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Ash born of snail shell, drunk with warm water, instantly 5. ### [27.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.7) destroys this colic of digestion, as Viṣṇu destroys the demons. One should lick the powder of bibhītaka, āmalakī, harītakī, and pippalī combined with honey; 6. ### [27.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.8) or eat roasted barley flour with sesame together with skimmed curd; a man is swiftly freed from colic upon transformation \[of food\]. 7. ### [27.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.9) One part each of sesame, dry ginger, and harītakī, and of snail shell ash two parts, combined with jaggery: having made pills the size of an akṣa seed, 8. ### [27.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.10) having drunk cold water, he should eat it in the forenoon, subsisting on milk; having drunk meat soup in the evening, a man is freed from difficult-to-cure 9. ### [27.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.11) colic arising during digestion, even if of long standing. Snail shell, the three pungents, and the five salts, 10. ### [27.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.12) in equal parts, having made pills with the juice of kalambū one should consume them in the morning or at mealtime according to strength. 11. ### [27.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.13) A person is quickly freed from colic born of digestion. He who for seven nights drinks parched grain flour alone with soup of wild peas 12. ### [27.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.14) conquers the pain of digestion, even of long standing, not to mention that newly arisen. ### [27.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.15) Iron powder combined with triphalā, licked with honey and clarified butter, 13. ### [27.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.16) pacifies duodenal colic, or its slag may be used. One should consume the powder of pippalī, harītakī, and iron together with jaggery; 14. ### [27.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.17) this destroys duodenal colic, abdominal enlargements, sluggishness of the digestive fire, disorders of āmavāta, and reduces obesity. 15. ### [27.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.18) Harītakī, iron powder, and dry ginger powder with honey and clarified butter destroys the pain of digestion consisting of vāta, pitta, and kapha. 16. ### [27.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.19) Sea salt, rock salt, barley alkali, sauvarcala salt, romaka salt, viḍ salt, dantī, iron powder, iron slag, trivṛt, and elephant-foot yam in equal parts, 17. ### [27.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.20) cooked over a gentle fire with curd, cow's urine, and milk; that powder one should drink with warm water according to the strength of the digestive fire. 18. ### [27.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.21) When it is completely digested, he should eat \[food\] prepared with meat and clarified butter. Colic of the navel, hepatic colic, and that caused by abdominal lumps and spleen, 19. ### [27.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.22) as well as abscess and prostate enlargement arising from kapha and vāta, it destroys. For all varieties of colic there is no medicine superior to this; 20. ### [27.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.23) it is considered an end-maker especially for that which arises during digestion. A coconut filled with water and packed with salt, 21. ### [27.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.24) thoroughly roasted on a fire, removes colic born of digestion caused by vāta, caused by pitta, caused by kapha, and born of all three doṣas. 22. ### [27.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.25) Licking licorice and triphalā powder equal to iron powder combined with honey and clarified butter, he should properly drink cow's milk afterwards: 23. ### [27.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.26) it destroys vomiting with cataract, colic, acid gastritis, fever, exhaustion, distension, retention of urine, and oedema. 24. ### [27.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.27) Clarified butter cooked with pippalī and jaggery in four times the amount of milk destroys acid gastritis and colic born of digestion. 25. ### [27.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.28) Clarified butter prepared with the decoction and paste of pippalī, administered with honey to one who eats rice with milk, unfailingly destroys advanced colic known as pariṇāmaśūla. 26. ### [27.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.29) Maṇḍūra powdered equally with caraway, pippalī root, ginger, pippalī, and alkali, cooked in eight times as much cow's urine and concentrated; that one should eat at the beginning, middle, and end of a meal, generally eating food with milk, to conquer disorders of vāta and kapha, and colic and multiple pains at the time of digestion. 27. ### [27.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.30) With caraway and pippalī root, together with dry ginger, long pepper, and barley alkali, a prastha of iron powder as well, mixed with a pala of each in powder: 28. ### [27.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.31) combined with eight times as much cow's urine, by gradual cooking one should bring the whole mass to a solid ball. Three pills the size of a jujube should be eaten at the beginning, middle, and end of a meal. 29. ### [27.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.32) Eating with meat juice, clarified butter, soup, milk, and meat, a person cures the transformation of food at the end, abdominal lump, spleen disease, and sluggishness of digestive fire. 30. ### [27.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.33) \[10\] One should boil eight palas of iron dross in half an āḍhaka of cow's urine. / When prepared with a prastha of milk, it relieves digestion-pain in men. // 31 ### [27.