Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 62

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62.1

Madhuka and seeds of teak with milk, and devadāru; / aśmantaka, black sesame seeds, tāmravallī, śatāvarī;

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vṛkṣādanī and payasyā, and likewise blue water lily and śārivā; / anantā, śārivā, rāsnā, padmā, and madhuka;

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the two bṛhatīs, kāśmarya, shoots and barks of latex-bearing trees, clarified butter; / pṛthakparṇī, balā, śigru, śvadaṃṣṭrā, madhuyaṣṭikā;

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śṛṅgāṭaka, lotus stalk, grapes, kaśeru, madhuka, and sugar: / these are the seven formulations in the seven months, half-verse [for each],

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to be administered in succession with milk in case of miscarriage. / Kapittha, bilva, bṛhatī, paṭola, sugarcane, and nidigdhikā—

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in the eighth month, the physician should give their roots cooked with milk. / In the ninth, one should drink madhuka, anantā, payasyā, and śārivā.

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In the tenth, milk boiled with dried ginger and cooled is recommended; / or dried ginger, madhuka, and devadāru along with milk are beneficial.

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Thus the fetus is nourished and severe pain subsides. / Milk boiled with roots of kuśa, kāśa, castor, and gokṣuraka, / combined with sugar, is the foremost dispeller of colic in a pregnant woman.

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Milk prepared with kaśeru, śṛṅgāṭaka, jīvanīya [herbs], / lotus, blue water lily, castor, and śatāvarī, / mixed with sugar, / preserves the fetus when violent pain has arisen.

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A woman afflicted by miscarriage accompanied by pain should drink / kaśeru, śṛṅgāṭaka, padmaka, blue water lily, / mudgaparṇī, and madhuka, along with sugar, / mixed with milk, eating food with milk.

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When the fetus is emaciated due to vāta, and also for children who are drying up, / milk with sugar, madhuka, and kāśmarya is beneficial for reviving [them].

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In emaciation of the fetus, raw fetuses and birds of prey are always beneficial.

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By separately [applying] roots of pāṭhā, lāṅgalī, siṃhāsya, and apāmārga,

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anointed upon the navel, bladder, and vulva, a woman delivers with ease. / An anointing with roots of parūṣaka and sthirā acts similarly, each separately.

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Likewise, a root of vāsā bound firmly to the hips delivers quickly. / The woman who inserts a root of pāṭhā into her vagina

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at the time of delivery delivers with ease. / She should anoint [the area] with the root ground with water of sour gruel.

The feet are smeared with the root of lāṅgalī crushed with water from washed husks; / by this, the pregnant woman delivers quickly.
An application of root of āṭarūṣaka should be made over the navel, bladder and vulva. // 16

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When a root born of a palmyra tree is held at the loincloth of men,
[or] drinking house-soot with domestic water extracts the foetus. // 17

62.19

The roots of mātuluṅga and madhuka, together with honey,
should be drunk along with clarified butter; the woman delivers easily. // 18

62.20

With eyes anointed with fine collyrium-soot of snake-skin burnt in a closed crucible,
together with honey, / the pregnant woman, even if having an obstructed foetus,
rapidly becomes free of distress. // 19

62.21

Drinking asafoetida and rock salt with domestic water extracts the foetus.
‘Here, O beautiful woman, let nectar, the moon, fire,
and the horse Uccaiḥśravas dwell in your house!’ // 20

62.22

‘This nectar has been drawn up from the waters;
let the woman release this foetus, light in glory and might.
May those [gods] Agni, Vāyu, Sūrya, and Indra,
together with the clouds of the salt sea, grant peace!’ // 21

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‘The snares and fetters are released; the rays have been released by the sun.
The foetus is released from all fear! Come, come, Mārica, svāhā!’ // 22

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Having drunk water consecrated seven times with the Cyavana mantra,
the woman delivers, / and by seeing the “double-thirty” [magic square]. // 23

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Likewise, seeing the “double-fifteen” [magic square] produces an easy delivery.
[Rows arranged with numbers] … together with six, eight, two, ten, and eighteen, // 24

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along with twelve, fourteen, and four, constitutes this wonderful “double-thirty”.
Sequentially with eight, three, four, one, five, nine, six, seven, and two, // 25

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it totals fifteen everywhere, but twice [that] makes thirty in the nine-cell square.
By means of kaṭutumbī, cast snake-skin, kṛtavedhana, and mustard seeds, // 26

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smoke mixed with pungent oil causes the placenta to fall from the vagina.
When the throat is rubbed with a finger wrapped in hair, the placenta drops easily. // 27

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‘A crow has come from the forest of castor plants to the bank of the Gaṅgā;
from here it drinks water: may the pregnant woman be delivered!’ // 28

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Having consecrated water seven times with this [verse], it should be given to deliver [the placenta]. // 29

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Or when the hands and feet are smeared with the root of lāṅgalikī,
it causes the placenta to fall. One should drink powder of the Pippalyādi group with alcoholic drinks. // 30

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The root of garī, madana, and dahana
expels a foetus, dead or living, even if long-retained. // 31

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Or an akṣa measure of śāli root, accompanied by urine or sour gruel,
upakuñcikā and pippalī, and liquor, should be drunk as available, // 32

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combined with sauvarcala salt, relieving vaginal colic.
For the puerperal woman's colic of the heart, head, and bladder, known as makkalla-pain, // 33

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one should drink barley-alkali there with clarified butter or with warm water,
or one should drink a decoction of the Pippalyādi group accompanied by salt. // 34

62.36

Pigeon droppings drunk with the wash-water of śāli rice
arrests the bleeding that arises after a miscarriage. // 35

62.37

Anointing and massage with leaves of varuṇa ground with water and mixed with clarified butter,
after rubbing with cow dung, cure the disease kikkiśa (striae gravidarum). // 36

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A pregnant woman should drink a decoction of hrībera, sour fermented gruel, red sandalwood, balā,
coriander, vatsādanī, / mustā, uśīra, yavāsa, parpaṭa, and ativiṣā.
In diarrhoea accompanied by various doṣas,
in haemorrhage, or in fever, / this recipe, spoken of old by the sages,
is praised in puerperal diseases. // 37

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A decoction of amṛtā, ginger, sahacara,
bhadrotkaṭā, the [minor] pañcamūla, and mustā, / combined with honey, relieves
puerperal illness associated with fever. // 38

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Sahacara, puṣkara, root of vetasa,
vaikaṅkata, and devadāru, equal to kulattha, / [boiled in] water with rock salt and asafoetida added,
immediately relieves terrible puerperal colic. // 39

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A decoction prepared from daśamūla immediately removes puerperal pain.
Pippalī, pippalī-root, cavya, dry ginger, ajamodā, // 40

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the two kinds of jīvaka, the two kinds of turmeric, and viḍa and sauvarcala salts:
with these very medicaments ground to a paste, sour fermented gruel is thoroughly cooked. // 41

62.43

Relieving āmavāta, aphrodisiac, destroying kapha, stimulating the digestive fire,
this sour gruel named Vajraka enhances the digestive fire of women. // 42

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It is excellent for soothing makkalla colic and suppressing excess breastmilk.
The preparation of this sour gruel is also done by the method of cooking medicated milk. // 43

62.45

Cumin, hapuṣā, coriander, dill, and devadāru,
ajamodā, twenty-four [parts] of asafoetida leaves, kāsamarda, // 44

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pippalī, pippalī-root, ajamodā, then bāppikā,
and citraka—one pala each of these, and of the other four palas: // 45

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kaśeruka, dry ginger, kuṣṭha, and caraway.
One should add one hundred [palas] of jaggery and a prastha of clarified butter; // 46

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joined with two prasthas of milk, one should cook it slowly over a gentle fire.
This, known as Pañcajīraka, is praised for puerperal women, // 47

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for women desiring pregnancy, in nourishing [therapy], and when vāta is balanced.
It cures the twenty disorders of the female genital tract, cough, dyspnoea, fever, consumption, // 48

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chlorosis, anaemia, foul odour, and polyuria.
Through its regular use, women become endowed with plump and elevated breasts, eyes long like lotus petals, and free from misfortune and blemish. // 49

62.51

One should drink the root of wild cotton or of sugarcane with sauvīraka vinegar,
or tubers of vidārī with surā liquor, to increase breastmilk. // 50

62.52

Drinking powder of śāli rice grains with milk increases
breastmilk after seven days for one consuming milk—there is no doubt. // 51

62.53

One should drink the Haridrādi group or the Vacādi group for purification of breastmilk.
Among these, when breastmilk is affected by vāta, one should drink water of the daśamūla. // 52

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When it is corrupted by pitta, having decocted amṛtā, abhiru, paṭola, neem, and sandalwood,
together with śārivā, the wet-nurse and the child should drink it. // 53

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Or in [vitiation of] kapha, triphalā, mustā, bhūnimba, and kaṭurohiṇī [should be taken]
by the wet-nurse for the sake of purifying breastmilk, while subsisting on mudga broth and meat juice. // 54

62.56

She should drink bhārgī, vacā, devadāru, pāṭhā, and ativiṣā boiled [in water]. // 55

62.57

The root of kukkurāmañjukā chewed and held in the mouth overcomes
galactostasis within seven days, and definitely produces breastmilk. // 56

62.58

Observing an oedema arising in the breast, the physician should administer
the medicament that is prescribed here for abscess;
when it is raw, burning, and likewise when it has reached suppuration,
her breasts should constantly be expressed. // 57

62.59

An application of the root of viśālā relieves pain arising in the breast;
and an application of turmeric and datura fruit also dispels breast pain. // 58

62.60

By massage and rubbing with rat's fat mixed with powders of the flesh of a hog, elephant, and buffalo, the breasts become hard and plump. // 59

62.61

Butter from a buffalo, [along with] *vyādhi* (kuṣṭha), *balā*, *ugrā* (vacā), and likewise *nāgabalā*, / ground [together], makes the breast plump and firm through the application of rubbing. // 60

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Sesame oil prepared with the juice and paste of *śrīparṇī* / should be held over the breasts with a cotton pad; / the fallen breasts of women become raised up. // 61

62.63

With oil cooked with green vitriol, *turagagandhā* (aśvagandhā), / *śārivā*, and *gajapippalī*, / the breasts, ears, female genital organs, and penis / attain growth. // 62

62.64

During the first menstrual period, [using] rice-water / as an errhine makes the breasts firm. / Oil along with cow's and buffalo's clarified butter, [prepared] with *śyāmā*, *kṛtāñjali*, and *vacā*, // 63

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together with the three pungents and turmeric, / prepared as an errhine, is pre-eminent for raising the breasts. / Root of *mādhavī* drunk with churned curd / makes the waist slender. // 64

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Even a loose vagina becomes tight / from inunction with the cochineal insect (*suragopa*) and clarified butter, / or indeed by being struck by the lover / with a firmly tied, thick string of *śara* grass. // 65

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A woman's innate hatred towards her husband, or one caused by magical practices, is destroyed / by uprooting the root of white *balā* under the Puṣya asterism, after first giving rice boiled with milk to a brāhmaṇa; / given ground by a maiden in food, it removes unwillingness. // 66

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