Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 39

English (machine translation) 39

Language: English

39.1

A man should drink guggulu or castor oil with cow's urine;
it quickly destroys enlargement of the scrotum due to vāta that has persisted for a long time. // 1

39.2

Or he should drink oil made from castor with milk for a month,
or oil of punarnavā, or likewise Nārāyaṇa oil, // 2

39.3

as a draught or enema, or deer oil, or it should be drunk with water of daśamūla.
Sandalwood, liquorice, lotus, uśīra, blue water-lily: // 3

39.4

ground with milk, there should be a poultice that relieves burning sensation, swelling, and pain.
Plastering with a paste of the five barks together with clarified butter, // 4

and everything that removes pitta should be done; in that arising from blood, blood-letting [is done].
For an enlargement of the scrotum due to kapha, however, one should apply a plaster with substances of hot potency ground with urine. // 5

39.6

And he should drink a decoction of pītadāru combined with urine.
That arising from fat, having been sweated, one should plaster with surasā and other herbs, // 6

39.7

or with head-purgative substances that are pleasantly warm and combined with urine.
Having sweated that arising from urine, one should wrap it with a cloth bandage; // 7

39.8

one should puncture it below the side of the raphe with a needle having a rice-grain tip.
And above the temple, at the edge of the ear, avoiding the seam, one should cauterise, // 8

39.9

or one should puncture a vein on the opposite side to arrest hernia.
Having cut the skin in the middle of the thumb, one should cauterise on the opposite limb. // 9

39.10

Prepared with rāsnā, liquorice, guḍūcī, castor, balā, and gokṣura,
a decoction mixed with castor oil quickly cures hernia. // 10

39.11

Having drunk castor oil combined with milk boiled with balā,
a man overcomes hernia accumulated with tympanites and colic. // 11

39.12

One should consume every morning harītakī prepared with urine, together with oil and salt; / it removes diseases of kapha and vāta. (12)

39.13

A man should eat harītakī boiled in cow's urine, fried in castor oil, / and mixed with rock salt, followed by lukewarm water; / it destroys an advanced, chronic scrotal enlargement. (13)

39.14

One should diligently drink cow's urine with a decoction of triphalā in the morning; / it destroys oedema arising from the testicles caused by kapha and vāta. (14)

39.15

Saralā, aguru, kuṣṭha, devadāru, and ginger, / combined with urine and fermented rice-water, cures oedema and expels kapha and vāta. (15)

39.16

A paste of harītakī fried in castor oil, / combined with pippalī and rock salt, is an excellent remedy for scrotal enlargement. (16)

39.17

Cow's clarified butter mixed with rock salt, / carefully placed in a snail-shell vessel / and matured for seven days in the rays of the sun, / destroys very severe hydrocele. (17)

39.18

Powder made from the root of aindrī rubbed with castor oil, / drunk with cow's milk for three days, removes all scrotal enlargements. (18)

39.19

Scrotal enlargement smeared with the root of rudrajaṭā and bound / with the skin of a vulture or crane undoubtedly subsides, even if chronic. (19)

39.20

Root-bark of rūpikā ground with fermented rice-water / as an ointment destroys scrotal enlargement, even one deeply rooted and firm. (20)

39.21

An application made of a paste of vacā and mustard destroys scrotal enlargement; / an application of lajjālukā and vulture dung is also an excellent cure for scrotal enlargement. (21)

39.22

Roots of bilva and kapittha, of aralu, of citraka, of both bṛhatīs, / of śyāmā, pūtikarañja, and śigru, along with dry ginger and bhallātaka, / combined with pippalī, pippalīmūla, cavya, the five salts, alkali, and ajamodā, / turned into powder, churned with sour gruel and lukewarm water, and drunk, cures hernia. (22)

39.23

A paste of wheat with sheep's milk, or of frankincense, / comfortably warm, applied as an ointment, is an excellent reliever of the pain of hernia. (23)

39.24

The wise physician should insert the hernia into a freshly killed, cut-open crow / for a muhūrta; it immediately becomes free of pain. (24)

39.25

Having ground ajājī, hapuṣā, kuṣṭha, wheat, and badara jujubes / together with sour gruel, one should make an ointment for hernia. (25)

39.26

Rock salt, madana, kuṣṭha, śatāhvā, nicula, vacā, / hrīvera, madhuka, bhārgī, devadāru with dry ginger, (26)

39.27

kaṭphala, puṣkaramūla, medā, cavya, citraka, śaṭhī, / viḍaṅga, ativiṣā, śyāmā, reṇukā, nalinī, sthirā, (27)

39.28

bilva, ajamodā, and pippalī, having pounded dantī and rāsnā, / castor oil should be boiled [with them]; [such an] oil cures disorders of vāta. (28)

39.29

By administering it as an unctuous enema, it cures hernia, upward movement of vāta, gulma, haemorrhoids, splenomegaly, urinary disorders, vātarakta, / abdominal distension, and urinary calculi. / Saureśvara ghṛta should be used to relieve hernia and scrotal enlargement. (29)

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit