[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) › 29 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 29 English (machine translation) 29 - **Language:** English ### [29.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.1) Food that is light, appetising, unctuous, warm, carminative to vāta, / and nourishing—everything of this kind is beneficial for all patients with abdominal lumps. 1. ### [29.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.2) Sudation should be administered by the physician to an unctuated patient for the relief of abdominal lumps. / Having softened the channels and overcome aggravated vāta, 2. ### [29.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.3) And having broken up obstruction in the unctuated patient, sudation eliminates the abdominal lump. / A skilled physician should apply pot-sudation, bolus-sudation, and brick-sudation. 3. ### [29.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.4) Comfortably warm poultices such as śālvaṇa and others should also be applied, / as well as local evacuation of blood and venesection in the middle of the arm. 4. ### [29.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.5) Sudation and carminative measures are praised for all patients with abdominal lumps. / Thin gruels prepared with vāta-alleviating drugs, horsegram soup, and meat juices of wild animals, 5. ### [29.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.6) As well as sweets made with the pañcamūla, are beneficial for the diet of those suffering from abdominal lumps. / Citron juice, asafoetida, pomegranate, biḍa salt, and rock salt, 6. ### [29.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.7) Should be drunk with the scum of surā wine to relieve the pain of a vāta abdominal lump. / Half a pala of crushed dry ginger, two palas of husked 7. ### [29.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.8) Sesame, and one pala of jaggery should be administered with hot milk. / It destroys vāta abdominal lump, udāvarta, and vaginal pain. 8. ### [29.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.9) Or a person with a vāta abdominal lump should drink castor oil mixed with the scum of vāruṇī wine, / or drink that same oil with milk. 9. ### [29.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.10) One should boil four palas of purified, dried garlic / in eight times as much milk and water, and have \[the patient\] drink it when reduced to milk alone. 10. ### [29.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.11) That milk quickly cures vāta abdominal lump, udāvarta, sciatica, irregular fever, / heart disease, abscess, and wasting. 11. ### [29.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.12) Even a little \[of this\] added to milk prepared in this manner, / along with natron and kuṣṭha, or alkali prepared from ketakī, 12. ### [29.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.13) Drunk with oil, relieves an abdominal lump caused by vāta. / In a vāta abdominal lump, if kapha is increased, vomiting and powders are recommended. 13. ### [29.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.14) In one of pitta origin, unctuous purgation is advised; in that of blood origin, blood-letting. / When an abdominal lump of pitta origin has arisen through unctuous and hot things, a laxative is beneficial. 14. ### [29.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.15) When, however, it has arisen through dry and hot things, clarified butter is the supreme pacifier. / For a patient with a pitta abdominal lump, unctuated with kākolyādi, mahātiktaka, or vāsādyas, 15. ### [29.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.16) One should subsequently purge him, and then treat him with enema therapy. / In a pitta abdominal lump caused by unctuous and hot things, one desiring purgation 16. ### [29.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.17) Should lick kampillaka with honey, or drink grape juice mixed with jaggery. / Through burning sensation, pain, agitation of vāta, loss of sleep, anorexia, and fever, 17. ### [29.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.18) One should recognise that the abdominal lump is undergoing suppuration; one should apply a poultice to it. / When suppurated, it should be treated like a wound: incision, purification, and healing. 18. ### [29.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.19) If that doṣa discharges spontaneously either upwards or downwards, / one should observe for twelve days while protecting against other complications. 19. ### [29.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.20) The foremost purifier, however, is pure clarified butter \[processed\] with honey and bitter herbs. / Picrorhiza, neem, licorice, rinds of triphalā, 20. ### [29.