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(1) ### [22.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.2) Especially when vāta resides in the alimentary tract, a person should drink caustic alkali; / when it resides in the stomach, after the patient is cleansed, treatment that removes the doṣa is to be applied. (2) ### [22.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.3) When vāta has gone to the stomach, once the patient has vomited properly, / the Ṣaḍdharaṇa formulation should be administered for seven nights with warm water. (3) ### [22.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.4) Citraka, indrayava, pāṭhā, kaṭukā, ativiṣā, and abhayā: / this formulation is known as Ṣaḍdharaṇa, which pacifies major diseases. (4) ### [22.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.5) A dharaṇa is a tenth of a pala; / this formulation is from Suśruta, therefore of this \[compound\] / one māṣa, measuring five guñjās, / should be properly administered daily. (5) ### [22.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.6) When vāta has gone to the colon, unctuous purgation is beneficial, / as well as cleansing enemata and those predominantly containing salt. (6) ### [22.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.7) One should burn snuhī, salt, brinjal, and oil in a covered pot / with cow-dung: this salted unctuous preparation is supreme in destroying vāta. (7) ### [22.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.8) And when it has gone to the urinary bladder, the procedure to cleanse the bladder should be performed. / When it has reached the skin, flesh, blood, and veins, one should perform blood-letting. (8) ### [22.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.9) When vāta has reached the ligaments, joints, and bones, the discerning physician / should perform oleation, poultices, cautery, bandaging, and massage. (9) ### [22.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.10) Fomentation, massage, tub baths, and pleasant food \[are prescribed\] when it resides in the skin; / cold plasters, purgation, and blood-letting when it resides in the blood; (10) ### [22.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.11) purgation, decoction enemata, and pacifying therapies when it resides in the flesh and fat; / one should overcome it when gone to the bones and marrow by external and internal oleations. (11) ### [22.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.12) Joy and food and drink promoting strength and semen are beneficial when it resides in the semen; / but seeing semen obstructed in its passage, one should administer purgation. (12) ### [22.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.13) When the fetus is emaciated by vāta, and in children who are emaciating, / milk boiled with sugar, liquorice, and kāśmarya is beneficial for reviving them. (13) ### [22.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.14) When vāta is situated in the head, treatment removing vāta-head-diseases \[is indicated\]; / in wide-open mouth, the jaw being fomented and pressed down with both thumbs, (14) ### [22.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.15) and lifted with both forefingers, raising the chin is beneficial. / In facial paralysis, a man should eat black gram cakes with fresh butter; (15) ### [22.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.16) having dined with milk and meat soup, he should drink daśamūlī decoction; / devoted to unction, massage, head-enemata, potions, and nasal medications, (16) ### [22.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.17) he overcomes facial paralysis; he should drink clarified butter after meals. / Decoction prepared with pañcamūlī, or prepared with daśamūlī, (17) ### [22.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.18) as well as dry fomentation and nasal drops, is praised in torticollis. / In impairment of speech-channels by vāta, holding unctuous mouth-gargles \[is indicated\]. (18) ### [22.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.19) Turmeric, vacā, kuṣṭha, long pepper, dried ginger, / cumin, ajamodā, liquorice, and rock salt— (19) ### [22.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.20) one should make fine powders of these in equal parts; / a person should consume that powder mixed with clarified butter every day. (20) ### [22.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.21) In twenty-one nights he becomes capable of retaining what he hears, / possessing a voice like a cloud or kettle-drum, and the sound of an impassioned cuckoo. (21) ### [22.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.22) This Kalyāṇaka electuary overcomes dullness, stammering, and muteness; / \[dry fomentation overcomes\] dry vāta gone to the sacrum and shoulder, as well as when gone to the nape of the neck. (22) ### [22.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.23) Emesis and nasya administered by a skilled \[physician\] cure \[it\]. / A warm decoction of māṣa, balā, śukaśimbī, / kattṛṇa, rāsnā, aśvagandhā, and urubūka, / combined with asafoetida and salt, drunk or used as nasya, // 23 ### [22.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.24) cures hemiplegia, / torticollis, along with ear-ringing and pain. / It invariably conquers difficult facial paralysis / in seven days. // 24 ### [22.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.25) Having eaten in the evening, one should drink a decoction of daśamūlī, balā, and māṣa, mixed with oil and clarified butter, / at night, in cases of viśvācī and apabāhuka. // 25 ### [22.