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(1) ### [31.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.2) One suffering from a vāta disease, with colic and dysuria, / should drink amṛtā, dry ginger, dhātrī, vājigandhā, and trikaṇṭaka. (2) ### [31.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.10) One should drink cardamoms ground fine, with urine, / liquor, or fresh plantain juice, / for the destruction of kapha dysuria. (10) ### [31.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.12) Śvadaṃṣṭrā or dry-ginger water destroys kapha dysuria. (12) ### [31.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.14) Bṛhatī, dhāvanī, pāṭhā, yaṣṭīmadhu, and kaliṅgaka— / the bṛhatyādi \[decoction\] is digestive and destroys dysuria from the three doṣas. (14) ### [31.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.17) Drunk, it promptly relieves dysuria caused by faeces. (17) ### [31.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.18) The treatment that is beneficial in dysuria arising from kapha and vāta / is beneficial in urinary calculus and gravel. (18) ### [31.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.21) That which has been prescribed in paittika dysuria / should indeed be carried out in bloody dysuria. (21) ### [31.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.23) A decoction prepared from atibalā root conquers all dysurias. (23) ### [31.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.25) Iron powder finely ground, combined with honey, / quickly destroys dysuria with three electuaries; there is no doubt. (25) ### [31.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.26) Barley alkali equal in amount to white sugar alleviates all dysurias; / or juice of nidigdhikā with honey destroys dysuria. (26) ### [31.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.27) Clarified butter or milk cooked with śatāvarī, kāśa, kuśa, śvadaṃṣṭrā, / vidārī, sugarcane, and āmalaka, (27a) ### [31.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.28) mixed with white sugar, / should be employed in dysurias arising from pitta. (27b) ### [31.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31.30) One tulā of punarnavā root, daśamūla, śatāvarī, / balā, turagagandhā, grass roots, trikaṇṭaka, (29) ### [31.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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. ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.31.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.31) · Pramāṇa