Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 58

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58.1

One should treat conjunctivitis by fasting, plasters, fomentation, venesection, purgation, / collyriums, eye-drops, and so forth. // 1

58.2

With powdered śrīvāsa, ativiṣā, and lodhra, along with a little rock salt, / placed inside a cloth, dusting outside should be done when the eye-disease is unmanifest. // 2

58.3

Diseases arising in the eyes and the belly, catarrh, ulcers, and fever— / these five go to pacification within five nights by fasting. // 3

Fomentation, external plaster, bitter food, irrigation for four days, / and fasting are the six digestives of undigested eye-diseases. / Collyrium, eye-filling, and drinking decoctions are not recommended when āma is present. // 4

58.5

The juice of āmalakī-fruit dispels acute eye irritation by filling; / or irrigation with the juice of leaves born of śigru along with honey and rock salt. // 5

58.6

Or filling with dārvī and rasāñjana combined with breast-milk / quickly dispels burning sensation, lacrimation, and pains arising from conjunctivitis. // 6

58.7

Filled with abundant juice obtained from cutting / tender young sprouts of karavīra, / both eyes immediately become sound, / [though] violently irritated in that very instant. // 7

58.8

Apāmārga root rubbed with whey in a copper vessel mixed with a little rock salt, / through application as eye-drops, relieves acute eye irritation. // 8

58.9

Rock salt, dāruharidrā, red ochre, pathyā, and rasāñjana, when ground / and applied outside as a plaster, removes all eye diseases without remainder. // 9

58.10

Likewise, lodhra [powdered in] an earthen saucer and fried in clarified butter should be made into an eye-poultice (biḍālaka); / in the same way, harītakī fried in clarified butter should be made into an eye-poultice. // 10

58.11

An external application around the eyes is called biḍālaka by eye-specialists. // 11

58.12

An external paste composed of equal parts of red ochre, sandalwood, dry ginger, and chalk, / mixed with vacā, makes the eye free from disease, without doubt. // 12

58.13

Bhūmyāmalakī rubbed with rock salt and mixed with household water in a copper vessel, / when thickened, overcomes eye pain through external application. // 13

58.14

In [conjunctivitis] born of vāta, eye-drops (āścyotana) of a decoction of bilva and others are beneficial; / lukewarm, along with eraṇḍa, bṛhatī, tarkārī, and madhuśigru. // 14

58.15

Goat's milk boiled with eraṇḍa sprouts, root, and bark, / and with roots of kaṇṭakārī, pleasantly warm, is beneficial for irrigation. // 15

58.16

When the eye disease has fully matured, collyrium (añjana) and the like should be employed. / [The signs are] a healthy state of the eyelids, subsidence of irritation and lacrimation, // 16

58.17

mildness of pain, and itching—such is the characteristic of a matured eye disease. / The procedure for collyrium and the rest will be explained completely hereafter. // 17

58.18

Bark of bṛhatī and eraṇḍa roots, and roots of śigru, with rock salt, / ground with goat's milk, makes a wick-collyrium (varti) that cures vāta eye diseases. // 18

58.19

One should grind the two haridrās, madhuka, pathyā, and devadāru / with goat's milk; that collyrium is excellent in conjunctivitis (abhiṣyanda). // 19

58.20

Red ochre, rock salt, pippalī, and dry ginger, in successively increasing parts, / or ground with twice the amount of water, is recommended as a pill-collyrium (guḍikāñjana). // 20

58.21

With prapauṇḍarīka, yaṣṭīmadhu, niśā, āmalaka, and padmaka, / cold, mixed with honey and sugar, irrigation cures eye diseases born of pitta. // 21

58.22

Milk boiled with drākṣā, madhuka, mañjiṣṭhā, and the jīvanīya herbs, / as eye-drops in the morning, is wholesome for patients with eye disease having swelling and pain. // 22

58.23

Having coated lodhra powder or paste with leaves of nimba, / [heated] by the fire of sweating, / [applied as] eye-drops combined with human breast-milk, / it is said to be foremost in destroying pitta, blood, and vāta. // 23

58.24

In [the condition] born of kapha: fasting, sudation, nasal therapy, and food of bitter taste [are indicated]; / one should perform insufflation with sharp [medicaments], and poulticing with sharp ones. // 24

58.25

One should administer sudation with phaṇijjaka, āsphota, kapīta, bilva, / pattūra, pīlu, surasā, and leaves of arjagha / or a warm paste of barhiṣṭha, dry ginger, suradāru, and kuṣṭha. // 25

58.26

A bolus of dry ginger and nimba leaves, pleasantly warm, with a little rock salt, / should be held over the eye; as a poultice, it removes swelling, itching, and pain. // 26

58.27

The bark of pārijāta, sesame oil, sour gruel, and rock salt / destroy eye pain arising from kapha, just as a thunderbolt destroys a tree. // 27

58.28

Lodhra with rock salt, fried in clarified butter, / ground with sauvīraka vinegar and wrapped in a white cloth: / one should use that as eye-drops for the eye; / it destroys itching, burning sensation, and pain. // 28

58.29

[Eye diseases] originating from vāta [are relieved] by unctuous and warm measures, those born of pitta by mild and cold ones; / those of the nature of kapha are alleviated by sharp, dry, hot, and clear ones. // 29

58.30

That born of all three doṣas [is treated] by alternating sharp-hot and mild-cold measures. / Tirīṭa, triphalā, yaṣṭī, sugar, and bhadramustā / ground with cold water, as an irrigation, destroys conjunctivitis caused by blood. // 30

58.31

Powder of kaśeru and madhuka, mixed with water, / placed in rainwater, is a beneficial eye-drop. // 31

58.32

Dārvī, paṭola, madhuka, along with nimba, padmaka, utpala, / and prapauṇḍarīka: these one should boil in four times their amount of water; // 32

58.33

having boiled down to a quarter remaining, one should boil that one kuḍava again; / when it has cooled down, one should add honey in an amount of one-fourth part. // 33

58.34

This solid extract (rasakriyā) destroys burning sensation, tear-discharge, diseases, blood-vitiation, and pain. / Drinking of bitter clarified butter and frequent purgation, // 34

58.35

and applying leeches all around the eyes, / is also the established procedure that pacifies conjunctivitis born of pitta. // 35

58.36

Juice of śigru sprouts, well rubbed in a copper vessel, / fumigated with clarified butter, destroys swelling, irritation, tears, and pain. // 28

58.37

Having ground very clean leaves of nimba / mixed with jāti and rock salt, / forming an inner core, a firm pill coated with fried powder of lodhra, / wrapped all around with cotton thoroughly moistened with sauvīra vinegar and extremely soft, / rolled for a long time over the eyes, pacifies eye irritation. // 37

58.38

Filtered juice of bilva leaves, combined with rock salt and clarified butter, / rubbed with a cowrie shell in a copper vessel, fumigated with fire of cow dung, // 38

58.39

and stirred with milk, when filled into the eyes, relieves swelling and pain; / it is commended in conjunctivitis, adhimantha, discharge, and blood disorders. // 39

58.40

Mustard oil with salt, and sour gruel, in a bronze vessel, / thickened, rubbed with a stone, and fumigated over a cow-dung fire, / sprinkled with goat's milk, overcomes vitiation of vāta and kapha, / eye pain, discharge, swelling, and redness. // 40

58.41

The juice of an āmalaka pierced while remaining on the tree cures all eye diseases; / old clarified butter by all means cures all eye ailments. // 41

58.42

This very same procedure is recommended in adhimantha and the like; / if adhimantha is not pacified by all means, one should apply cautery above the eyebrows. // 42

58.43

Application of leeches is commended in netrapāka (suppurative ophthalmitis), [as well as] purgation; / or one should perform venesection; and irrigations and pastes [should be used] as in śukra (corneal opacity). // 43