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.26) Or one should drink the fresh juice of the root of balā, pāribhadra, / or ātmaguptā. / Moreover, one who administers it as nasya with meat broth / has arms like a thunderbolt within a month. // 26 ### [22.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.27) One should drink a decoction of māṣa, ātmaguptā, eraṇḍa, and vāṭyālaka, / combined with asafoetida and rock salt; it remedies hemiplegia. // 27 ### [22.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.28) In wasting of the arms, one should drink Mahākalyāṇaka-ghṛta after eating. / When vāta is aggravated in the heart, milk \[boiled with\] aṃśumatī is beneficial. // 28 ### [22.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.29) Harītakī, vacā, rāsnā, rock salt, and amlavetasa, / combined with a measured amount of clarified butter, destroys apatantraka. // 29 ### [22.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.30) Half a pala or one pala of well-crushed garlic, / sprinkled and stirred with asafoetida, cumin, rock salt, / black salt, and the three pungents, // 30 ### [22.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.31) powdered in the measure of a māṣaka, / eaten in the morning according to one's digestive fire, with a decoction of urubūka as a vehicle, // 31 ### [22.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.32) should be administered day after day for one month continuously. / It quickly destroys vāta diseases: facial paralysis along with apatantraka, // 32 ### [22.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.33) and for one suffering from monoplegia as well as one suffering from quadriplegia, / in stiffness of the thighs, and in sciatica, especially in worms in the alimentary tract. // 33 ### [22.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.34) It cures disease of the hips and back, and especially abdominal disease. / Sour curd with vacā and black pepper drunk before a meal destroys \[these\]. // 34 ### [22.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.35) Another therapeutic regimen for vāta diseases is beneficial in apatānaka. / With vāta-pacifying remedies and with daśamūlī, one should treat a hunchbacked person, // 35 ### [22.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.36) or with unctuous substances and meat broths; but if it is advanced, one should avoid him. / Powder of the pippalyādi group \[should be taken\] with lukewarm water in tūnī and pratitūnī, // 36 ### [22.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.37) or one should drink unctuous substance with salt, or alkali with asafoetida along with clarified butter. / In meteorism, fasting, fomentation with the hands, and fruit suppositories \[are prescribed\]; // 37 ### [22.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.38) as well as appetisers, digestives, and an evacuating enema here. / In abdominal distension of the stomach, however, emesis, fasting, and appetisers \[are indicated\]. // 38 ### [22.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.39) In pratyaṣṭhīlā and aṣṭhīlā, \[the treatment is\] like that for internal abscess and abdominal lumps. / Daśamūlī, balā, rāsnā, guḍūcī, and dried ginger: // 39 ### [22.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.40) one should drink \[a decoction of these\] with castor oil in sciatica, limping, and lameness. / A decoction made with leaves of śephālikā prepared over a mild fire, // 40 ### [22.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.41) immediately upon being drunk, eradicates even intractable sciatica. / A decoction of pañcamūla, castor oil, and clarified butter boiled with trivṛt, / or combined with trivṛt alone, removes sciatica, abdominal lumps, and colic. // 41 ### [22.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.42) One should drink oil or clarified butter, with the juice of fresh ginger and citron, / or with vinegar and jaggery: / this is declared to remove pain in the hips, thighs, back, sacrum, abdominal lumps, / sciatica, and udāvarta. // 42 ### [22.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.43) Or a man should drink castor oil with cow's urine: / this application for one month removes sciatica and stiffness of the thighs. // 43 ### [22.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.44) Well-powdered pippalī drunk with cow's urine and castor oil / destroys long-standing sciatica born of kapha and vāta. // 44 ### [22.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.45) The man who, suffering from sciatica, eats brinjal / prepared and cooked in castor oil recovers his former gait. // 45 ### [22.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.46) Having crushed castor seeds in milk, or the seeds of rubu with ginger, / a cooked milk-porridge, when eaten, removes sciatica and hip pain. // 46 ### [22.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.47) One pala of rāsnā and five karṣas of guggulu: / having made pills with clarified butter, one should eat them to remove sciatica. // 47 ### [22.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.48) Knowing that a man suffering from sciatica has been properly purified with digestives and the like, / and that the man has an enkindled digestive fire, one should treat him with enemas. // 48 ### [22.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.49) One must not perform the procedure of an enema at the outset as long as he is not purified above; / for him, an unctuous substance is useless, just as an oblation poured into ashes. // 49 ### [22.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.50) When oleation and sudation have been thoroughly done on the calf of the sciatica patient, / and it has been massaged with the feet, sciatica, by a narrow path, // 50 ### [22.