Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 20
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20.1
In psychosis born of vāta, internal oleation [is prescribed] first, then purgation; / in that born of pitta and that born of kapha, emesis; subsequent is the course of enema and so forth. // 1
20.2
Whatever is taught in the treatment of epilepsy / is also to be done in psychosis, because the doṣas and vitiated tissues are common [to both]. // 2
20.3
Fresh juices of brāhmī, ash gourd, / vacā, and śaṅkhapuṣpī, / separately mixed with kuṣṭha and honey, / are seen to remove psychosis. // 3
20.4
Daśamūla water with clarified butter, or combined with meat juice, / or old clarified butter alone with white mustard powder [should be used]. // 4
20.5
Clarified butter kept for ten years is old clarified butter, of pungent smell; / beyond that, resembling lac dye and cool, it is very old [clarified butter]. // 5
20.6
Rice milk cooked with the northward-pointing root of white datura, / joined with jaggery and clarified butter, destroys all psychoses born of doṣas. // 6
20.7
In psychosis, the pure juice derived from a palmyra palm branch should be drunk with honey, / and mustard oil is recommended for nasal drops and massage. // 7
20.8
An unfledged sparrow drunk with milk destroys psychosis. / Bound and smeared with mustard oil, he should be placed facing upwards in the sun. // 8
20.9
White mustard, asafoetida, vacā, the two karañjas, and devadāru, / mañjiṣṭhā, triphalā, aparājitā, kaṭabhī bark, the three pungents, // 9
20.10
in equal parts, and priyaṅgu, śirīṣa, and the two turmerics; / this antidote, ground with goat's urine, is a drink and eye-salve, // 10
20.11
as well as nasal drops, paste, bath, and rubdown; / removing epilepsy, poison, and psychosis, it dispels inauspiciousness and fever; // 11
20.12
it also destroys fear of spirits and is commended in the king's gate; / or clarified butter cooked with these along with cow's urine accomplishes the same purpose. // 12
20.13
Trikaṭu, asafoetida, rock salt, vacā, kaṭukā, / seed of śirīṣa and karañja, and white mustard— // 13
20.14
ground with cow's urine, these make a wick-stick wholesome as an eye-salve; / it restrains quartan fever, epilepsy, and psychosis. // 14
20.15
When aberrant behavior persists in one who has been purified, sharp nasal drops and eye-salves / as well as beating are wholesome to arouse the mind, intellect, and memory. // 15
20.16
Threats, terrorising, gifts, consolations, delighting, fear, / and astonishment lead the mind to its natural state by causing forgetting. // 16
20.17
States arising from passion, grief, fear, anger, joy, envy, and greed / he should bring to pacification by means of their mutual opposites. // 17
20.18
When a man's mind is afflicted by the destruction of a beloved object, / one should overcome those [affections] by the acquisition of its likeness, and by soothing words and consolations. // 18
20.19
Poultices, rubbing, unguents, fumigations, and the drinking of clarified butter / should be employed to awaken the mind, intellect, memory, and consciousness. // 19
20.20
One should administer Kalyāṇaka [ghṛta], Mahākalyāṇaka [ghṛta], or Caitasa ghṛta, / as well as Nārāyaṇa oil, or likewise Mahānārāyaṇa oil. // 20
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Viśālā, the three myrobalans, kauntī, devadāru, elavāluka, / sthirā, nata, the two rajanīs, the two śārivās, priyaṅgu, // 21
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blue water lily, cardamom, madder, dantī, pomegranate seeds, / tālīśa leaf, bṛhatī, fresh jasmine flower, // 22
20.23
viḍaṅga, pṛśniparṇī, kuṣṭha, sandalwood, padmaka— / with pastes of these twenty-eight herbs, one akṣa of each, // 23
20.24
having added four times as much water, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter. / [It is used] in epilepsy, fever, cough, consumption, weakened digestive fire, emaciation, // 24
20.25
vātarakta, rhinitis, tertian and quartan [fever], / vomiting, haemorrhoids, dysuria, and in those stricken by erysipelas, // 25
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itching, anaemia, insanity, poison, urinary disorders, and artificial poison; / for those whose minds are struck down by spirits, those who stammer, and the semen-deficient; // 26
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it is commended for barren women; it brings good fortune and bestows longevity and strength; / it destroys misfortune, sin, and demons, and wards off all planetary afflictions. // 27