58.44

A decoction of vibhītaka, harītakī, dhātrī, paṭola, ariṣṭa, and vāsaka, / taken with guggulu, destroys swelling, pain, and inflammation of the eye (akṣipāka); // 44

58.45

and it destroys pīlu, ulcerated śukra, redness, and the like; / clarified butter cooked with these also removes those diseases. // 45

58.46

With āṭarūṣa, abhayā, nimba, dhātrī, mustā, and akṣa (vibhītaka): / the 'vāsakādi' formulation is beneficial to the eyes and destroys bleeding and kapha. // 46

58.47

Vāsā, mustā, leaves of nimba and paṭola, / kaṭukā, guḍūcī, candana, bark of kutaja, / indrayava, dāruharidrā, citraka, dry ginger, / bhūnimba, dhātrī, abhayā, and vibhītaka: // 47

58.48

one should drink this decoction reduced to an eighth part [boiled with] śyāmā and yava on the previous day; / it destroys timira, itching, paṭala, tumors, / and corneal opacity (śukra), both ulcerated and non-ulcerated, // 48

58.49

as well as pīlu, kāca, severe conjunctival congestion, / night-blindness, redness, swelling with pain; / this vāsādi formulation of renowned efficacy / destroys all eye diseases. // 49

58.50

Three fruits of pathyā, six of vibhītakī, and twelve of dhātrī, / in half a prastha of water, [boiled as] a decoction reduced to one-eighth part: // 50

58.51

By drinking [this decoction], one overcomes abhiṣyanda, discharge, redness, and timira. (51)

58.52

It destroys agitation, redness, pain, and lacrimation, and clarifies vision. / When the eye is injured, however, one should apply cold eye-drops and similar measures. (52)

58.53

The physician should promptly perform the procedure that produces clarity of vision / using unctuous, cold, and sweet applications; / in the very same way he should treat [an eye] injured / by fomentation, fire, smoke, fear, grief, pain, or scorching heat. (53)

58.54

Having examined the accidental factor, the procedure should be performed: / first of all, it should be fomented with the warmth of the mouth; / and an eye-drop with woman's milk should immediately be given, / as well as whatever relieves pitta and blood. (54)

58.55

For one whose eyes are injured by looking at / a solar eclipse, fire, lightning, and the like, / refreshing treatment, unctuous, cold, and so forth, should be given, / and triphalā preparations should be taken in the evening. (55)

58.56

Haridrā, mustā, triphalā, dāruharidrā, combined with sugar and madhuka— / filling the eye [with these] mixed with woman's milk destroys eye pain caused by trauma. (56)

58.57

Likewise, fresh juice produced from sprouted itkaṭa is an eye-filling. / Goat's clarified butter, a vessel of milk, madhuka, and utpala, (57)

58.58

and also having ground jīvaka and ṛṣabhaka, one should cook the clarified butter. / This clarified butter is commended in all traumatic injuries of the eyes. (58)

58.59

Rock salt, devadāru, dry ginger, mātuluṅga juice, clarified butter, / with breast milk and water, should be made into a collyrium in śuṣkākṣipāka. (59)

58.60

In vātika mārutaparyaya, other measures should be taken as in vātābhiṣyanda; / clarified butter taken before food is beneficial, as is milk taken with meals. (60)

58.61

One should also drink clarified butter cooked with vṛkṣādanī, kapittha, and the great pañcamūla, / along with milk, in the juice of crabs. (61)

58.62

Abhiṣyanda, adhīmantha arising from blood, or arjuna, / śirotpāta, śirāharṣa, and other diseases arising in the eyes— (62)

58.63

in one who has been oleated with old clarified butter, one should bring them to peace by venesections. / For the relief of amlādhyuṣita, one should apply very cold pastes. (63)

58.64

Clarified butter prepared with tinduka or triphalā, or simply aged clarified butter, is beneficial. / The regimen that removes pittābhiṣyanda should be carried out, omitting venesection. (64)

58.65

Clarified butter and honey used as a collyrium is a medicine for śirotpāta. / Likewise, rock salt and kāsīsa ground with breast milk is praised. (65)

58.66

In śirāharṣa, one should apply as a collyrium treacle mixed with honey, / or rasāñjana with honey, or kāsīsa along with mākṣika. (66)

58.67

To appease vraṇaśukra, one should drink ṣaḍaṅga guggulu. / The seed of kataka, conch shell, tinduka, and silver, (67)

58.68

rubbed on bell-metal with breast milk, conquers the pain and redness of kṣataśukra. / Sandalwood, red ochre, lac, and fresh buds of mālatī, (68)

58.69

form a wick that removes vraṇaśukra and purifies the blood. / Or one should draw blood from the eye through a vein or with leeches. (69)

58.70

Collyrium made of bibhītaka marrow with breast milk applied in the evening destroys śukra; / or white lotus alone, irrigated with goat's milk. (70)

58.71

It destroys redness, discharge, pain, kṣataśukra, pākātyaya, and ajakā. / Blue vitriol combined with water destroys śukra by filling the eyes. (71)

58.72

A wick made of cuttlefish bone, fowl's egg-shell, rock salt, together with mākṣika / and horse-radish seeds, ground with horse-radish water, destroys śukra. (72)

58.73

Fruit of dhātrī, leaves of nimba and paṭola, / yaṣṭyāhva, lodhra, khadira, and sesame seeds: / their decoction, thoroughly cooled and sprinkled into the eye, / destroys every variety of śukra. (73)

58.74

Irrigation with water infused with crushed leaves of punnāga, / or with a decoction of śyāmā in water, removes corneal opacity. (74)

58.75

With equal parts of fowl's egg-shell, realgar, conch, glass, sandalwood, and red ochre, / this collyrium formulation scarifies corneal opacity, arman, and the like. (75)

58.76

One should also perform rubbing on the śukra with seeds of śirīṣa, black pepper, long pepper, and rock salt, / or simply with rock salt. (76)

58.77

A wick made of karañja seeds, repeatedly infused / with the fresh juice of palāśa flowers, quickly overcomes / a mass of opacities in the eyes, even if of long standing. (77)

58.78

Rock salt, triphalā, long pepper, kaṭukā, and conch-navel, / along with copper dust, ground into a wick, destroys śukra. (78)

58.79

Sandalwood, rock salt, harītakī, and the gum of the palāśa tree, / in progressively increasing quantities—this powder scarifies śukra, arman, and the like. (79)

58.80

With teeth derived from the elephant, boar, camel, cow, horse, goat, and donkey, / along with conch shell, pearls, and cuttlefish bone, with a one-fourth part of black pepper, / the tooth-wick turns back even the disease kṣataśukra. (80)

58.81

Four parts of conch shell, half of that of realgar, / half the amount of realgar of black pepper, and half the amount of black pepper of rock salt: (81)

58.82

this excellent powder-collyrium is used in both forms of śukra and in timira; / it should be applied with honey in piccaṭa, and likewise with whey in tumours. (82)

58.83

Mākṣikadhātu, or madhuka extract, the seed of bibhītaka, and rock salt: / [these] with honey form four collyrium formulations for the relief of śukra. (83)

58.84

Fine camphor powder combined with the milk of the banyan tree / swiftly destroys śukra even when dense and elevated, by its application as a collyrium. (84)

58.85

Pulp of triphalā, maṅgalyā, madhuka, and red sandalwood: / an eye-filling mixed with honey conquers kṣataśukra, ajakā, and lacrimation. (85)

58.86

Having prepared filtered alkali from palmyra palm, coconut, as well as aruṣkara, / karīra, and bamboos, (86)

58.87

powder made of camel bone, infused with the alkali / seven or eight times, one should make into a fine powder. (87)

58.88

This is an excellent blackening agent in dry, incurable [spots]; / and for those opacities that are curable, it is a supreme collyrium. (88)

