[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) › 34 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 34 English (machine translation) 34 - **Language:** English ### [34.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.1) Śyāmāka, kodrava, uddāla, wheat, chickpeas, āḍhakī, / and horsegram are always wholesome in the food of those with longstanding urinary disorders. // 1 ### [34.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.2) Meat of arid animals, bitter vegetables, barley-food, and likewise honey. / \[Decoctions\] separately of pārijāta, jayā, nimba, citraka, and khadira; // 2 ### [34.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.3) of pāṭhā with aguru, of turmeric with dāruharidrā, and of the autumnal \[herbs\], drunk with honey: / these eight decoctions progressively overcome watery, sugarcane-like, alcoholic, sandy, / slow, salty, flour-like, and dense urinary disorders. // 3 ### [34.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.4) Dūrvā, kaśeru, pūtīka, kumbhīkā, jalavallī, and moss, / boiled with water and drunk, is supreme in curing semen-like urinary disorder. // 4 ### [34.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.5) A decoction of triphalā, āragvadha, and grapes, mixed with honey / and drunk, invariably destroys the urinary disorder known as frothy in men. // 5 ### [34.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.6) \[1\] of lodhra, abhayā, kaṭphala, and mustaka; / \[2\] of viḍaṅga, pāṭhā, arjuna, and dhanvana; / \[3\] of kadamba, śāla, arjuna, and dīpyaka; / \[4\] of viḍaṅga, dārvī, dhava, and śallakī— ### [34.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.7) these four decoctions, taken with honey, / should be used in pramehas of kapha. ### [34.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.8) From aśvattha; from caturaṅgula; from the nyagrodhādi group; from the three fruits; / and from jiṅgī and raktasāra—these five decoctions, along with honey, ### [34.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.9) destroy in order the pramehas called nīla, daridra, phena, kṣāra, and mañjiṣṭhaka. / Combined with honey, a decoction prepared from dates, kāśmarya, tinduka seeds, and amṛtā destroys raktameha. ### [34.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.10) \[1\] Of lodhra, arjuna, uśīra, and red sandalwood; / \[2\] of ariṣṭa, sevya, āmalaka, and abhayā; / \[3\] of dhātrī, arjuna, ariṣṭaka, and vatsaka; / \[4\] of blue water-lily, cardamom, tiniśa, and arjuna— ### [34.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.11) these four decoctions are prescribed / in prameha of pitta, administered with honey. ### [34.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.12) A man suffering from sarpirmeha should drink pāṭhā, kuṭaja, asafoetida, / kaṭukā, and kuṣṭha, powdered together, along with a decoction of chinnā and agni. ### [34.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.13) In the \[prameha\] called kṣaudra, one should drink a decoction of kadara, khadira, and betel nut; / in vasāmeha, however, one should administer a decoction of agnimantha. ### [34.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.14) In hastimeha, the physician should administer a decoction / of pāṭhā, śirīṣa, dusparśa, mūrvā, kiṃśuka, tinduka, and kapittha. ### [34.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.15) The flowers of kampilla, saptacchada, and śāla, / vibhīta, rauhītaka, and kuṭaja, / and the flowers of kapittha, finely powdered, / should be licked with honey by one who suffers from kapha-pitta prameha. ### [34.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.16) Juice of dhātrī with honey and turmeric cures all pramehas; / or a decoction prepared from triphalā, dāru, and mustaka. ### [34.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.17) Having boiled the three fruits, tree-turmeric, viśālā, / and musta, and adding paste of a portion of turmeric, / one should drink the decoction mixed with honey / whenever any prameha arises. ### [34.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.18) A decoction prepared with equal parts of kaṭaṅkaṭerī, madhuka, triphalā, and citraka / should be drunk to destroy pramehas. ### [34.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.19) A decoction of triphalā, dāru, dārvī, and abda taken with honey destroys prameha; / or one derived from kuṭaja, aśana, dārvī, abda, and the three fruits. ### [34.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.20) Powder of triphalā, iron, śilājatu, and pathyā, licked separately / with honey like the juice of amṛtā, eliminates all pramehas. ### [34.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.21) One should drink a karṣa of the paste of śāla, muṣkaka, and kampilla / with dhātrī juice and honey; it is supreme in removing all pramehas. ### [34.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.22) Nyagrodha, udumbara, aśvattha, syonāka, āragvadha, and aśana; / āmra, jambū, kapittha, priyāla, kakubha, and dhava; ### [34.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.23) madhuka, liquorice, lodhra, varuṇa, pāribhadraka; / paṭola, meṣaśṛṅgī, dantī, citraka, āḍhakī; ### [34.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.24) karañja, triphalā, indrayava, and bhallātaka fruit— / one should make a fine powder of equal parts of these. ### [34.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.25) One should cause this Nyagrodhādi powder to be licked with honey / and drink the juice of the three fruits after it; the urine is purified. ### [34.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.26) By this recipe the twenty pramehas and dysurias that there are / are pacified, and carbuncles do not arise. / Here, in this Nyagrodhādi formulation, the stones of āmra and jambū are taken. ### [34.