Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 26: Adhikāra 26

1. Emesis, fasting, fomentation, digestive medicines, fruit-suppositories, / alkaline powders, and pills are commended for the pacification of colic. // 1

For a man afflicted with colic, fomentation alone brings comfort, / with milk puddings, kṛśarā, pastes, or unctuous warm poultices. // 2

Kulatthayūṣa combined with fat quickly destroys / colic caused by vāta, / when accompanied by rock salt, the three pungents, quail broth, / and rich in asafoetida, black salt, and pomegranate. // 3

Balā, punarnavā, castor root, the two bṛhatīs, and small caltrops, / drunk with asafoetida and salt, immediately removes vāta pain. // 4

One suffering from colic with a constipated alimentary tract should drink with hot water / the powders of asafoetida, prativiṣā, the three pungents, calamus, black salt, and chebulic myrobalan. // 5

Tumburu, chebulic myrobalan, asafoetida, pauṣkara, and the three salts— / one suffering from vāta colic, abdominal lumps, and drowsiness should drink this with barley-water. // 6

Black trivṛt, biḍa salt, drumstick seeds, chebulic myrobalan, / viḍaṅga, kampillaka, and aśvamūtrī— / having drunk an equal paste of these combined with wine, / one destroys colic born of vāta. // 7

2. Nightshade, asafoetida, rock salt, alkali, black salt, and chebulic myrobalan / are to be drunk with the clear scum of wine to destroy vāta colic. // 8

Having boiled dry ginger and castor root, one should drink the water / mixed with asafoetida and black salt: it instantly relieves colic. // 9

A decoction of dry ginger, castor, and barley, with asafoetida and puṣkaramūla, / or with asafoetida and black salt, instantly relieves colic; / likewise, a decoction of castor and barley, accompanied by asafoetida and black salt. // 10

Asafoetida, sour citrus, long pepper, salt, ajwain, / alkali, chebulic myrobalan, and rock salt in equal parts: / one should drink the powder mixed with the clear part of vāruṇī wine / for well-being when colic born of vāta has flared up. // 11

With black salt, tamarind, cumin, and black pepper, doubled in succession, / ground with citron juice, a pill is made that destroys colic caused by vāta. // 12

With asafetida, amlavetasa, the three pungents, ajwain, and the three salts, / combined with citron juice, a pill destroys colic caused by vāta. // 13

And one should have [the patient] drink citron root with clarified butter / in a measure of one karṣa; it conquers colic arising from vāta. // 14

Having ground bael root, sesame, and castor [seed] with sour husk-water, / one should rotate a warm bolus [on the belly], which destroys colic caused by vāta. // 15

And having made a bolus with sesame seeds, one should rotate it over the abdomen; / this bolus pacifies even colic that is exceedingly unbearable. // 16

From an application on the navel, madana mixed with sour gruel conquers colic; / or jīvantī root paste with oil removes pain in the flanks. // 17

Jaggery, śāli rice, barley, milk, drinking clarified butter, purgation, / and the meat of arid-land animals are the medicament for those suffering from pitta-colic. // 18

In colic born of pitta, however, emesis with milk / as well as sugarcane juices with paṭola and neem [is recommended]; / cold immersions, windy riverbanks, / and vessels of bell-metal and the like flooded with water. // 19

Purgation that removes pitta is commended, / and broths of hare and common quail are commended; / refreshing drinks provided with parched paddy and honey, / and exceedingly cold formulations administered with honey. // 20

In vomiting, fever, and even in colic arising from pitta, / in violent burning sensation, and when exceedingly thirsty, / a person seeking comfort should drink / very cold thin gruel of barley mixed with honey. // 21

One should drink the juice of emblic myrobalan or vidārī, or trāyantī, or grape water / along with sugar; it immediately destroys colic caused by pitta. // 22

A person should drink asparagus juice combined with honey in the morning / for the purpose of pacifying burning sensation and colic; it removes all pitta diseases. // 23

The two bṛhatīs, gokṣura, castor, kuśa, kāśa, and ikṣurālikā, / when drunk, immediately destroy terrible colic arising from pitta. // 24

With asparagus, liquorice, bālā, kuśa, and gokṣura, / one should drink boiled and cooled water with jaggery, honey, and sugar; // 25

it destroys colic, burning sensation, and pitta-blood disorders, and immediately removes burning fever. / A decoction prepared with the three myrobalans, neem, liquorice, kaṭukā, and āragvadha // 26

one should administer mixed with honey to pacify burning sensation and colic; / or castor oil combined with a decoction of liquorice // 27

destroys colic arising from pitta and also an abdominal lump born of pitta. / A decoction of the three myrobalans and āragvadha with honey and sugar // 28

one should administer; it destroys intrinsic haemorrhage and checks burning sensation and colic. / One should lick emblic myrobalan powder with honey to destroy pitta colic. // 29

When kapha is predominant, [one should use] vomiting, fastings, / head purgation, and drinking honey and wine; / one should take honey, wheat, barley, ariṣṭa wines, / and all things that are dry and pungent. // 30

A thick gruel prepared with long pepper, long-pepper root, cavya, citraka, and dry ginger / in water is appetising and relieves colic. // 31

The five pungents combined with the three salts, with asafetida, / drunk with comfortably warm water, destroys colic caused by kapha. // 32

Bael root, then castor, citraka, and dry ginger, / combined with asafetida and rock salt, immediately check colic. // 33

Musta, calamus, Picrorhiza kurroa, / as well as chebulic myrobalan and citraka in equal parts, / one should drink with cow's urine in colic arising from kapha / and also for the digestion of undigested matter. // 34