58.89

Paṭola, kaṭukā, dāruharidrā, nimba, vāsā, triphalā, / durālabhā, parpaṭaka, and trāyantī, one pala each, (89)

58.90

and one prastha of āmalakī, one should boil down in abundant water. / When the liquid is reduced to a quarter, one should cook in it one prastha of clarified butter (90)

58.91

with a paste of bhūnimba, kuṭaja, mustā, yaṣṭyāhva, and sandalwood, / along with long pepper. This medicated [clarified butter] is beneficial to the eyes and wholesome for both forms of śukra. (91)

58.92

It relieves diseases and ulcers of the nose, ears, eyes, eyelids, skin, and mouth; / it is supreme in removing jaundice, fever, erysipelas, and cervical lymphadenitis. (92)

58.93

Cooked with pippalī, viḍaṅga, madhuyaṣṭikā, rock salt, / and dry ginger in goat's milk, this / oil, when applied in the procedure of nasal errhine, cures men's timira, śukra, headache, eye pain, / and pākātyaya. (93)

58.94

Having pierced ajakā from the side with a needle and drained the fluid, / one should fill the wound with powder of dry cow dung together with clarified butter. (94)

58.95

Rock salt and horse's hoof along with gorocanā, / combined with the fresh juice of śelu bark: as a filling, it cures ajakā. (95)

58.96

With the paste of a hare's head, in water boiled with its remaining parts, / a kuḍava of clarified butter is cooked; as a filling, it also cures ajakā. (96)

58.97

And in a decoction of hare, one should cook a kuḍava of clarified butter / with a paste of [yaṣṭī]madhu and prapauṇḍarīka, along with an equal part of milk. (97)

58.98

From the filling [prepared with] goat's [milk], it destroys śukra, wound, pākātyaya, ajakā, / pain in the eyebrows and temples, and burning sensation and redness completely. (98)

58.99

Triphalā, clarified butter, honey, barley, / foot massage, śatāvarī, and mung beans: / this group has been concisely declared / by physicians to be beneficial for the eyes. (99)

58.100

Or one should always lick finely powdered triphalā / mixed abundantly with honey in timira born of pitta; / with oil in that caused by vāta; and in that composed of kapha, / one should administer it skillfully mixed abundantly with honey. (100)

58.101

A paste, decoction, or powder of triphalā consumed / with honey or clarified butter brings an end to all timira. (101)

58.102

He who, avoiding unwholesome things, consumes triphalā powder / in the evening with clarified butter and honey, / is freed from ocular disorders, / as a man whose wealth is exhausted [is abandoned] by his servants. (102)

58.103

Or one suffering from the disease timira should habitually take a decoction of triphalā with clarified butter. / Diseases that have arisen perish, and they never occur, / from washing the eyes in the morning with a decoction of triphalā. (103)

58.104

By mouthfuls of water in the morning, having filled the mouth cavity many times with water, / relentlessly splashing the eye, it instantly dispels timiras not [easily curable]. (104)

58.105

Having eaten and rubbed the palms together, that which is applied to the eyes / with that water removes timiras in no time at all. (105)

58.106

Kataka fruit, conch shell, the three pungents, rock salt, sugar, / cuttlefish bone, rasāñjana, honey, viḍaṅga, realgar, / and hen's egg-shells: this wick dispels (106)

58.107

timira, paṭala, kāca, arma, and likewise śukra; / it destroys itching, discharge, tumours, and dirt quickly—[this is] Sukhāvatī. (107)

58.108

Harītakī, vacā, kuṣṭha, pippalī, and black pepper, / marrow of bibhītaka, spiral of a conch shell, and realgar: (108)

58.109

making all these in equal parts, one should grind them with goat's milk. / It destroys timira, itching, paṭalas, and tumours, (109)

58.110

and extra fleshy growths, and [heals him] who cannot see at night; / it can cure even a two-year-old corneal opacity within one month. (110)

58.111

This wick named Candrodayā clears the vision of men. (111)

