[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) › 25 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 25 English (machine translation) 25 - **Language:** English ### [25.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.1) Fasting, sudation, bitter, appetising, and pungent remedies, / purgation, intake of fats, and enemas are prescribed in rheumatism. // 1 ### [25.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.2) One should not give an unctuous enema with Saindhavādya; an alkaline enema is recommended. / In rheumatism, food and drink prepared with pañcakola are desired. // 2 ### [25.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.3) Dry sudation should be administered using bags of sand. / Śaṭī, dry ginger, abhayā, ugrā, devāhva, ativiṣā, and amṛtā: // 3 ### [25.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.4) \[their\] decoction is a digestive for rheumatism; \[the diet should consist of\] dry food. / A paste of śaṭī and dry ginger combined with a decoction of varṣābhū, // 4 ### [25.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.5) a person should drink for seven days to digest rheumatism. / With daśamūla, amṛtā, castor, rāsnā, dry ginger, and devadāru, / a decoction taken with castor oil destroys heavy vāta associated with āma. // 5 ### [25.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.6) Or, one should drink oil produced from castor with a decoction of daśamūla or ginger-water / in pain of the lower abdomen, bladder, and hips. // 6 ### [25.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.7) Rāsnā, guḍūcī, castor, devadāru, and dry ginger / one should drink in generalised vāta associated with āma located in the joints, bones, and marrow. // 7 ### [25.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.8) One suffering from pain in the calves, thighs, back, sacrum, and flanks / should drink a decoction of rāsnā, amṛtā, āragvadha, devadāru, / trikaṇṭaka, castor, and punarnavā mixed with powder of dry ginger. // 8 ### [25.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.9) A decoction of dry ginger and gokṣuraka, consumed every morning, / is digestive in vāta associated with āma and in hip pain, and destroys discomfort. // 9 ### [25.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.10) In rheumatism, one should drink the extract of daśamūla mixed with pippalī, / or eat abhayā and dry ginger, or guḍūcī with dry ginger. // 10 ### [25.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.11) A man afflicted with the pain of rheumatism, or tormented by sciatica and enlargement of the scrotum, / should regularly consume harītakī combined with castor oil according to the rules. // 11 ### [25.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.12) One should always drink a karṣa of dry ginger powder with fermented sour gruel; / it is an excellent alleviator of rheumatism and destroys kapha and vāta. // 12 ### [25.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.13) And one should drink powder of pañcakola with hot water; / it destroys weak digestive fire, colic, abdominal lump, āma, kapha, and anorexia. // 13 ### [25.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.14) Powder made from amṛtā, dry ginger, gokṣura, muṇḍī, and varuṇa, / drunk with curd whey or sour fermented gruel, is renowned as a destroyer of rheumatism. // 14 ### [25.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.15) Two parts of rock salt, and likewise of ajowan; / three parts of ajamodā, and five parts of dry ginger; // 15 ### [25.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.16) and twelve \[parts\] of fine harītakī, ground into a smooth powder, / drunk with curd whey, sour gruel, buttermilk, clarified butter, or hot water, // 16 ### [25.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.17) conquers rheumatism, abdominal lump, and diseases arising from the heart and bladder; / it destroys \[enlargement of\] the spleen, pain and so forth, abdominal swelling, and diseases arising in the rectum, // 17 ### [25.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.18) constipation, diseases of the abdomen, and indeed those located in the hands and feet. / This powder, known as Vaiśvānara, is a carminative of vāta. // 18 ### [25.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.19) Alambuṣā, gokṣura, guḍūcī, vṛddhadāraka, / pippalī, trivṛt, mustā, varuṇa together with punarnavā, // 19 ### [25.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.20) triphalā, and dry ginger one should make into fine powders. / \[Taken\] with curd whey, sour gruel, buttermilk, milk, or meat broth, / it quickly destroys rheumatism and oedema located in the joints. // 20 ### [25.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.21) Equal parts of dill, viḍaṅga, rock salt, and black pepper: / this powder, drunk with hot water, is supreme for kindling the digestive fire. // 21 ### [25.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.22) Asafoetida, cavya, black salt, dry ginger, pippalī, cumin, and pauṣkara / in progressively increasing parts: this powder, when drunk, conquers vāta and āma. // 22 ### [25.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.23) Citraka, pippalī-root, ajowan, and kāravī, / viḍaṅga, ajamodā, cumin, and devadāru; // 23 ### [25.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.24) cavya, cardamom, rock salt, kuṣṭha, rāsnā, gokṣura, and coriander; / triphalā, mustaka, the three pungents, cinnamon bark, uśīra, and barley alkali; // 24 ### [25.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.25) tālīsapatra and tejapatra: one should make fine powders \[of these\]. / Equal in measure to all these powders, however, is guggulu; // 25 ### [25.