Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 26

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26.1

1. Emesis, fasting, fomentation, digestive medicines, fruit-suppositories, / alkaline powders, and pills are commended for the pacification of colic. // 1

26.2

For a man afflicted with colic, fomentation alone brings comfort, / with milk puddings, kṛśarā, pastes, or unctuous warm poultices. // 2

26.3

Kulatthayūṣa combined with fat quickly destroys / colic caused by vāta, / when accompanied by rock salt, the three pungents, quail broth, / and rich in asafoetida, black salt, and pomegranate. // 3

26.4

Balā, punarnavā, castor root, the two bṛhatīs, and small caltrops, / drunk with asafoetida and salt, immediately removes vāta pain. // 4

26.5

One suffering from colic with a constipated alimentary tract should drink with hot water / the powders of asafoetida, prativiṣā, the three pungents, calamus, black salt, and chebulic myrobalan. // 5

26.6

Tumburu, chebulic myrobalan, asafoetida, pauṣkara, and the three salts— / one suffering from vāta colic, abdominal lumps, and drowsiness should drink this with barley-water. // 6

26.7

Black trivṛt, biḍa salt, drumstick seeds, chebulic myrobalan, / viḍaṅga, kampillaka, and aśvamūtrī— / having drunk an equal paste of these combined with wine, / one destroys colic born of vāta. // 7

26.8

2. Nightshade, asafoetida, rock salt, alkali, black salt, and chebulic myrobalan / are to be drunk with the clear scum of wine to destroy vāta colic. // 8

26.9

Having boiled dry ginger and castor root, one should drink the water / mixed with asafoetida and black salt: it instantly relieves colic. // 9

A decoction of dry ginger, castor, and barley, with asafoetida and puṣkaramūla, / or with asafoetida and black salt, instantly relieves colic; / likewise, a decoction of castor and barley, accompanied by asafoetida and black salt. // 10

26.11

Asafoetida, sour citrus, long pepper, salt, ajwain, / alkali, chebulic myrobalan, and rock salt in equal parts: / one should drink the powder mixed with the clear part of vāruṇī wine / for well-being when colic born of vāta has flared up. // 11

26.12

With black salt, tamarind, cumin, and black pepper, doubled in succession, / ground with citron juice, a pill is made that destroys colic caused by vāta. // 12

26.13

With asafetida, amlavetasa, the three pungents, ajwain, and the three salts, / combined with citron juice, a pill destroys colic caused by vāta. // 13

26.14

And one should have [the patient] drink citron root with clarified butter / in a measure of one karṣa; it conquers colic arising from vāta. // 14

26.15

Having ground bael root, sesame, and castor [seed] with sour husk-water, / one should rotate a warm bolus [on the belly], which destroys colic caused by vāta. // 15

26.16

And having made a bolus with sesame seeds, one should rotate it over the abdomen; / this bolus pacifies even colic that is exceedingly unbearable. // 16

26.17

From an application on the navel, madana mixed with sour gruel conquers colic; / or jīvantī root paste with oil removes pain in the flanks. // 17

26.18

Jaggery, śāli rice, barley, milk, drinking clarified butter, purgation, / and the meat of arid-land animals are the medicament for those suffering from pitta-colic. // 18

26.19

In colic born of pitta, however, emesis with milk / as well as sugarcane juices with paṭola and neem [is recommended]; / cold immersions, windy riverbanks, / and vessels of bell-metal and the like flooded with water. // 19

26.20

Purgation that removes pitta is commended, / and broths of hare and common quail are commended; / refreshing drinks provided with parched paddy and honey, / and exceedingly cold formulations administered with honey. // 20

26.21

In vomiting, fever, and even in colic arising from pitta, / in violent burning sensation, and when exceedingly thirsty, / a person seeking comfort should drink / very cold thin gruel of barley mixed with honey. // 21

26.22

One should drink the juice of emblic myrobalan or vidārī, or trāyantī, or grape water / along with sugar; it immediately destroys colic caused by pitta. // 22

26.23

A person should drink asparagus juice combined with honey in the morning / for the purpose of pacifying burning sensation and colic; it removes all pitta diseases. // 23

26.24

The two bṛhatīs, gokṣura, castor, kuśa, kāśa, and ikṣurālikā, / when drunk, immediately destroy terrible colic arising from pitta. // 24

26.25

With asparagus, liquorice, bālā, kuśa, and gokṣura, / one should drink boiled and cooled water with jaggery, honey, and sugar; // 25

26.26

it destroys colic, burning sensation, and pitta-blood disorders, and immediately removes burning fever. / A decoction prepared with the three myrobalans, neem, liquorice, kaṭukā, and āragvadha // 26

