[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) › 57 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 57 English (machine translation) 57 - **Language:** English ### [57.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.1) Milk boiled with the five roots, citraka-harītakī, / medicated clarified butter, jaggery, and ṣaḍaṅga soup serve to calm pīnasa. // 1 ### [57.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.2) The three pungents, citraka, tālīsa, tamarind, amlavetasa, / along with cavya and cumin in equal parts, and cardamoms, cinnamon, and cinnamon-leaves, each one-fourth part: // 2 ### [57.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.3) this powder called vyoṣādika, mixed with old jaggery, / cures pīnasa, dyspnoea, and cough, and is supreme for promoting appetite and voice. // 3 ### [57.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.4) With pāṭhā, the two turmerics, mūrvā, long pepper, jasmine leaves, / and dantī, an oil properly prepared as nasal medication is effective in pīnasa. // 4 ### [57.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.5) Cooked with vyāghrī, dantī, vacā, śigru, surasā, the three pungents, and rock salt, / the oil \[used as\] nasal drops conquers the disease foul-smelling nose. // 5 ### [57.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.6) With the three pungents, viḍaṅga, rock salt, bṛhatī-fruit, śigru, surasā, and dantī, / oil cooked with cow's urine serves as nasal medication for foul-smelling nose. // 6 ### [57.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.7) With kaliṅga, asafoetida, black pepper, lac, surasā, kaṭphala, / kuṣṭha, vacā, śigru, and vermifuge \[plants\], an errhine is praised. // 7 ### [57.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.8) With those very ingredients combined with urine, he should boil pungent oil. / In apīnasa and foul-smelling nose, it is celebrated as an excellent soothing agent. // 8 ### [57.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.9) In inflammation of the nose, the entire pitta-dispelling regimen / should be carried out, both externally and internally. / He should remove blood, and the barks of milk-bearing trees / are to be employed in irrigation, and plasters mixed with clarified butter. // 9 ### [57.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.10) Decoctions and nasal drops that conquer purulent discharge and bleeding disorders \[should be used\]. / With pastes and decoctions of dry ginger, kuṣṭha, long pepper, vilva, and grapes, / oil or clarified butter prepared as nasal medication dispels sneezing and pain. // 10 ### [57.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.11) In the burning paittika disease, one should carry out the entire / regimen that is sweet and cooling. / In nasal obstruction, drinking unctuous substances is foremost, / along with unctuous medicinal smokes, and constantly head-enema. // 11 ### [57.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.12) In vātika catarrh, however, he should drink clarified butter in proper sequence, / prepared with the five salts and with the first group \[of drugs\]. // 12 ### [57.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.13) In nasal medications and the rest, he should observe the entire procedure stated for facial paralysis. / In those arising from pitta and blood, clarified butter boiled with sweet herbs is to be drunk. // 13 ### [57.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.14) He should also apply cooling irrigations and plasters. / In that born of kapha, having unctuated \[the patient\] with clarified butter, or having caused him to vomit with thick gruel cooked with sesame and black gram, // 14 ### [57.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.15) he should carry out the regimen that dispels kapha. / With dārvī, iṅgudī, nikumbha, kiṇihī, and surasā, // 16 ### [57.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.16) wicks made here should be used for medicinal smoking according to the rules. / Or else, placing roasted barley-flour mixed with clarified butter in a double earthen cup, / the physician should administer the smoke to those suffering from acute catarrh. // 17 ### [57.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.17) He who, having mounted his bed at bedtime, drinks very cold / water on the ground, afflicted with pīnasa, is freed from that disease. // 18 ### [57.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.18) Jayā leaves cooked in a closed vessel, combined with rock salt and oil, / regularly used, is a supreme medicament in all catarrhs. // 19 ### [57.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.19) A meal of unctuous, sour curds mixed with black pepper and jaggery / cures acute catarrh and especially digests kapha. // 20 ### [57.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.20) In acute catarrh, soup made from tamarind leaves is recommended. / Then, knowing kapha to be digested, he should expel it with head-purgatives. // 21 ### [57.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.21) With head-anointing, fomentation, nasal medication, pungent and sour food, / emesis, and drinking clarified butter, he should treat them according to each specific condition. // 22 ### [57.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.22) If immediately after a meal one eats / steamed black gram with salt, extremely hot, / he conquers catarrh arising from all \[doṣas\] / and of long standing. // 23 ### [57.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.23) Long peppers, śigru seeds, viḍaṅga, and black pepper: / this errhine is praised for preventing catarrh. // 24 ### [57.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.24) One should apply the therapies indicated, ground with urine, in case of parasites, / and the wise man should use parasite-destroying medicaments for nasal drops. / For the remaining disorders, treatment should be according to each condition. // 25 ### [57.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.25) Flowers of red oleander, jasmine, aśana, and mallikā: / oil \[prepared\] in equal parts with these is best for destroying nasal polyp. // 26 ### [57.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.26) Oil prepared with soot, long pepper, devādāru, alkali, karañja, rock salt, / and seeds of apāmārga is beneficial for nasal polyps. // 27 ### [57.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.27) With citraka, cavya, ajamodā, / kaṇṭakārī, seeds of karañja, rock salt, and arka, / oil cooked along with cow's urine / is prescribed for nasal polyps. // 28 ### [57.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.28) Having added one hundred \[palas\] each of the juice of citraka, āmalakī, / guḍūcī, and the decoction of daśamūla, one āḍhaka of pathyā powder, and one hundred \[palas\] of jaggery, // 29 ### [57.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.29) he should cook it; when it is thickened, he should toss in twelve palas / of the three pungents and the three aromatics, and half a pala of alkali; on the next day, // 30 ### [57.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57.30) having added half a prastha of honey, he should eat it according to digestive fire without sloth. / This rejuvenating tonic, for the increase of digestive fire, destroys consumption, cough, / intractable pīnasa, worms, abdominal lumps, upward movement of vāta, haemorrhoids, and dyspnoea. // 31 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.57.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.57) · Pramāṇa