Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 27: Adhikāra 27

Emesis with bitter and sweet substances is praised, and purgation as well;
enemas too are beneficial in colic arising during digestion. 1.

Seeds of viḍaṅga, the three pungents, trivṛt, dantī, and citraka:
having prepared all these, one should make them into fine powders. 2.

Making a sweetmeat with jaggery, one should eat it upon rising in the morning;
one should give warm water as an after-drink, which increases the digestive fire. 3.

It overcomes colic born of the three doṣas that arises during digestion.

A man who eats a paste of dry ginger, sesame, and jaggery,
prepared with milk, 4.

his severe duodenal colic
departs within thrice seven nights.
Ash born of snail shell, drunk with warm water, instantly 5.

destroys this colic of digestion, as Viṣṇu destroys the demons.
One should lick the powder of bibhītaka, āmalakī, harītakī, and pippalī combined with honey; 6.

or eat roasted barley flour with sesame together with skimmed curd;
a man is swiftly freed from colic upon transformation [of food]. 7.

One part each of sesame, dry ginger, and harītakī, and of snail shell ash
two parts, combined with jaggery: having made pills the size of an akṣa seed, 8.

having drunk cold water, he should eat it in the forenoon, subsisting on milk;
having drunk meat soup in the evening, a man is freed from difficult-to-cure 9.

colic arising during digestion, even if of long standing.
Snail shell, the three pungents, and the five salts, 10.

in equal parts, having made pills with the juice of kalambū
one should consume them in the morning or at mealtime according to strength. 11.

A person is quickly freed from colic born of digestion.
He who for seven nights drinks
parched grain flour alone with soup of wild peas 12.

conquers the pain of digestion,
even of long standing, not to mention that newly arisen.

Iron powder combined with triphalā, licked with honey and clarified butter, 13.

pacifies duodenal colic, or its slag may be used.
One should consume the powder of pippalī, harītakī, and iron together with jaggery; 14.

this destroys duodenal colic, abdominal enlargements, sluggishness of the digestive fire,
disorders of āmavāta, and reduces obesity. 15.

Harītakī, iron powder, and dry ginger powder with honey and clarified butter
destroys the pain of digestion consisting of vāta, pitta, and kapha. 16.

Sea salt, rock salt, barley alkali, sauvarcala salt, romaka salt, viḍ salt,
dantī, iron powder, iron slag, trivṛt, and elephant-foot yam in equal parts, 17.

cooked over a gentle fire with curd, cow's urine, and milk;
that powder one should drink with warm water according to the strength of the digestive fire. 18.

When it is completely digested, he should eat [food] prepared with meat and clarified butter.
Colic of the navel, hepatic colic, and that caused by abdominal lumps and spleen, 19.

as well as abscess and prostate enlargement arising from kapha and vāta, it destroys.
For all varieties of colic there is no medicine superior to this; 20.

it is considered an end-maker especially for that which arises during digestion.
A coconut filled with water and packed with salt, 21.

thoroughly roasted on a fire, removes colic born of digestion
caused by vāta, caused by pitta, caused by kapha, and born of all three doṣas. 22.

Licking licorice and triphalā powder equal to iron powder
combined with honey and clarified butter, he should properly drink cow's milk afterwards: 23.

it destroys vomiting with cataract, colic, acid gastritis, fever, exhaustion,
distension, retention of urine, and oedema. 24.

Clarified butter cooked with pippalī and jaggery in four times the amount of milk
destroys acid gastritis and colic born of digestion. 25.

Clarified butter prepared with the decoction and paste of pippalī,
administered with honey
to one who eats rice with milk, unfailingly destroys
advanced colic known as pariṇāmaśūla. 26.

Maṇḍūra powdered equally with caraway, pippalī root, ginger, pippalī,
and alkali, cooked in eight times as much cow's urine and concentrated;
that one should eat at the beginning, middle, and end of a meal,
generally eating food with milk,
to conquer disorders of vāta and kapha, and colic and multiple pains at the time of digestion. 27.

With caraway and pippalī root,
together with dry ginger, long pepper, and barley alkali,
a prastha of iron powder as well,
mixed with a pala of each in powder: 28.

combined with eight times as much cow's urine,
by gradual cooking one should bring the whole mass to a solid ball.
Three pills the size of a jujube
should be eaten at the beginning, middle, and end of a meal. 29.

