[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) › 61 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 61 English (machine translation) 61 - **Language:** English ### [61.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.1) In gynecological disorders, treatment conquering vāta is predominantly recommended: / enemas, inunctions, affusions, plasters, and holding a tampon. // 1 ### [61.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.2) Vacā, upakuñcikā, jātī, kṛṣṇā, vṛṣaka, saindhava salt, / ajamodā, yavakṣāra, and citraka, accompanied by sugar: // 2 ### [61.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.3) having ground these and stirred them into clear wine, one should eat it fried in clarified butter / for the cure of vaginal pain, flank pain, heart disease, abdominal lump, and haemorrhoids. // 3 ### [61.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.4) And affusion with decoctions of guḍūcī, triphalā, and dantī, / \[or\] with nata, vārtākinī, kuṣṭha, saindhava salt, and devadāru. // 4 ### [61.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.5) A tampon prepared with this oil should be retained in the vagina; it removes pain. / For \[disorders of\] the vagina due to pitta, irrigation, massage, and tampon treatments \[should be performed\] ### [61.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.6) that are cooling and pitta-pacifying, and clarified butters \[should be used\] for oleation. / When the vagina is corrupted by kapha, all medicine should be dry and hot. ### [61.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.7) With pippalī, black pepper, māṣa, dill, kuṣṭha, and rock salt, / a suppository the size of the forefinger should be prepared and retained \[in the vagina\] to cleanse the vagina. ### [61.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.8) A woman suffering from vāta should apply lukewarm paste of hiṃsrā and retain it; / one suffering from pitta, \[a paste\] of the five barks; and one with predominance of kapha, \[a paste\] of śyāmā and the others. ### [61.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.9) Oil processed with mouse flesh and infused in the sun, / when applied by massage, destroys vaginal haemorrhoids; fomentation with its flesh and rock salt \[is also beneficial\]. ### [61.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.10) Linen cloth infused twenty-one times in cow bile or fish bile, / or yeast powder with honey, should be applied; it removes acarāṇā. ### [61.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.11) That cleanses the channels and removes oedema, itching, and discharge. / For a passionate woman and in the case of a foul-smelling vagina, a fomentation procedure should be performed. ### [61.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.12) The proper sequence of treatment should then be carried out, followed by satiation with tampons soaked in unctuous substances. / With bark of śallakī, jiṅginī, jambu, dhava, and the five barks, ### [61.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.13) an unctuous substance prepared with these decoctions, applied as a tampon, overcomes viplutā. / In karṇinī, a suppository made with kuṣṭha, pippalī, shoot-tips of arka, and rock salt, ### [61.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.14) kneaded with goat's urine, should be retained, and all treatments that pacify kapha are beneficial. / Traivṛta \[ghṛta\], oleation, and fomentation \[are prescribed\] in conditions of udāvarta and afflictions of vāta; / and the very same \[treatment\] is prescribed in mahāyonī and when \[the vagina\] is prolapsed. ### [61.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.15) When rat flesh, freshly cut into many small pieces, / is boiled in oil until it is completely dissolved, / a woman constantly wearing a cloth soaked in that oil over the vaginal region / destroys the condition causing shame; regarding this, there is no doubt. ### [61.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.16) By an ointment of śatapuṣpā oil, and likewise from jujube leaves, / and by an ointment of peṭikā root, a fissured vagina is healed. ### [61.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.17) By an ointment of suṣavī root, a vagina that has retracted inward emerges outward; / and by massage with rat soup, a prolapsed vagina retracts inside. ### [61.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.18) An ointment of lodhra and bottle gourd fruit produces firmness of the vagina; / and likewise washing with a decoction of cane root \[does the same\]. ### [61.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.19) Anointing with the fat of a mouse and a bat produces firmness of the vagina. / Vacā, blue lotus, kuṣṭha, and likewise black pepper, ### [61.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.20) aśvagandhā, and turmeric constitute an excellent tightener \[of the vagina\]. ### [61.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.21) Filled with madanaphala, madhuka, and camphor, the female organ / of a woman whose youth has faded becomes exceedingly tight and delicate. ### [61.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.22) Clarified butter prepared with the five sprouts, yaṣṭīmadhu, and mālatī flowers, / either cooked in the sun or otherwise, destroys foul vaginal odour. ### [61.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.23) With seeds of bitter gourd, dantī, capalā, jaggery, madana, yeast, and yaṣṭīmadhu, / along with latex of snuk, a suppository inserted into the vagina induces the menstrual flow. ### [61.