[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) › 24 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 24 English (machine translation) 24 - **Language:** English ### [24.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.1) Whatever diminishes kapha and does not agitate vāta, / all that should always be performed as the treatment of ūrustambha. // 1 ### [24.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.2) For it unction should not be done, nor enema, nor purgation; / an entirely unctuous-free regimen destroying kapha should be performed there at first. // 2 ### [24.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.3) Afterwards the entire course of treatment should be performed for the destruction of vāta. / Śilājatu or guggulu, or pippalī or dry ginger, // 3 ### [24.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.4) in ūrustambha one should drink with \[cow's\] urine or with the decoction of daśamūlī. / Bhallātaka, amṛtā, śuṇṭhī, dāru, pathyā, and punarnavā, // 4 ### [24.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.5) mixed with the two pañcamūlīs, destroy ūrustambha; / or indeed a decoction of pippalī, pippalīmūla, and bhallātaka, // 5 ### [24.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.6) or \[their\] paste with honey should be given to destroy ūrustambha. / One should lick triphalā, cavya, kaṭukā, and pippalīmūla with honey, // 6 ### [24.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.7) or drink pura with \[cow's\] urine to destroy ūrustambha; / or one should lick triphalā powder combined with kaṭukā with honey. // 7 ### [24.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.8) Or a man should drink the Ṣaḍdharaṇa powder with warm water, / or Vardhamānapippalī with honey or jaggery. // 8 ### [24.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.9) In ūrustambha they praise also Gaṇḍīrāriṣṭa. / \[A paste\] of cavya, abhayā, citraka, and devadāru with honey is \[wholesome\] in stiffness of the thighs; // 9 ### [24.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.10) or the physician should apply a paste of karañja fruits and mustard seeds with copious \[cow's\] urine. / With honey, mustard, and termite-mound earth combined, // 10 ### [24.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.11) he should perform firm unction together with plaster in ūrustambha. / For the purpose of reducing kapha, he should engage him in such exercises as are possible. // 11 ### [24.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.12) He should make him walk on dry land, and swim across rivers against the current. / With two palas each of pippalīmūla and dry ginger, Aṣṭakaṭvara: // 12 ### [24.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.13) a prastha of oil equal \[in measure\] to curd removes sciatica and stiffness of the thighs. / In this Aṣṭakaṭvarataila, mustard oil is preferred. // 13 ### [24.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.14) With kuṣṭha, śrīveṣṭaka, udīcya, sarala, dāru, keśara, / ajagandhā, and aśvagandhā, one should cook mustard oil. // 14 ### [24.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24.15) One afflicted with stiffness of the thighs should drink of this in proper measure with honey. / Saindhavādya oil is beneficial, \[as is\] Varṣābhvamṛta guggulu. // 15 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.24.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.24) · Pramāṇa