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.51) having been brought down properly to the little toe, little by little; / recognizing a raised nodule situated in the tendon, // 51 ### [22.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.52) having split it quickly with a surgical instrument, resembling a sprout of coral, / having extracted it and cauterised it with fire, one should smear it with liquorice and sandalwood. // 52 ### [22.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.53) One should puncture the vein four finger-breadths below the indrabasti. / If it does not subside, one should burn the little toe of the foot. // 53 ### [22.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.54) Whoever, crushed, drinks the fresh root of tagara with buttermilk, / is immediately freed from afflictions by vāta in the groin. / Or one should drink it with a decoction of daśamūlī or with ginger water. // 54 ### [22.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.55) In all pains of the hips, oil derived from castor \[is beneficial\]; / and in viśvācī, in limping, in lameness, in burning and tingling sensations of the feet, // 55 ### [22.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.56) in kroṣṭuśīrṣa, and in vātakaṇṭaka: / having punctured the vein as prescribed, treatment removes vāta diseases. // 56 ### [22.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.57) In kroṣṭuśīrṣa, one should drink guggulu with water \[decocted with\] guḍūcī and triphalā, / or castor oil with milk, or vṛddhadāraka. // 57 ### [22.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.58) One should frequently perform blood-letting in vātakaṇṭaka, / or drink castor oil, or cauterise \[the spot\] with needles alone. // 58 ### [22.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.59) In khallī, sudation, massage, and poultices with unctuous, sour, and salty \[substances are prescribed\]. / Triphalā and pippalī, each one pala in part, powdered, // 59 ### [22.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.60) should be impregnated with daśamūla decoction, combined with half a pala of cinnamon and cardamom; / having added five palas of guggulu, pills are made. // 60 ### [22.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.61) This \[formulation\], accompanied by regular intake of meat broth, destroys vāta diseases, / especially those situated in the joints, bones, and marrow, just as Indra's thunderbolt destroys a tree. // 61 ### [22.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.62) The decoctible substance equals the substance to be impregnated, and the decoction is \[reduced to\] one-eighth of that; / it should be impregnated as long as it remains moist each day; the impregnating procedure lasts seven days. // 62 ### [22.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.63) Aśvagandhā, hapuṣā, guḍūcī, / śatāvarī, gokṣura, vṛddhadāraka, / rāsnā, dill, śaṭhī, yavānī, / and ginger: a powder of these in equal parts, // 63 ### [22.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.64) an equal amount of guggulu should be added in the middle of this, / and clarified butter, half that amount. / Then, by administering it in a dose of half an akṣa, / taking surā or soups as an after-drink, // 64 ### [22.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.65) Or with wine, or warm water, / or milk, or meat broth, / in stiffness of the hips, sciatica, \[pain in\] the arms and back, / lockjaw, \[pain in\] the knees, or in both feet, ### [22.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.66) in vāta residing in the joints and in the bones, / in the marrow and in the ligaments, and in kuṣṭha; / it conquers diseases connected with vāta and kapha, / cardiac stiffness caused by vāta, and disorders of the female genital tract, ### [22.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.67) and in fractures and bone-punctures, and in lameness: / those who know \[it\] call this Trayodaśāṅga. // 67 ### [22.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.68) First conquering avaraka, / when vāta \[is aggravated\], vāta-pacifying treatment is beneficial. / When it is obstructed by food, expulsion of that \[food\], appetising, digestive, and light \[measures are indicated\]. // 68 ### [22.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.69) In numbness due to vāta, the physician should perform blood-letting repeatedly, / and apply a warm paste of salt, soot, rubbed with oil. // 69 ### [22.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.70) Drinks, unguents, and enemas made of clarified butter, oil, fat, and marrow; / unctuous sudations, a place free from draughts, and coverings; // 70 ### [22.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.71) meat broths, milk, foods that are sweet, sour, and salty, / and whatever is nourishing: all this is praised for those suffering from vāta diseases. // 71 ### [22.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.72) A soup made of paṭola and pālaka is aphrodisiac, relieves vāta, and is light. / A soup prepared with vāṭyālaka destroys vāta exceedingly. // 72 ### [22.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.73) In a decoction of balā, or pañcamūla, or daśamūla, / along with the flesh of goat's head, aquatic animals, marshy creatures, or even carnivorous beasts separately, // 73 ### [22.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.74) having cooked unctuous broths seasoned with curd, sour substances, and the three pungents, / one should feed a man tormented by vāta diseases with these, distinctively salted. // 74 ### [22.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.75) Milk boiled with pañcamūlī and balā is beneficial in vāta diseases. / Aśvagandhā, the three varieties of balā, daśamūlī, ginger, / the two kinds of gṛdhrnakhī, and rāsnā: this group destroys vāta. // 75 ### [22.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.76) Kola, kulattha, cedar, rāsnā, / māṣa, linseed, oil-bearing seeds, kuṣṭha, / vacā, dill, barley flour, and sour liquids: / \[these,\] applied warm, form a poultice for those suffering from vāta diseases. // 76 ### [22.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.77) A warm poultice of mincemeat of marshy animals destroys vāta. / Boneless meat, minced, steamed, combined with jaggery and clarified butter, // 77 ### [22.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.78) and mixed with long pepper and black pepper, is known as veśavāra. / The kākolyādi group together with vāta-pacifying drugs, combined with all sour substances, // 78 ### [22.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.79) along with the meat of marshy animals, well steamed, endowed with all four fats, / comfortably warm, distinctly salty, is termed sālvana. // 79 ### [22.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.80) With that one should always apply a warm poultice for patients suffering from vāta. / The bhadradārvādi group destroys vāta; and the kākolyādi group is from the Suśruta-saṃhitā. // 80 ### [22.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.81) Here the medicinal herbs are equal to the meat, with sour liquid enough to impart sourness. / A bandage should be applied, and for fomentation, sour gruel and the like are recommended. // 81 ### [22.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.82) Here the four fats should be in such quantity that proper steaming is achieved. / The entire group, or half of it, or whatever is available, // 82 ### [22.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.83) should be used: such is the instruction everywhere in therapeutic groups. / In a decoction of aśvagandhā and its paste, with four times the quantity of milk, // 83 ### [22.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.84) clarified butter cooked pacifies vāta, is aphrodisiac, and promotes muscle tissue. / In a decoction of daśamūla, with one pala each of the jīvanīya drugs, // 84 ### [22.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.85) and with milk, clarified butter cooked is nourishing and removes distress caused by vāta. / Here the decoction is threefold, a prastha of clarified butter is to be cooked, equal to the milk. // 85 ### [22.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.86) A goat stripped of its skin, with horns, hooves, and so forth discarded, / and the two pañcamūlīs should be boiled in a droṇa of water. // 86 ### [22.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.87) With that reduced to a quarter, one prastha of clarified butter should be cooked, / along with the jīvanīya herbs, kaṭurohiṇī, milk, and śatāvarī. // 87 ### [22.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.88) This, named Chāgalādya, removes all vāta disorders. / In facial palsy, earache, deafness, muteness, nasal speech, // 88 ### [22.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.89) for the dull-witted, stammerers, cripples, in lameness, sciatica, hunchback, / in convulsive seizures, and in apataṃtra, this clarified butter is praised. // 89 ### [22.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.90) By the authoritative teaching of a tulā of substance per droṇa, of the goat and daśamūla, / there should be separately half a tulā; the two kinds of licorice should be added because of its twofold mention. // 90 ### [22.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.91) Cardamom, murā, śarala, śailaja, devadāru, kauntī, / caṇḍā, śaṭī, nalada, campaka, golden-flower, / sthauṇeya, gandharasa, pūtidala, lotus stalk, / śrīvāsa, kunduru, nakha, hrībera, padmaka, kuṣṭha, // 91 ### [22.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.92) kālīyaka, mustā, karkaṭaśṛṅgī, white sandalwood, red sandalwood, / nutmeg, together with mañjiṣṭhā and saffron; / rubbing these gently with mṛkkā and turuṣka because of lightness, / one should cook oil combined with decoction of balā, milk, and curd. / This they declare beneficial in vāta diseases, enhancing strength, complexion, and body. // 92 ### [22.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.93) Oil cooked with a decoction and paste of balā, along with milk, / destroys all vāta disorders; likewise that cooked with śairīya. // 93 ### [22.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.94) Eight parts each of the decoction of balā roots and of daśamūlī, / and of the decoction of barley, kola, and kulattha, and likewise of milk, // 94 ### [22.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.95) and one part of oil: having brought them together, / one should cook them, adding the sweet group together with rock salt; // 95 ### [22.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.96) likewise aguru, sarjarasa, sarala, and devadāru, / mañjiṣṭhā, sandalwood, kuṣṭha, cardamom, kālānuśārivā, // 96 ### [22.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.97) jaṭāmāṃsī, śaileyaka, tejapatra, tagara, śārivā, vacā, / śatāvarī, aśvagandhā, dill, and punarnavā. // 97 ### [22.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.98) Having well prepared that, pouring it into a golden, silver, or earthen / jar, one should store it properly concealed. // 98 ### [22.