[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) › 28 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 28 English (machine translation) 28 - **Language:** English ### [28.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.3) There the physician should apply alkaline and vaitaraṇa enemas. / Śyāmā, dantī, dravantī, cinnanon bark, mahāśyāmā, snuhī, trivṛt, // 3 ### [28.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.4) saptalā, śaṅkhinī, śvetā, rājavṛkṣa along with tilvaka, / kampillaka, karañja, and hemakṣīrī: this group, // 4 ### [28.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.7) Harītakī, barley alkali, pīlu, and trivṛt: / this powder, to be drunk with clarified butter, destroys reverse movement of vāta. // 7 ### [28.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.13) Madanaphala, pippalī, kuṣṭha, vacā, and white mustard seeds, / combined with jaggery and alkali, are commended as a fruit suppository. // 13 ### [28.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.24) Here, massage, tub baths, liquor, roosters, / śāli rice, milk, non-unctuous enemas, and sexual intercourse are commended. // 24 ### [28.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [28.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.27) Powder of asafoetida, vacā, along with kuṣṭha, / and suvarcikā, each doubled in succession, and viḍaṅga: / taken with warm water, it destroys flatulent abdominal distension, choleraic pain, / heart disease, abdominal lumps, and upward vāta. // 27 ### [28.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.28) Vacā, harītakī, citraka, barley alkali, / with pippalī, ativiṣā, and kuṣṭha: / having drunk this with hot water, one eating wholesome boiled rice / quickly conquers flatulent abdominal distension and confused vāta. // 28 ### [28.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.29) One should triturate trivṛt, harītakī, and śyāmā with the latex of snuhī: / those pills drunk with urine are excellent and break through flatulent abdominal distension. // 29 ### [28.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.30) The fruit and root mentioned for purgation, / asafoetida, arka root, the prime ten roots, / snuk, citraka, and punarnavā, / all equal, and the five salts: // 30 ### [28.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.31) Crushed together with unctuous substances and urine, / one should cook them in a well-sealed earthen saucer; / that salt, cooked and ground well, taken with food / and drinks, is supreme in destroying the pain of flatulent abdominal distension. // 31 ### [28.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.32) A suppository the size of a thumb cooked with soot from a forge, viḍa salt, the three pungents, / jaggery, and urine, should be inserted into the rectum / to relieve flatulent abdominal distension and colic. // 32 ### [28.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.33) A suppository \[made\] of trikaṭu, rock salt, / mustard, soot, kuṣṭha, and madanaphala, / cooked in honey or jaggery, / is to be inserted into the anus to the measure of a thumb. 33. ### [28.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.34) This suppository has proven results / when inserted slowly into the rectum, smeared with clarified butter; / it relieves constipation and udāvarta, / and dispels abdominal disease and abdominal lump. 34. ### [28.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.35) Having crushed dried and fresh radish, varṣābhū, pañcamūla, / and the fruit of ārevata, one should cook clarified butter with that. / When drunk, it dispels udāvarta beyond doubt. 35. ### [28.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28.36) In the decoction of two palas each of the sthirādi group, punarnavā, / sampāka, and pūtīkakarañja, / one prastha of clarified butter should be prepared \[and taken\] when vāta is obstructed. 36. ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.28.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.28) · Pramāṇa