Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 47

English (machine translation) 47

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47.1

Beneficial is the drinking of clarified butter, and purgation is also wholesome; / beneficial too is blood-letting, as well as a light diet. // 1

47.2

One should scrape the sarṣapī [eruption] and dust it with fine astringent [powders]; / with those very [drugs] one should prepare an inunction oil that heals the wound. // 2

47.3

This same treatment applies also to adhimantha; likewise blood should be drained in both. / In aṣṭhīlā, once blood has been drawn, one should treat it like a kapha-glandular enlargement. // 3

47.4

In kumbhikā, one should remove blood; when it has suppurated and the wound is cleansed, / a paste of tinduka, triphalā, and lodhra, and a healing oil [should be used]. // 4

47.5

In alajī, once blood has been drawn, this very procedure of treatment [is used]. / The wise [physician] should foment an unctuous induration by means of pipe-sudation, // 5

47.6

And should poultice it with comfortably warm, unctuous poultices. / But having completely excised the pimple named uttamā after raising it with a hook, // 6

47.7

One should treat it with pastes and powders of astringent drugs combined with honey. / The regimen described for pitta-erysipelas is beneficial in puṣkarī and mūḍha. // 7

47.8

In suppuration of the skin and loss of touch, one should sprinkle it once massaged / with lukewarm balā oil, and apply a warm poultice with sweet [drugs]. // 8

47.9

An inspissated extract should be applied when a śatapolaka has been scraped; / and oil prepared with pṛthakparṇī and others should be given immediately thereafter. // 9

47.10

The treatment for a tumor born of blood is like that for a pitta abscess. / Decoction, paste, clarified butters, oil, powder, inspissated extract— // 10

one should examine carefully and apply for cleansing and healing. / A tumor, suppuration of flesh, an abscess, and a mole— / having given a poor prognosis, the physician should undertake their counter-action. // 11

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit