[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) › 78 # Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 78 English (machine translation) 78 - **Language:** English ### [78.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.1) A healthy person should rise at the brāhma muhūrta for the sake of preserving life; / having attended to the calls of the body, having then performed the rules of cleanliness, ### [78.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.2) in the morning, and having eaten, he should chew a tooth-cleaning stick with a soft tip, / astringent, pungent, or bitter, without harming the gums. ### [78.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.3) One afflicted by indigestion, vomiting, dyspnoea, cough, fever, / thirst, stomatitis, or diseases of the heart, eyes, head, or ears must not chew it. / One should daily apply Sauvīra collyrium, which is beneficial to the eyes; ### [78.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.4) and every seventh or eighth night, rasāñjana for the purpose of secretion. / Then he should partake of nasal drops, mouth-gargles, medicated smoking, and betel leaves. ### [78.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.5) Betel leaf is unwholesome for those suffering from wounds, bleeding disorders, dryness, or irritated eyes, / as well as for those afflicted by poison, fainting, intoxication, and consumption. ### [78.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.6) One should practise oil massage daily; it dispels old age, fatigue, and vāta. / One should apply it especially to the head, ears, and feet. ### [78.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.7) External oil massage \[should be avoided\] by those overwhelmed by kapha, those who have undergone purification, and those with indigestion. / That bodily movement which is undertaken to produce stability and increase strength, ### [78.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.8) known as bodily exercise, one should practise in proper measure. / One suffering from vāta or pitta diseases, a child, an old person, and one with indigestion should avoid it. ### [78.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.9) In the same way, body-powder massage should be performed; after that, one should take a bath. / Pouring warm water over the lower body brings strength; ### [78.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.10) applied with that same \[warm water\] over the head, however, \[it diminishes\] the strength of the hair and eyes. / Bathing is condemned in those suffering from facial paralysis, diseases of the eyes, mouth, and ears, diarrhoea, ### [78.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.11) abdominal distension, chronic rhinitis, indigestion, and immediately after meals. / Having trimmed hair, nails, and beard, with clean feet and orifices of bodily wastes, ### [78.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.12) habituated to bathing, fragrant, well-dressed, in spotless garments, / one should constantly wear gems, consecrated mantras, and potent medicinal herbs. ### [78.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.13) Bearing an umbrella and footwear, one should walk looking forward a yoke's length. / At night, and on an urgent matter, \[one should go\] holding a staff, silent, and accompanied. ### [78.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.14) When \[previous food\] is digested, one should eat wholesome food in moderation; one should not suppress urges by force. / One urged by natural impulses should not engage in other actions, nor without overcoming a curable disease. ### [78.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.15) One should abandon the tenfold sinful acts in body, speech, and mind. / One should speak at the proper time, wholesomely, moderately, non-contradictorily, and gently. ### [78.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.16) One should constantly look upon even insects and ants as oneself. / One should not do to others what is disagreeable to oneself. ### [78.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.17) “How are my nights and days passing at present?” / One whose mindfulness is thus constantly attentive does not partake of sorrow. ### [78.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.18) The six seasons are taught to occur in succession, two months each, beginning with Māgha. / In the strong person, because of the confinement \[of heat\] by the cold, the digestive fire is powerful in winter. ### [78.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.19) Therefore, in the cold, one should enjoy unctuous, sweet, sour, and salty tastes; / preparations made from wheat, flour, meat, sugarcane, and milk; and spirituous liquor; ### [78.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.20) new grain, animal fat, oil, pleasant warm water for cleansing purposes, / the rays of the sun applied with discretion, sudation, and footwear at all times. ### [78.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.21) Covered with lightweight blankets of naturally warm properties, / one should resort to a bed spread with cloaks, animal hides, silks, woven covers, and rugs, ### [78.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.22) embracing a beloved woman whose thighs, breasts, and hips are plump, and who is anointed with aloe wood, / inside an inner subterranean chamber warmed by the heat of charcoal embers. ### [78.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.23) This very regimen should be followed especially in late winter as well. / For at that time there is cold, mādhvīka wine \[is suitable\], and dryness arises from the season of eating. ### [78.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.24) Kapha accumulated in late winter, liquefied by the rays of the sun in spring, / impairs the digestive fire and produces diseases; therefore, at that time one should apply: ### [78.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.25) sharp emesis, errhines, and the like, gargles, collyrium, / exercise, body-powder massage, medicinal smoking, and pleasant warm water for cleansing. ### [78.