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.26) having pounded it thoroughly with clarified butter, one should store it in an unctuous vessel. / Then one should administer a dose, even for one following an unrestricted diet. // 26 ### [25.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.27) Known as 'Yogarāja', this formulation is like nectar. / It destroys rheumatism, gout and the like, and even worms and malignant ulcers; // 27 ### [25.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.28) it destroys splenomegaly, abdominal lumps, abdominal diseases, flatulence, and haemorrhoids, / and produces a kindled digestive fire, increase of vital energy, and strength. / It conquers vāta diseases, even those located in the joints and marrow. // 28 ### [25.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.29) Three palas of the well-powdered decoction \[extract\] of triphalā, / one pala of sulphur, and likewise one pala of guggulu; // 29 ### [25.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.30) taking a kuḍava of castor oil, with care, / a physician skilled in cooking should cook everything in a sturdy vessel made of iron. // 30 ### [25.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.31) It destroys vāta as well as pitta and kapha, limping, and lameness; / it destroys very intractable dyspnoea and the five types of cough; // 31 ### [25.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.32) skin diseases, gout, abdominal lumps, colic, and abdominal diseases; / it conquers rheumatism, even when abandoned by physicians. // 32 ### [25.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.33) Through habitual use of this, old age and grey hair are destroyed. / One should eat sixty-day rice served with clarified butter, oil, and meat broth. // 33 ### [25.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.34) Known as 'Siṃhanāda', destroying the pride of the elephant of diseases, / causing an increase of digestive fire in men, it was spoken by Daṇḍapāṇi. // 34 ### [25.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.35) Alambuṣā, gokṣura, triphalā, dry ginger, and amṛtā / in parts increasing successively, and an amount of powder of śyāmā equal to all that: // 35 ### [25.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.36) one should drink it with curd whey, liquor, buttermilk, sour fermented gruel, or hot water. / When drunk, it conquers rheumatism, gout accompanied by oedema / located in the joints of the sacrum, knees, and thighs, and destroys fever and anorexia. // 36 ### [25.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.37) One part of pathyā, bibhītaka, and āmalakī in the order of triphalā; / drunk as a powder combined in equal portions with pathyā, dry ginger, and ajowan, // 37 ### [25.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.38) with buttermilk, hot water, or else fermented sour gruel, / it quickly destroys rheumatism, oedema, and also weakness of the digestive fire. // 38 ### [25.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.39) Ajamodā, black pepper, pippalī, / viḍaṅga, devadāru, citraka, dill, / rock salt, and pippalī-root: / the parts of this group of nine should be one pala each; // 39 ### [25.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.40) dry ginger should be ten palas, / there should be the same number of palas of vṛddhadāraka, / and five palas of pathyā: / one should make all of them together into a powder. // 40 ### [25.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.41) For one eating pills made with an equal quantity of jaggery / or drinking the powder with hot water, / all diseases arising from vāta associated with āma, / even the very difficult ones, are destroyed. // 41 ### [25.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.42) Visūcikā, pratitūnī, / tūnī, heart disease, severe sciatica, / splitting pain in the hips, bladder, and rectum, / and intense \[pain\] in the bones and shanks, ### [25.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.43) as well as oedema in the body joints, / and whatever other \[diseases\] arise from āmavāta, / all go to destruction, / like darkness dispelled by the rays of the sun. // 42–43 ### [25.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.44) 11. One should cook one prastha of clarified butter with a decoction and paste of dry ginger, / along with four times that \[quantity of milk\] or with water alone. // 44 ### [25.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.45) It pacifies vāta and kapha, strongly stimulates the digestive fire, / is called Nāgara-ghṛta, and destroys lumbago and colic due to āma. // 45 ### [25.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.46) 12. One prastha of clarified butter \[cooked\] over a mild fire with a decoction of guḍūcī / and a paste of dry ginger is excellent for removing vātarakta. // 46 ### [25.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.47) When administered, it quickly destroys āmavāta, āḍhyavāta, and the like, / parasitic worms, malignant ulcers, / haemorrhoids, and abdominal lump with colic. // 47 ### [25.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.48) 13. Asafoetida, the three pungents, chāvya, and rock salt— / having made pastes of one pala each of these, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter, // 48 ### [25.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.49) adding one āḍhaka of fermented gruel. That clarified butter cures abdominal disease; / it destroys colic, constipation, abdominal distension, āmavāta, stiffness of the lumbar region, / and disorder of the malabsorption syndrome, and is an excellent stimulant of a sluggish digestive fire. // 49 ### [25.