26.27

one should administer mixed with honey to pacify burning sensation and colic; / or castor oil combined with a decoction of liquorice // 27

26.28

destroys colic arising from pitta and also an abdominal lump born of pitta. / A decoction of the three myrobalans and āragvadha with honey and sugar // 28

26.29

one should administer; it destroys intrinsic haemorrhage and checks burning sensation and colic. / One should lick emblic myrobalan powder with honey to destroy pitta colic. // 29

26.30

When kapha is predominant, [one should use] vomiting, fastings, / head purgation, and drinking honey and wine; / one should take honey, wheat, barley, ariṣṭa wines, / and all things that are dry and pungent. // 30

26.31

A thick gruel prepared with long pepper, long-pepper root, cavya, citraka, and dry ginger / in water is appetising and relieves colic. // 31

26.32

The five pungents combined with the three salts, with asafetida, / drunk with comfortably warm water, destroys colic caused by kapha. // 32

26.33

Bael root, then castor, citraka, and dry ginger, / combined with asafetida and rock salt, immediately check colic. // 33

26.34

Musta, calamus, Picrorhiza kurroa, / as well as chebulic myrobalan and citraka in equal parts, / one should drink with cow's urine in colic arising from kapha / and also for the digestion of undigested matter. // 34

26.35

Powder of calamus, musta, citraka, chebulic myrobalan, and kaṭukā combined with cow's urine, / or a decoction of bael and the rest with alkali, when drunk, removes colic caused by kapha. // 35

26.36

Or citron juice, or another: drumstick decoction / with alkali, drunk with honey, removes pain in the flanks, cardiac region, and bladder. // 36

26.37

In colic due to undigested matter, the treatment that destroys colic caused by kapha should be performed; / everything that eliminates undigested matter and increases the strength of the digestive fire should be used. // 37

26.38

A powder of asafetida, tumburu, the three pungents, ajwain, citraka, and chebulic myrobalan / with alkali and salt, one should drink in the morning with warm water; // 38

26.39

it destroys colic caused by feces, urine, and vāta, digests [undigested matter], and kindles the digestive fire. / Citraka, long-pepper root, castor, dry ginger, and coriander boiled with water, // 39

26.40

with asafetida, biḍa salt, and pomegranate, is used in colic, abdominal distension, and constipation. / Ajwain, rock salt, chebulic myrobalan, and dry ginger, four in equal parts, / swiftly conquers severe colic and stimulates a sluggish digestive fire. // 40

26.41

One should drink the bṛhatyādi group with honey in that caused by pitta and vāta; / or one should employ a combined procedure in colic caused by pitta and vāta. // 41

26.42

Whatever treatment has been stated separately for that born of pitta or born of kapha, / one should combine and apply that treatment in that born of kapha and pitta. // 42

26.43

One should drink a decoction of paṭola, the three myrobalans, and neem with honey / to pacify fever, vomiting, burning sensation, and colic due to pitta and kapha. // 43

26.44

Desiring [relief], one should drink garlic mixed with honey in the morning / to destroy colic arising from vāta and kapha; it kindles the digestive fire. // 44

26.45

With the water of dry ginger, castor root, the ten roots, and barley, / one suffering from heart-, flank-, and hip-spasm, undigested matter, / severe pain of the colon and shoulder, fever, abdominal lump, and colic / should drink the powder of the two alkalis, asafetida, the three salts, and puṣkaramūla. // 45

26.46

Where drinking a powder with a decoction [is prescribed], there the decoction has predominance; / it does not follow that here four liquids are intended in relation to the powder. // 46

26.47

An equal powder of black salt, asafetida, and dry ginger / should be drunk with dry-ginger water in afflictions of the heart, flanks, back, and abdomen, / and in cholera arising from kapha and vāta; and likewise with barley-water in constipation. // 47

26.48

The construction is made by the wise as: 'equal with dry-ginger water'; / hence only a small amount of asafetida is added here. // 48

26.49

Asafetida, black salt, chebulic myrobalan, biḍa salt, rock salt, tumburu, / and puṣkaramūla—one should drink the powder with water of the ten roots and barley. // 49

26.50

It is recommended in pain of the flanks, heart, hip, back, and shoulder, in hysterical spasm and tetanus, / in oedema, in effusion of kapha and undigested matter, and in ear disease. // 50

26.51

A decoction made of castor, bael, the two bṛhatīs, citron, / pāṣāṇabhedā, and the roots of the three pungents, / with alkali, asafetida, and salt, mixed with castor oil, / should be drunk in pains of the pelvis, shoulder, penis, heart, and breasts. // 51

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