Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 10: Adhikāra 10

Śāli rice, ṣaṣṭika rice, wheat, barley, mudga beans, and the like are auspicious. / For those who are wasting away, wines and birds and wild animals from arid zones are recommended.

For those wasting away whose flesh has become depleted, one who knows the proper procedure should especially give meats of carnivorous animals prepared appropriately, which are nourishing.

For those with excessive doṣas, emesis along with purgation is recommended; / for those who have undergone oleation and sudation, an oleation that is not depleting [should be given].

When the alimentary tract has been cleansed, one should apply a regimen that is nourishing and appetising; / for the strength of men depends on semen, and their life depends on feces.

Therefore, one should carefully preserve the feces and semen of a patient with consumption (yakṣman). / With pippalī, barley, kulattha, and dry ginger,

along with pomegranate and āmalaka, one should drink prepared goat-meat soup; / by this, the six complications, coryza and others, subside.

According to the culinary texts regarding soup, substances, water, and gruel, / twelve palas [of meat] in a prastha [of water] make a thick broth, but six [palas make] a thin one;

one should make a meat-ball with one pala in a very clear broth. / One should drink water [boiled with] coriander, pippalī, dry ginger, and daśamūlī

for the relief of flank pain, fever, dyspnoea, coryza, and so on. / Aśvagandhā, amṛtā, abhīru, daśamūlī, balā, vṛṣa,

puṣkara, and ativiṣā cure consumption in one who consumes milk and meat soup. / Water boiled with daśamūla, balā, rāsnā,

puṣkara, devadāru, and dry ginger / should be drunk to relieve flank pain, shoulder pain, headache, consumption, cough, and the like. / The powdered bark of kakubha, nāgabalā,

and seeds of vānarī, cooked in milk / with clarified butter, honey, and sugar candy, cures consumption, cough, and the like. / Powdered meat of pigeon, partridge, goat, and deer, individually,

drunk with goat's milk, is supreme for removing consumption. / Root of gajabalā licked with clarified butter and honey / brings consumption to an end;

or having drunk vāyasajaṅghā with milk alone. / An electuary of pippalī, grapes, and sugar candy, with honey and oil, destroys consumption;

or one made of aśvagandhā, pippalī, and sugar candy, combined with honey and clarified butter. / A patient with consumption who licks fresh butter mixed with sugar and honey,

and eats a milk diet, gains nourishment, [or with] unequal parts of clarified butter and honey. / Sugar candy, tugākṣīrī, pippalī, cardamoms, and cinnamon,

doubled successively from the last, powdered, one should have licked with honey and clarified butter; / one should administer this, which relieves dyspnoea, cough, and consumption,

for one who has a numb tongue, anorexia, weak digestive fire, pain in the flanks, / burning of hands, feet, and shoulders, fever, and upward-moving bleeding.

Clove, kakkola, uśīra, sandalwood, / nata, along with blue lotus and cumin in equal parts; / cardamom, along with black agallochum, bhṛṅgarāja, filament [of nagakeśara], / pippalī, dry ginger, nalada, along with mustā;

nāgakeśara, nutmeg, vaṃśalocanā, / and eight parts of sugar candy, powdered together finely— / it is very appetising, nourishing, appetising to the digestive fire, / strength-giving, exceedingly aphrodisiac, and dispels the three doṣas;

it cures chest obstruction, tamaka dyspnoea, constriction in the throat, / along with cough, hiccup, anorexia, consumption, coryza, / malabsorption syndrome, diarrhoea, fistula-in-ano, tumours, / obstinate urinary disorders, abdominal lumps, and fevers.

Tālīsapatra, black pepper, dry ginger, good pippalī, / increasing in parts successively, and cinnamon and cardamom half a part each;

and eight times as much white sugar as pippalī should be added here. / That powder relieves dyspnoea, cough, and anorexia, and is a supreme appetiser;

it relieves heart disease, anaemia, malabsorption syndrome, spleen disorders, wasting, and fever, / cures vomiting, diarrhoea, and colic, and causes downward movement of obstructed vāta.

One may also make pills from this powder by cooking it with sugar candy; / for pills, due to the contact with fire, are traditionally considered lighter than powder. / In conditions of pitta, some take vaṃśalocanā in place of 'śubhā' (bamboo manna).

Karkaṭaśṛṅgī, arjuna, aśvagandhā, / nāgabalā, puṣkaramūla, harītakī, guḍūcī, / combined with the ingredients of Tālīsādya [powder], / to be licked with honey and clarified butter, cure consumption.

Honey, pyrites, viḍaṅga, bitumen, iron, clarified butter, and harītakī, / when used by one eating wholesome food, destroy even the most severe consumption.

The three pungents, śatāvarī, the three myrobalans, and the two balās— / this formulation, combined with iron powder, cures all diseases.

It cures chest wound and diseases arising in the throat, / exceedingly severe consumption, stiffness of the arms, and facial paralysis.

One karṣa of purified quicksilver should be triturated in a mortar with the fresh juice of jayā and fresh ginger / on a stone until it becomes a solid lump; then,

one should impregnate it again with the juices of jalakarṇā and kākamācī. / One pala of sulphur impregnated with the fresh juice of bhṛṅgarāja,

powdered and mixed with the quicksilver, triturated in two palas of goat's milk / into a solid lump, [one should fashion] pills like boiled peas.

Having first worshipped Śiva and gratified the twice-born, / when food is digested, one should consume one [pill], eating milk and meat soup.

It cures all forms of consumption, cough, raktapitta, anorexia, / and even acid dyspepsia that has been abandoned by a hundred physicians.

Cardamom, ajamodā, āmalaka, harītakī, bibhītaka, / khadira, nimba, heartwood of asana and śāla, / viḍaṅga, bhallātaka, citraka, / the three pungents, mustā, and Saurāṣṭra earth—

having boiled [these] in water, one should cook clarified butter with that [decoction]. / When it is properly cooked and taken down [from the fire], / one should add thirty palas of sugar candy / and six palas of tugākṣīrī,

and in a prastha of clarified butter, one should add twice as much / honey, then blend it by churning with a churning stick. / One should lick one pala every morning, / and afterwards drink milk attentively.

For this promotes intellect, is supremely pure, / beneficial for the eyes, and promotes longevity; / it swiftly dispels consumption, colic, / anaemia, and also fistula-in-ano;

and when this rasāyana is being used, / nothing at all is to be avoided. / Balā, vidārī, the lesser pañcamūla, punarnavā,

and leaf buds of the five milk-bearing trees, one fistful each: / in the decoction of these, with twice the amount of milk, and equal parts of vidārī and goat-meat soup,

one should cook one āḍhaka of clarified butter with the paste of jīvanīya herbs measuring an akṣa [each]. / When strained and cooled, one should mix in thirty-two palas of sugar,

and powder of wheat, pippalī, bamboo manna, and śṛṅgāṭaka, / one kuḍava each, along with honey, blending it all thoroughly with a churning stick.

When it has solidified, one should make boluses with the clarified butter and wrap them with birch bark. / Having eaten these, [each] weighing one pala, one should drink milk as an after-drink, or wine if kapha is present, // 43

in emaciation, cough, phthisis due to chest injury, and when exhausted by exertion, women, or carrying loads; / in spitting of blood, burning sensation, chronic rhinitis, and when [the disease] is situated in the chest; // 44

they are recommended in pain of the flanks and head, and in loss of voice and complexion. / When the ingredients to be decocted weigh thirteen palas, then from fear that the drugs are too little, // 45

the water should be eight times as much; the juices of vidārī and goat's meat should each be equal to the decoction. / But some have stated that, with the decoction substances as specified, the decoction should be equal to the clarified butter. // 46