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.27) With trikaṇṭaka, aśmantaka, and somavalka; / with bhallātaka, ativiṣā, and lodhra; / with vacā, paṭola, arjuna, nimba, and musta; / with turmeric, dīpyaka, and padmaka; ### [34.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.28) and with mañjiṣṭhā, pāṭhā, aguru, and sandalwood— / with all of these combined, one should boil an oil in pramehas born of kapha and vāta; / but clarified butter in pitta, and a mixture \[of oil and clarified butter\] when all three signs are present. ### [34.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.29) Clarified butter prepared with a decoction that removes kapha-prameha is beneficial in kapha; / clarified butter prepared with an extract that destroys pitta-prameha is beneficial in pitta. ### [34.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.30) The ten roots, both karañjas, devadāru, harītakī, / varṣābhū, varuṇa, dantī, citraka, together with punarnavā, ### [34.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.31) sudhā, nīpa, kadamba, bilva, and bhallātaka, / śaṭhī, puṣkaramūla, and pippalīmūla: ### [34.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.32) cook ten palas each of these parts in an armaṇa of water, / and add a prastha each of barley, kola, and kulattha; / with that \[decoction\] reduced to a fourth, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter ### [34.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.33) together with this paste: nicula, triphalā, bhārgī, rohiṣa, gajapippalī, / ginger, viḍaṅga, vacā, and kampillaka. ### [34.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.34) When prepared, one should have it drunk according to strength. / This, renowned as the supreme clarified butter called Dhānvantara, ### [34.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.35) curbs skin disease, gulma, pramehas, oedema, gout, / splenomegaly, haemorrhoids, abscesses, the carbuncles that arise, / epilepsy, and insanity. ### [34.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.36) There, one should cook each hundred palas of ingredients in an armaṇa of water; / when \[the substance\] exceeds three hundred \[palas\], water should be \[calculated\] according to the standard rule of proportion. ### [34.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.37) The physician should prepare pills of guggulu mixed with an equal amount / of the powder of trikaṭu and triphalā, combined with a decoction of gokṣura. ### [34.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.38) Taking into account the doṣas, season, and strength, one should eat \[these pills\], which regulate downward movement. ### [34.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.39) Here there is no dietary restriction; one may do work as one wishes. / It overcomes pramehas, urinary retentions, diseases of children, and abdominal disease. ### [34.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.40) The śilājatu that has been impregnated with the decoction of the Śālasārādi group, / ground according to strength, should be drunk by one whose body has been purified, with that same \[decoction\]. ### [34.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.41) When it has digested, one should take food along with meat broth of arid-zone animals; / a man should use it in this manner up to one tulā. ### [34.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.42) Free from madhumeha, urinary gravel, and calculus, / endowed with beauty, complexion, and strength, he lives for a hundred years free from disease. ### [34.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.43) Iron combined with viḍaṅga, triphalā, and musta, / with pippalī, dry ginger, and the two jirakas, / destroys pramehas that are exceedingly hard to overcome / and all urinary disorders; there is no doubt. ### [34.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.44) One may also administer mākṣika mineral in the same way, and it too has this efficacy. / When the decoction of the Śālasārādi group has reached condensation, ### [34.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.45) one should throw in powder of dantī, lodhra, harītakī, magnetic iron, and copper. / Having eaten it when thickened and unburnt, one dispels pramehas. ### [34.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.46) Devoting oneself to every form of exercise, one dispels pramehas: / walking without footwear and umbrella, eating alms like an ascetic, restrained, ### [34.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.47) even if by sheer effort, one should walk a hundred yojanas or more without stopping / to conquer pramehas, subsisting on wild grain and āmalaka. ### [34.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.48) The physician should treat eruptions such as śarāvikā like oedema; / and when suppurated, he should treat them like a wound. For their drinking, it is recommended \[to use\] ### [34.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.49) a decoction of big trees and goat's urine, which cleanses wounds; / and he should prepare an oil with the elādi group for healing wounds. ### [34.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.50) He should prepare a decoction and rubs with the āragvadhādi group, / sprinkling with the śālasārādi group, and food and the like with the kaṇādi group. ### [34.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34.51) He should avoid fermented barley-water, surā liquor, fermented gruel, oil, milk, clarified butter, jaggery, / sour things, sugarcane juice, flour-based food, and meat of marsh animals. ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.34.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.34) · Pramāṇa