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.50) 14. For nourishment, \[and\] in retention of dry feces and urine, it should be prepared with milk; / and for stimulating the digestive fire, it is taught by the wise that it should be prepared with curd-whey. // 50 ### [25.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.51) Clarified butter prepared with a paste of dry ginger and four times as much sauvīraka vinegar / produces digestive fire, is supreme, and is excellent at removing āmavāta. // 51 ### [25.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.52) 15. One hundred palas of garlic, a kuḍava of sesame, / asafoetida, the three pungents, the two alkalis, and the five salts, // 52 ### [25.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.53) dill, kuṣṭha, long pepper root, leadwort, / ajamodā, ajwain, and coriander—the wise physician // 53 ### [25.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.54) should make a fine powder of one pala each of these. / He should keep this in a strong ghee-vessel for sixteen days, // 54 ### [25.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.55) adding a mānī of oil and half a prastha of fermented rice-water. / One should eat one karṣa of it, and drink water or wine afterwards. // 55 ### [25.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.56) It is praised in āmavāta, as well as in vāta located in the whole body or one limb, / in epilepsy, weak digestive fire, cough, dyspnoea, artificial poisons, / insanity, paralysis due to vāta, colic, and parasitic infestations. // 56 ### [25.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.57) 16. In one āḍhaka of a decoction of prasāraṇī, one prastha each of jaggery and garlic, / cooked with a fourth part of powder of the five pungents, destroys āmavāta. // 57 ### [25.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.58) 17. In a jar containing one hundred \[palas\] of thick, well-prepared liquor, / one should throw in half that amount of cleaned and crushed garlic; // 58 ### [25.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.59) one akṣa each of powdered long pepper, long pepper root, cumin, kuṣṭha, leadwort, / dry ginger, black pepper, and chāvya. // 59 ### [25.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.60) After seven days, it should be drunk; it destroys vāta diseases and āma, / relieves worms, skin disease, phthisis, abdominal distension, abdominal lump, haemorrhoids, spleen enlargement, and urinary disorders, / stimulates the digestive fire, and destroys anaemia. // 60 ### [25.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.61) 18. Having thoroughly washed one prastha of husked white mustard-seed cake in water, / adding a prastha of rice-scum, one should let it stand for three days // 61 ### [25.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.62) in a heap of grain. Then, having powdered them, one should add one pala each of: / alambuṣā, small caltrops, dill, punarnavā, // 62 ### [25.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.63) prasāraṇī, bark of varuṇa, dry ginger, and madana. / Knowing it to be well-cooked, it is prepared mixed with rice, // 63 ### [25.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.64) seasoned with mustard oil, combined with asafoetida and rock salt. / Eaten along with salt, it overcomes āma and high fever, // 64 ### [25.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.65) arising from one \[doṣa\], two \[doṣas\], curable \[types\], or from all three doṣas; / vāta in the hips and thighs, abdominal distension, \[vāta\] in the knees, and \[pain\] affecting the sacrum; / this gruel cures udāvarta, and produces strength, complexion, and digestive fire. // 65 ### [25.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.66) 19. Peeled and dried, / fresh garlic cloves and similar ingredients: / in the cold season, three hundred palas / of their finely pulverized powder // 66 ### [25.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.67) with one hundred \[palas\] of pungent oil, and with the three pungents, asafoetida, coriander, / viḍaṅga, ajwain, turmeric, chavikā, pippalīmūla, fresh ginger, / the two kinds of cumin, vṛścīra, tulasī, arjaka, horse-radish tree, // 67 ### [25.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.68) daśamūla, kapikacchū, bhṛṅgarāja, and the three salts, / powdered into palas, submerged together in fermented gruel: // 68 ### [25.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.69) one should place this in an unctuous vessel and set it again in a heap of grain. / Having taken it out after seven nights, by means of drinks, snacks, and meals, // 69 ### [25.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.70) this sidhmaleyā should be administered, especially in vāta associated with āma. / Those who are broken, disabled, injured, trembling, crawling on seats (paraplegic), // 70 ### [25.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.71) having destroyed sciatica, loss of digestive power, colic, abdominal lumps, and abdominal diseases, / wrinkles, grey hair, and baldness, will have pure senses. // 71 ### [25.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25.72) 20. One afflicted with āmavāta should avoid curd, fish, jaggery, milk, potakī, black gram flour, / and anything heavy and producing channel-blockage. // 72 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.25.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.25) · Pramāṇa