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.21) And trāyamāṇā, one karṣa each; trichosanthes and trivṛt, one pala each; / and two palas of lentils are to be boiled in eight times as much water; 21. ### [29.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.22) To this remainder, equal to the clarified butter, four palas of clarified butter / is stirred and drunk; by that, an abdominal lump of pitta origin is pacified, 22. ### [29.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.23) As well as fever, thirst, pain, dizziness, fainting, and restlessness. / Those persons who have strong digestive fires, large bodies, and for whom unctuous substances are wholesome, 23. ### [29.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.24) Who suffer from abdominal lump, snakebite, or are afflicted with erysipelas, / should drink the largest dose, especially eight palas. 24. ### [29.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.25) After fasting, vomiting, and sudation have been performed, and the digestive fire is kindled, / clarified butter with alkalis and pungents should be drunk by a patient with a kapha abdominal lump. 25. ### [29.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.26) That abdominal lump which presents with sluggish digestive fire, mild pain, a heavy and stiffened alimentary tract, / nausea, and anorexia is suitable for emesis. 26. ### [29.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.27) When digestive fire is weak, vāta obstructed, and having recognised that the stomach is unctuous, / pills, powders, and decoctions should be administered to patients with a kapha abdominal lump. 27. ### [29.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.28) A group of alkalis and fermented liquors is also prescribed in burning and wasting. / Water prepared with pañcamūla, aged vāruṇī wine, 28. ### [29.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.29) Or aged honey wine should be drunk at the proper time by one with a kapha abdominal lump. / Or, having applied a paste of sesame, castor, linseed, and mustard, 29. ### [29.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.30) The physician should apply sudation to a kapha abdominal lump with comfortably warm iron vessels. / Buttermilk powdered with ajowan and salted with biḍa salt 30. ### [29.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.31) Should be drunk to kindle the fire and promote carmination of vāta, urine, and faeces. / In a mixed doṣa condition, the entire procedure of treatment is combined. 31. ### [29.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.32) In an abdominal lump arising from a combination of all three doṣas, a regimen dispelling all three doṣas is wholesome. / Sweet flag, biḍa salt, chebulic myrobalan, dry ginger, asafoetida, kuṣṭha, leadwort, and ajowan, 32. ### [29.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.33) Taken in parts of two, three, six, four, eight, seven, and five respectively: / this powder drunk with wine or the like dispels abdominal lumps, constipation, and abdominal diseases, 33. ### [29.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.34) Cures colic, haemorrhoids, dyspnoea, and cough, and is the supreme stimulator of the malabsorption syndrome. / Ajowan, asafoetida, rock salt, alkali, black salt, and chebulic myrobalan, 34. ### [29.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.35) Should be drunk with the scum of surā wine to ward off abdominal lumps and colic. / Asafoetida, trikaṭu, pāṭhā, hapuṣā, chebulic myrobalan, śaṭhī, 35. ### [29.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.36) Ajamodā, ajagandhā, tamarind, amlavetasa, / pomegranate, pauṣkara, coriander, cumin, leadwort, sweet flag, / the two alkalis, the two salts, and cavya should be powdered together. 36. ### [29.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.37) This powder should be used without danger in food and drink, / or should be drunk before meals with wine or hot water 37. ### [29.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.38) For pain in the sides, heart, and urinary bladder, in abdominal lumps caused by vāta and kapha, / in constipation, dysuria, and pains in the rectum and vagina; 38. ### [29.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.39) In disorders of malabsorption syndrome and haemorrhoids, in splenomegaly, anaemia, anorexia, / chest obstruction, hiccup, dyspnoea, cough, and throat spasm. 39. ### [29.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.40) Or, this powder, repeatedly impregnated with the juice of citron, / should be made into pills of one karṣa each, or even more. 40. ### [29.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.41) Leaves of pūtīka, gajacirbhaṭī, cavya, agni \[citraka\], / and vyoṣa arranged in layers with a bedding of salt, / having burnt and powdered, should be administered with the scum of curd / in the rise of abdominal lump, abdominal disease, oedema, and anaemia. .. 