Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 35

English (machine translation) 35

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35.1

One who takes pleasure in exertion, worry, sexual intercourse, walking, honey, and staying awake, / and who eats barley and śyāmāka grain, inevitably destroys extreme obesity.

35.2

One who wishes to abandon obesity / should gradually and excessively increase sleeplessness, sexual intercourse, physical exercise, and reflection.

35.3

Water consumed in the morning mixed with honey destroys obesity; / or by drinking hot scum of boiled rice, one becomes thin in body.

35.4

Roasted barley meal with cavya, cumin, the three pungents, asafoetida, black salt, and leadwort, / drunk with curd-whey, destroys fat and stimulates the digestive fire.

35.5

Viḍaṅga, dry ginger, alkali, black iron powder, honey, / and the powder of barley and āmalakī: this recipe destroys obesity.

35.6

The three pungents, viḍaṅga, śigru, the three myrobalans, kaṭurohiṇī, / the two kinds of bṛhatī, the two kinds of turmeric, pāṭhā, ativiṣā, sthirā,

35.7

asafoetida, kebūka roots, yamānī, coriander, leadwort, / black salt, cumin, and hapuṣā: one should powder these.

35.8

The parts of powder, oil, clarified butter, and honey should be equal in measure; / sixteen times that is the part of roasted barley meal: one should drink this nourishing draught.

35.9

From its use, diseases arising from over-nourishment subside: / urinary disorders, trapped vāta, skin diseases, haemorrhoids, jaundice,

35.10

enlargement of the spleen, anaemia, oedema, dysuria, anorexia, / heart disease, consumption, cough, dyspnoea, constriction of the throat,

35.11

worms, disorders of the malabsorption syndrome, vitiligo, and excessive obesity; / men's digestive fire is kindled, and memory and intellect arise.

35.12

A thin gruel prepared with fermented sour gruel and a paste of jujube leaves / removes obesity; or else asphaltum taken with the juice of agnimantha.

Guḍūcī, cardamom, viḍaṅga, kutaja seeds, / indrayava, chebulic and emblic myrobalans, [and] guggulu, / taken in increasing doses flooded with honey, / overcomes eruptions, obesity, and fistula-in-ano.

35.14

Consuming guggulu equal in amount to the three pungents, leadwort, the three myrobalans, mustā, and viḍaṅga, / one overcomes all diseases born of fat, kapha, and āma-vāta.

35.15

Guggulu, tālamūlī, the three myrobalans, khadira, vāsaka, / trivṛt, alambuṣā, snuk, nirguṇḍī, and likewise leadwort:

35.16

one should cook portions of ten palas of these in five āḍhakas of water; / having reduced it to a fourth, one should take down the decoction.

35.17

Twelve palas of well-powdered cast iron should be added, / a prastha of aged clarified butter, and eight palas of sugar.

35.18

One should cook it in a copper vessel; and when taken down and well-cooled, / half a prastha of honey is to be added, and two palas of asphaltum;

35.19

half a pala of cardamom and cinnamon, two palas of viḍaṅga, / black pepper, stibnite, two palas of pippalī along with the three myrobalans,

35.20

and two palas of green vitriol made into a fine powder by the wise; / having added the powders and thoroughly stirred, one should store it in an oiled jar.

35.21

Then, having a cleansed body, one should eat an akṣa's measure; / as an after-drink, he should drink milk, or the meat broth of arid animals.

35.22

It is an excellent remover of vāta and kapha, curing skin disease, urinary disorders, and abdominal disease, / jaundice, anaemia, oedema, along with fistula-in-ano,

35.23

fainting, stupor, poisoning, psychosis, and various slow-acting poisons; / it is the best emaciating agent for the obese, a supreme medicine for the corpulent.

35.24

It emaciates excessively a belly that resembles the underworld; / it is strengthening, rejuvenating, promoting intellect, and an excellent aphrodisiac;

35.25

it brings prosperity, begets sons, and destroys wrinkles and greying hair. / One should not eat plantain root, fermented sour gruel, karamarda, / karīra, and bitter gourd: one should avoid the six things beginning with the letter 'ka'.

35.26

With the three myrobalans, ativiṣā, mūrvā, trivṛt, leadwort, vāsaka, / neem, āragvadha, vaca, saptaparṇa, and the two kinds of turmeric,

35.27

guḍūcī, indravāruṇī, pippalī, kuṣṭha, mustard seeds, and dry ginger: / oil cooked equal to these, flooded with juice of the surasādi group,

35.28

when employed in potions, inunctions, mouth-gargles, nasal drops, and enemas, / overcomes obesity, sluggishness, itching, and other ailments caused by kapha.

35.29

A rub with siris, lāmajjaka, nagakesara, and lodhra / removes skin disorders and excessive perspiration; / a plaster of cinnamon leaves, fragrant swamp mallow, agallochum, chebulic myrobalan, and sandalwood / removes foul body odour.

35.30

Juice of vāsā leaves combined with conch-shell powder as a paste, / or with the juice of bilva leaves, destroys foul odour of the body.

35.31

Chebulic myrobalan, lodhra, neem leaves, / mango bark, and pomegranate rind: / this is stated to be a body cosmetic for women, / and an astringent leg-wash for kings.

35.32

A paste of cinnamon leaves, fragrant swamp mallow, light agallochum, and sandalwood / takes away foul body odour, / just as the powder of alambuṣā / drunk together with clear fermented sour gruel [does].

35.33

Ground with cow's urine, [kuṣṭha] cures skin disease; / combined with cow's milk, it brightens complexion; / and taken with milk, it removes foul odour of the armpits and elsewhere; / praised with the two turmerics, it subdues.

35.34

Applied to the armpits and other parts, crushed with the fresh juice of tamarind leaves, / an inunction of burnt turmeric swiftly overcomes foul odour of the body.

35.35

In numbness of hands and feet, pañcatiktaka guggulu is to be used; / or else, unwearied, one should consume the clarified butter called pañcatiktaka.

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