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.26) Bathed and anointed with camphor, sandalwood, aloe wood, and saffron; / eating old barley, wheat, honey, wild game, and roasted meat; / one should drink āsava, ariṣṭa, sīdhu, mādhvīka, and mādhavī wines. ### [78.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.27) In spring, one should enjoy the youth of women and forests. / One should avoid heavy, hot, unctuous, and sweet things, and sleeping by day. ### [78.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.28) In summer, the sun drinks up the unctuous moisture of the world with its rays. / Sweet, cold, liquid, and unctuous food and drink are wholesome then. ### [78.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.29) Resorting to a cold churned drink with sugar, wild animals and birds, / clarified butter, milk, and rice dishes, one does not decline in summer. ### [78.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.30) Liquor should be drunk in small amounts, or not at all, or else mixed with very abundant water. / At midday, with one's body moist with sandalwood, one should sleep in a shower-chamber; at night, ### [78.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.31) on a breezy terrace strewn with the rays of the moon, / with desire subdued, attended by fans and touch of hands cooled with sandalwood, ### [78.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.32) adorned with pearls and jewels, one should sit comfortably in this \[season\]. / One should avoid salty, sour, pungent, and hot things, and exercise in this period. ### [78.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.33) Due to the vapor of the earth, the falling of rain from clouds, and the sour transformation of water, / when the strength of the digestive fire has weakened in the rains, wind and the other \[doṣas\] become aggravated. ### [78.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.34) One should take recourse to everything that is moderate and stimulates bodily heat; / non-unctuous enemas when the body is purified, aged grain, and prepared meat-soups; ### [78.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.35) wild meat, vegetable broths, old honey-wine and fermented liquors, / rainwater, well water, or boiled water; but meals on excessively gloomy days ### [78.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.36) should have distinct sour, salty, and unctuous tastes, be dry, mixed with honey, and light. / One should avoid river water, churned drinks mixed with water, daytime sleeping, exertion, and sunshine. ### [78.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.37) In those whose bodies are accustomed to the cold of the rains, when suddenly heated / by the rays of the sun, the accumulated pitta usually becomes aggravated in autumn. ### [78.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.38) To conquer it, bitter clarified butter, purgation, and blood-letting \[are indicated\]; / and when hungry, one should take light food that is bitter, sweet, and astringent. ### [78.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.39) Sugarcane, śāli rice, mung beans, lake water, boiled milk, / and moonbeams at dusk are wholesome in autumn, ### [78.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.40) as well as autumnal garlands and spotless garments. / Frost, alkalis, overeating, curd, sesame oil, meat gravy, sunshine, ### [78.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.41) strong liquor, sleeping by day, easterly winds, and heat from the sun should be avoided. / In the cold and in the rainy season, one should resort to the first three tastes; in spring, to the last \[three tastes\]; ### [78.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.42) sweet tastes in summer; sweet, bitter, and astringent ones in autumn. / Food and drink should be dry in autumn and spring, cold in the summer and at the end of the rains \[i.e. autumn\]; ### [78.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.43) in short, contrary to this otherwise. / Constant practice of all tastes \[is recommended\], with predominance of the respective tastes season by season. ### [78.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.44) The final and initial seven days of a season are known as the seasonal transition. / There, the previous regimen should be abandoned, and the subsequent routine should be adopted. ### [78.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.45) Thus is taught seasonal adaptation, which rests upon conduct and diet. / That which agrees by virtue of habit is called habitual suitability. ### [78.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.46) Those who understand suitability desire that the qualities \[of diet and conduct\] be opposite in properties / to those of the region and the diseases, both in conduct and in food. ### [78.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.47) And one should constantly employ that by which health is maintained / and which prevents the arising of unmanifest diseases. ### [78.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.48) Just as the administrator of a city \[is attentive\] to the city, or a charioteer to his chariot, / so should the wise person be attentive to the duties concerning his own body. ### [78.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.49) The son of Nārāyaṇa, the minister in charge of the royal kitchen of the lord of Gauḍa, / well-versed in policy, born from the inner circle \[of royal physicians\], / born of the renowned Lodhravalī lineage following Bhānu, / the venerable Cakradatta is the qualified author here. (1) ### [78.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.50) Whoever inserts here additional proven formulations beyond those written in the Siddhayoga, / or merely extracts \[from them\], / may a curse fall immediately upon his head, / pronounced by those who know the Three Bhaṭṭas, the three paths, and the Vedas! (2) ### [78.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78.51) In the year 1948 \[of the Vikrama era\] marked by vasu (8), Veda (4), aṅka (9), and bhūmi (1), in the month of Kārtika, / this vernacular commentary was properly composed by the wise physician Ravidatta. (1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.78.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.78) · Pramāṇa