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.34) \[11\] One should cook eight palas of iron dross in eight times as much cow's urine. / Having powdered cavikā, dry ginger, alkaline ash, pippalī-root, and pippalī, // 32 ### [27.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.35) one should add them, in doses of one pala each, when it has become dense. / With this, one should form pills that alleviate digestion-pain. // 33 ### [27.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.36) \[12\] One should consume purified maṇḍūra or a sheet made of iron with jaggery; / one is freed from colic arising from digestion. // 34 ### [27.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.37) Having purified and powdered eight palas of maṇḍūra, / eight palas of asparagus juice, and likewise of curd and of milk, // 35 ### [27.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.38) and taking four palas of cow's clarified butter, / one should boil everything together until it has attained the form of a bolus. // 36 ### [27.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.39) When prepared, one should eat it in the middle or even before a meal. / Digestion-pain produced by vāta, caused by pitta, // 37 ### [27.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.40) this formulation of maṇḍūra certainly destroys, without doubt. / \[13\] Viḍaṅga, citraka, cavya, triphalā, and tryūṣaṇa, // 38 ### [27.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.41) these nine parts, and an equal quantity of iron dross, / having added twice as much cow's urine together with jaggery equal to half the urine, // 39 ### [27.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.42) cooking slowly over a gentle fire, well-prepared and attained the form of a bolus, / having placed it in an unctuous vessel, one should eat it in a dose of a kola. // 40 ### [27.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.43) Employed precisely in the order before, during, and after a meal, / this formulation quickly calms extremely severe digestion-pain, // 41 ### [27.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.44) as well as jaundice, anaemia, oedema, and also weak digestive fire, / haemorrhoids, malabsorption syndrome, parasites, abdominal lumps, and abdominal diseases. // 42 ### [27.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.45) It also destroys acid dyspepsia and reduces corpulence. / One should avoid dried leafy vegetables, heartburn-causing, sour, and pungent foods. // 43 ### [27.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.46) This indeed is named Guḍīmaṇḍūra, the destroyer of digestion-pain; / it was spoken by Tārā for the sake of compassion toward those suffering from colic. // 44 ### [27.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.47) \[14\] Adding half a karṣa of vaśira, śvetavāṭyāla, madhuparṇī, mayūraka, / and taṇḍulīya below and above, // 45 ### [27.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.48) very old maṇḍūra is to be cooked with cow's urine for two days; / with the steam kept within and unburnt, it should be kept thus for three days. // 46 ### [27.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.49) Having powdered it and rubbed it well with twice as much jaggery, / it is to be eaten at the beginning, middle, and end of a meal, in a dose of a karṣa divided into three parts. // 47 ### [27.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.50) With buttermilk as an after-drink, tree-borne sour substances are to be avoided here; / this is beneficial like nectar in acid dyspepsia and in colic. // 48 ### [27.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.51) \[15\] Two palas of chebulic myrobalan powder, / purified sulphur, and iron dross, / half a pala of purified mercury, / and juice of bhṛṅga and of keśarāja, // 49 ### [27.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.52) having added an amount of a prastha, / then rubbed with a pestle in an iron vessel, / dried, mixed with clarified butter and honey, / rubbed and kept in an unctuous jar, // 50 ### [27.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.53) this, when used, swiftly / destroys diseases born of kapha and pitta, / colic, acid dyspepsia, / malabsorption syndrome, and also fierce jaundice. // 51 ### [27.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.54) \[16\] If one consumes well-purified iron powder cooked / with the fresh juices of bibhītaka, āmalaka, and harītakī, / together with jaggery, / one is instantly freed from colic born of the three doṣas. // 52 ### [27.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.55) \[17\] Three parts of iron filings and likewise three parts of triphalā; / eight parts of jaggery, and four times as much cow's urine as the jaggery; // 53 ### [27.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.56) one who knows the procedure for cooking jaggery should boil all this, / and one should lick it according to one's capacity in phthisis and in digestion-pain. // 54 ### [27.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.57) \[18\] Eight palas of āmalakī powder, / four palas of iron powder, / and two palas of yaṣṭīmadhu powder, / rubbed continuously on a stone slab, // 55 ### [27.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.58) this powder is to be impregnated with a decoction of amṛtā for a week. / Dried in the fierce sun, / ground again, it is to be kept in a new earthen pot. // 56 ### [27.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.59) Mixed together with clarified butter and honey, / having eaten at the beginning, likewise in the middle, and at the end, / one should eat it all three times, / with wholesome food according to the secondary involvement of doṣas. // 57 ### [27.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.60) Taken at the beginning of a meal, it destroys / diseases arising from pitta and vāta immediately; / taken in the middle, it overcomes food stagnation / in men, and food does not cause a burning sensation. // 58 ### [27.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.61) Used regularly at the end of a meal, it conquers / diseases caused by drinks and food; / when the food is being digested in this way, / it destroys colic in men, even very severe. // 59 ### [27.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.62) Properly employed, this formulation quickly / removes chronic acid-bile; / it is good for the eyes, destroys grey hair, / and conquers diseases arising from kapha and pitta. // 60 ### [27.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.63) It also purifies the blood / and conquers paleness and jaundice. / \[19\] Thin iron sheets, equal in thickness to a sesame seed, // 61 ### [27.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.64) having smeared them with a paste of kaśikā root or of mustard, / and dried them in the rays of the sun, one should smear them once again. // 62 ### [27.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.65) Heated \[in fire\], one should quench them again and again in triphalā water. / Then, having reduced it to powder, one should filter it through a cloth. // 63 ### [27.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.66) One should consume this with honey and clarified butter according to the digestive fire, through administration / of a māṣaka, or three times that, or even four times that. // 64 ### [27.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.67) One should take goat's milk as an after-drink; in its absence, / with cow's clarified butter and milk sixty-four times as much. // 65 ### [27.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.68) This definitely destroys digestion-pain in one month; / this supreme 'Nectar of Iron' was fashioned by Brahmā in ancient times. // 66 ### [27.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.69) Whatever begins with the letter 'ka' and whatever is declared to be sour / must not be consumed here, nor meat originating from marshland animals. // 67 ### [27.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.70) \[20\] Half a tulā of steamed and pressed ash gourd, fried in half a prastha / of clarified butter, equal in weight to sugar-candy, one should cook with a prastha of āmalakī juice, // 68 ### [27.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.71) stirring it with a ladle in a prastha of the juice of well-steamed ash gourd. / When it has reached completion, having powdered, one should add: // 69 ### [27.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.72) two palas each of kaṇā, ajājī, and ginger, and of black pepper; / a pala each of tālīsa, coriander, cāturjātaka, and mustaka, // 70 ### [27.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.73) each in the amount of a karṣa, and half a prastha of honey. / This destroys digestion-pain, including that born of the three doṣas, // 71 ### [27.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.74) and relieves vomiting, acid dyspepsia, fainting, dyspnoea, cough, anorexia, / chest pain, internal haemorrhage, and back pain. / This is the foremost rejuvenating recipe named Khaṇḍāmalaka. // 72 ### [27.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.75) \[21\] Here, there should be a kuḍava measure of coconut, very well ground, / cooked with a pala measure of clarified butter, equal to sugar-candy, ### [27.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.76) When this is boiled in its own milk in the measure of a prastha, / and then thoroughly cooled like jaggery, one should add portions of a śāṇa \[each\] ### [27.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.77) of powdered coriander, pippalī, nut grass, vaṃśalocana, both cumin seeds, / a śāṇa of the three aromatics, and ironwood flower. / It destroys amlapitta, anorexia, phthisis, internal haemorrhage, / colic, and vomiting; it bestows full virility and is delightful. // 74 ### [27.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.78) Two parts of chickpea powder and another \[part\] of iron powder, / ground thoroughly with the juice of bitter gourd and palāśa: // 75 ### [27.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.79) A person should then consume one pill weighing a karṣa / with scum of boiled rice as a drink; it destroys severe chronic pitta. // 76 ### [27.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.80) Or one should lick the powder of the three myrobalans combined with iron powder, / or combined with liquorice powder; one should lick it with honey in that disease. // 77 ### [27.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.81) Having administered emesis ending with pitta and purgation ending with kapha, / that which is prescribed for chronic pitta should also be done in annadrava. // 78 ### [27.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.82) When the stomach and intestines are cleansed, annadrava subsides. / Steamed black gram dumplings with the husk, mixed with clarified butter, are wholesome. // 79 ### [27.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.83) There, a thin wheat cake with clarified butter and jaggery, / or mashed with cold milk and sugar, is considered wholesome. // 80 ### [27.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.84) Or slightly warm scum of boiled śāli rice free of grains; / a preparation cooked with milk; \[or\] ghṛtapūra with sugar. // 81 ### [27.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.85) Or having eaten sugar, one should drink well-boiled milk; / and one should eat roasted gram flour with soup of paṭola leaves. // 82 ### [27.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27.86) Since digestive fire becomes weak in annadrava and chronic pitta, / therefore in these \[conditions\] one should prescribe foods and drinks in reduced measure. // 83 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.27.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.27) · Pramāṇa