Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 74

English (machine translation) 74

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74.1

Habitual, unctuous, and purgative, / cough-alleviating, and emetic: medicinal smoke is considered to be of five kinds. // 1

74.2

Straight, with three bulges, sized at the tip to a jujube stone, / made of the same materials as an enema nozzle: such a smoking pipe is commended. // 2

In the case of the habitual and [the unctuous], the pipe is one cubit and a half and one cubit and a third [respectively]; / in the cough-alleviating, it is two-thirds [of a cubit]; in the remaining [two], it is ten finger-breadths. // 3

74.4

Having made a wick out of medicinal herbs around a core of reed, dried it, / removed the core, and ignited it with fire, a person should inhale the smoke. // 4

74.5

One should emit the smoke only by the mouth, inhaling it either through the nose or by the mouth. / When the doṣa is situated in the chest and throat, one should inhale the smoke through the mouth; // 5

74.6

when the doṣa is lodged in the head, nose, and eyes, one should inhale through the nose. / In the habitual [kind], the wick is held to be made of aromatics without kuṣṭha and tagara; // 6

74.7

in the unctuous, of beeswax, unctuous substances, guggulu, and sarja resin; / in the purgative, the wick is held to be made of head-purging substances; // 7

74.8

the cough-alleviating is made of cough-alleviating herbs, and the emetic of emetic herbs. / It should not be used in those afflicted with pitta and blood, the purged, those with abdominal disease, urinary disorders, // 8

74.9

cataract, upward vāta, tympanites, diphtheria, those who have received an enema, / those who have eaten fish, wine, curd, milk, honey, unctuous substances, or poison; // 9

74.10

in one injured in the head, in anaemia, or in one who has kept awake at night. / Inhaled at the wrong time or excessively, it produces bleeding disorders, blindness, deafness, thirst, fainting, intoxication, and delusion. // 10

74.11

In that case, a cooling regimen is beneficial. / Thus this procedure of medicinal smoking has been set forth in brief. // 11

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit