[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) › 42 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 42 English (machine translation) 42 - **Language:** English ### [42.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.1) Application of leeches is recommended in all abscesses, / as well as gentle purgation, light food, and fomentation, except when pitta is predominant. // 1 ### [42.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.2) With pastes of vāta-dispelling roots soaked in lard, oil, and clarified butter, / a thick, comfortably warm plaster should be applied in a vāta-born abscess. // 2 ### [42.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.3) Fomentations and poultices prepared with śigru roots should be applied, / and one should smear with \[flour of\] barley, wheat, and mudga cooked and ground. // 3 ### [42.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.4) In this way, an unripe abscess dissolves in an instant. / With a decoction of punarnavā, dāru, dry ginger, daśamūla, and harītakī, // 4 ### [42.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.5) one should drink guggulu or castor oil in a vāta-born abscess. / For a paittika \[abscess\], one should plaster with sugar, parched paddy, madhuka, along with śārivā, // 5 ### [42.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.6) or with payasyā, uśīra, and sandalwood ground with milk; / or one should drink a decoction of triphalā combined with an akṣa of trivṛt paste. // 6 ### [42.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.7) A plaster made with a paste of the bark of the five trees mixed with clarified butter, / or a plaster of yaṣṭīmadhu, śārivā, dūrvā, nalamūla, and sandalwood, // 7 ### [42.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.8) ground with milk, is for pacifying a pitta-born abscess. / With bricks, sand, iron, cow dung, chaff, and ashes, // 8 ### [42.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.9) ground with urine, one should constantly foment a kapha-born abscess. / With a decoction of daśamūla, or with unctuous meat soup, // 9 ### [42.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.10) one should irrigate a painful oedema or wound while lukewarm. / With a decoction of triphalā, śigru, varuṇa, and daśamūla, // 10 ### [42.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.11) one should drink guggulu, or with urine, in an abscess arising from kapha. / Like a pitta-born abscess, an expert should perform all treatment without exception // 11 ### [42.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.12) for the two abscesses caused by blood and by external injury. / A decoction of śigru combined with asafoetida and rock salt, // 12 ### [42.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.13) consumed every morning, quickly destroys an abscess. / Sigru root washed in water and crushed a little should be strained; // 13 ### [42.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.14) drinking that juice with honey, a man destroys an internal abscess. / The root of white punarnavā and the root of varuṇa, // 14 ### [42.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.15) boiled with water and drunk, conquers an unripe abscess. / When an internal \[abscess\] has arisen and is unripe, one should drink a decoction of the varuṇādi group / with an additive of the uṣakādi group for its alleviation. // 15 ### [42.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.16) Root of pāṭhā mixed with honey and drunk with rice-water / quickly pacifies an intense internal abscess in a man. // 16 ### [42.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.17) This is taught for an unripe \[abscess\]; but when it is ripe, treatment is like that of a wound. // 17 ### [42.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.18) Even when \[pus\] has discharged upwards and downwards, \[a decoction of\] the drugs beginning with varuṇaka or juice of madhuśigru should be drunk with maireya, sour beverages, surā, or asavas. // 18 ### [42.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42.19) Oil should be cooked with priyaṅgu, dhātakī, lodhra, kaṭphala, and bark of tiliśa; it is supreme for healing an abscess. // 19 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.42.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.42) · Pramāṇa