Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 21

English (machine translation) 21

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21.1

One should treat vāta-born epilepsy mostly with enemas, pitta-born mostly with purgatives, / and kapha-born epilepsy mostly with emetics. // 1

21.2

When [the patient] is thoroughly purified in every way and well comforted, / listen to the soothing formulations for liberation from epilepsy: // 2

21.3

Realgar, rasāñjana, and pigeon's droppings, [used as] / a collyrium, destroy epilepsy and especially insanity. // 3

21.4

With liquorice, asafoetida, vacā, vakra, śirīṣa, garlic, and kuṣṭha, / mixed with goat's urine, [one makes] errhines and collyriums for epilepsy accompanied by insanity. // 4

21.5

Dog's bile collected under the Puṣya asterism is an epilepsy-destroying collyrium; / that very same [bile] combined with clarified butter is remembered as an excellent fumigation. // 5

21.6

With the beaks, feathers, and dung of mongooses, owls, cats, / vultures, insects, snakes, and crows, the physician should prepare a fumigation. // 6

21.7

Having ground kāyasthā, autumnal mudga beans, mustā, uśīra, and barley, / along with the three pungents, in goat's urine, one should prepare a wick [for collyrium]. // 7

21.8

In epilepsy, likewise in insanity, snakebite, affliction by artificial poison, / drinking of poison, and in the drowned, these [wicks] are like nectar. // 8

21.9

With apetarākṣasī, kuṣṭha, pūtanā, keśī, and coraka, / ground with urine, rubbing [is performed], and sprinkling with urine alone. // 9

21.10

Likewise, a paste made of bat dung, or burnt goat's hair, / with urine, white mustard, and drumstick seeds, destroys epilepsy. // 10

21.11

One who eats powdered vacā with honey while subsisting on a milk diet / will surely conquer very terrible, long-standing epilepsy. // 11

21.12

Having burned the halter from the neck of a hanged man, black ash is prepared; / drunk along with cold water, it destroys fierce epilepsy. (12)

21.13

Oil with garlic should be taken, or asparagus with milk; / and juice of brāhmī with honey is a medicament for all epilepsies. (13)

21.14

Having roasted dry and free of moisture a goat's intestine, / eating it with sour [gruel] dispels epilepsy. (14)

21.15

In a patient who has palpitation of the heart, eye pain, perspiration, and coldness of the hands and other limbs, / one should administer daśamūlī-water and kalyāṇaka-clarified-butter. (15)

21.16

Clarified butter prepared with equal parts of cow-dung juice, sour curd, milk, and cow's urine / destroys quartan fever, insanity, possession by evil spirits, and epilepsy. (16)

21.17

The two pañcamūlas, the triphalā, the two turmerics, bark of kuṭaja, / saptaparṇa, apāmārga, nīlinī, kaṭurohiṇī, (17)

21.18

sampāka, phalgu root, pauṣkara, and durālabhā— / having boiled two pala amounts [of each] in one droṇa of water until one fourth remains, (18)

21.19

bhārgī, pāṭhā, trikaṭuka, trivṛt, and nicula fruits, / śreyasī, āḍhakī, mūrvā, dantī, bhūnimba, citraka, (19)

21.20

the two śārivās, rauhiṣa, bhūtika, and madayantikā— / one should grind these to akṣa amounts each and cast them in, and cook one prastha of clarified butter with them, (20)

21.21

along with equal parts of cow-dung juice, sour curd, milk, and cow's urine. / This celebrated Mahāpañcagavya [ghṛta] is like ambrosia; (21)

21.22

it is used in epilepsy, fever, cough, oedema, abdominal diseases, / abdominal lumps, haemorrhoids, anaemia, jaundice, halīmaka, (22)

21.23

and it destroys misfortune, evil spirits, and demons, and eliminates quartan fever. / Hemp, trivṛt, and likewise castor, daśamūlī, asparagus, (23)

21.24

rāsnā, long pepper, and drumstick—there should be two palas of each to be decocted; / vidārī, liquorice, the two medās, the two kākolīs, and sugar, (24)

21.25

along with dates, dried grapes, asparagus, yuñjāta, and tribulus— / with these ingredients of Caitasa-ghṛta, an excellent clarified butter is to be cooked. (25)

21.26

Called Mahācaitasa, it is the destroyer of all epilepsies, / homicidal poison, insanity, catarrh, tertian and quartan fevers; (26)

21.27

it overcomes sin and misfortune, wards off all evil spirits, / removes cough and dyspnoea, and purifies semen and menstrual fluid. (27)

The measurement of clarified butter and the rule for decoction are considered here to be like those of Caitasa; / the paste, along with the ingredients stated for the Caitasa paste, is one fourth [the amount of clarified butter]. (28)

21.29

Whenever yuñjātaka is unavailable, the crown of the palmyra palm is approved. / One should cook clarified butter in eighteen parts of ash-gourd juice (29)

21.30

with a paste of liquorice: drinking it destroys epilepsy. / Cooked in brāhmī juice with vacā, kuṣṭha, and śaṅkhapuṣpī, (30)

21.31

aged clarified butter improves the intellect and eradicates insanity, evil spirits, and epilepsy. / With palaṅkaṣā, vacā, abhayā, vṛścikālī, arka, mustard seeds, (31)

21.32

jaṭilā, pūtanākeśī, lāṅgalī, asafoetida, coraka, / garlic, atirasā, citrā, kuṣṭha, and the droppings of carnivorous birds (32)

21.33

as available, oil cooked in four times as much goat's urine, / used for anointing, destroys epilepsy. (33)

21.34

Mustard oil cooked in four times as much goat's urine, / or with cow-dung juice and cow's urine, is for massage, potion, and rubbing. (34)

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit