[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) › 47 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 47 English (machine translation) 47 - **Language:** English ### [47.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [47.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.47.11) 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 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.47.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.47) · Pramāṇa