41 .. ### [29.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.42) Asafoetida, puṣkaramūla, tumburu, harītakī, / śyāmā, biḍa salt, rock salt, yavakṣāra, mahauṣadha \[śuṇṭhī\], .. 42 .. ### [29.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.43) fried in clarified butter, one should administer to drink with decoction of barley as the water. / By this, his abdominal lump, accompanied by pain and obstinate fixation, is broken. .. 43 .. ### [29.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.44) Vacā, harītakī, asafoetida, rock salt, together with amlavetasa, / yavakṣāra, and yamānī: one should drink \[these\] with hot water. .. 44 .. ### [29.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.45) For this indeed breaks an agglomeration of abdominal lumps accompanied by pain and obstinate fixation / in seven nights, and kindles the digestive fire. .. 45 .. ### [29.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.46) Combined with pippalī, pippalīmūla, citraka, ajājī, and rock salt, / surā wine, when drunk, quickly destroys an abdominal lump that is very difficult to overcome. .. 46 .. ### [29.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.47) Nādeyī, kuṭaja, arka, śigru, bṛhatī, / snuk, bilva, bhallātaka, / vyāghrī, kiṃśuka, pāribhadraka root, / apāmārga, nīpa, agnika \[citraka\], / vāsā, muṣkaka, and pāṭalā, together with salt, / burnt, boiled in water, / and with the addition of asafoetida and other \[digestives\], this is declared / for abdominal lump, abdominal disease, and aṣṭhīlā. .. 47 .. ### [29.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.48) Asafoetida, ugragandhā \[vacā\], biḍa salt, śuṇṭhī, ajājī, / harītakī, puṣkaramūla, and kuṣṭha, / in increasing proportions: this powder is recommended / in abdominal lump, abdominal disease, indigestion, and viṣūcikā. .. 48 .. ### [29.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.49) Triphalā, kāñcanakṣīrī, saptalā, nīlinī, vacā, / trāyantī, hapuṣā, tiktā, trivṛt, rock salt, and pippalī— .. 49 .. ### [29.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.50) having powdered them, one afflicted by all abdominal lumps, abdominal disease, splenomegaly, / skin disease, haemorrhoids, and oedema should drink \[it\] with urine, hot water, meat soup, and the like. .. 50 .. ### [29.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.51) Śaṭhī and puṣkaramūla, dantī, citraka, āḍhakī, / śṛṅgavera, and vacā: one should take one pala of each; .. 51 .. ### [29.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.52) and one pala of trivṛtā, and three \[palas\] of asafoetida, / two palas of yavakṣāra, and two palas of amlavetasa; .. 52 .. ### [29.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.53) yamānī, ajājī, black pepper, and coriander: one karṣa each; / along with upakuñcikā and ajamodā, each one aṣṭamikā \[half a karṣa\]. .. 53 .. ### [29.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.54) With the juice of mātuluṅga alone, the physician should make pills. / Of them, one should drink one, two, or three with warm water, .. 54 .. ### [29.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.55) or with sour liquids, wines, soups, clarified butter, or milk. / This pill, taught by Kāṅkāyana, destroys abdominal lumps; .. 55 .. ### [29.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.56) it pacifies haemorrhoids and heart disease, and destroys worms. / Taken with cow's urine, it pacifies a longstanding kapha abdominal lump; .. 56 .. ### [29.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.57) with milk, a pitta abdominal lump; with wines and sour liquids, a vātik one; / and with triphalā decoction and cow's urine, one should subdue a sānnipātika one. / And in women's blood abdominal lump, one should administer it to drink with camel's milk. .. 57 .. ### [29.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.58) With hapuṣā, vyoṣa, pṛthvīkā, cavya, citraka, rock salt, / along with ajājī, pippalīmūla, and dīpyaka, one should cook clarified butter, .. 58 .. ### [29.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.59) together with the juice of kola and radish, milk, curd, and pomegranate. / That is supreme in destroying vāta abdominal lump, and dispels colic, flatulence, and constipation. .. 59 .. ### [29.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.60) Disorders of the female genital tract, haemorrhoids, malabsorption syndrome, dyspnoea, cough, anorexia, fever, / and pain in the flanks, chest, and bladder: this clarified butter removes them. .. 60 .. ### [29.