Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 30

English (machine translation) 30

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30.1

When the heart is affected by vāta, one should cause the unctuated patient to vomit / with a decoction of the two pañcamūlas, along with unctuous substance and salt. // 1

30.2

Then, a powder made of pippalī, cardamom, vacā, asafoetida, barley alkali, rock salt, / black salt, dry ginger, and ajamodā,

one should administer to drink with sour fruit juice, fermented cereal water, horse gram broth, curd, wine, fermented liquor, and the like, / or with any one of the unctuous substances, to him whose body has been purified. // 3

30.4

Or he should drink a hot decoction of meat juice which enhances the digestive fire, / relieves cough, dyspnoea, and vāta, and destroys colic and heart disease. // 4

30.5

When the heart is affected by pitta, one should cause emesis with water of gmelina, licorice, honey, white sugar, and jaggery; / one should take clarified butter cooked with sweet herbs, // 5

30.6

and the decoctions specified for destroying pitta-fever. // 6

30.7

Cold poultices and showers / as well as purgation are indicated when the heart is corrupted by pitta; / [purgation] with grapes, white sugar, honey, and parūṣaka; / and when purified, food and drink that pacify pitta should be given. // 7

30.8

Or having ground licorice and picrorhiza, / one should drink them with sugar water. // 8

30.9

Milk boiled with arjuna bark is to be employed in heart disease, / along with sugar, the pañcamūla, balā, or licorice. // 9

30.10

Those who drink the bark powder of kakubha / with clarified butter, milk, or jaggery water, / destroy heart disease, chronic fever, and bleeding disease, / and become long-lived. // 10

30.11

When [heart disease] arises from kapha, after vomiting with decoctions of vacā and neem, / one should administer the powder that removes vāta heart disease, and the pippalyādi group. // 11

30.12

In the case born of the three doṣas, fasting should be done at the beginning, / and food wholesome in all cases should be prescribed; / and observing the mild, strong, or moderate state [of each doṣa], / the praised treatment for all three should be executed. // 12

30.13

One should lick the powder of puṣkaramūla combined with honey; / it destroys cardiac pain, cough, and dyspnoea, and removes wasting and hiccup. // 13

30.14

He who drinks the powder of wheat or of arjuna cooked with oil, clarified butter, and jaggery, / followed by milk, / becomes a person who has conquered all heart pains. // 14

30.15

Wheat powder and kakubha powder, cooked in goat's milk and cow's clarified butter, / combined with honey and sugar, / pacifies severe heart disease in men. // 15

30.16

One should administer the root powder of nāgabalā with milk; / it destroys heart disease, dyspnoea, and cough; as does the bark of kakubha. // 16

30.17

Used with meat juice, it is a supreme rejuvenator, strength-promoter, and conqueror of vāta; / by use for one year, one may live for two hundred years. // 17

30.18

One should drink asafoetida, vacā, biḍa salt, ginger, pippalī, / kuṣṭha, harītakī, citraka, barley alkali, / rich in black salt and puṣkaramūla, / with barley water, in colic and heart diseases. // 18

30.19

The decoction of daśamūla, however, combined with salt and alkali, / destroys cough, dyspnoea, heart disease, abdominal lump, and colic. // 19

30.20

Pāṭhā, vacā, barley alkali, harītakī, amlavetasa, / durālabhā, citraka, and the three pungents, three palas [of each], // 20

30.21

śaṭhī, puṣkaramūla, tamarind, together with pomegranate, / and the roots of citron—one should make these into a fine powder. // 21

30.22

One should give these powders to drink with lukewarm water or wines; / it quickly removes haemorrhoids, colic, heart disease, and abdominal lump. // 22

30.23

When one drinks deer horn burnt in a sealed crucible and ground on a stone / with clarified butter, / even severe pain in the heart and back / subsides before long. // 23

30.24

A patient suffering from worm-born heart disease should be unctuated and fed meat rice / with curd and sesame paste for three days, and afterwards purged. // 24

30.25

With fragrant formulations with salt, cumin, and sugar, / one should give fermented cereal water abundant in viḍaṅga as an excellent, wholesome drink. // 25

30.26

In the worm-born [disease], he should drink urine combined with viḍaṅga and kuṣṭha; / in this way worms situated in the heart fall downwards in men. / Thereafter, one should serve him barley food with viḍaṅga. // 26

30.27

Fifty best [fruits] of harītakī / and two palas of sauvarcala salt;

30.28

clarified butter cooked [with these], named Vallabhaka, / destroys heart disease, dyspnoea, colic, abdominal disease, and vāta. (27)

30.29

Śvadaṃṣṭrā, uśīra, mañjiṣṭhā, balā, kāśmarya, kattṛṇa, / darbha root, pṛthakparṇī, palāśa, ṛṣabhaka, sthirā— (28)

30.30

one should boil one pala each of these in their decoction with four times as much milk; / with pastes of svaguptā, ṛṣabhaka, medā, jīvantī, cumin, (29)

30.31

śatāvarī, ṛddhi, raisins, sugar, śrāvaṇī, and ativiṣā, / one prastha of clarified butter prepared destroys vāta-pitta heart disease and colic, (30)

30.32

relieves dysuria, urinary disorders, haemorrhoids, dyspnoea, cough, and phthisis, / and imparts strength and muscle to those emaciated by archery, women, liquor, load-carrying, and travel. (31)

30.33

Clarified butter prepared with the decoction of balā, nāgabalā, and arjuna, / with a one-fourth part paste of yaṣṭīmadhu, / relieves exacerbated heart disease, colic, chest wound, intrinsic haemorrhage, / cough, and vāta-blood. (32)

30.34

Clarified butter prepared with the paste and fresh juice of pārtha / is commended in all heart diseases. (33)

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit