Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 31
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31.1
One should administer anointing, unction, decoction enema, / fomentation, poultice, urethral enema, and irrigations, / as well as meat juices prepared with sthirā and other vāta-dispelling [drugs], in vāta dysuria. (1)
31.2
One suffering from a vāta disease, with colic and dysuria, / should drink amṛtā, dry ginger, dhātrī, vājigandhā, and trikaṇṭaka. (2)
31.3
Cold irrigations and tub-baths, pastes, / the summer regimen, enemas, milk preparations, / along with juices of grapes, vidārī, and sugarcane, and clarified butters / should be employed in dysurias arising from pitta. (3)
31.4
Kuśa, kāśa, śara, darbha, and ikṣu—this grass-born / pañcamūla relieves pitta dysuria and purifies the bladder; / milk cooked with this, drunk with unctuous substance, checks blood entering the penis. (4)
31.5
Drinking the well-cooled decoction of śatāvarī, kāśa, kuśa, śvadaṃṣṭrā, / vidārī, rice, sugarcane, and kaśeruka, / mixed with honey and sugar, one overcomes paittika dysuria. (5)
31.6
One should drink the decoction of harītakī, gokṣura, rājavṛkṣa, / pāṣāṇabheda, and dhanvayavāsa, / combined with honey, / in dysuria accompanied by burning sensation, pain, and constipation. (6)
31.7
Āmalaka with jaggery is aphrodisiac, relieves fatigue, is supremely nourishing, / destroys pitta-blood, burning sensation, and colic, and alleviates dysuria. (7)
31.8
In paittika [dysuria], one should drink ervāru seed, madhuka, and dārvī with rice-water; / likewise dārvī with āmalakī juice / and honey in paittika dysuria. (8)
31.9
Alkaline, hot, sharp, and pungent food and drink, / fomentation, barley food, emesis, decoction enemas, / buttermilk, and inunction and drink of oils prepared with bitter medicaments / [are prescribed] in kapha dysuria. (9)
31.10
One should drink cardamoms ground fine, with urine, / liquor, or fresh plantain juice, / for the destruction of kapha dysuria. (10)
31.11
One should drink the seed of śitimāraka combined with buttermilk / to destroy dysuria; / likewise, one should drink coral powder with rice-water / in kapha dysuria. (11)
31.12
Śvadaṃṣṭrā or dry-ginger water destroys kapha dysuria. (12)
31.13
In that arising from all three doṣas, however, all [treatment] should be done having examined / the seats of vāta in succession; / when superior to the three, emesis should be done first in kapha, / purgation in pitta, and enema in vāta. (13)
31.14
Bṛhatī, dhāvanī, pāṭhā, yaṣṭīmadhu, and kaliṅgaka— / the bṛhatyādi [decoction] is digestive and destroys dysuria from the three doṣas. (14)
31.15
Likewise, in that caused by trauma, one should immediately perform the treatment of wounds; / and in dysuria, a vāta-alleviating therapy should always be administered to him. (15)
31.16
Fomentation, powder-application, massage, and enemas are appropriate in [dysuria] caused by faeces; / one should drink a decoction of gokṣura seed combined with barley alkali. (16)
31.17
Drunk, it promptly relieves dysuria caused by faeces. (17)
31.18
The treatment that is beneficial in dysuria arising from kapha and vāta / is beneficial in urinary calculus and gravel. (18)
31.19
In that arising from obstruction of semen, śilājatu combined with honey is to be licked; / and for one whose tissues are nourished by aphrodisiacs, the finest women should be arranged. (19)
31.20
A man should drink milk combined with cardamom and asafoetida, mixed with clarified butter, / for the purpose of purifying urinary disorders; and that removes seminal disorders. (20)
31.21
That which has been prescribed in paittika dysuria / should indeed be carried out in bloody dysuria. (21)
31.22
Trikaṇṭaka, āragvadha, darbha, kāśa, / durālabhā, parvatabheda, and pathyā, / drunk with honey, destroy calculus and dysuria, / even in one who has reached death. (22)
31.23
A decoction prepared from atibalā root conquers all dysurias. (23)
31.24
Having drunk powders of cardamom, aśmabheda, śilājatu, and pippalī / stirred into rice-water, / or having licked them combined with jaggery, / even a dysuric person close to death survives. (24)
31.25
Iron powder finely ground, combined with honey, / quickly destroys dysuria with three electuaries; there is no doubt. (25)
31.26
Barley alkali equal in amount to white sugar alleviates all dysurias; / or juice of nidigdhikā with honey destroys dysuria. (26)
31.27
Clarified butter or milk cooked with śatāvarī, kāśa, kuśa, śvadaṃṣṭrā, / vidārī, sugarcane, and āmalaka, (27a)
31.28
mixed with white sugar, / should be employed in dysurias arising from pitta. (27b)
31.29
Clarified butter prepared with the fresh juice of trikaṇṭaka, eraṇḍa, kuśa, abhīru, / karkāruka, and sugarcane, / combined with a half-measure of jaggery, should be drunk / for the relief of dysuria, calculus, and urinary retention. (28)
31.30
One tulā of punarnavā root, daśamūla, śatāvarī, / balā, turagagandhā, grass roots, trikaṇṭaka, (29)
31.31
vidārīgandhā, nāgāhvā, guḍūcī, and likewise atibalā, / in separate portions of ten palas, one should boil down in a droṇa of water. (30)
31.32
With that reduced to a quarter, one should cook half an āḍhaka of clarified butter; / madhuka, fresh ginger, raisins, rock salt, and pippalī— (31)
31.33
one should add separately two palas of each, as well as a kuḍava of yavānī; / thirty palas of jaggery, and of castor oil (32)
31.34
having added one prastha, stirring thoroughly, one should cook it well over a gentle fire. / This is unblemished for the sons of lords before a meal, (33)
31.35
for kings, those equal to kings, and those who have many wives; / in dysuria, lumbar stiffness, and likewise for those with hardened faeces; (34)
31.36
and it is praised in penile and groin pain, and in vaginal pain, / and for the described abdominal lumps and those who have vāta-blood. (35)
31.37
[This] Sukumāraka, strength-giving, rejuvenating, and cooling, is suitable for young boys. / For a hundred [palas] of punarnavā, one droṇa [of water] should be added, and another [droṇa] for the other [ingredients]. 36.
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