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.99) This, named Balātaila, removes all vāta disorders. / According to strength, a measured dose should be administered to a puerperal woman, // 99 ### [22.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.100) and to a woman desiring conception, and a man depleted of semen; / when vāta is depleted, when vital points are injured, struck, or crushed, / and in fractures and exhaustion, it should be employed by all means. // 100 ### [22.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.101) It dispels all convulsive seizures and other vāta diseases, / hiccup, cough, adhimantha, abdominal lumps, and difficult dyspnoea. // 101 ### [22.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.102) Using this for six months, it eliminates hernia; / a person's tissues become fresh and his youth becomes firm. // 102 ### [22.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.103) For this should be used by a king, and men equal to kings, / and people who are delicate, fond of comfort, and also strong. // 103 ### [22.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.104) Bilva, agnimantha, śyonāka, pāṭalā, pāribhadra, / prasāraṇī, aśvagandhā, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārī, // 104 ### [22.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.105) balā, atibalā, gokṣura, and punarnavā: / one should boil ten-pala portions of these in four droṇas of water. // 105 ### [22.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.106) Straining it when one quarter remains, one should add a pātra of oil, / \[with a paste of\] dill, devadāru, jaṭāmāṃsī, śaileyaka, vacā, // 106 ### [22.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.107) Sandalwood, tagara, kuṣṭha, cardamoms, the four parṇīs, / rāsnā, turagagandhā, rock salt, and punarnavā; ### [22.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.108) Having ground these ingredients into doses of two palas each, one should throw them in. / And one should add juice of śatāvarī equal in quantity to the oil. ### [22.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.109) Having added four times as much milk, either goat's milk or cow's milk, \[it should be cooked\]. / It is recommended in drinks, enemas, massage, and food. ### [22.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.110) A horse or an elephant or a man crippled by vāta, / a paraplegic, or one who crawls using a stool, is cured by this oil. ### [22.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.111) For vātas residing in the lower part of the body, and those situated in the head and middle; / in toothache, trismus, torticollis, and throat spasm; ### [22.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.112) for one whose single limb is withered, and whose gait is unsteady; / and men whose sense-organs are depleted, whose semen is lost, and who are emaciated by fever; ### [22.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.113) for the deaf, those with stammering tongues, and those of dull intellect; / and for a woman of few offspring, and one who does not conceive; ### [22.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.114) and for those whose testicles are afflicted by vāta, and who have severe scrotal enlargement. / This excellent oil for them is known by name as Nārāyaṇa \[Taila\]. / Here tagara means nata; in its absence, śīyalichopaḍa \[may be used\]. ### [22.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.115) 25. Śatāvarī, aṃśumatī, pṛśniparṇī, śaṭī, varā, / roots of castor, of both bṛhatīs, and of pūtika, ### [22.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.116) roots of gavedhuka, and also of sahacara: / one should thoroughly cook parts of ten palas each of these in a droṇa of water. ### [22.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.117) When a quarter remains and it is strained, one should add this paste: / punarnavā, vacā, cedar, dill, sandalwood, agarwood, ### [22.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.118) śaileya, tagara, kuṣṭha, cardamom, māṃsī, sthitā, balā, / aśvāhvā, rock salt, and rāsnā: one should grind half-palas \[of each\]. ### [22.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.119) One should add two prasthas each of cow's and goat's milk here. / One should cook \[these with\] one prastha of śatāvarī juice and one prastha of sesame oil. ### [22.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.120) Now hear the potency of this prepared oil: / for horses crippled by vāta, for elephants, and likewise for men, ### [22.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.121) this oil is to be administered, dispelling all vāta. / And a man, having drunk it, definitely becomes long-lived and robust. ### [22.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.122) Even a mule would conceive offspring, so what to say of a woman? / \[It cures\] pain in the heart, pain in the flanks, and also hemicrania, ### [22.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.123) and it destroys scrofula, cervical lymphadenitis, vātarakta, lockjaw, / jaundice, anaemia, and even urinary calculus. ### [22.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.124) This oil was proclaimed by the blessed Viṣṇu; / renowned as Nārāyaṇa, it is the supreme ender of vāta. ### [22.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.125) 26. Having boiled a hundred \[palas\] of aśvagandhā in a droṇa of water until a quarter remains, / and strained it, one should cook oil after adding four times as much milk, ### [22.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.126) with pastes of lotus stalk, lotus root, lotus filaments, mālatī flowers, / hrībera, liquorice, śārivā, filaments of padma, ### [22.