Powder of calamus, musta, citraka, chebulic myrobalan, and kaṭukā combined with cow's urine, / or a decoction of bael and the rest with alkali, when drunk, removes colic caused by kapha. // 35

Or citron juice, or another: drumstick decoction / with alkali, drunk with honey, removes pain in the flanks, cardiac region, and bladder. // 36

In colic due to undigested matter, the treatment that destroys colic caused by kapha should be performed; / everything that eliminates undigested matter and increases the strength of the digestive fire should be used. // 37

A powder of asafetida, tumburu, the three pungents, ajwain, citraka, and chebulic myrobalan / with alkali and salt, one should drink in the morning with warm water; // 38

it destroys colic caused by feces, urine, and vāta, digests [undigested matter], and kindles the digestive fire. / Citraka, long-pepper root, castor, dry ginger, and coriander boiled with water, // 39

with asafetida, biḍa salt, and pomegranate, is used in colic, abdominal distension, and constipation. / Ajwain, rock salt, chebulic myrobalan, and dry ginger, four in equal parts, / swiftly conquers severe colic and stimulates a sluggish digestive fire. // 40

One should drink the bṛhatyādi group with honey in that caused by pitta and vāta; / or one should employ a combined procedure in colic caused by pitta and vāta. // 41

Whatever treatment has been stated separately for that born of pitta or born of kapha, / one should combine and apply that treatment in that born of kapha and pitta. // 42

One should drink a decoction of paṭola, the three myrobalans, and neem with honey / to pacify fever, vomiting, burning sensation, and colic due to pitta and kapha. // 43

Desiring [relief], one should drink garlic mixed with honey in the morning / to destroy colic arising from vāta and kapha; it kindles the digestive fire. // 44

With the water of dry ginger, castor root, the ten roots, and barley, / one suffering from heart-, flank-, and hip-spasm, undigested matter, / severe pain of the colon and shoulder, fever, abdominal lump, and colic / should drink the powder of the two alkalis, asafetida, the three salts, and puṣkaramūla. // 45

Where drinking a powder with a decoction [is prescribed], there the decoction has predominance; / it does not follow that here four liquids are intended in relation to the powder. // 46

An equal powder of black salt, asafetida, and dry ginger / should be drunk with dry-ginger water in afflictions of the heart, flanks, back, and abdomen, / and in cholera arising from kapha and vāta; and likewise with barley-water in constipation. // 47

The construction is made by the wise as: 'equal with dry-ginger water'; / hence only a small amount of asafetida is added here. // 48

Asafetida, black salt, chebulic myrobalan, biḍa salt, rock salt, tumburu, / and puṣkaramūla—one should drink the powder with water of the ten roots and barley. // 49

It is recommended in pain of the flanks, heart, hip, back, and shoulder, in hysterical spasm and tetanus, / in oedema, in effusion of kapha and undigested matter, and in ear disease. // 50

A decoction made of castor, bael, the two bṛhatīs, citron, / pāṣāṇabhedā, and the roots of the three pungents, / with alkali, asafetida, and salt, mixed with castor oil, / should be drunk in pains of the pelvis, shoulder, penis, heart, and breasts. // 51

Asafetida, the three pungents, kuṣṭha, barley-alkali, and rock salt, / combined with citron juice—this powder removes splenic colic. // 52

Burnt without letting smoke escape, / deer horn drunk with cow's clarified butter / takes away colic arising in the heart and buttocks, / just as fire [destroys] a pile of wood. // 53

Licked with the fresh juice of vaṅgasena, the powder of krimiripu
as an electuary without delay and unfailingly destroys colic arising from indigestion. 54.

Juice of vidārī and pomegranate, mixed with the three pungents and salt,
and combined with honey, swiftly overcomes colic arising from all three doṣas. 55.

Fruits and roots of castor, the two kinds of bṛhatī, gokṣura,
the two parṇīs, sahadevī, siṃhapucchī, and kṣurālikā: 56.

One should drink water decocted with equal parts of these, combined with barley alkali;
it destroys colic arising from individual doṣas, as well as that arising from all [three together]. 57.

Maṇḍūra prepared with cow's urine, combined with powder of triphalā,
licked with honey and clarified butter, destroys colic born of the three doṣas. 58.

Powder of conch shell with salt, combined with asafoetida and the three pungents,
drunk with warm water, destroys colic born of the three doṣas. 59.

Superior powder of triphalā mixed with powder of sharp iron
should be administered with honey and clarified butter to dispel all kinds of colic. 60.

One should consume pure [harītakī] cooked inside cow's urine, combined with iron powder
and with jaggery, for the appeasement of all colic. 61.

Pippalī, dry ginger, bilva, caraway, cavya, citraka,
asafoetida, pomegranate, vṛkṣāmla, vacā, alkali, amlavetasa, 62.

Punarnavā, black salt, cumin, and bījapūraka;
clarified butter prepared with three times as much curd: this is known as Dādhika [ghṛta]. 63.

It dispels abdominal lumps, haemorrhoids, splenomegaly, pain of the heart, flanks, colic, and vaginal disorders;
this Dādhika is considered supreme, the best pacifier of doṣas. 64.

For one whose body is covered with a blanket while practicing breath-control,
fumigation with parched grain flour smeared with mustard oil is supreme in removing colic. 65.

Exercise, sexual intercourse, alcohol, salt, pungent pulses,
suppression of natural urges, grief, and anger should be avoided by a person suffering from colic. 66.