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(1) ### [38.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.2) Living on milk, in oedema produced by pitta, / one should drink a decoction of trivṛt, guḍūcī, and the three myrobalans, / or mixed with cow's urine, / or a dose of an akṣa of the powder of the three myrobalans. (2) ### [38.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.3) Harītakī, devadāru, liquorice, kaṭukā, dantī, along with pippalī, / paṭola, sandalwood, tree turmeric, trāyamāṇā, and indravāruṇī: (3) ### [38.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.4) a decoction of these along with clarified butter destroys oedema, fever, and burning sensation, / erysipelas, thirst, burning fever, sannipāta, and poison. / One should also apply anointings and the like with cold-potency remedies and chilled water. (4) ### [38.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.5) In oedema arising from kapha, one should drink the paste of punarnavā, dry ginger, trivṛt, guḍūcī, / āragvadha, harītakī, and devadāru, / combined with guggulu, along with \[cow's\] urine, or the water \[boiled with\] these. (5) ### [38.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.6) In kapha, however, there should be an external application of black sand, aged / oil-cake, horseradish tree bark, and flaxseeds; / sprinkling with horsegram and dry ginger water and urine; / and inunction with caṇḍā and aguru. (6) ### [38.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.7) Cumin, pāṭhā, mustā, the pañcakola herbs, / kaṇṭakārī, and the two turmerics, drunk with warm water, / and bhūnimba and dry ginger, destroy / longstanding, aggravated oedema born of all three doṣas. (7) ### [38.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.8) A decoction of punarnavā, neem, paṭola, dry ginger, / kaṭukā, guḍūcī, tree turmeric, and harītakī / destroys anaemia accompanied by whole-body oedema, / abdominal disease, cough, colic, and dyspnoea. (8) ### [38.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.9) Fresh ginger juice, drunk mixed with aged jaggery, / in those who subsist on goat's milk, quickly cures all oedemas. (9) ### [38.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.10) In a decoction of punarnavā, devadāru, and dry ginger, or in pure cow's urine, / or in a decoction of daśamūla, guggulu destroys oedema. (10) ### [38.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.11) One should administer strained bilva leaf juice, which is desiccant, in oedema born of all three \[doṣas\], / in constipation, in haemorrhoids, and also in jaundice. (11) ### [38.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.12) Powder of jaggery, pippalī, and dry ginger destroys oedema, / alleviates indigestion due to āma, cures colic, and purifies the bladder. (12) ### [38.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.13) Guggulu should be consumed with cow's urine, or pippalī along with milk, / or harītakī with an equal amount of jaggery, or dry ginger, by patients with oedema. (13) ### [38.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.14) Jaggery with fresh ginger, or jaggery with dry ginger, / or jaggery with harītakī, or jaggery with pippalī: / increasing by a karṣa up to a measure of three palas, / a man should eat it for a fortnight or even for a month. (14) ### [38.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.15) It destroys oedema, coryza, diseases of the throat and mouth, / together with dyspnoea, cough, anorexia, and chronic coryza, / chronic fever, haemorrhoids, malabsorption disorders, / and likewise other diseases of kapha and vāta. (15) ### [38.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.16) One should administer a paste made of sthalapadma stirred into milk; / it cures spleen diseases and conquers generalized and localized oedema. (16) ### [38.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.17) A paste of devadāru, guggulu, and dry ginger taken with cow's urine conquers oedema; / or a paste of punarnavā and fresh ginger conquers all oedemas. (17) ### [38.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.18) Having prepared a decoction of vāsā, guḍūcī, and kaṇṭakārī, mixed with honey, / a person, drinking it, overcomes oedema, dyspnoea, cough, vomiting, and fever. (18) ### [38.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.19) Having eaten a paste of bhūnimba and dry ginger, a decoction of punarnavā should be drunk; / it surely and swiftly removes whole-body oedema in men. (19) ### [38.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.20) Ash of kokilākṣa with cow's urine or water removes oedema. / Milk boiled with devadāru, punarnavā, and dry ginger cures oedema; (20) ### [38.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.21) or \[milk\] prepared with citraka, the three pungents, trivṛt, and devadāru should be drunk. ### [38.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.22) Meat broths, thick gruels, milks, and soups / prepared with punarnavā roots, kapittha, devadāru, / guḍūcī, and citraka roots, containing daśamūla within, / should be administered in oedema. (21) ### [38.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.23) The two alkalis, four salts, / iron filings, the three pungents, the three myrobalans, / pippalī roots, viḍaṅga seeds, / mustā, ajamodā, devadāru, bilva, (22) ### [38.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.24) indrajava, citraka root, pāṭhā, / liquorice, ativiṣā, palāśa, / with asafoetida, each one karṣa, and then dried powder— / a droṇa of dried radishes; (23) ### [38.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.25) from the ashes; it should be boiled with that water, stirred until thick, without burning. Then, when solidified, having made a dose equal \[in size\] to a jujube fruit, well dried, one should administer it according to the rule. // 24 ### [38.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.26) It dispels splenomegaly, vitiligo, chlorosis, haemorrhoids, anaemia, anorexia, oedema, consumption, cholera, abdominal lumps, artificial poison, urinary calculus, together with dyspnoea, cough, and skin diseases. // 25 ### [38.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.27) Sauvarcala salt, saindhava salt, viḍa salt, and audbhida salt: these should be the four salts here, and the water should be eight times \[the quantity\]. // 26 ### [38.