[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Later Compendia, Diagnosis and Therapeutics](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha) › [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt) › 23 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 23 English (machine translation) 23 - **Language:** English ### [23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.1) \[The physician\] should treat superficial vātarakta with external applications, inunctions, affusions, and poultices, and deep \[vātarakta\] with purgation, non-unctuous enemata, and the drinking of unctuous substances. // 1 ### [23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.2) In both \[types\], one should extract blood using a horn, needle, gourd, or leeches. One should drain \[blood\] from the body at the diseased site through veins or by scarification. // 2 ### [23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.3) Blood should not be drained when there is exhaustion of the limbs, nor when it is dry and vāta is predominant. A digestive \[preparation\] prepared with three karṣas each of amṛtā, dry ginger, and coriander // 3 ### [23.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.4) conquers vāta associated with blood, \[vāta\] accompanied by āma, and all skin diseases without exception. A decoction prepared from vatsādanī, drunk together with guggulu, completely cures blood combined with vāta. // 4 ### [23.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.5) One should drink a decoction of vāsā, guḍūcī, and caturaṅgula with castor oil; in due course, it conquers completely even generalized disease arising from blood and vāta. // 5 ### [23.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.6) Licking the powder of muṇḍitikā mixed with honey and clarified butter, while drinking a decoction of chinnā, destroys vātarakta that is extremely hard to treat. // 6 ### [23.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.7) Having eaten three or five \[fruits of\] pathyā with jaggery, one should drink a decoction of chinnaruhā. It inevitably pacifies that aggravated vātarakta, even when it has split open up to the knees. // 7 ### [23.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.8) Guḍūcī with clarified butter pacifies vāta; with jaggery, constipation; with abundant sugar, pitta; and with honey, kapha. Mixed with castor oil, it pacifies severe vātarakta; and with dry ginger, it pacifies āmavāta. // 8 ### [23.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.9) Consuming the fresh juice, paste, powder, or decoction of guḍūcī for a long time, one is freed from vātarakta. // 9 ### [23.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.10) Milk boiled with daśamūlī brings immediate relief from pain. Affusion with lukewarm clarified butter acts likewise when vāta predominates. // 10 ### [23.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.11) Having drunk a decoction prepared from paṭola, kaṭukā, abhīru, triphalā, and amṛtā, a person conquers vātarakta accompanied by burning sensation. // 11 ### [23.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.12) Wheat flour with goat's milk and clarified butter, or castor-seed paste mixed with goat's milk, and hundred-times-washed clarified butter should be applied as a plaster; and for affusion, ewe's milk alone is praised. // 12 ### [23.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.13) Likewise, a plaster of ground sesame seeds fried and extinguished in milk \[is commended\]. A paste of kaṭukā, amṛtā, yaṣṭyāhva, and dry ginger with honey, // 13 ### [23.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.14) drunk with cow's urine, conquers vātarakta accompanied by kapha. Or a decoction of dhātrī, turmeric, and mustā \[is given\] when kapha is predominant. // 14 ### [23.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.15) In a decoction of kokilākṣa and amṛtā, one should drink kṛṣṇā when kapha is predominant; eating wholesome food, one is freed from vātarakta within three weeks. // 15 ### [23.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.16) Jaggery and clarified butter are declared to pacify kapha and blood, and to be pleasing to the heart. In combinations \[of doṣas\], one should treat them mixed together according to their predominance. // 16 ### [23.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.17) In all \[types\], one should attentively consume pathyā with jaggery, or a decoction of guḍūcī, or pippalī in increasing doses. // 17 ### [23.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.18) Triphalā, nimba, mañjiṣṭhā, vacā, kaṭukarohiṇī, vatsādanī, dāru, and niśā: this is the Navakārṣika decoction. // 18 ### [23.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.19) Merely by drinking it, it removes vātarakta, skin disease, pāmā, red circular patches, and the kāpālika variety of skin disease. // 19 ### [23.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.20) This Navakārṣika should be prepared with māṣas of five raktikās each. However, when the decoction is thus prepared, an appropriate dose is administered. // 20 ### [23.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.21) Clarified butter cooked with a decoction and paste of guḍūcī, along with milk, destroys vāta as well as blood\[-disorders\], and conquers skin disease that is difficult to cure. // 21 ### [23.