphala, dry ginger, and kāravī, an application should repeatedly be made comfortably warm at the root of the ear. (194) ### [1.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.195) One should drink a decoction of nidigdhikā, ginger, and amṛtā, mixed with pippalī, in chronic fever, anorexia, cough, pain, dyspnoea, sluggishness of the digestive fire, facial paralysis, and catarrh. (195) ### [1.196](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.196) It generally destroys diseases of the upper body; it is used for that in the evening. A decoction made from chinnaruhā, combined with powder of pippalī, (196) ### [1.197](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.197) destroys chronic fever and kapha; or that prepared with the pañcamūlī relieves cough, indigestion, anorexia, dyspnoea, heart disease, anaemia, and parasitic disease. (197) ### [1.198](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.198) In chronic fever and weakness of the digestive fire, treacle with pippalī is commended. Kaliṅgaka, leaves of paṭola, and kaṭukarohiṇī; (198) ### [1.199](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1.199) paṭola, śārivā, musta, pāṭhā, and kaṭukarohiṇī; nimba, paṭola, triphalā, mṛdvīkā, musta, and vatsaka; (199) _First 200 of 286 passages. [Read on](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1)_ ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.1) · Pramāṇa