Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 60

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60.1

A woman afflicted by vātika menorrhagia should drink sauvarcala, ajājī, madhuka, / and blue utpala with curd, accompanied by honey. // 1

60.2

She should drink the blood of a blackbuck mixed with sugar and honey; / in the paittika type, [she should drink] the fresh juice of vāsaka, or the juice of guḍūcī. // 2

60.3

In pale menorrhagia, she should drink the paste of the roots of rohītaka with water, / or the paste of āmalakī seeds with sugar and honey. // 3

60.4

Or an akṣa measure of dhātakī or āmalakī liquefacted with honey, / or the root of kākajānuka, or the root of cotton // 4

she should drink with rice-water for the alleviation of leucorrhoea. / Milk boiled with a decoction of aśoka bark, very cold, / she should drink in the morning according to strength; it destroys severe menorrhagia. // 5

60.6

A decoction prepared from dārvī, rasāñjana, vṛṣa, abda, kirāta, bilva, / and bhallātaka, taken with honey, / overcomes very severe menorrhagia accompanied by pain, / whether yellow, black, reddish, bright-red, dark-blue, or white. // 6

60.7

Rasāñjana and the root of taṇḍulīya, / taken with honey along with rice-water, / destroy menorrhagia of all origins, / just as bhārgī with dry ginger destroys dyspnoea. // 7

60.8

Having dug up daśamūla, one should grind it with rice-water; / having drunk this, a woman is completely freed from menorrhagia within three days. // 8

60.9

She should drink the juice of the fruit of the garden udumbara mixed with honey, / consuming boiled rice with milk and sugar, for the destruction of menorrhagia. // 9

60.10

The root of balā, drunk with milk and mixed with honey, destroys menorrhagia; / the root of kuśavāṭyālaka, [drunk] with rice-water, [destroys] that which is called red [discharge]. // 10

60.11

Drinking wine pacifies both of them, namely the red-named and the white-named [discharges]. // 11

60.12

Powder of badarī with jaggery, raw moca-juice with milk, / and lākṣā drunk with clarified butter each individually destroy menorrhagia. // 12

60.13

One should also treat menorrhagias according to the procedure for bleeding disorders. / Specifically in menorrhagia, one should employ the Kuṭajāṣṭaka. // 13

60.14

Pāṭhā, the seeds of jambū and āmra, śilābheda, rasāñjana, / ambaṣṭhakī, mocarasa, samaṅgā, filaments of padma, // 14

60.15

bāhlīka, ativiṣā, musta, bilva, lodhra, along with gairika, / kaṭphala, black pepper, dry ginger, mṛdvīkā, red candana, // 15

60.16

kaṭvaṅga, vatsaka, anantā, dhātakī, madhuka, and arjuna: / having gathered these under the Puṣya asterism in equal parts, one should make a fine powder. // 16

60.17

Having combined them with honey, one should make her drink [it] with rice-water, / in menorrhagia and dysenteries where blood is passed, // 17

60.18

and it destroys those [affections] caused by the doṣas or by external factors in children; / disorders of the vagina and menstrual disorders that are white, dark-blue, or yellowish, // 18

60.19

and that which is greyish-black or reddish in women, it forcefully checks. / This powder, named Puṣyānuga, is beneficial and was honoured by Ātreya. // 19

60.20

Clarified butter prepared in a decoction of mudga and māṣa with rāsnā, citraka, and dry ginger, / along with pippalī and bilva, is excellent in menorrhagia. // 20

60.21

Kumuda, padmaka, uśīra, wheat, red rice, / mudgaparṇī, payasyā, kāśmarī, madhuyaṣṭikā, // 21

60.22

the roots of balā and atibalā, utpala, tālamastaka, / vidārī, śatamūlī, śālaparṇī, along with jīvakā, // 22

60.23

the seeds of triphalā, and fresh plantain fruit: / half-pala portions of these, cow's milk four times [the butter's measure], // 23

60.24

and having taken twice as much water, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter. / In menorrhagia, bleeding disorders, internal uterine tumours, advanced jaundice, // 24

60.25

multiform pitta, jaundice, gout, / anorexia, chronic fever, anaemia, intoxication, and giddiness, // 25

60.26

and for a young woman who has scanty menstruation or who does not achieve pregnancy, / it becomes an increaser of delight day after day for women. / Named Śītakalyāṇaka, it is declared as a supreme rejuvenator. // 26

60.27

A physician should crush and press out a prastha of śatāvarī juice; / combined with a prastha of clarified butter, and doubled milk, // 27

60.28

therein he should add these pastes, measured equal to a large udumbara fruit: / the eight jīvanīya herbs, yaṣṭī, padmaka, candana, // 28

60.29

śvadaṃṣṭrā, ātmaguptā, balā, and likewise nāgabalā, / śālaparṇī, pṛśniparṇī, vidārī, the two kinds of śārivā, // 29

60.30

and an equal amount of sugar should be given, as well as the fruits of kāśmarī. / Recognizing it to be properly cooked, one should remove that clarified butter from the fire. // 30

60.31

In bleeding disorders and in those caused by vāta and pitta, / gout, wasting, dyspnoea, hiccup, and intractable cough, // 31

60.32

burning sensation of the body, burning sensation of the head arising from bleeding disorders, / menorrhagia of all origins, and very severe dysuria: / it pacifies these diseases just as the sun dispels darkness. // 32

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