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/ or irrigation with the juice of leaves born of śigru along with honey and rock salt. // 5 ### [58.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.11) An external application around the eyes is called biḍālaka by eye-specialists. // 11 ### [58.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.31) Powder of kaśeru and madhuka, mixed with water, / placed in rainwater, is a beneficial eye-drop. // 31 ### [58.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.35) and applying leeches all around the eyes, / is also the established procedure that pacifies conjunctivitis born of pitta. // 35 ### [58.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.45) and it destroys pīlu, ulcerated śukra, redness, and the like; / clarified butter cooked with these also removes those diseases. // 45 ### [58.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.51) By drinking \[this decoction\], one overcomes abhiṣyanda, discharge, redness, and timira. (51) ### [58.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.62) Abhiṣyanda, adhīmantha arising from blood, or arjuna, / śirotpāta, śirāharṣa, and other diseases arising in the eyes— (62) ### [58.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.67) To appease vraṇaśukra, one should drink ṣaḍaṅga guggulu. / The seed of kataka, conch shell, tinduka, and silver, (67) ### [58.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.78) Rock salt, triphalā, long pepper, kaṭukā, and conch-navel, / along with copper dust, ground into a wick, destroys śukra. (78) ### [58.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.85) Pulp of triphalā, maṅgalyā, madhuka, and red sandalwood: / an eye-filling mixed with honey conquers kṣataśukra, ajakā, and lacrimation. (85) ### [58.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.86) Having prepared filtered alkali from palmyra palm, coconut, as well as aruṣkara, / karīra, and bamboos, (86) ### [58.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.89) Paṭola, kaṭukā, dāruharidrā, nimba, vāsā, triphalā, / durālabhā, parpaṭaka, and trāyantī, one pala each, (89) ### [58.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.101) A paste, decoction, or powder of triphalā consumed / with honey or clarified butter brings an end to all timira. (101) ### [58.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.107) timira, paṭala, kāca, arma, and likewise śukra; / it destroys itching, discharge, tumours, and dirt quickly—\[this is\] Sukhāvatī. (107) ### [58.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.108) Harītakī, vacā, kuṣṭha, pippalī, and black pepper, / marrow of bibhītaka, spiral of a conch shell, and realgar: (108) ### [58.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.111) This wick named Candrodayā clears the vision of men. (111) ### [58.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.112) Harītakī, turmeric, pippalī, and the salts: / this wick which overcomes itching and timira is never thwarted anywhere. (112) ### [58.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.117) ground with water, this wick removes all timira. / The two turmerics, abhayā, māṃsī, kuṣṭha, and pippalī, finely powdered: (117) ### [58.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.119) tumours, paṭala, kāca, timira, arma, and discharge of tears. / The three pungents, triphalā, tagara, rock salt, orpiment, and realgar: (119) ### [58.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.121) this wick brings comfort to the eyes / and removes arma, timira, paṭala, kāca, and lacrimation. (121) ### [58.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.122) Collyrium, white pepper, pippalī, madhuyaṣṭikā, / kernel of bibhītaka, spiral of a conch shell, and realgar: (122) ### [58.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.125) Triphalā, the three pungents, rock salt, yaṣṭī, tuttha, rasāñjana, / prapauṇḍarīka, viḍaṅga, lodhra, and copper—these fourteen (125) ### [58.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.126) substances, having powdered them, a wick should be made with rainwater. / Inscribed by Nāgārjuna upon a pillar at Pāṭaliputra, (126) ### [58.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.127) it destroys timiras and likewise paṭalas. / Used with woman's breast milk, it certainly overcomes acute irritation immediately. (127) ### [58.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.134) Blue water lily, viḍaṅga, pippalī, red sandalwood, / antimony, and rock salt immediately destroy timira. (134) ### [58.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.135) Patra, red ochre, camphor, yaṣṭīmadhu, and blue water lily, / combined with nāgakeśara, destroy timira completely. (135) ### [58.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.138) Turmeric, neem leaves, pippalī, black pepper, / bhadramusta, viḍaṅga, and dry ginger as the seventh; (138) ### [58.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.149) When it has cooled, this collyrium is beneficial in timira caused by all \[three doṣas\]. (149) ### [58.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.151) Fresh ginger and bhṛṅgarāja mixed with oil of yaṣṭīmadhu / should be administered as an errhine; it destroys extensive paṭala. (151) ### [58.152](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.154) Then, lying flat on one's back in a quiet room, / \[suppressing\] belching, coughing, sneezing, spitting, and trembling; (154) ### [58.155](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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) ### [58.161](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.161) 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) ### [58.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.162) 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) ### [58.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.163) then the wise physician should also cauterise the vein, as described. / Henceforth, hear from me two auspicious collyriums for clarifying vision: (163) ### [58.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.166) Stibnite, coral, cuttlefish bone, realgar, / and black pepper: the physician should make a wick of these as before. (166) ### [58.167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.175) Clarified butter boiled with milk, a decoction of triphalā, and \[triphalā\] paste, / when drunk at nightfall, quickly destroys timira. ### [58.176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.178) The paste is: kaṇā, sugar, drākṣā, triphalā, blue water-lily, / madhuka, kṣīrakākolī, madhuparṇī, and nidigdhikā. ### [58.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.179) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.181) in night-blindness, timira, kāca, nīlikā, paṭala, tumors, / conjunctivitis, severe glaucoma, and very severe inflammation of the eyelids; ### [58.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.182) in all eye diseases caused by vāta, pitta, and kapha; / for sightlessness and dim vision vitiated by kapha and vāta; ### [58.183](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.183) 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. ### [58.184](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.184) Triphalā, the three pungents, drākṣā, madhuka, kaṭurohiṇī, / prapauṇḍarīka, small cardamom, viḍaṅga, nāgakeśara, ### [58.185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.185) blue water-lily, the two kinds of śārivā, sandalwood, the two kinds of turmeric— / with one karṣa of each of these, an equal amount of milk, and three times as much triphalā juice, ### [58.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.186) one should cook one prastha of clarified butter. This removes all eye pains, / timira, doṣas, discharge, jaundice, kāca, tumors, ### [58.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.187) erysipelas, menorrhagia, itching, blood, and oedema, / alopecia, greying of hair, and hair falling out, ### [58.188](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.188) intermittent fever, disorders of the vital spots, and it quickly eliminates corneal opacity; / and whatever other numerous diseases arise in the eye or arise in the eyelids, / it quickly destroys them all, just as the sun destroys darkness. ### [58.189](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.189) And nothing superior to this has been seen by the sages headed by Kāśyapa / for clarifying vision, as is Traiphala Ghṛta. ### [58.190](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.190) Clarified butter prepared with a decoction of the three fruits and abhiru, / combined with a paste of yaṣṭīmadhuka, / along with an equal quantity \[of clarified butter\] and a fourth part of honey, / destroys advanced timira caused by the three doṣas. ### [58.191](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.191) With one prastha of juice of bhṛṅgarāja and one pala of yaṣṭīmadhu, / one kuḍava of oil cooked immediately clarifies vision. / Through nasal administration, this destroys wrinkles and premature greying in a month, without a doubt. ### [58.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.192) Oil boiled with a decoction of cow dung is excellent / and beneficial through nasal administration in timiras; / pure clarified butter is beneficial in pitta-born \[timira\], / and likewise aṇutaila in those arising from vāta and blood. ### [58.193](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.193) Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, medā, / drākṣā, aṃśumatī, nidigdhikā, bṛhatī, / madhuka, balā, viḍaṅga, / mañjiṣṭhā, sugar, and rāsnā, ### [58.194](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.194) blue water-lily, śvadaṃṣṭrā, prapauṇḍarīka, punarnavā, rock salt, / and long peppers, with parts measuring one akṣa of each, crushed: ### [58.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.195) oil, or clarified butter, cooked after adding four times as much milk, / \[destroys\] timira, paṭala, kāca, night-blindness, tumor, and blindness, ### [58.196](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.196) and white cataract, and supremely destroys nīlikā and melasma, / foul odor of the mouth and nose, untimely greying of hair, lockjaw, ### [58.197](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.197) cough, dyspnoea, wasting, hiccups, rigidity, and disorders of the eye, / dryness of the mouth, hemicrania, disease \[thereof\], stiffness of the arm, and stiff neck; / and it quickly destroys all diseases of the parts above the clavicles. ### [58.198](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.198) For nasal administration, one kuḍava of oil should be cooked in the preparation called Nṛpavallabha / with pastes of one akṣa each, or by śāṇa portions, according to others, like Bhṛṅgādyataila. ### [58.199](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.199) One should cook a kuḍava of oil with one pala of madhuka ground to a paste, / having combined it with one prastha of juice of āmalaka and one prastha of milk. ### [58.200](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.58.200) This oil named Abhijit, taught by the sage, destroys timira; / it makes the vision clear, and it would quickly bring back even sight that is lost. _First 200 of 243 passages. 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