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.24) Having consumed fried leaves of jyotiṣmatī along with hibiscus flowers in sour gruel, / and ground dūrvā grass, a woman obtains her menstrual flow. ### [61.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.25) Powder of āmalakī, añjana, and harītakī drunk with water stops the menstrual flow; / eating them ground and mixed with leaves of śelu accomplishes the same purpose. ### [61.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.26) The root of lakṣmaṇā, collected during its flowering \[season\], ground by a virgin / \[or\] of cakrāṅgā, drunk with milk and clarified butter during the fertile period, grants a son. ### [61.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.27) Milk boiled with a decoction of hayagandhā and mixed with clarified butter, / drunk by a young woman after her post-menstrual bath, enables her to conceive without doubt. ### [61.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.28) Pippalī, ginger, black pepper, and saffron / should be drunk with clarified butter; even a barren woman obtains a son. ### [61.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.29) When powder of gold, silver, / and copper, mixed with clarified butter, / is drunk when the field is cleansed, / conception occurs by the efficacy of the medicine. ### [61.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.30) Having bathed at the end of the menstrual period, / fasted on the following day, then in the morning / having bathed, and with devotion having worshipped the brāhmaṇa / and likewise the Lord of the world, ### [61.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.31) one karṣa each of white balā root and yaṣṭīmadhu, with one pala of sugar, / ground with milk of a cow of a single colour / whose calf is alive, ### [61.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.32) drunk with an abundant quantity of clarified butter; on that day no other food is to be given. / When hungry, she should be given food with milk until the arrival of the man. ### [61.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.33) On an even day, under an auspicious astrological conjunction, / lying on her right side, composed, / upon copulation merely with a man who has abstained from intercourse with other women, / whose mind is joyful, and whose semen is exceedingly increased, / she then invariably obtains a son. ### [61.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.34) Two leaf-buds born from the auspicious eastward branches of a banyan tree growing in a cowshed, / and likewise two white mustard seeds, mixed with curd / and drunk under the Puṣya asterism, cause a son to be born to a woman who has recently conceived. ### [61.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.35) These small figurines of a man made of gold, silver, or iron, / heated to the colour of fire, should be dropped into milk, curd, or water / held in the cupped hands and drunk under Puṣya; they produce maleness in the foetus. ### [61.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.36) Mañjiṣṭhā, madhuka, kuṣṭha, triphalā, sugar, balā, / medā, payasyā, kākolī, and the root of aśvagandhā, ### [61.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.37) ajamodā, the two turmerics, hiṅgu, kaṭurohiṇī, / blue lotus, white water-lily, grapes, the two kākolīs, and the two sanders; ### [61.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.38) with portions of one karṣa of each of these, one prastha of clarified butter should be cooked; / juice of śatāvarī and milk should be added at four times the amount of the clarified butter. ### [61.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.39) Having drunk this clarified butter, a man constantly acts like a bull among women; / a woman gives birth to sons endowed with intelligence and handsome appearance. ### [61.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.40) And she whose pregnancy is prolonged, or who gives birth to a dead child, / or who gives birth to a short-lived child, or who bears \[only\] daughters, ### [61.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.41) \[for her\] it is commended in vaginal disorders, disorders of the menstrual blood, and in prolapse / discharges. It increases progeny, promotes longevity, and removes all seizing spirits. ### [61.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.42) This is celebrated by the name Phalaghṛta by the Aśvins. / Physicians also add the unmentioned root of lakṣmaṇā to it. ### [61.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.43) Clarified butter from a cow of a single colour whose calf is alive is commended here; / the flame of the fire is to be provided using wild cow dung. ### [61.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.44) Having turned the two kinds of sahacara, triphalā, guḍūcī, together with punarnavā, / śukanāsā, the two turmerics, rāsnā, medā, and śatāvarī ### [61.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.45) into a paste, one prastha of clarified butter should be cooked with four times the quantity of milk. / When prepared, a woman afflicted with vaginal pain should drink it. ### [61.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.46) And whatever \[vagina\] is globoid, displaced, prolapsed, dilated, / or known as piṇḍayonī, relaxed, and ṣaṇḍayonī— ### [61.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.47) these indeed return to their place and repeatedly conceive a fetus. / This, named Phala-ghṛta, is the foremost dispeller of vaginal disorders. ### [61.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.48) White mustard seed, vacā, brāhmī, śaṅkhapuṣpī, punarnavā, / payasyā, amayā, yaṣṭyāhva, kaṭukā, elā, the three fruits \[triphalā\], ### [61.