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.28) With a paste of punarnavā, citraka, devadāru, the five acrids, alkali, and harītakī, cooked in water of daśamūla, this excellent clarified butter destroys oedema. // 27 ### [38.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.29) Clarified butter prepared with a decoction and paste of punarnavā dispels oedema. Boiled with a paste of dry ginger in water of daśamūla, clarified butter destroys oedema, malabsorption syndrome, and anaemia. // 28 ### [38.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.30) With citraka, coriander, yavānī, pāṭhā, with dīpyaka, the three acrids, vetasāmla, the fruit of bilva, pomegranate, barley-alkali, with pippalī root, and also cavya, // 29 ### [38.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.31) ground to the measure of an akṣa each, and cooked with an āḍhaka of water and a prastha of clarified butter, one should then consume it. It cures haemorrhoids, abdominal lumps, oedema, and dysuria, and makes the digestive fire blaze. // 30 ### [38.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.32) One should cook clarified butter in a decoction of the five spices and horsegram, with a paste of punarnavā; this clarified butter destroys oedema. // 31 ### [38.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.33) Milk curdled in a pot smeared with a paste of citraka is thoroughly churned; with that, the clarified butter produced from it, cooked with a paste of citraka root and with buttermilk, is preeminent in destroying oedema. // 32 ### [38.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.34) It cures haemorrhoids, diarrhoea, vāta-type abdominal lumps, and urinary disorders, and increases strength. // 33 ### [38.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.35) One should cook a prastha of clarified butter with a decoction and paste of māṇaka. It dispels single-doṣa, dual-doṣa, and tridoṣa oedema. // 34 ### [38.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.36) Eight palas of sthalapadma, four palas of the three acrids: one should cook a prastha of clarified butter with these, having added four times \[as much\] milk. It quickly removes the five coughs and exceedingly stubborn oedema. // 35 ### [38.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.37) With śaileya, kuṣṭha, aguru, devadāru, kauntī, cinnamon, padmaka, cardamom, bottle gourd, palāśa, mustā, priyaṅgu, sthauṇeyaka, saffron, māṃsī, tālīsapatra, plava, patra, coriander, // 36 ### [38.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.38) śrīveṣṭaka, dhyāmaka, pippalī, pṛkkā, or nakha, as available: when accompanied by vāta, an oil prepared with these is desired for massage, and also a poultice with them finely ground. // 37 ### [38.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.39) With dried radish, punarnavā, devadāru, rāsnā, and dry ginger, oil cooked \[with these\], through inunction, overcomes oedema accompanied by pain. // 38 ### [38.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.40) In an āḍhaka of juice of punarnavā, guḍūcī, devadāru, and daśamūla, and a prastha of fresh ginger juice, one should cook a tulā of jaggery. // 39 ### [38.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.41) When it is cooked, one should throw in the three acrids, cavya, cardamom, and cinnamon, one karṣa of each in powdered form; when cold, one should lick it with a kuḍava of honey. // 40 ### [38.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.42) This electuary named Paunarnava destroys oedema and pain; it removes dyspnoea, cough, and anorexia, and increases strength, complexion, and digestive fire. // 41 ### [38.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.43) In a kaṃsa of decoction of daśamūla, one should cook a hundred harītakīs; when thickened, one should add a tulā of jaggery, four palas of the three acrids and alkali, // 42 ### [38.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.44) a suvarṇa portion of the three aromatics, and half a prastha of honey when cold. These Daśamūlīharītakīs destroy very severe oedemas, // 43 ### [38.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.45) fevers, anorexia, abdominal lumps, haemorrhoids, urinary disorders, anaemia, and abdominal diseases. Here, each of the three aromatics should be one karṣa in measure. // 44 ### [38.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.46) And this Kaṃsaharītakī is read differently in Caraka; therefore, its equivalence in this measure is described there as well. // 45 ### [38.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.47) In a kaṃsa of decoction of the two pañcamūlas, one should cook a hundred abhayās and \[a tulā\] of jaggery. When the electuary is properly cooked, one introduces the powder of the three acrids and the three aromatics, and when it is cooled, // 46 ### [38.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.48) the measure of half a prastha of honey, and a little powder of barley-alkali. Having eaten one abhayā and then a śukti of the electuary, it cures advanced oedema, // 47 ### [38.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.49) cough, fever, anorexia, urinary disorders, abdominal lumps, splenomegaly, anaemia arising from the three doṣas, emaciation, āmavāta, bleeding disorders, acid dyspepsia, discolouration, and disorders of urine, vāta, and semen. // 48 ### [38.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.50) Here no other explanation is stated, because the earlier explanation is excellent. // 49 ### [38.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.51) A paste with sesame seeds, milk, honey, and fresh butter destroys oedema caused by bhallātaka, or with the earth from beneath that tree, or with leaves of śāla, before long. // 50 ### [38.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.52) In oedema caused by poison, however, the treatment stated for poison is approved. // 51 ### [38.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38.53) Meat of domestic or wetland animals, salt, dried vegetables, newly harvested grains, preparations of jaggery, flour-based food, curd with kṛśarā, slimy dishes, sour wine, roasted grains, dried meat, eating mixed meals, heavy, unwholesome, and burning food, and sleeping by day and at night \[excessively\], and sexual intercourse: one suffering from oedema should avoid these. // 52 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.38.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.38) · Pramāṇa