Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 32
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32.1
One should overcome urinary retentions according to the doṣa by using [remedies] that relieve strangury. / One should administer enema and urethral enema, as well as unctuous purgation. 1.
32.2
Having drunk an akṣa-measure of the paste of ervāru seeds along with rock salt / combined with fermented grain-water, one is freed at once from urinary retention. 2.
32.3
With the alkaline water of pāṭalā, or barley-sprout ash, or pāribhadra, or even sesamum, / [a person] should drink wine mixed with cinnamon, cardamom, and black pepper, 3.
32.4
or lick them separately followed by jaggery; / or [the physician] may make him drink salt combined with the paste of triphalā. 4.
32.5
One should drink fresh juice of nidigdhikā filtered through vātāntara, / or saffron paste kept overnight in water, combined with honey. 5.
32.6
A man suffering from urinary retention should drink ash of pāṭalā with oil, or strained like alkali, / [or] surā liquor containing black salt. 6.
32.7
Having drunk surā with salt, along with pomegranate juice, prime cardamom seeds, / and dry ginger, one is freed from urinary retention. 7.
32.8
One should drink śilājatu in a decoction of the vīratarādi group, / or the juice of durālabhā, or in a decoction of vāsaka. 8.
32.9
Milk boiled with gokṣura, eraṇḍa, and śatāvarī, / or with the roots of the five grasses, / or milk laden with jaggery and with clarified butter, / is praised in diseases such as dysuria. 9.
32.10
Roots of nala, kuśa, kāśa, and ikṣu / boiled, thoroughly cooled, and drunk cold in the morning: / retention of urine certainly departs for him who drinks it, / so said Kaca. 10.
32.11
The root of godhāvatī / boiled and mixed with clarified butter, oil, and cow's milk, / drunk, quickly breaks / an obstructed accumulation of urine. 11.
32.12
Seed of khadirī taken with water removes urinary retention and calculus; / the root of trijaṭā drunk with buttermilk produces that same effect. 12.
32.13
When urine is obstructed, one should introduce powder of camphor into the penis. / One who consumes milk boiled and cooled [should take] sandalwood with rice-water; 13.
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one should drink it with sugar: this is best in uṣṇavāta with blood. / A cold tub-bath up to the pelvis relieves uṣṇavāta. 14.
32.15
Also juice of kūṣmāṇḍaka, drunk with alkali and sugar, [is beneficial] / for one who discharges blood due to excessive intercourse with women. 15.
32.16
Cessation of sexual intercourse and a nourishing regimen are wholesome for him. / Powder of kapikacchū fruit, raisins, long pepper, sugar, and sugarcane juice— 16.
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in equal parts, and milk, honey, and clarified butter in half-parts: / having churned all thoroughly, licking an akṣa-measure, one should drink milk. 17.
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It destroys disorders arising in the seminal vesicle and grants offspring to a barren woman. / Citraka, śārivā, balā, kālānuśārivā, 18.
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drākṣā, viśālā, long peppers, and likewise citraphalā; / in the same way, one should add madhuka, and add āmalakī fruits. 19.
32.20
One should cook one āḍhaka of clarified butter with these pastes of an akṣa each, / in a droṇa of milk and a droṇa of water; when it is prepared, one should remove it. 20.
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Once cooled and strained, the wise person should mix it all / with a prastha of sugar and bamboo manna. 21.
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Then, in a measured dose at the proper time, according to the doṣa and according to strength, / one whose semen is affected by vāta, pitta, or kapha, 22.
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or by blood, or who has knotted semen, should drink it, wishing for health. / This clarified butter, endowed with great virtues, is invigorating and aphrodisiac, 23.
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beneficial for progeny, auspicious, dispelling all diseases, and salutary. / A woman using this clarified butter quickly conceives. 24.
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It also overcomes disorders of the menstrual blood and manifold disorders of the vagina. / One should perform this treatment in all urinary disorders. 25.
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