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.127) medā, punarnavā, grapes, mañjiṣṭhā, both bṛhatīs, / cardamom, elavālu, triphalā, musta, sandalwood, and padmaka. ### [22.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.128) When prepared, it cures vāta seated in the blood, raktapitta, and menorrhagia; / it provides nourishment and strength, and promotes flesh in the emaciated; ### [22.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.129) it destroys disorders of semen and vagina, and removes dryness of the nose; / it makes even eunuchs virile by means of drinks, massage, and unctuous enemas. ### [22.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.130) 27. One should cook together equal parts of radish juice, oil, milk, curd, and sour gruel, / with pastes of balā, citraka, rock salt, ### [22.131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.131) pippalī, ativiṣā, rāsnā, cavikā, agarwood, citraka, / bhallātaka, vacā, kuṣṭha, śvadaṃṣṭrā, ginger, ### [22.132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.132) puṣkaramūla, śaṭī, bilva, dill, nata, and cedar. / When prepared, drunk, it cures extremely severe intoxications caused by vāta. ### [22.133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.133) 28. If one afflicted by diseases of vāta drinks oil / cooked with the paste and fresh juice of garlic, / his vāta diseases quickly vanish indeed, / like voluminous treatises that have been poorly learned. ### [22.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.134) 29. That which is cooked with an abundant juice of ketakī, nāgabalā, and atibalā, / an oil prepared with plenty of tuṣodaka, / destroys vāta that has gone into the bones. ### [22.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.135) From the expression 'plenty', the decoction and the tuṣodaka are in equal amounts there; / an unctuous substance that is to be prepared in liquid alone may also be without paste. ### [22.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.136) 30. Two palas of rock salt, five of dry ginger, two of pippalī-root and two of citraka, / twenty marking-nut seeds, and two āḍhakas ### [22.137](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.137) of sour gruel: with these one should cook a prastha of oil; it bestows offspring / and cures sciatica, stiffness of the thighs, haemorrhoidal suffering, and all vāta disorders. ### [22.138](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.138) 31. Oil prepared with black gram and rock salt is for massage in contractures; / for conditions affecting the arms and head, it is used as nasal drops and taken as a drink after meals. / Here the decoction is prepared from black gram, and rock salt is the paste. ### [22.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.139) 32. With well-ground black gram, ātmaguptā, ativiṣā, castor, / rāsnā, dill, and salts, / oil prepared in four times as much decoction of black gram and balā / cures hemiplegia. ### [22.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.140) 33. Having added a prastha of black gram, one should boil it properly in an āḍhaka of water; / into that liquid, when a quarter remains, one should add four times as much milk, ### [22.141](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.141) and a prastha of sesame oil, having added a karṣa-measured paste / of the eight restorative \[herbs\], dill, with rock salt, ### [22.142](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.142) rāsnā, ātmaguptā, liquorice, balā, the three pungents, and trikaṇṭaka. / In hemiplegia, facial palsy, vāta, severe earache, ### [22.143](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.143) dulled hearing, deafness, and visual impairment born of all three doṣas; / in trembling of the hands, trembling of the head, brachial neuralgia, and frozen shoulder; ### [22.144](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.144) and in lathyrism, this supreme Māṣataila is recommended / by means of drinking, massage, and enemas; it removes diseases above the clavicle. ### [22.145](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.145) 34. With decoctions of black gram, linseed, barley, kuruṇṭaka, kaṇṭakārī, / gokaṇṭa, roots of ṭuṇṭuka, kapikacchu, / cotton seeds, sunn-hemp seeds, horse gram, and jujube, / and with the broth of goat's meat; ### [22.146](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.146) cooked with dry ginger, māgadhikā, and dill, / with castor root, punarnavā, and saraṇī, / rāsnā, balā, amṛtalatā, and pungent herbs, / this oil called Māṣataila cures frozen shoulder; ### [22.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.147) wasting of hemiplegia, tetanic convulsions, āḍhyavāta, / convulsions, along with trembling of the arms and trembling of the head, / through nasal drops, enema procedure, and affusion, / and it destroys all pains of the waist, buttocks, and thighs. ### [22.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.148) 35. In a decoction of black gram, a decoction of balā, and that born of rāsnā and daśamūla, / each separately, and that arising from barley, jujube, horse gram, and goat's meat; ### [22.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.149) To one prastha of oil, add one prastha of each \[of the aforementioned decoctions\] and four times as much milk; / with rāsnā, ātmaguptā, rock salt, śatāhvā, eraṇḍa, mustaka, ### [22.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.150) the jīvanīya \[drugs\], balā, and vyoṣa, each equal to one akṣa, the physician should cook it. / In tremor of the hands, tremor of the head, wasting of the arms, in avabāhuka, ### [22.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.151) in deafness, earache, and severe tinnitus, / in viśvācī, ardita, hunchback, sciatica, and apatānaka, ### [22.152](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.152) he should employ it in enemata, anointing, drinks, and nasal medication. / This Māṣataila is supreme in eliminating diseases of the supraclavicular region. // 152 ### [22.153](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.153) Here, precisely six prasthas of decoctions are stated, each ending in a case-termination. / \[36\] Having taken half an āḍhaka of māṣa and half a tulā of daśamūla, // 153 ### [22.154](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.154) one should cook thirty palas of goat meat in a droṇa of water. / When the decoction is strained, cooled, and reduced to a fourth part, // 154 ### [22.155](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.155) one should add a prastha of sesame oil and four times as much milk, / \[and pastes of\] ātmaguptā, urubūka, śatāhvā, the three salts, // 155 ### [22.156](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.156) the jīvanīya \[drugs\], mañjiṣṭhā, cavya, citraka, kaṭphala, / along with vyoṣa, pippalīmūla, rāsnā, madhuka, rock salt, // 156 ### [22.157](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.157) devadāru, amṛtā, kuṣṭha, vājigandhā, vacā, and śaṭī. / With these pastes, each equal to one akṣa, one should cook it over a gentle digestive fire. // 157 ### [22.158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.158) In hemiplegia, facial paralysis from vāta, deafness, lockjaw, / tinnitus, headache, and timira caused by the three doṣas, // 158 ### [22.159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.159) in trembling of the hands, feet, head, and neck, in slowness of walking, / in lathyrism, lameness, paraplegia, sciatica, and avabāhuka, // 159 ### [22.160](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.160) in drinking, enema, also in anointing, nasal medication, and ear and eye drops, / they praise this oil as one that eliminates all pains of vāta. // 160 ### [22.161](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.161) \[37\] Having decocted the two pañcamūlīs with sixteen times as much water as the oil, / and having boiled an āḍhaka of māṣa, taking four times as much of its extract, // 161 ### [22.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.162) the wise physician should cook a prastha of oil with an equal amount of milk, / adding the ingredients for the paste: // 162 ### [22.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.163) aśvagandhā, śaṭī, dāru, balā, rāsnā, prasāraṇī, / kuṣṭha, parūṣaka, bhārgī, the two vidārīs, punarnavā, // 163 ### [22.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.164) citron fruit, ajājī, rāmaṭha, śatapuṣpikā, / śatāvarī, gokṣuraka, pippalīmūla, citraka, // 164 ### [22.165](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.165) and bringing together the entire jīvanīya group, along with rock salt. / Recognizing it to be well-prepared, this Mahāmāṣataila // 165 ### [22.166](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.166) he should employ in enemata, anointing, drinks, and nasal drops. / In hemiplegia, lockjaw, facial paralysis, apatantraka, // 166 ### [22.167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.167) in avabāhuka and viśvācī, in lameness and paraplegia, / in rigidity of the jaw and neck, and in vātika adhimantha, // 167 ### [22.168](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.168) in loss of semen, tinnitus, and severe earache, / one should prescribe this medicament for the alleviation of lathyrism. // 168 ### [22.169](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.169) Boiling an āḍhaka of daśamūla in a droṇa \[of water\], the decoction should be reduced to a quarter, / being four times the oil; this rule applies also to the decoction of māṣa. // 169 ### [22.170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.170) \[38\] One should boil broken bones of domestic, marsh, and aquatic animals in water. / That fat one should cook again with the decoction of daśamūla, // 170 ### [22.171](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.171) with jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, āsphotā, vidārī, and kapikacchu, / and with pastes of vāta-destroying and jīvanīya \[drugs\], with two parts of milk. // 171 ### [22.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.172) When prepared, through nasal medication, anointing, drinking, and unctuous enema, / it quickly drives away vāta situated in the head, flanks, bones, and alimentary tract. // 172 ### [22.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.173) For those whose bone marrow is severely depleted, and whose semen and ojas are depleted, / this gives strength and nourishment, and is like ambrosia. // 173 ### [22.174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.174) \[39\] Let there be a prastha of triphalā and two kuḍavas of kulattha; / of the bark of kṛṣṇagandhā and of āḍhakī there should be five palas each; // 174 ### [22.175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.175) two \[palas\] each of rāsnā and citraka, and one pala of daśamūla. / One should boil \[these\] in a droṇa of water until a quarter remains; \[and take\] one prastha each // 175 ### [22.176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.176) of surā, āraṇāla, sour curds, sauvīraka, tuṣodaka, / juice of kola, dāḍima, and vṛkṣāmla, oil, clarified butter, muscle fat, // 176 ### [22.177](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.177) marrow, and milk, and six palas of paste of the jīvanīya \[drugs\]. / Adding \[these\], one should cook this great unctuous preparation properly. // 177 ### [22.178](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.178) When vāta has entered the vessels, marrow, and bones, and in patients with all-body or single-limb disease, / in tremors, spasms, and pain, one should administer that as an anointment. // 178 ### [22.