20.28
This clarified butter is called Kalyāṇaka, and it is supreme among rites for male offspring. / But this same [formulation], with twice as much water and four parts of milk, is Kṣīrakalyāṇaka. // 28
20.29
Boiling in water the twenty-one ingredients from this very [recipe], beginning with sthirā, / in that decoction one should cook clarified butter with four times as much milk of a cow newly calved, // 29
20.30
with equal parts of pastes of vīrā, the two māṣaparṇīs, kākolī, kapikacchū, ṛṣabhaka, ṛddhi, / and medā; that is Mahākalyāṇaka. / It is especially nourishing and is the foremost remover of tridoṣic disorders. // 30
20.31
The lesser group of five roots, barley, kāśmarī, rāsnā, castor, trivṛt, balā, / mūrvā, and śatāvarī: with two palas each of these decoction substances, // 31
20.32
and with the ingredients of Kalyāṇaka [for the paste], that clarified butter is known as Caitasa. / It is considered the supreme pacifier of all disorders of the mind. // 32
20.33
A prastha of clarified butter is to be cooked here; a decoction prepared from a droṇa of water, / reduced to a fourth, is to be provided here, with the paste stated for Kalyāṇaka. // 33
20.34
Jaṭilā, pūtanā, keśī, cāraṭī, markaṭī, vacā, / trāyamāṇā, jayā, vīrā, coraka, kaṭurohiṇī, // 34
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vayasthā, śūkarī, chatrā, aticchatrā, palaṅkaṣā, / mahāparuṣadantā, vayasthā, the two varieties of nākulī, // 35
20.36
kaṭumbharā, vṛścikālī, and also sthirā: clarified butter / prepared with these destroys quartan fever, insanity, seizures by spirits, and epilepsy. // 36
20.37
This clarified butter, named Mahāpaiśācika, is like ambrosia; / it produces intellect, discernment, and memory, and promotes body growth in children. // 37
20.38
An āḍhaka of clarified butter with two palas each of asafoetida, black salt, and the three pungents, / cooked with four times as much cow's urine, destroys insanity. // 38
20.39
Half a tulā of sound, unblemished garlic, husked, / and half that amount of the ten roots should be cooked in two āḍhakas of water. // 39
20.40
When one-fourth remains, [one adds] a prastha of clarified butter and garlic juice, / along with the juices of kola, radish, vṛkṣāmla, mātuluṅga, and fresh ginger; // 40
20.41
pomegranate juice, surā, whey, and kāñjika sour gruel in half that measure; / one should prepare it with the three myrobalans, devadāru, salt, the three pungents, dīpyaka, // 41
20.42
yamānī, cavya, asafoetida, and amlavetasa, half a pala each. / One should drink this prepared [ghṛta], which removes colic, abdominal lumps, haemorrhoids, and abdominal disease; // 42
20.43
it eradicates hernia, anaemia, splenomegaly, disorders of the female genital tract, worms, fevers, / other vāta-kapha diseases, and cases of insanity. // 43
20.44
For exogenous [insanity], procedures such as the drinking of clarified butter and mantras are desired: / by worship, animal offerings, presents, sacrifices, oblations, mantras, collyriums, and the like, // 44
20.45
a clean physician should overcome exogenous insanity in the prescribed manner. / A collyrium made of pippalī, black pepper, rock salt, honey, and cow's bile // 45
20.46
destroys the severe insanity arising from all spirits. / A pill-collyrium made of tree turmeric and honey under the Puṣya asterism, // 46
20.47
or black pepper kept with meat and bile in the hot sun, is to be applied as a collyrium / for someone whose memory is destroyed by doṣas or spirits, when he sees hallucinations. // 47
20.48
A fumigation with neem leaves, vacā, asafoetida, snake's slough, and mustard seeds / dispels ḍākinīs and the like, and destroys spirit-induced insanity. // 48
20.49
Cotton seeds, peacock feathers, bṛhatī, / cast-off flower-offerings, madana fruits, / twak, māṃsī, cat's dung, chaff, vacā, / hair, snake's slough, / cow's horn, ivory, asafoetida, and black pepper, / in equal parts, made into a fumigation, / is remembered as destroying Skanda seizures, insanity, possession by piśācas, rākṣasas, or gods, and fever. // 49
20.50
An errhine made of ripe indravāruṇī fruit with [cow's] urine conquers brahma-rākṣasas; / an errhine made with white jyeṣṭhāmbha and clarified butter destroys spirits. // 50
20.51
For one made insane by gods, ṛṣis, ancestors, or gandharvas, the wise [physician] / should avoid harsh collyriums and severe treatments. // 51
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