Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 28: Adhikāra 28

One who drinks prasannā, jaggery wine, and sidhu should eat barley food / prepared with vegetables like trivṛt, euphorbia leaves, sesame, and the like, / or with the broths of domesticated, wetland, and marshland animals, / and with other things that clear vāta, urine, and stool. // 1

In [the condition] arising from vāta, an unctuous enema is commended for one who has been oleated and fomented; / but in that arising from feces, the regimen prescribed for flatulent abdominal distension should be carried out. // 2

There the physician should apply alkaline and vaitaraṇa enemas. / Śyāmā, dantī, dravantī, cinnanon bark, mahāśyāmā, snuhī, trivṛt, // 3

saptalā, śaṅkhinī, śvetā, rājavṛkṣa along with tilvaka, / kampillaka, karañja, and hemakṣīrī: this group, // 4

prepared in clarified butter, oil, powder, decoction, paste, or any other [form], / destroys reverse movement of vāta, abdominal disease, flatulent abdominal distension, poison, and abdominal lump. // 5

Trivṛt, pippalī, and harītakī in two, four, and five parts: / pills equal [in weight] to jaggery destroy disorders of fecal retention. // 6

Harītakī, barley alkali, pīlu, and trivṛt: / this powder, to be drunk with clarified butter, destroys reverse movement of vāta. // 7

Asafoetida, kuṣṭha, vacā, sarjikā alkali, and viḍa salt, each doubled in succession: / that powder, drunk with liquor, is supreme in removing reverse movement of vāta. // 8

A pala of sugar candy, an equal amount of trivṛt, / and a karṣa of pippalī, ground finely: / before meals, the wise person should lick a karṣa of it / with honey. // 9

This is to be employed in hard stool, / [and in disorders of] pitta accompanied by kapha. / Pleasant, suitable for kings, / this powder is named Nārācaka. // 10

One should drink garlic mixed with liquor in the morning when there is appetite. / It destroys abdominal lumps, reverse movement of vāta, and colic; it is appetising and increases strength. // 11

Cooking a well-fashioned suppository with asafoetida, honey, and rock salt, / smeared with clarified butter, one should insert it into the rectum to destroy reverse movement of vāta. // 12

Madanaphala, pippalī, kuṣṭha, vacā, and white mustard seeds, / combined with jaggery and alkali, are commended as a fruit suppository. // 13

Soot from the hearth, rock salt, and oil with sour radish, / or crushed nirguṇḍī leaves, the wise person should introduce into the fomented anus. // 14

When urine is obstructed, one should drink wine abundant in sauvarcala salt, / or cardamoms with liquor, or one should drink milk and water. // 15

Or the fresh juice of duḥsparśā, or a decoction of arjuna bark; / or one should drink cucumber seeds salted with water. // 16

Milk boiled with the five roots, or grape juice: / in every way one should employ the regimen for dysuria and urinary calculus. // 17

One should treat reverse movement of vāta arising from yawning with oleation and fomentation; / in that arising from tears, shedding tears should be produced, along with sleep, wine, and pleasant conversations. // 18

In that arising from sneezing, one should induce sneezing with a slender leaf inserted into the nose; / likewise, massage above the collarbone, fomentation, medicated smoking along with nasal drops [should be used]. // 19

Wholesome also is vāta-destroying wine, and clarified butter taken after meals. / In that arising from eructation, one should practice unctuous smoking properly administered. // 20

One should conquer suppression of vomiting according to the doṣa by nasal therapy, oleation, and the like; / emesis after eating, medicated smoking, fasting, blood-letting, // 21

dry food and drink, physical exercise, and purgation are commended here. / Milk boiled with four times its amount of water and mixed with bladder-cleansing ingredients, // 22

boiled until the water is gone: when he has drunk it at will, / beloved women should make love to the man suffering from reverse movement of vāta due to semen. // 23

Here, massage, tub baths, liquor, roosters, / śāli rice, milk, non-unctuous enemas, and sexual intercourse are commended. // 24

In suppression of hunger, unctuous, warm, and small amounts of food are wholesome; / in suppression of thirst, one should drink a cooling beverage or a cold thick gruel. // 25

A man afflicted with fatigue-induced dyspnoea should eat with meat broth after resting well. / In suppression of sleep, he should drink milk, sleep, and receive massages. / In flatulent abdominal distension, the treatment for reverse movement of vāta [is used]; when associated with āma, fasting and digestives [are used]. // 26

Powder of asafoetida, vacā, along with kuṣṭha, / and suvarcikā, each doubled in succession, and viḍaṅga: / taken with warm water, it destroys flatulent abdominal distension, choleraic pain, / heart disease, abdominal lumps, and upward vāta. // 27

Vacā, harītakī, citraka, barley alkali, / with pippalī, ativiṣā, and kuṣṭha: / having drunk this with hot water, one eating wholesome boiled rice / quickly conquers flatulent abdominal distension and confused vāta. // 28

One should triturate trivṛt, harītakī, and śyāmā with the latex of snuhī: / those pills drunk with urine are excellent and break through flatulent abdominal distension. // 29

The fruit and root mentioned for purgation, / asafoetida, arka root, the prime ten roots, / snuk, citraka, and punarnavā, / all equal, and the five salts: // 30

Crushed together with unctuous substances and urine, / one should cook them in a well-sealed earthen saucer; / that salt, cooked and ground well, taken with food / and drinks, is supreme in destroying the pain of flatulent abdominal distension. // 31

A suppository the size of a thumb cooked with soot from a forge, viḍa salt, the three pungents, / jaggery, and urine, should be inserted into the rectum / to relieve flatulent abdominal distension and colic. // 32

A suppository [made] of trikaṭu, rock salt, / mustard, soot, kuṣṭha, and madanaphala, / cooked in honey or jaggery, / is to be inserted into the anus to the measure of a thumb. 33.

This suppository has proven results / when inserted slowly into the rectum, smeared with clarified butter; / it relieves constipation and udāvarta, / and dispels abdominal disease and abdominal lump. 34.

Having crushed dried and fresh radish, varṣābhū, pañcamūla, / and the fruit of ārevata, one should cook clarified butter with that. / When drunk, it dispels udāvarta beyond doubt. 35.

In the decoction of two palas each of the sthirādi group, punarnavā, / sampāka, and pūtīkakarañja, / one prastha of clarified butter should be prepared [and taken] when vāta is obstructed. 36.