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.61) One-fourth of a picu \[karṣa\] of pippalī, two palas of pomegranate, one pala / of coriander, five \[palas\] of clarified butter, a karṣa of śuṇṭhī, and four times as much milk: .. 61 .. ### [29.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.62) clarified butter prepared with these immediately treats vāta abdominal lump, / pain in the female genital tract, headache, haemorrhoids, and irregular fevers. .. 62 .. ### [29.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.63) Prepared with tryūṣaṇa, triphalā, coriander, viḍaṅga, cavya, and citraka / made into a paste, clarified butter, along with milk, destroys vāta abdominal lump. .. 63 .. ### [29.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.64) Four palas of trāyamāṇā should be boiled in ten times as much water; / reduced to a fifth part and strained, combined with one-karṣa pastes of: .. 64 .. ### [29.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.65) rohiṇī, kaṭukā, mustā, trāyamāṇā, durālabhā, / with pastes of tāmalakī, vīrā, jīvantī, sandalwood, and utpala, .. 65 .. ### [29.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.66) and having added separately eight palas each of the juice of āmalakī, / milk, and clarified butter, one should cook it properly. .. 66 .. ### [29.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.67) Pitta abdominal lump, blood abdominal lump, erysipelas, paittika fever, / heart disease, jaundice, and skin disease: this excellent clarified butter will destroy. .. 67 .. ### [29.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.68) When a measure is given by explicit mention of palas, doubling is not desired here; / therefore the water, ten times as much, should be forty palas. .. 68 .. ### [29.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.69) Drākṣā, madhuka, kharjūra, vidārī together with śatāvarī, / parūṣaka fruits, and triphalā: one should boil one pala of each .. 69 .. ### [29.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.70) in an āḍhaka of water, \[reduced\] until a quarter remains; and \[with\] juice of āmalaka, / clarified butter, sugarcane juice, milk, and a quarter part of abhayā paste, .. 70 .. ### [29.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.71) one should cook clarified butter; when ready, one should add a quarter part of sugar and honey: / it destroys pitta abdominal lump and removes all pitta disorders. .. 71 .. ### [29.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.72) From association \[in this formulation\], clarified butter and the others are separately equal in quantity to the decoction. .. 72 .. ### [29.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.73) In fresh juice of dhātrī fruits, one should cook the six-ingredient clarified butter \[ṣaḍaṅga-ghṛta\], / combined with sugar and rock salt; it is beneficial for all suffering from abdominal lumps. .. 73 .. ### [29.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.74) Cooked with a total of six palas of the paste of the fruits and roots of pippalī, cavya, / viśvauṣadha, and jvalana \[citraka\], and yavakṣāra, / one prastha of clarified butter in a decoction of daśamūla, urubūka, and bhārgī, / as well as in milk and curd, is named Ṣaṭpala. .. 74 .. ### [29.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.75) Abdominal lump, abdominal disease, anorexia, fistula-in-ano, impaired digestion, / cough, fever, consumption, head ailments, and disorders of malabsorption syndrome, / and whatever arises from kapha and vāta, it brings to immediate pacification; / those who know call this Bhārgyākhya-ṣaṭpala. .. 75 .. ### [29.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.76) With one-pala amounts of pippalī, pippalīmūla, cavya, citraka, and nāgara, / together with yavakṣāra, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter .. 76 .. ### [29.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.77) with a prastha of milk. That clarified butter destroys an abdominal lump consisting of kapha; / it cures malabsorption syndrome and anaemia, and removes splenomegaly, cough, and fever. .. 77 .. ### [29.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.78) Two palas of bhallātaka and one pala of pañcamūla, / enriched with vidārīgandhā, should be boiled in an āḍhaka of spring water. .. 78 .. ### [29.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.79) When a quarter remains and is strained, having ground pippalī, nāgara, vacā, / viḍaṅga, rock salt, asafoetida, yāvaśūka \[yavakṣāra\], biḍa salt, śaṭhī, .. 79 .. ### [29.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.80) citraka, madhuka, and rāsnā, equal to a karṣa each, the physician, / having added a prastha of milk, should cook a prastha of clarified butter. .. 80 .. ### [29.