58.112

Harītakī, turmeric, pippalī, and the salts: / this wick which overcomes itching and timira is never thwarted anywhere. (112)

58.113

Eighty sesame flowers, sixty grains of pippalī, / fifty jasmine flowers, and sixteen black peppers: / this Kumārikā wick restores lost vision. (113)

58.114

Triphalā, hen's eggshell, green vitriol, iron dust, / blue water-lily, viḍaṅga, and foam of the lord of rivers [cuttlefish bone], (114)

58.115

ground with goat's milk, one should infuse in a copper vessel. / Having stood for seven nights, grinding it again with milk, one should make a wick. (115)

58.116

This sight-giving wick is for a blind person whose eyeball is not destroyed. / With sandalwood, triphalā, betel nut, and the sap of the palāśa tree, (116)

58.117

ground with water, this wick removes all timira. / The two turmerics, abhayā, māṃsī, kuṣṭha, and pippalī, finely powdered: (117)

58.118

this Saugata collyrium destroys all eye diseases. / A wick made with the three pungents, blue water-lily, abhayā, kuṣṭha, and rasāñjana removes (118)

58.119

tumours, paṭala, kāca, timira, arma, and discharge of tears. / The three pungents, triphalā, tagara, rock salt, orpiment, and realgar: (119)

58.120

this wick is praised as destroying moisture, coating, and itching, and removing kapha. / One part of pippalī, / and two parts of harītakī, ground with water: (120)

58.121

this wick brings comfort to the eyes / and removes arma, timira, paṭala, kāca, and lacrimation. (121)

58.122

Collyrium, white pepper, pippalī, madhuyaṣṭikā, / kernel of bibhītaka, spiral of a conch shell, and realgar: (122)

58.123

these in equal parts one should grind with goat's milk. / Having made a wick dried in the shade, one should apply it to the eyes. (123)

58.124

Tumour, paṭala, kāca, timira, red streaks, / fleshy growth, dirt, and [the affliction of] one who cannot see at night: / the wick named Candraprabhā clears even congenital blindness. (124)

58.125

Triphalā, the three pungents, rock salt, yaṣṭī, tuttha, rasāñjana, / prapauṇḍarīka, viḍaṅga, lodhra, and copper—these fourteen (125)

58.126

substances, having powdered them, a wick should be made with rainwater. / Inscribed by Nāgārjuna upon a pillar at Pāṭaliputra, (126)

58.127

it destroys timiras and likewise paṭalas. / Used with woman's breast milk, it certainly overcomes acute irritation immediately. (127)

58.128

With the fresh juice of kiṃśuka, or through blood from a pīlu flower, / or as a collyrium with lodhra water, one overcomes imminent timira. (128)

58.129

Combined with goat's urine, in an eye long clouded over, / it opens it without difficulty, and it attains clarity. (129)

58.130

Pippalī along with tagara and petals of the blue water-lily, / one should roll into a wick with madhuka and turmeric. / With this he should constantly apply collyrium / who desires an eye like that of Garuḍa. (130)

58.131

Combined with the three pungents, iron powder, rock salt, triphalā, and collyrium, / this pill ground with water, named Kokilā, removes timira. (131)

58.132

The three pungents, karañja fruits, / the two turmerics, together with rock salt, / and root of the bilva tree and of varuṇa; / cuttlefish bone they declare as the tenth. (132)

58.133

It destroys darkness, timira, and paṭala, / and picciṭa, śukra, and arjuna. / This collyrium pleases the people, / and vision does not fail for a hundred years. (133)

58.134

Blue water lily, viḍaṅga, pippalī, red sandalwood, / antimony, and rock salt immediately destroy timira. (134)

58.135

Patra, red ochre, camphor, yaṣṭīmadhu, and blue water lily, / combined with nāgakeśara, destroy timira completely. (135)

58.136

Four parts of conch shell, half that of realgar, / half that of realgar of black pepper, and half that of black pepper of pippalī; (136)