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.22) Clarified butter cooked with a paste of śatāvarī inside, in four times its quantity of juice, and with an equal amount of milk, destroys vātarakta. // 22 ### [23.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.23) Amṛtā, madhuka, drākṣā, triphalā, dry ginger, balā, vāsā, āragvadha, vṛścīra, devadāru, trikaṇṭaka, // 23 ### [23.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.24) kaṭukā, śāvarī, kṛṣṇā, fruits of kāśmarya, rāsnā, kṣuraka, gandharva, vṛddhadāra, ghana, and utpala— making pastes of these in equal parts, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter // 24 ### [23.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.25) adding an equal amount of dhātrī juice and three times as much water. When known to be properly prepared, it is praised for food and drink. // 25 ### [23.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.26) Vāta accompanied by many doṣas, swooned together with blood, superficial as well as deep, located in the sacrum, shanks, thighs, and knees; // 26 ### [23.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.27) in kroṣṭuśīrṣa, severe colic, and dreadful āmavāta; and the exceedingly intolerable pain of one afflicted by vāta diseases; // 27 ### [23.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.28) dysuria, upward movement of vāyu, obstinate urinary diseases, and irregular fever— it swiftly destroys all these arising from vāta, pitta, and kapha. // 28 ### [23.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.29) Through continuous use, it promotes complexion, lifespan, and strength. Formulated by the Aśvins, this excellent clarified butter is unsurpassed. // 29 ### [23.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.30) Oil \[cooked\] with a decoction and paste of balā, with four times as much milk, cooked ten times, conquers vātarakta and vāta-pitta. // 30 ### [23.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.31) It is auspicious, produces male offspring, increases semen in men, destroys disorders of semen and vagina, and removes vāta disorders. // 31 ### [23.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.32) Oil prepared with a decoction of guḍūcī and milk, or with lac juice, or with juices of madhuka and kāśmarya, cures vātarakta. // 32 ### [23.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.33) Prepared with a decoction of padmaka, uśīra, yaṣṭyāhva, and turmeric, along with a paste of sarja, mañjiṣṭhā, vīrā, kākolī, and sandalwood: this Khujjākapadmaka oil removes the disorder of vātarakta. // 33 ### [23.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.34) One should boil one tulā of cleaned nāgabalā, strain it, and add an āḍhaka of oil to it, along with an equal quantity of goat's milk mixed in, and a paste of yaṣṭīmadhuka; // 34 ### [23.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.35) one should boil five palas separately. Properly cooked, it pacifies aggravated vātarakta; administered as an enema, it makes one disease-free in seven nights; drunk, in ten days. // 35 ### [23.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.36) For a tulā of substance, a droṇa of water \[is taken\]; a tulā of substance is prescribed in a droṇa \[of liquid\]. // 36 ### [23.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.37) With equal parts of beeswax and mañjiṣṭhā, along with resin of sarja and śārivā: this Piṇḍataila, when used as an inunction, relieves the pain of vātarakta. // 37 ### [23.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.38) Oil prepared with śārivā, sarja, mañjiṣṭhā, yaṣṭī, and beeswax, combined with milk, / or castor \[oil cooked\] without mañjiṣṭhā, relieves vātarakta. // 38 ### [23.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.39) Having thrown a prastha of guggulu resembling the colour of the belly of an eye / of an excellent buffalo into a mass of water, / and triphalā in the prescribed measure, // 39 ### [23.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.40) Thirty-two palas of chinnaruhā / should be added with care. / One should cook it attentively, / stirring repeatedly with a ladle until // 40 ### [23.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.41) the water is reduced to half / by the contact with fire. / Having taken it down and strained it through a cloth, / one should place it again into a vessel. // 41 ### [23.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.42) When it has thickened, having taken it down onto a stone slab, / half a pala of triphalā powder, / six akṣa measures of trikaṭu powder, // 42 ### [23.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.43) half a pala of krimiripu powder, / a karṣa each of trivṛt and dantī, / and one pala of guḍūcī / having added, \[and\] having pounded them carefully together, // 43 ### [23.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.44) and using soup as an after-drink, / or water with fragrant water; / indulging in desired diet and recreation, / using this medicament at all times, // 44 ### [23.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.45) it conquers vātarakta affecting the skin, / born of one \[doṣa\] or born of two, and of long standing; / \[and vātarakta\] which is suppurated, dried up, / cracked, and extending to the knees. // 45 ### [23.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.46) Wound, cough, skin disease, abdominal lump, / oedema, abdominal disease, anaemia, and urinary disorders, / impaired digestive fire, constipation, / and diabetic carbuncles it destroys swiftly. // 46 ### [23.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.47) Constantly consumed, / in course of time it destroys all diseases. / Overcoming the defect of old age, / one attains a youthful form. // 47 ### [23.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.48) Each \[ingredient of\] triphalā is one prastha, the water there is six āḍhakas; / the cooking of the guggulu is like \[that of\] jaggery, and it is especially fragrant. // 48 ### [23.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.49) One prastha of guḍūcī and half a prastha of guggulu; / and of each \[ingredient of\] triphalā, one should prescribe that same measure \[of half a prastha\]. // 49 ### [23.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.50) Pounding everything together, one should boil it in water in a vessel; / straining it when one-fourth remains, one should place it on the fire again. // 50 ### [23.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.51) One should cook the decoction until it reaches thickness. / Dantī, vyoṣa, viḍaṅga, guḍūcī, and the rinds of triphalā: // 51 ### [23.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.52) one should take half a pala of each of these, purified, / but one karṣa of trivṛtā; one should combine all together. // 52 ### [23.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.53) Knowing it to be well prepared, the wise \[physician\] should throw \[these powders\] into it when lukewarm. / Then, having ascertained the strength of the digestive fire, he should administer its dose. // 53 ### [23.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.54) Vātarakta, likewise skin disease, haemorrhoids, loss of digestive fire, / malignant ulcers, urinary disorders, sāmavāta, fistula-in-ano, // 54 ### [23.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.55) sinus, āḍhyavāta, and oedema—it removes all these. / For this Amṛtā-named guggulu was prepared by the Aśvins in ancient times. / Half a prastha of triphalā is taken here individually. // 55 ### [23.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.56) Two prasthas of amṛtā, and one prastha of guggulu, / one prastha of each \[ingredient of\] triphalā, and one prastha of varṣābhū: // 56 ### [23.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.57) crushing all this, one should boil it in water. / One should cook it again when one-fourth remains until it reaches thickness. // 57 ### [23.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.58) Roots of dantī and citraka, kaṇā, viśvā, and triphalā, / guḍūcī, and viḍaṅga—measuring half a pala each; // 58 ### [23.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.59) and one karṣa of trivṛtā: one should powder all together. / When cooked and warm, one should add it there; this is the excellent Amṛtāguggulu. // 59 ### [23.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.60) One should consume it according to the strength of the digestive fire, especially one suffering from acid dyspepsia. / Vātarakta, likewise skin disease, haemorrhoids, loss of digestive fire, // 60 ### [23.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.61) malignant ulcers, urinary disorders, sāmavāta, fistula-in-ano, / sinus, āḍhyavāta, and oedema—this destroys all diseases. / For this Amṛtā-named guggulu was fashioned by the Aśvins in ancient times. // 61 ### [23.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.62) Śatāvarī, nāgabalā, vṛddhadāraka, uccaṭā, / punarnavā, amṛtā, kṛṣṇā, vājigandhā, trikaṇṭaka: // 62 ### [23.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.63) of each of these one should make ten palas of fine powder. / Combined with half that \[amount of\] sugar, the wise \[physician\] should rub the powder. // 63 ### [23.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.64) He should keep it in a very firm vessel, mixed with half an āḍhaka of honey, / stirred in a prastha of clarified butter, along with one pala of the three aromatics. // 64 ### [23.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.65) A person should eat it according to the strength of his digestive fire, eating whatever food and performing whatever activities he desires. / Vātarakta, phthisis, skin disease, emaciation, \[diseases\] arising from pitta and blood, // 65 ### [23.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.66) and diseases born of vāta, pitta, and kapha, and others of that kind— / destroying \[them\], it makes a man free from wrinkles and grey hair. / Named Yogasārāmṛta, it increases fortune and complexion. // 66 ### [23.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23.67) One should avoid day-sleep, exposure to fire, exercise, as well as sexual intercourse, / and pungent, hot, heavy, channel-blocking, salty, and sour \[substances\]. // 67 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.23.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.23) · Pramāṇa