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.179) \[40\] One should cook a hundred \[palas\] of crushed prasāraṇī in an armaṇa of good water. / When a quarter remains, one should add an equal amount of oil, curds, along with kāñjika, // 179 ### [22.180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.180) and add twice as much milk, and two-pala pastes of: / citraka, pippalīmūla, madhuka, rock salt, vacā, // 180 ### [22.181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.181) śatapuṣpā, devadāru, rāsnā, vāraṇapippalī, / roots of prasāraṇī, māṃsī, and bhallātaka. // 181 ### [22.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.182) One should cook the oil with a gentle digestive fire; it conquers diseases of vāta and kapha. / It removes the eighty vāta diseases present in men and women. // 182 ### [22.183](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.183) It also restrains hunchback, stiff lameness, sciatica, gout, facial paralysis, / and stiffness of the jaw, back, head, or neck. // 183 ### [22.184](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.184) \[41\] One tulā of prasāraṇī, and one tulā each of aśvagandhā and daśamūla, / boiled separately in a droṇa of water until a quarter remains; // 184 ### [22.185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.185) an āḍhaka of oil, four times as much milk, curds equal \[to the oil\], twice as much kāñjika; / with two palas each of granthika, alkali, prasāraṇī, akṣa, rock salt, // 185 ### [22.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.186) together with mañjiṣṭhā, agni, yaṣṭyāhva, and one pala each of the jīvanīya \[drugs\]; / adding five palas of dry ginger and thirty bhallātakas, // 186 ### [22.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.187) one should cook it; through enemata and other \[methods\] it destroys vāta located in the joints and vessels, / and promotes virility, energy, memory, intelligence, strength, complexion, and the digestive fire. // 187 ### [22.188](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.188) This is Prasāraṇī-triśatī; here, akṣa denotes sauvarcala. / \[42\] Having uprooted prasāraṇī along with its roots and leaves in the autumn season, // 188 ### [22.189](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.189) one hundred \[palas\] of it should be taken, likewise one hundred of sahacara, one hundred of śatāvarī, / and one hundred each of balā, ātmaguptā, aśvagandhā, and ketakī. // 189 ### [22.190](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.190) The physician should boil \[them\] in four times as much water; with the liquids, one āḍhaka of oil, / an āḍhaka each of whey, meat broth, sour vinegar, and milk, // 190 ### [22.191](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.191) combined with an āḍhaka of curds, he should cook over a gentle digestive fire. / The measure of the \[following paste\] ingredients to be added is half a pala each: // 191 ### [22.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.192) tagara, madana, kuṣṭha, keśara, mustaka, tvac, / rāsnā, rock salt, pippalī, māṃsī, mañjiṣṭhā, yaṣṭikā, // 192 ### [22.193](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.193) as well as medā, mahāmedā, then jīvaka and ṛṣabhaka, / śatapuṣpā, vyāghranakha, dry ginger, and devadāru. // 193 ### [22.194](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.194) And likewise kākolī, kṣīrakākolī, vacā, and bhallātaka — / having ground these in equal parts, prasāraṇī \[oil\] is to be prepared. ### [22.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.195) Neither overcooked nor undercooked, when cooked and strained, one should store it. / Listen as I state in which \[conditions\] it should be administered: ### [22.196](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.196) For the hunchbacked, for the lame, and likewise for dwarfs; / for him whose single limb is withered, and those whose bone-joints are fractured; ### [22.197](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.197) for those afflicted with vāta-blood, for those whose minds are impaired by vāta, / and for those whose semen is depleted among women, it is an excellent aphrodisiac. ### [22.198](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.198) One should administer it in an enema, in a drink, as well as in massage and as nasal drops; / employed, it quickly alleviates various disorders born of vāta. ### [22.199](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.199) Three tulās of prasāraṇī with branches, roots, and leaves; two tulās of kurulṭa; / two tulās of chinnā; and one tulā of rubuka; one tulā from rāsnā and sirīṣa; / and from devāhva and ketaka; having boiled \[these\] in one hundred pitchers \[of water\] / until reduced to one pitcher of water, having added a pitcher of oil, two vessels of fermented grain-water, an āḍhaka of whey, ### [22.200](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.22.200) and having added an āḍhaka of fermented gruel, goat's meat-broth, sugarcane juice, / and milk; with pṛkkā, karkaṭa, jīvaka and the rest, avikasā, kākolī, kacchurā, / fine cardamom, camphor, kunda, saralā, saffron, māṃsī, and nakha; / with kālīya, water-lily, padmaka, niśā, kakkolaka, and granthika; _First 200 of 281 passages. 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