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An application of root of āṭarūṣaka should be made over the navel, bladder and vulva. // 16 ### [62.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.18) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [62.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.23) ‘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 ### [62.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.24) Having drunk water consecrated seven times with the Cyavana mantra, the woman delivers, / and by seeing the “double-thirty” \[magic square\]. // 23 ### [62.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.25) Likewise, seeing the “double-fifteen” \[magic square\] produces an easy delivery. \[Rows arranged with numbers\] … together with six, eight, two, ten, and eighteen, // 24 ### [62.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.26) along with twelve, fourteen, and four, constitutes this wonderful “double-thirty”. Sequentially with eight, three, four, one, five, nine, six, seven, and two, // 25 ### [62.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.27) 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 ### [62.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.28) 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 ### [62.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.29) ‘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 ### [62.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.30) Having consecrated water seven times with this \[verse\], it should be given to deliver \[the placenta\]. // 29 ### [62.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.31) 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 ### [62.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.32) The root of garī, madana, and dahana expels a foetus, dead or living, even if long-retained. // 31 ### [62.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.33) Or an akṣa measure of śāli root, accompanied by urine or sour gruel, upakuñcikā and pippalī, and liquor, should be drunk as available, // 32 ### [62.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.34) combined with sauvarcala salt, relieving vaginal colic. For the puerperal woman's colic of the heart, head, and bladder, known as makkalla-pain, // 33 ### [62.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.35) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.36) Pigeon droppings drunk with the wash-water of śāli rice arrests the bleeding that arises after a miscarriage. // 35 ### [62.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [62.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.38) 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 ### [62.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.39) A decoction of amṛtā, ginger, sahacara, bhadrotkaṭā, the \[minor\] pañcamūla, and mustā, / combined with honey, relieves puerperal illness associated with fever. // 38 ### [62.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.40) 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 ### [62.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.41) A decoction prepared from daśamūla immediately removes puerperal pain. Pippalī, pippalī-root, cavya, dry ginger, ajamodā, // 40 ### [62.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.42) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.43) Relieving āmavāta, aphrodisiac, destroying kapha, stimulating the digestive fire, this sour gruel named Vajraka enhances the digestive fire of women. // 42 ### [62.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.44) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.45) Cumin, hapuṣā, coriander, dill, and devadāru, ajamodā, twenty-four \[parts\] of asafoetida leaves, kāsamarda, // 44 ### [62.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.46) pippalī, pippalī-root, ajamodā, then bāppikā, and citraka—one pala each of these, and of the other four palas: // 45 ### [62.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.47) kaśeruka, dry ginger, kuṣṭha, and caraway. One should add one hundred \[palas\] of jaggery and a prastha of clarified butter; // 46 ### [62.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.48) 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 ### [62.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.49) 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 ### [62.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.50) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [62.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.54) 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 ### [62.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.55) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.56) She should drink bhārgī, vacā, devadāru, pāṭhā, and ativiṣā boiled \[in water\]. // 55 ### [62.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.57) The root of kukkurāmañjukā chewed and held in the mouth overcomes galactostasis within seven days, and definitely produces breastmilk. // 56 ### [62.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [62.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.62) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.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 ### [62.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.65) 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 ### [62.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.66) 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 ### [62.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62.67) 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 ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.62.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.62) · Pramāṇa