58.137

with water it destroys timira; it destroys arbuda with curd whey; / it destroys picciṭa with honey; and with human milk it is excellent. (137)

58.138

Turmeric, neem leaves, pippalī, black pepper, / bhadramusta, viḍaṅga, and dry ginger as the seventh; (138)

58.139

a pill should be made with cow's urine, and applied as an collyrium with goat's urine. / It destroys all fevers, and likewise affliction by spirits. (139)

58.140

With water it destroys timira; likewise with honey, paṭala; / with bhṛṅgarāja, night blindness; with woman's milk, puṣpaka; / with cold [water], discharge, arbuda, and also picciṭa. (140)

58.141

Taking dead earthworms, rubbing them with alaktaka juice, / putting them into a wick of cotton dyed with lac, combined with yaṣṭīmadhu, / and washing them with the best clarified butter—the collyrium soot produced by the heat of a fire-flame / is declared to destroy far- and near-sightedness, night blindness, and all timira. (141)

58.142

A collyrium [applied] with a finger rubbed on the ground brings alleviation to both of them; / it removes timira, kāca, and pterygium, and destroys smoky vision. (142)

58.143

Lead quenched seven times in triphalā, bhṛṅgarāja, ginger, honey, clarified butter, goat's milk, and cow's urine / renders the eye like that of Garuḍa. (143)

58.144

When a piece of lead is heated and quenched seven times each day / in the decoction of triphalā, juice of bhṛṅgarāja, / clarified butter, aconite paste, goat's urine, and pungent honey, / then afterwards one should make a probe from it. (144)

58.145

Used at sunrise, either with a collyrium paste or without, / this probe, when applied, removes eye diseases—painful, itching, inflammatory, and picciṭa diseases, / those arising from the black and white parts [of the eye], and those born in the junctions and eyelids. (145)

58.146

Placing the juice of tamarind leaves in a clean copper vessel, / grinding guñjā root there along with rock salt, and drying it in the sun; / that powder combined with pure antimony is commended as an eye collyrium; / it banishes discharge in kāca, pterygium, arjuna, picciṭa, and timira. (146)

58.147

When pure rock salt is powdered during the conjunction of Citrā and the sixth [lunar day], / by using it as a collyrium for the eye, even timira that has been incurable for a year is cured. (147)

58.148

One should add powdered pippalī and rock salt to a decoction of uśīra; / that boiled down with clarified butter should be cooked again; when thick, honey should be added. (148)

58.149

When it has cooled, this collyrium is beneficial in timira caused by all [three doṣas]. (149)

58.150

A concentrated extract (rasakriyā) of āmalakī, rasāñjana, honey, and clarified butter / destroys eye diseases caused by pitta and vāta, and removes timira and paṭala. (150)

58.151

Fresh ginger and bhṛṅgarāja mixed with oil of yaṣṭīmadhu / should be administered as an errhine; it destroys extensive paṭala. (151)

58.152

In cataract (liṅganāśa) caused by kapha, after piercing properly according to rule / at the natural aperture, one should fill the eye with breast milk. (152)

58.153

Then, when forms are seen, one should slowly withdraw the probe; / having smeared the eye with clarified butter, one should bandage it with a cloth wrap. (153)

58.154

Then, lying flat on one's back in a quiet room, / [suppressing] belching, coughing, sneezing, spitting, and trembling; (154)

58.155

at that time and afterwards, one should not engage in them, like a boat filled with unctuous substance under restraint. / Every three days, one should irrigate [the eye] with decoctions that relieve vāta. (155)

58.156

Out of fear of vāta, after three days, one should lubricate the eye as before; / and having observed restraint for ten nights, remedies clearing the vision are beneficial. (156)

58.157

One should also adopt post-operative treatment and consume light food in moderation. / Redness, sucking pain, tumour, swelling, bubble-like protrusion, squinting, (157)

58.158

adhimantha, and other diseases may arise from improper puncture / or from improper conduct; one should treat them according to their specific nature. (158)

