[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) › 39 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 39 English (machine translation) 39 - **Language:** English ### [39.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [39.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.39.5) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.39.10) Prepared with rāsnā, liquorice, guḍūcī, castor, balā, and gokṣura, a decoction mixed with castor oil quickly cures hernia. // 10 ### [39.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.39.11) Having drunk castor oil combined with milk boiled with balā, a man overcomes hernia accumulated with tympanites and colic. // 11 ### [39.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.39.26) Rock salt, madana, kuṣṭha, śatāhvā, nicula, vacā, / hrīvera, madhuka, bhārgī, devadāru with dry ginger, (26) ### [39.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.39.27) kaṭphala, puṣkaramūla, medā, cavya, citraka, śaṭhī, / viḍaṅga, ativiṣā, śyāmā, reṇukā, nalinī, sthirā, (27) ### [39.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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) ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.39.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.39) · Pramāṇa