Eating with meat juice, clarified butter, soup, milk,
and meat, a person cures
the transformation of food at the end,
abdominal lump, spleen disease, and sluggishness of digestive fire. 30.

[10] One should boil eight palas of iron dross in half an āḍhaka of cow's urine. / When prepared with a prastha of milk, it relieves digestion-pain in men. // 31

[11] One should cook eight palas of iron dross in eight times as much cow's urine. / Having powdered cavikā, dry ginger, alkaline ash, pippalī-root, and pippalī, // 32

one should add them, in doses of one pala each, when it has become dense. / With this, one should form pills that alleviate digestion-pain. // 33

[12] One should consume purified maṇḍūra or a sheet made of iron with jaggery; / one is freed from colic arising from digestion. // 34

Having purified and powdered eight palas of maṇḍūra, / eight palas of asparagus juice, and likewise of curd and of milk, // 35

and taking four palas of cow's clarified butter, / one should boil everything together until it has attained the form of a bolus. // 36

When prepared, one should eat it in the middle or even before a meal. / Digestion-pain produced by vāta, caused by pitta, // 37

this formulation of maṇḍūra certainly destroys, without doubt. / [13] Viḍaṅga, citraka, cavya, triphalā, and tryūṣaṇa, // 38

these nine parts, and an equal quantity of iron dross, / having added twice as much cow's urine together with jaggery equal to half the urine, // 39

cooking slowly over a gentle fire, well-prepared and attained the form of a bolus, / having placed it in an unctuous vessel, one should eat it in a dose of a kola. // 40

Employed precisely in the order before, during, and after a meal, / this formulation quickly calms extremely severe digestion-pain, // 41

as well as jaundice, anaemia, oedema, and also weak digestive fire, / haemorrhoids, malabsorption syndrome, parasites, abdominal lumps, and abdominal diseases. // 42

It also destroys acid dyspepsia and reduces corpulence. / One should avoid dried leafy vegetables, heartburn-causing, sour, and pungent foods. // 43

This indeed is named Guḍīmaṇḍūra, the destroyer of digestion-pain; / it was spoken by Tārā for the sake of compassion toward those suffering from colic. // 44

[14] Adding half a karṣa of vaśira, śvetavāṭyāla, madhuparṇī, mayūraka, / and taṇḍulīya below and above, // 45

very old maṇḍūra is to be cooked with cow's urine for two days; / with the steam kept within and unburnt, it should be kept thus for three days. // 46

Having powdered it and rubbed it well with twice as much jaggery, / it is to be eaten at the beginning, middle, and end of a meal, in a dose of a karṣa divided into three parts. // 47

With buttermilk as an after-drink, tree-borne sour substances are to be avoided here; / this is beneficial like nectar in acid dyspepsia and in colic. // 48

[15] Two palas of chebulic myrobalan powder, / purified sulphur, and iron dross, / half a pala of purified mercury, / and juice of bhṛṅga and of keśarāja, // 49

having added an amount of a prastha, / then rubbed with a pestle in an iron vessel, / dried, mixed with clarified butter and honey, / rubbed and kept in an unctuous jar, // 50

this, when used, swiftly / destroys diseases born of kapha and pitta, / colic, acid dyspepsia, / malabsorption syndrome, and also fierce jaundice. // 51

[16] If one consumes well-purified iron powder cooked / with the fresh juices of bibhītaka, āmalaka, and harītakī, / together with jaggery, / one is instantly freed from colic born of the three doṣas. // 52

[17] Three parts of iron filings and likewise three parts of triphalā; / eight parts of jaggery, and four times as much cow's urine as the jaggery; // 53

one who knows the procedure for cooking jaggery should boil all this, / and one should lick it according to one's capacity in phthisis and in digestion-pain. // 54

[18] Eight palas of āmalakī powder, / four palas of iron powder, / and two palas of yaṣṭīmadhu powder, / rubbed continuously on a stone slab, // 55

this powder is to be impregnated with a decoction of amṛtā for a week. / Dried in the fierce sun, / ground again, it is to be kept in a new earthen pot. // 56