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.81) This, named Bhallātaka \[Ghṛta\], is supreme in removing kapha abdominal lump, / and cures splenomegaly, anaemia, dyspnoea, malabsorption syndrome, cough, and abdominal lump. .. 81 .. ### [29.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.82) Clarified butter \[cooked\] in fresh juice of garlic, together with the decoction of pañcamūla, / along with surā wine, āranāla, sour curd, and fresh radish juice, .. 82 .. ### [29.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.83) with one pala each of the three pungents, pomegranate, tamarind, carom seed, cavya, rock salt, / asafoetida, amlavetasa, cumin, and dīpyaka. ### [29.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.84) This clarified butter, when prepared, overcomes abdominal lump, malabsorption syndrome, haemorrhoids, dyspnoea, insanity, consumption, fever, / cough, epilepsy, sluggish digestive fire, spleen disease, colic, and disorders of vāta. // 84 ### [29.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.85) In one droṇa of water, one should cook twenty-five abhayās, / as many palas of dantī, and likewise of citraka. // 85 ### [29.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.86) With that reduced to an eighth part, one should cook jaggery equal in quantity to the dantī, / and those abhayās, along with four palas of trivṛt powder and four palas of oil. // 86 ### [29.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.87) When the electuary is prepared and cooled, one should add one pala each of pippalī and dry ginger, / honey equal in amount to the oil, and one pala of the group of four aromatics. // 87 ### [29.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.88) Then, having licked one pala of the electuary and eaten one harītakī, / the unctuous, healthy patient is happily purged of a prastha of doṣa. // 88 ### [29.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.89) Splenomegaly, oedema, abdominal lump, haemorrhoids, heart disease, anaemia, malabsorption syndrome, / nausea, irregular fever, skin diseases, and anorexia are alleviated. // 89 ### [29.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.90) One should cook vṛścīra, castor root, varṣābhū, the two bṛhatīs, / and citraka in a droṇa of water, reduced to a quarter part. // 90 ### [29.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.91) One should place it into a jar smeared with long pepper, citraka, and honey, / having added a prastha of honey along with half a prastha of pathyā powder. // 91 ### [29.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.92) Having let it ferment for ten days, a man should drink it when his food has digested. / This ariṣṭa conquers abdominal lump and intractable indigestion. // 92 ### [29.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.93) In the case of a bloody abdominal lump, however, when the time of pregnancy has passed, / one should administer an unctuous purgative to a woman whose body has been unctuated and fomented. // 93 ### [29.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.94) A paste prepared from dill, cirabilva bark, devādāru, bhārgī, and pippalī, / when drunk with a decoction of sesame seeds, eliminates blood-born abdominal lump. // 94 ### [29.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.95) A sesame decoction combined with jaggery, the three pungents, asafoetida, and bhārgī / should be the drink for women in cases of blood-born abdominal lump and amenorrhoea. // 95 ### [29.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.96) A woman suffering from a blood lump should drink wine with the three pungents along with alkali; / and she should drink clarified butter cooked with the alkaline water of palāśa. // 96 ### [29.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.97) Or she should break it open with hot substances; when it has broken open, the regimen for menorrhagia is beneficial. / If it does not break open in this way, one should administer a vaginal purifier. // 97 ### [29.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.98) Sesame paste combined with alkali, or with the milk of spurge, \[is applied\]; / but when bleeding is excessive, the treatment is that which removes bleeding disease. // 98 ### [29.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.99) One should drink clarified butter cooked with the paste and decoction of bhallātaka, / mixed with sugar; / when drunk, it destroys bleeding disease, / and, mixed with honey, it destroys a kapha abdominal lump. // 99 ### [29.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29.100) One suffering from abdominal lump should not eat dried meat, radish, fish, dried vegetables, sedge, / the root of the water-lily, or sweet fruits. // 100 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.29.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.29) · Pramāṇa