Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 28

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28.1

One who drinks prasannā, jaggery wine, and sidhu should eat barley food / prepared with vegetables like trivṛt, euphorbia leaves, sesame, and the like, / or with the broths of domesticated, wetland, and marshland animals, / and with other things that clear vāta, urine, and stool. // 1

28.2

In [the condition] arising from vāta, an unctuous enema is commended for one who has been oleated and fomented; / but in that arising from feces, the regimen prescribed for flatulent abdominal distension should be carried out. // 2

28.3

There the physician should apply alkaline and vaitaraṇa enemas. / Śyāmā, dantī, dravantī, cinnanon bark, mahāśyāmā, snuhī, trivṛt, // 3

28.4

saptalā, śaṅkhinī, śvetā, rājavṛkṣa along with tilvaka, / kampillaka, karañja, and hemakṣīrī: this group, // 4

28.5

prepared in clarified butter, oil, powder, decoction, paste, or any other [form], / destroys reverse movement of vāta, abdominal disease, flatulent abdominal distension, poison, and abdominal lump. // 5

28.6

Trivṛt, pippalī, and harītakī in two, four, and five parts: / pills equal [in weight] to jaggery destroy disorders of fecal retention. // 6

28.7

Harītakī, barley alkali, pīlu, and trivṛt: / this powder, to be drunk with clarified butter, destroys reverse movement of vāta. // 7

28.8

Asafoetida, kuṣṭha, vacā, sarjikā alkali, and viḍa salt, each doubled in succession: / that powder, drunk with liquor, is supreme in removing reverse movement of vāta. // 8

28.9

A pala of sugar candy, an equal amount of trivṛt, / and a karṣa of pippalī, ground finely: / before meals, the wise person should lick a karṣa of it / with honey. // 9

28.10

This is to be employed in hard stool, / [and in disorders of] pitta accompanied by kapha. / Pleasant, suitable for kings, / this powder is named Nārācaka. // 10

28.11

One should drink garlic mixed with liquor in the morning when there is appetite. / It destroys abdominal lumps, reverse movement of vāta, and colic; it is appetising and increases strength. // 11

28.12

Cooking a well-fashioned suppository with asafoetida, honey, and rock salt, / smeared with clarified butter, one should insert it into the rectum to destroy reverse movement of vāta. // 12

28.13

Madanaphala, pippalī, kuṣṭha, vacā, and white mustard seeds, / combined with jaggery and alkali, are commended as a fruit suppository. // 13

28.14

Soot from the hearth, rock salt, and oil with sour radish, / or crushed nirguṇḍī leaves, the wise person should introduce into the fomented anus. // 14

28.15

When urine is obstructed, one should drink wine abundant in sauvarcala salt, / or cardamoms with liquor, or one should drink milk and water. // 15

28.16

Or the fresh juice of duḥsparśā, or a decoction of arjuna bark; / or one should drink cucumber seeds salted with water. // 16

28.17

Milk boiled with the five roots, or grape juice: / in every way one should employ the regimen for dysuria and urinary calculus. // 17

28.18

One should treat reverse movement of vāta arising from yawning with oleation and fomentation; / in that arising from tears, shedding tears should be produced, along with sleep, wine, and pleasant conversations. // 18

28.19

In that arising from sneezing, one should induce sneezing with a slender leaf inserted into the nose; / likewise, massage above the collarbone, fomentation, medicated smoking along with nasal drops [should be used]. // 19

28.20

Wholesome also is vāta-destroying wine, and clarified butter taken after meals. / In that arising from eructation, one should practice unctuous smoking properly administered. // 20

28.21

One should conquer suppression of vomiting according to the doṣa by nasal therapy, oleation, and the like; / emesis after eating, medicated smoking, fasting, blood-letting, // 21

28.22

dry food and drink, physical exercise, and purgation are commended here. / Milk boiled with four times its amount of water and mixed with bladder-cleansing ingredients, // 22

28.23

boiled until the water is gone: when he has drunk it at will, / beloved women should make love to the man suffering from reverse movement of vāta due to semen. // 23

28.24

Here, massage, tub baths, liquor, roosters, / śāli rice, milk, non-unctuous enemas, and sexual intercourse are commended. // 24

28.25

In suppression of hunger, unctuous, warm, and small amounts of food are wholesome; / in suppression of thirst, one should drink a cooling beverage or a cold thick gruel. // 25

28.26

A man afflicted with fatigue-induced dyspnoea should eat with meat broth after resting well. / In suppression of sleep, he should drink milk, sleep, and receive massages. / In flatulent abdominal distension, the treatment for reverse movement of vāta [is used]; when associated with āma, fasting and digestives [are used]. // 26

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