10. Bilva, agnimantha, śyonāka, kāśmarya, pāṭalī, balā, / the four parṇīs, pippalī, śvadaṃṣṭrā, the two bṛhatīs, // 47

karkaṭaśṛṅgī, āmalakī, drākṣā, jīvantī, puṣkaramūla, aguru, / abhayā, along with amṛtā, ṛddhi, jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, śaṭhī, // 48

mustā, punarnavā, medā, small cardamoms, blue water-lily, white sandalwood, / vidārī, vāsā roots, kākolī, and kākanāsikā: // 49

portions measuring one pala each of these, and five hundred / āmalakī fruits—one should cook them all together in a droṇa of water. // 50

Having ascertained that these drugs have yielded their essence, [one should take] that decoction, / and taking out those āmalakī fruits, freed of seeds, in oil and clarified butter, // 51

having fried them in twelve palas [thereof], and adding half a tulā / of purified raw sugar crystals, the physician should prepare it well, like an electuary. // 52

And when it is prepared and cooled, one should add six palas of honey to it, / four palas of bamboo manna, likewise two palas of pippalī, // 53

and one should add one pala each of cinnamon bark, cardamom, tejapatra, and nāgakeśara. / This is Cyavanaprāśa, declared to be a supreme rejuvenative. // 54

It is specifically prescribed as destroying cough and dyspnoea, / and as building up the body of the phthisical from chest injury, the aged, and children. // 55

It eliminates loss of voice, chest disease, heart disease, vātarakta, / thirst, and doṣas situated in the urine and semen. // 56

One should take a dose of this that does not interfere with meals. / Through the use of this, Cyavana, though very aged, became a youth once again. // 57

Intellect, memory, lustre, freedom from disease, / excellence of body, power of the senses, / virile delight with women, supreme increase of the digestive fire, / clarity of complexion, and the downward movement of vāta— // 58

a man obtains these through the use of this rejuvenative, / even when decayed, by entering a cottage; / casting off his former form caused by old age, / he assumes the form of blooming youth. // 59

If raw sugar crystals are unavailable, refined sugar [may be used], and the frying of the emblic myrobalans should be gentle. / Mostly, when a quarter part of the water remains, the substances will have yielded their essence. // 60

11. Jīvantī, madhuka, drākṣā, fruits of kuṭaja, / śaṭhī, puṣkaramūla, vyāghrī, gokṣuraka, balā, // 61

blue water-lily, tāmalakī, trāyamāṇā, durālabhā, / and pippalī: grinding these in equal parts, the physician should cook clarified butter. // 62

This foremost clarified butter dispels the elevenfold symptoms / arising from the king of diseases, the cluster of diseases. // 63

12. Clarified butter prepared with pippalī and jaggery, combined with goat's milk; / this clarified butter is for the great increase of the digestive fire in those who cough from consumption. // 64

13. One should boil one tulā of yaṣṭī, balā, guḍūcī, and the lesser pañcamūla / in a śūrpa of water; when an eighth part remains, one should boil therein a pātra of clarified butter, // 65

with three pātras of the fresh juice of dhātrī and vidārī, and an āḍhaka of milk, / along with well-ground jīvanīya herbs. This is Pārāśara Ghṛta; // 66

used habitually, it uproots consumption together with its army. / 14. Taking a tulā of goat's meat, one should cook it in salt water; // 67

with that very decoction reduced to a fourth part, one should boil a prastha of clarified butter / together with the pastes of ṛddhi, vṛddhi, the two medās, jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, // 68

kākolī, and kṣīrakākolī, each measuring one pala. / When properly prepared, it should be taken down, and when cooled, one should add to it // 69

eight palas of sugar and throw in a kuḍava of honey. / One should drink one pala every morning; it cures consumption difficult to conquer, // 70

and it destroys phthisis from chest injury, cough, pain in the flanks, anorexia, / loss of voice, chest disease, and severe dyspnoea. // 71

15. Having cooked a hundred palas of goat's meat / in two droṇas of water, / when the water is well-reduced to an eighth part, / one should boil a prastha of clarified butter in it, // 72

along with a kuḍava of paste of the jīvanīya herbs. / This meat-ghṛta, drunk combined with meat broth, / destroys pitta and vāta, / as well as [the conditions] produced by them; // 73

and it alleviates violent cough and dyspnoea, / consumption, terrible pain of the flanks and heart, / emaciation caused by walking and excessive indulgence, / and several other conditions. // 74