Mixed together with clarified butter and honey, / having eaten at the beginning, likewise in the middle, and at the end, / one should eat it all three times, / with wholesome food according to the secondary involvement of doṣas. // 57

Taken at the beginning of a meal, it destroys / diseases arising from pitta and vāta immediately; / taken in the middle, it overcomes food stagnation / in men, and food does not cause a burning sensation. // 58

Used regularly at the end of a meal, it conquers / diseases caused by drinks and food; / when the food is being digested in this way, / it destroys colic in men, even very severe. // 59

Properly employed, this formulation quickly / removes chronic acid-bile; / it is good for the eyes, destroys grey hair, / and conquers diseases arising from kapha and pitta. // 60

It also purifies the blood / and conquers paleness and jaundice. / [19] Thin iron sheets, equal in thickness to a sesame seed, // 61

having smeared them with a paste of kaśikā root or of mustard, / and dried them in the rays of the sun, one should smear them once again. // 62

Heated [in fire], one should quench them again and again in triphalā water. / Then, having reduced it to powder, one should filter it through a cloth. // 63

One should consume this with honey and clarified butter according to the digestive fire, through administration / of a māṣaka, or three times that, or even four times that. // 64

One should take goat's milk as an after-drink; in its absence, / with cow's clarified butter and milk sixty-four times as much. // 65

This definitely destroys digestion-pain in one month; / this supreme 'Nectar of Iron' was fashioned by Brahmā in ancient times. // 66

Whatever begins with the letter 'ka' and whatever is declared to be sour / must not be consumed here, nor meat originating from marshland animals. // 67

[20] Half a tulā of steamed and pressed ash gourd, fried in half a prastha / of clarified butter, equal in weight to sugar-candy, one should cook with a prastha of āmalakī juice, // 68

stirring it with a ladle in a prastha of the juice of well-steamed ash gourd. / When it has reached completion, having powdered, one should add: // 69

two palas each of kaṇā, ajājī, and ginger, and of black pepper; / a pala each of tālīsa, coriander, cāturjātaka, and mustaka, // 70

each in the amount of a karṣa, and half a prastha of honey. / This destroys digestion-pain, including that born of the three doṣas, // 71

and relieves vomiting, acid dyspepsia, fainting, dyspnoea, cough, anorexia, / chest pain, internal haemorrhage, and back pain. / This is the foremost rejuvenating recipe named Khaṇḍāmalaka. // 72

[21] Here, there should be a kuḍava measure of coconut, very well ground, / cooked with a pala measure of clarified butter, equal to sugar-candy,

When this is boiled in its own milk in the measure of a prastha, / and then thoroughly cooled like jaggery, one should add portions of a śāṇa [each]

of powdered coriander, pippalī, nut grass, vaṃśalocana, both cumin seeds, / a śāṇa of the three aromatics, and ironwood flower. / It destroys amlapitta, anorexia, phthisis, internal haemorrhage, / colic, and vomiting; it bestows full virility and is delightful. // 74

Two parts of chickpea powder and another [part] of iron powder, / ground thoroughly with the juice of bitter gourd and palāśa: // 75

A person should then consume one pill weighing a karṣa / with scum of boiled rice as a drink; it destroys severe chronic pitta. // 76

Or one should lick the powder of the three myrobalans combined with iron powder, / or combined with liquorice powder; one should lick it with honey in that disease. // 77

Having administered emesis ending with pitta and purgation ending with kapha, / that which is prescribed for chronic pitta should also be done in annadrava. // 78

When the stomach and intestines are cleansed, annadrava subsides. / Steamed black gram dumplings with the husk, mixed with clarified butter, are wholesome. // 79

There, a thin wheat cake with clarified butter and jaggery, / or mashed with cold milk and sugar, is considered wholesome. // 80

Or slightly warm scum of boiled śāli rice free of grains; / a preparation cooked with milk; [or] ghṛtapūra with sugar. // 81

Or having eaten sugar, one should drink well-boiled milk; / and one should eat roasted gram flour with soup of paṭola leaves. // 82

Since digestive fire becomes weak in annadrava and chronic pitta, / therefore in these [conditions] one should prescribe foods and drinks in reduced measure. // 83