58.159

Now learn from me further formulations for pain or eye disease: / dūrvā, barley, red ochre, and śārivā made into a paste with clarified butter (159)

58.160

should be applied as comfortable poultices for the alleviation of pain and disease; / also with payasyā, leaves of śārivā, mañjiṣṭhā, and madhuka, (160)

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combined with goat's milk, a pleasantly warm poultice is declared wholesome. / Clarified butter processed in four times the amount of milk prepared with vāta-alleviating drugs, (161)

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with an addition of drugs of the kākolyādi group, should be used in all procedures. / If the pain does not subside in this way, one should bleed [the vessels] of one who has been unctuated and fomented; (162)

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then the wise physician should also cauterise the vein, as described. / Henceforth, hear from me two auspicious collyriums for clarifying vision: (163)

58.164

Leaves of meṣaśṛṅga, and of śirīṣa and dhava, / and of mālatī in equal parts, as well as pearl and lapis lazuli; (164)

58.165

ground with goat's milk, one should keep it in a copper vessel for seven days; / shaping it into a wick, the physician should use it as a collyrium. (165)

58.166

Stibnite, coral, cuttlefish bone, realgar, / and black pepper: the physician should make a wick of these as before. (166)

58.167

Rasāñjana, clarified butter, honey, tālīsa, and red ochre, / combined with cow-dung juice, [are beneficial] for vision afflicted by pitta. (167)

58.168

Filaments of red lotus and blue water lily, combined with cow-dung juice: / this should be a pill-collyrium beneficial for day-blindness and night-blindness. (168)

58.169

River-born stibnite, conch shell, trikaṭu, antimony, / realgar, the two turmerics, cow dung, / and sandalwood: this pill is praised as a collyrium / for those who cannot see in the night or daytime. (169)

58.170

Pippalī cooked inside goat's liver and ground with its juice / quickly destroys night blindness; black pepper mixed with honey acts likewise. (170)

58.171

One should cook the liver of an iguana prepared / with pippalī and water; / applied once as a collyrium, / it undoubtedly destroys night blindness. (171)

58.172

Black pepper rubbed with curd is an excellent collyrium for night blindness; / eating a firefly along with betel leaf accomplishes the same purpose. (172)

58.173

Ash of carp fish destroys night blindness when applied as a collyrium; / likewise asafoetida, borax, and earwax, applied individually as a collyrium with honey. (173)

58.174

Fish roe cooked with keśarāja, when eaten, / inevitably destroys night-blindness in seven days for men who follow a wholesome regimen.

58.175

Clarified butter boiled with milk, a decoction of triphalā, and [triphalā] paste, / when drunk at nightfall, quickly destroys timira.

58.176

One prastha of triphalā juice, one prastha of bhṛṅga juice, / one prastha of vṛṣa juice, and an equal amount of śatāvarī [juice];

58.177

goat's milk, and juice of guḍūcī, and likewise āmalakī, / having taken one prastha of each, one should cook clarified butter with all of these.

58.178

The paste is: kaṇā, sugar, drākṣā, triphalā, blue water-lily, / madhuka, kṣīrakākolī, madhuparṇī, and nidigdhikā.

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Knowing that it is well prepared, one should store it in a clean vessel. / It is praised for drinking before meals, after meals, and between meals.

58.180

Just by drinking it, it removes all eye diseases, however many there are: / in conditions with blood, when blood is vitiated, and even when blood has flowed excessively;

58.181

in night-blindness, timira, kāca, nīlikā, paṭala, tumors, / conjunctivitis, severe glaucoma, and very severe inflammation of the eyelids;

58.182

in all eye diseases caused by vāta, pitta, and kapha; / for sightlessness and dim vision vitiated by kapha and vāta;

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for eyes discharging due to vāta and pitta, with itching, or [impaired] near and far vision. / It immediately bestows the sight of a vulture, increases strength, complexion, and digestive fire, / and destroys all eye diseases: this is Mahātriphalā Ghṛta.

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit