[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) › 70 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 70 English (machine translation) 70 - **Language:** English ### [70.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.1) Purgation should be given to one who has been unctuated, fomented, and vomited; / for if administered otherwise, it is held to cause malabsorption syndrome. .. 1 .. ### [70.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.2) The alimentary tract is soft due to pitta; it is hard due to resort to vāta and kapha; / and moderate due to equality of the doṣas; therefore the dose should be applied accordingly. .. 2 .. ### [70.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.3) Combined with sugar and honey, dusted with trivṛt powder, / containing one part each of cinnamon bark, cinnamon leaf, and black pepper, / is a purgative for delicate persons. One should drink trivṛt powder combined with white sugar as an excellent purgation. (3) ### [70.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.4) Having split sugarcane in two, smeared it with pastes / produced from triphalā, wrapped and bound it, / and cooked it thoroughly using the method of puṭapāka, / one suffering from a pitta disease should eat it when well cooled. (4) ### [70.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.5) One should have the patient lick long pepper, dry ginger, and alkali together with black trivṛt, / mixed with honey, as a purgative in kapha disorders. (5) ### [70.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.6) Harītakī, viḍaṅga, rock salt, dry ginger, trivṛt, / and black pepper: all this taken with cow's urine is a purgation. (6) ### [70.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.7) Triphalā equal to three śāṇas of trivṛt, and equal to that / are alkali, long pepper, and viḍaṅga. That powder, with honey and clarified butter, (7) ### [70.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.8) one should lick, or having made pills with jaggery, one should administer it. / It destroys abdominal lumps caused by kapha and vāta, splenomegaly, fistula-in-ano, (8) ### [70.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.9) and other diseases as well; this is a harmless purgation. / Harītakī, long pepper root, black pepper, and dry ginger, (9) ### [70.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.10) cinnamon bark, cinnamon leaf, long pepper, mustā, viḍaṅga, and āmalakī: / one karṣa of each of these, and three karṣas of dantī; (10) ### [70.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.11) there should be six karṣas of white sugar, and two palas of trivṛt. / Having made all into a fine powder and formed a sweet bolus with honey, (11) ### [70.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.12) one should eat one every day and drink cold water after it. / A person purges as long as he does not take anything warm. (12) ### [70.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.13) Anaemia, poison, cough, pain in the shanks and flanks, / backache, dysuria, haemorrhoids along with fistula-in-ano, (13) ### [70.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.14) calculus, urinary disorders, skin diseases, burning sensation, oedema, abdominal diseases, / phthisis, and eye diseases: administered by a physician knowing the proper regimen, / this sweet bolus beginning with abhayā indeed quickly destroys \[them\]. (14) ### [70.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.15) Castor oil taken with a double quantity of triphalā decoction / or with milk purges without delay. (15) ### [70.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.16) Clearing of the channels, serenity of the senses, / lightness, energy, digestive fire, freedom from disease, / and the proper successive passage of faeces, pitta, kapha, and vāta / will occur in one who has been properly purged. (16) ### [70.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.17) There will be aggravation of kapha, pitta, and vāta, / weakness, also depression of the digestive fire, heaviness, coryza, / drowsiness, vomiting, anorexia, / and no downward movement of vāta in one improperly purged. (17) ### [70.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.18) Originating from vāta produced by the depletion of kapha, blood, and pitta: / numbness, body-aches, exhaustion, tremors, and the like, / loss of sleep, loss of strength, entering into darkness \[fainting\], / along with insanity and hiccough, occur in one excessively purged. (18) ### [70.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.19) One should not give thick gruel on that day to one who has dull digestive fire, is unweakened, and has not purged well. / On the other hand, in the contrary case, in the evening of that day / the regimen of thin gruel is prescribed, as in the case of one who has vomited. (19) ### [70.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.20) Just as a tiny fire, being kindled gradually / with grass, cow dung, and the like, becomes / great, steady, and capable of consuming everything, so indeed does / the internal digestive fire of a cleansed person by means of thin gruel and the rest. (20) ### [70.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.21) Purgation is to be brought about with astringent and sweet substances in pitta, with pungent ones in kapha, / and with unctuous, warm, and salty ones in vāta; and if it has not started, one should make \[the patient\] drink \[them\]. (21) ### [70.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.22) And one should foment his abdomen with warm water and with the heat of the hands. / When there has been little evacuation, having eaten on that day, he should drink again on the next day. (22) ### [70.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.23) One whose alimentary tract has not been firmly oleated should drink the purgative after ten days, / his body being prepared once again by oleation and sudation. (23) ### [70.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.24) Having thoroughly considered what is suitable, remembering the previous procedure: / a man who is weak, previously cleansed, having few doṣas, or emaciated, / or whose alimentary tract is unknown, should drink a mild and small dose of medicine. (24) ### [70.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.25) In those who are un-unctuous, have much vāta, have a hard alimentary tract, practise exercise, / and have blazing digestive fire, medicine is digested without purging at all. (25) ### [70.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.26) To them one should first give an enema, and then an unctuous purgative. / An unctuous purgative is prescribed for an un-unctuous person, and a dry one for one who is excessively unctuous. (26) ### [70.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.27) Having dried out someone accustomed to oleation, one should purge him again when he is unctuous. / One should employ padmaka, uśīra, nāgapuṣpa, and sandalwood (27) ### [70.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.28) in excessive purging, by means of drinks, pastes, and sprinklings. / A paste of mango bark ground with sauvīraka stops diarrhoea. (28) ### [70.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.29) Those who should not be purged are: children, the elderly, the exhausted, the frightened, those with fresh fever, / those with weak digestive fire, downward haemorrhagic disease, an injured anus, or diarrhoea; (29) ### [70.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70.30) those with foreign bodies, those with established hard alimentary tracts, the excessively unctuous, the phthisical, / a pregnant woman, a newly delivered woman, one tormented by thirst, and also one with indigestion. (30) ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.70.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.70) · Pramāṇa