16. Clarified butter prepared with the juice of goat's dung, goat's urine, / goat's milk, and curd, / along with alkali, removes consumption / and is supreme for pacifying cough and dyspnoea. // 75

17. One should cook [clarified butter] in two prasthas of decoction of the two pañcamūlas, / and one of meat broth, / properly adding a paste of balā as the internal medicament; / clarified butter prepared with a prastha of milk / is declared to remove all pain and consumption caused by trauma, / chest injury, phthisis, and severe cough. // 76

18. One should boil a tulā of nāgabalā in a droṇa of water until reduced to a fourth part; / with that decoction, one should prepare clarified butter and milk in equal parts, // 77

along with half a pala each of atibalā, balā, yaṣṭī, punarnavā, / prapauṇḍarīka, kāśmarya, priyāla, kapikacchu, // 78

aśvagandhā, white candied sugar, śatāvarī, the pair of medās, trikaṇṭaka, / lotus-stalk, lotus-root fibrous core, edible lotus root, śṛṅgāṭaka, and kaśeruka. // 79

This Nāgabalā Ghṛta cures internal haemorrhage, phthisis from chest injury, / burning sensation, dizziness, and thirst; it is supreme in bestowing strength and nourishment, // 80

giving strength, vigour, and longevity, and destroying wrinkles and grey hair. / One should use it for six months; even an old person becomes like a youth. // 81

19. Having drunk clarified butter prepared with the fresh juice of nirguṇḍī together with its roots, fruits, and leaves, / one emaciated by consumption becomes free from disease and shines like a god. // 82

20. Balā, śvadaṃṣṭrā, bṛhatī, kalasī, dhāvanī, sthirā, / nimba, parpaṭaka, mustā, trāyamāṇā, and durālabhā: // 83

having made a decoction [of these], one should add as paste substances: tāmalakī, śaṭhī, / drākṣā, puṣkaramūla, medā, and āmalakī fruits, // 84

clarified butter, and milk. This prepared clarified butter is supreme in curing fever, / relieving cough from consumption, and removing pain in the head and flanks. // 85

Because it is stated immediately after the Vāsādya-ghṛta mentioned by Caraka, / they say here that the decoction and milk should each be double the amount of clarified butter. 86.

21. Sandalwood, bālā, nakha, kuṣṭha, yaṣṭhī, śaileya, padmaka, / mañjiṣṭhā, sarala, devadāru, śaṭhī, elā, pūtikeśara, 87.

patra, taila, murā, māṃsī, kakkola, priyaṅgu, musta, / the two haridrās, the two śārivās, tiktā, clove, aguru, saffron, 88.

tvak, reṇukā, and nalikā—with [a paste of] these, oil [cooked with] four times as much whey / and an equal amount of lākṣā juice, once prepared, destroys malevolent spirits and produces strength and complexion; 89.

it destroys epilepsy, fever, insanity, sorcery, and misfortune, / confers longevity and nourishment, and is an excellent means of subduing others. 90.

22. Goat's meat, goat's milk, goat's clarified butter with sugar, / tending goats, and sleeping among goats dispels phthisis. 91.

One who suffers from chest injury should immediately drink lākṣā with milk combined with honey; / once it has digested, he should eat with milk and sugar. 92.

With ikṣvālikā, lotus rhizome, padmakeśara, and sandalwood, / the injured person should drink boiled milk combined with honey to heal the lesion. 93.

Balā, aśvagandhā, śrīparṇī, bahuputrī, and punarnavā, / consumed daily with milk, eradicate chest-injury consumption. 94.

Clarified butter prepared with decoctions of balā, nāgabalā, and arjuna, / with a one-fourth part paste of yaṣṭīmadhu, / relieves exacerbated heart disease, colic, chest injury, internal haemorrhage, / cough, and vātarakta. 95.