Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 2: Adhikāra 2

In fever with diarrhoea, the regimen of thin gruel and the rest is wholesome for one who has fasted. / Or the person suffering from fever with diarrhoea should drink boiled thin gruel with sour additives.

Pṛśniparṇī, balā, bilva, ginger, blue water lily, dhānyaka, / pāṭhā, indrayava, bhūnimba, musta, parpaṭaka, and amṛtā,

together with ginger, conquer āma diarrhoea associated with fever. / With ginger, ativiṣā, musta, bhūnimba, amṛtā, and vatsaka,

a decoction destroys all fevers and eliminates all diarrhoeas. / With hrīvera, ativiṣā, musta, bilva, dhānyaka, and ginger,

one should drink [a decoction] that destroys slime and obstruction, digests colic, doṣas, and āma, / and cures bloody diarrhoea, whether accompanied by fever or without fever.

With guḍūcī, ativiṣā, dhānya, dry ginger, bilva, musta, bālaka, / pāṭhā, bhūnimba, kuṭaja, candana, uśīra, and padmaka,

a cool decoction should be drunk to pacify fever with diarrhoea, / destroying nausea, anorexia, vomiting, thirst, and burning sensation.

Uśīra, bālaka, musta, coriander, dry ginger, / samaṅgā, dhātakī, lodhra, and bilva are appetising and digestive;

they destroy anorexia, slime, āma, constipation with severe pain, / and diarrhoea with blood, whether accompanied by fever or without fever.

Boiled with the minor five roots, balā, bilva, guḍūcī, musta, and ginger, / pāṭhā, bhūnimba, hrīvera, and bark and seeds of kuṭaja,

it destroys all diarrhoeas, fever-doṣa, and vomiting, / as well as colic with its complications, dyspnoea, and severe cough.

Kaliṅga, ativiṣā, dry ginger, kirāta, ambu, and yavāsaka / destroy without doubt the burning heat of fever with diarrhoea.

Vatsaka, kaṭphala, deodar, rohiṇī, gajapippalī, / gokṣura, pippalī, dhānya, bilva, pāṭhā, and yavānī—

both these proven formulations, stated in half-verses, / pacify fever with diarrhoea and especially destroy burning sensation.

With ginger, amṛtā, bhūnimba, bilva, bālaka, and vatsaka, / along with musta, ativiṣā, and uśīra, water [medicated with these] removes fever with diarrhoea.

A decoction of mustaka, bilva, ativiṣā, pāṭhā, bhūnimba, and vatsaka, / combined with honey, conquers severe fever and diarrhoea.

Water prepared with musta, bālaka, pāṭhā, ativiṣā, harītakī, blue water lily, coriander, kaṭurohiṇī, dry ginger, / and indrayava conquers fever accompanied by diarrhoea.

Kaliṅga, bilva, jambu, mango, kapittha, rasāñjana, / lac, turmeric, hrīvera, kaṭphala, śukranāsikā,

lodhra, mocarasa, conch shell, dhātakī, and leaf-buds of the banyan tree, / having ground them with rice-water, into pills the size of an akṣa;

dried in the shade, one should drink them quickly for the pacification of fever with diarrhoea. / These clarify the blood and destroy diarrhoea accompanied by colic.

Blue water-lily, rind of pomegranate, and filaments of lotus: / one should drink them with rice-water; it destroys fever with diarrhoea.

The three pungents, seeds of vatsaka, nimba, bhūnimba, mārkava, / citraka, rohiṇī, pāṭhā, dārvī, and ativiṣā in equal parts,

all made into a fine powder, and bark of vatsaka equal to [the sum of] them— / having combined everything together, one should drink it with rice-water,

or lick it with honey: this digestive and bowel-binding medicament / pacifies thirst and anorexia, and destroys fever with diarrhoea.

It eliminates jaundice, disorders of malabsorption syndrome, abdominal lump, and splenomegaly, / urinary anomaly, anaemia, and oedema.

With a decoction of the ten roots, one should drink dry ginger measuring an akṣa / in fever, in diarrhoea caused by vāta, and in malabsorption syndrome with oedema.

Viḍaṅga, ativiṣā, musta, deodar cedar, pāṭhā, and seeds of indrayava, / combined with black pepper, destroys diarrhoea with oedema.

By means of kirātatikta, musta, amṛtā, dry ginger, red sandalwood, udīcya, and vatsaka seeds, / diarrhoea with oedema is pacified, and fever is especially destroyed.

Prepared with kirātatikta, musta, amṛtā, udīcya, red sandalwood, and coriander, / it pacifies diarrhoea with oedema, thirst, and burning sensation, and destroys fever.