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.49) the two śārivās, rajanī, pāṭhā, bhṛṅgarāja, dāru, suvarcalā, / mañjiṣṭhā, triphalā, śyāmā, flowers of vṛṣa, along with red ochre— ### [61.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.50) the wise one, having properly cooked one prastha of clarified butter with these, consecrated with mantras according to measure: / a woman pregnant for two months should use it, but not after the sixth month. ### [61.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.51) She gives birth to a son with all his limbs complete, heroic, and considered learned. / By mere drinking \[of it\], it removes dullness, stuttering, and muteness; ### [61.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.52) by administration for seven nights, a man becomes capable of retaining what he hears. / Fire does not burn that house, lightning does not strike, nor do possessing spirits harm it; ### [61.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.53) no child dies there where he who bears the name of Soma resides. / Even a barren woman obtains a son free from all diseases; / and women whose vaginas are impaired, and men whose semen is impaired— ### [61.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.54) by its power, even \[the child\] remaining in the womb speaks with clear speech. / Grapes, parūṣaka, and kāśmarya are declared to be the three fruits \[here\]. ### [61.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.55) “Oṃ, salutation to the Great Vināyaka! Protect the nectar, grant me success in my fruit, by the command of Rudra, svāhā!” / It is consecrated with seven blades of dūrvā grass. ### [61.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.56) With blue water lily, uśīra, madhūka, yaṣṭī, / grapes, vidārī, the kuśa-pañcamūla, / and the jīvanīya \[herbs\], clarified butter cooked / mixed with the juice of śatāvarī and with milk, ### [61.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.57) endowed with one-fourth part of sugar, is praised / in menorrhagia, in vātarakta, in internal haemorrhage, / when strength is depleted, when semen is lost, / in dysuria, and in abdominal lump arising from blood. ### [61.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.58) One should press four tulās of śatāvarī root. / With that juice, equal to the milk, one should cook an āḍhaka of clarified butter, ### [61.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.59) with the jīvanīya \[herbs\], śatāvarī, dried grapes, parūṣaka, / ground priyāla, each measuring one akṣa, and two parts of yaṣṭīmadhu, the physician \[cooks it\]. ### [61.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.60) When it is prepared and cooled, having added an aṣṭaka palam \[eight palas\] each of honey and long pepper, / and ten palas of white sugar, mixed with it, ### [61.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.61) he should first feed it to Brahmins, and then she should lick the measure of a palm. / It destroys disorders of the vagina, menstrual blood, and semen, is aphrodisiac, and produces a male offspring. ### [61.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.62) It conquers chest wound with consumption, internal haemorrhage, cough, dyspnoea, halīmaka, / jaundice, vātarakta, erysipelas, stiffness of the heart and head, / and insanity, epilepsy, and other conditions of the nature of vāta and pitta. ### [61.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.63) Having incinerated a conch shell, one should throw it into plantain juice; when ground with that / and an equal amount of orpiment, it destroys by application hair arising on the pubes and other parts. ### [61.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.64) Mustard oil mixed with powder of red collyrium and tail \[hair\], / left for seven days, undoubtedly destroys hair from the roots. / Or anointing with safflower oil puts an end to hair after it has been plucked out. ### [61.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.65) One pala of āragvadha root, two karṣas of conch-shell powder / and of yellow orpiment, cooked in a prastha of donkey's urine with mustard oil— ### [61.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.66) this oil, powdered with conch shell and yellow orpiment, / uproots hairs by local application, and no other \[hairs\] appear at all. ### [61.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.67) Camphor, bhallātaka, conch-shell powder, / alkali of barley, and realgar; / oil cooked mixed with yellow orpiment / uproots hairs in an instant. ### [61.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.68) Taking the alkali incinerated from oyster shell, snail, and conch shell, / and from dīrghavṛnta and muṣkaka, one should filter it with donkey's urine. ### [61.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.69) The wise one should cook half part of the alkali with mustard oil. / This oil, praised by Ātreya, should be administered in the royal harem. ### [61.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.70) Where a single drop falls, there hair never grows again. / It should be applied to ulcers from venereal sores, etc., and was formulated by the two Aśvins. ### [61.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61.71) For haemorrhoids, skin diseases, scabies, ringworm, and eczema, / this alkali oil is excellent, the foremost dispeller of all excessive moisture. ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.61.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.61) · Pramāṇa