Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 11: Adhikāra 11

1. Vāstūka, vāyasī greens, radish, suniṣaṇṇa, / unctuous substances such as oil, pastries made with milk, sugarcane juice, and jaggery, 1.

curd, sour gruel, sour fruits, and clear liquor / are commended in cough due to vāta, along with sweet, sour, and saline [foods]. 2.

One should feed beneficial śāli rice, barley, wheat, and ṣaṣṭika / with broths of domestic, wetland, and aquatic animals, or with soups of māṣa and ātmaguptā. 3.

A decoction made of pañcamūla combined with pippalī powder, / taken daily while eating food with meat broth, drives out cough due to vāta. 4.

2. Made with śṛṅgī, śaṭhī, kaṇā, bhārgī, jaggery, musta, and yavāsa, / mixed with oil, this unexcelled electuary destroys cough due to vāta. 5.

3. By licking powdered viśva, dusparśa, śṛṅgī, drākṣā, śaṭhī, and sugar / with oil, one overcomes severe cough arising from vāta. 6.

An electuary made with bhārgī, drākṣā, śaṭhī, śṛṅgī, pippalī, and ginger, / combined with jaggery and oil, is beneficial for those suffering from cough due to vāta. 7.

In cough due to pitta, when kapha is thin, the physician should administer trivṛt combined with sweet drugs; / when kapha is thick, he should combine it with bitter drugs for purgation. 8.

Śyāmāka, barley, and kodrava, taken in measured quantity with sweet broths of wild animals, / with soups of mudga and the like, and with bitter greens, are wholesome. 9.

Water decocted with balā, the two bṛhatīs, vāsā, and drākṣā, / combined with sugar and honey, is a drink that relieves cough due to pitta. 10.

Milk boiled with a decoction of śarādi-pañcamūla / and of pippalī and drākṣā should be drunk with honey and sugar. 11.

With the two kākolīs, the two bṛhatīs, and the two medās, together with vāsā and ginger, / one should prepare meat broths, milk, and soups in cough due to pitta. 12.

Drākṣā, āmalaka, and dates, combined with pippalī and black pepper; / one should indeed lick this with honey and clarified butter to dispel cough due to pitta. 13.

Dates, pippalī, drākṣā, sugar, and puffed rice in equal parts, / as an electuary combined with honey and clarified butter, is pre-eminent in removing cough due to pitta. 14.

Having ground śaṭhī, hrībera, bṛhatī, sugar, and ginger, / one should drink the strained juice with clarified butter; it dispels cough due to pitta. 15.

Lotus seed powder with honey dispels cough due to pitta. / A strong patient who constantly suffers from cough due to kapha should first be treated with emesis, / and with barley food that is pungent, dry, hot, and destroying kapha. 16.

He should eat light foods with soups of kulattha and radish / containing pippalī and alkali, or with meat broths mixed with pungents. 17.

4. One should drink a decoction prepared from pauṣkara, kaṭphala, bhārgī, ginger, and pippalī / when kapha is exacerbated, in cough, dyspnoea, and constriction of the chest. 18.

One should administer the fresh juice of fresh ginger combined with honey; / it relieves dyspnoea and cough, and dispels coryza and kapha. 19.

With mudga and āmalakī, barley and pomegranate, / jujube, radish, dry ginger, / dry ginger and pippalī, and kulattha, / this nine-part soup destroys diseases of kapha. 20.

In pain in the flanks, fever, dyspnoea, and cough arising from kapha, / one should drink daśamūla water combined with pippalī powder. 21.

5. Kaṭphala, kattṛṇa, bhārgī, musta, coriander, vacā, harītakī, / śṛṅgī, parpaṭa, dry ginger, and devadāru boiled in water, 22.

mixed with honey and asafoetida, should be drunk in cough composed of vāta and kapha, / in throat disease, consumption, colic, dyspnoea, hiccup, and fever. 23.

6. A decoction made of kaṇṭakārī with pippalī cures all coughs. / Bibhītaka smeared with clarified butter, wrapped in cow dung, 24.

and steamed in fire, certainly removes cough when kept in the mouth. / Fresh juice of vāsaka should be drunk with honey by one who eats wholesome food, 25.

in cough caused by pitta and kapha, especially in internal haemorrhage. / Pippalī, madhuka, drākṣā, lākṣā, śṛṅgī, śatāvarī, 26.

a double amount of tugākṣīrī, and sugar four times the whole: / one should lick that with honey and clarified butter to relieve cough due to chest injury. 27.

Pippalī, padmaka, lākṣā, and well-cooked bṛhatī fruit: / an electuary combined with clarified butter and honey destroys cough and dyspnoea. 28.

Powder of harītakī, ginger, and musta / mixed with an equal part of jaggery should be made into pills; / kept in the mouth, this stops / advanced dyspnoea and severe cough. 29.

7. One karṣa, half a karṣa, one pala, two palas, and half a karṣa / of pippalī along with black pepper, pomegranate, jaggery, and barley-alkali respectively: 30.

For those coughs that are incurable by all medicines and abandoned by all physicians, / even for those vomiting pus, this medicine is wholesome. 31.

8. Having taken parts of clove, nutmeg, and pippalī, / one akṣa each of these, / one should add half a pala of black pepper / and four palas of ginger; 32.

this powder with an equal amount of sugar forcibly / and quickly destroys these diseases by its power: / cough, fever, anorexia, urinary disorders, abdominal lump, / dyspnoea, impaired digestion, and disorders of malabsorption syndrome. 33.

9. Harītakī, pippalī, dry ginger, and black pepper combined with jaggery: / this is declared to be a sweet bolus that destroys cough and eliminates thirst and anorexia. 34.

With equal parts of tālīsa, leadwort, dīpyaka, cavikā, dry ginger, amlavetasa, and the three pungents, combined with the three aromatics, a pill should be made with jaggery.

In cough, dyspnoea, anorexia, chronic rhinitis, obstruction of the heart, throat, and voice, and in ailments arising from the malabsorption syndrome and rectum, [this] is the pill called Vyoṣāntikā.

Here, since the three aromatics are for flavouring, [a dose of] four māṣas should be taken. / One should smoke [a preparation made] of realgar, orpiment, liquorice, jaṭāmāṃsī, mustā, and iṅguda.

For three days [one should inhale] the smoke, and after it one should drink milk with jaggery. / This cures coughs arising from each single doṣa, from pairs, or from all doṣas,

which have not been cured even by hundreds of applications. / A jujube leaf smeared with realgar and dried in the sun,

by smoking it with milk, destroys severe cough. / Arka bark and realgar in equal parts, and half as much of the three pungents:

powdered and thrown into fire, one who knows the formulation should inhale the smoke; / then he should chew betel, or drink milk or water. / The five types of cough quickly subside, without doubt.

Eggplant skin quickly impregnated with black pepper, realgar, and arka latex, and dried; / making a smoke pipe according to rule, for one who inhales it, coughs subside.

One should cook clarified butter with a decoction of daśamūla and a paste of bhārgī; / in a decoction of cock or partridge, it is superior for relieving vāta-cough.

In an āḍhaka of daśamūla [decoction], one should cook a prastha of clarified butter with an akṣa each of / puṣkaramūla, śaṭhī, bilva, surasā, the three pungents, and asafoetida.

That should be given with an after-drink of thin gruel in cough where vāta and kapha predominate, / and in all dyspnoea diseases characterized by kapha and vāta.

In four prasthas of daśamūla decoction, clarified butter measured at one prastha, / pasty with pañcakola along with alkali, properly prepared,

destroys cough, heart pain, and flank pain, and eliminates hiccup and dyspnoea. / Here the best physicians prescribe the paste as six palas.

From thirty palas each of juice of kaṇṭakārī and guḍūcī, a prastha of clarified butter / properly prepared relieves vāta-cough and stimulates the digestive fire.

Clarified butter cooked with a paste of rāsnā, balā, the three pungents, and gokṣura, / in juice of kaṇṭakārī—this clarified butter eradicates the five types of cough.

In an āḍhaka of juice of kaṇṭakārī with its leaves, roots, and branches, / a prastha of clarified butter should be cooked with [a paste of] balā, the three pungents, viḍaṅga, śaṭhī, leadwort,

sauvarcala salt, barley alkali, bilva, āmalakī, puṣkaramūla, / vṛścīra, bṛhatī, harītakī, ajamodā, pomegranate, ṛddhi,

grape, punarnavā, cavya, dhanvayāsa, amlavetasa, / śṛṅgī, āmalakī, bhārgī, rāsnā, and gokṣura.

With these pastes, the prepared Kaṇṭakārīghṛta is praised in all coughs, / and in hiccup and dyspnoea; it destroys diseases of kapha.

In a droṇa of water, one should boil one pala each of rāsnā, daśamūla, and śatāvarī, / three mānikā portions of horse gram, jujube, and barley,

and half a tulā of goat meat; and with that entirety, / an āḍhaka of clarified butter with an equal amount of milk, with one pala each of the jīvanīya [drugs]

prepared with those ten pastes, after examining [the patient], one should administer it in vāta diseases according to the condition, / by means of nasal drops, drinks, and unctuous enemas.

It overcomes the five coughs, phthisis, dyspnoea, flank pain, anorexia, / diseases of the entire body or a single limb, and upward vāta accompanied by splenomegaly.

Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, the two medās, the two kākolīs, the two parṇīs, / jīvantī, and liquorice: this group of ten is the jīvaka group.

Daśamūla, svayaṃguptā, śaṅkhapuṣpī, śaṭhī, balā, / gajapippalī, apāmārga, pippalī root, leadwort,

bhārgī, and puṣkaramūla, each two palas; an āḍhaka of barley; / and one hundred harītakīs: one should boil in five āḍhakas of water.

When the barley is boiled soft, that strained decoction and that hundred of harītakīs, / having added a tulā of jaggery, and a kuḍava each of clarified butter,

oil, and pippalī powder, one should cook; and when cooled after preparation, [add a kuḍava] of honey. / One should lick two harītakīs daily, eating from this rejuvenative tonic.

It destroys wrinkles and grey hair, increases strength, longevity, and bodily elements; / it destroys the five coughs, phthisis, dyspnoea, hiccups, irregular fevers,

and likewise malabsorption syndrome, haemorrhoids, heart disease, anorexia, and chronic rhinitis. / This auspicious, supreme rejuvenative tonic was prescribed by Agastya.

One should place a tulā of kaṇṭakārī with roots, flowers, and leaves, immersed in a droṇa of water, / and one hundred harītakīs; then, having cooked it until one quarter remains,

having added one hundred [palas] of jaggery, cooked over fire, taken down, and then well cooled, / two palas in quantity of the three pungents, six palas of flower-nectar (honey) there,

and one pala of the four aromatics one should throw in. This electuary, administered according to the digestive fire and rule,

destroys coughs arising from vāta, from pitta and kapha, / coughs from two doṣas, and those from all three doṣas,

cough caused by wasting, and that born of injury, along with chronic rhinitis, dyspnoea, chest injury, / and severe wasting with eleven symptoms; for it is the rejuvenative tonic taught by Bhṛgu.