Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 32: Adhikāra 32

One should overcome urinary retentions according to the doṣa by using [remedies] that relieve strangury. / One should administer enema and urethral enema, as well as unctuous purgation. 1.

Having drunk an akṣa-measure of the paste of ervāru seeds along with rock salt / combined with fermented grain-water, one is freed at once from urinary retention. 2.

With the alkaline water of pāṭalā, or barley-sprout ash, or pāribhadra, or even sesamum, / [a person] should drink wine mixed with cinnamon, cardamom, and black pepper, 3.

or lick them separately followed by jaggery; / or [the physician] may make him drink salt combined with the paste of triphalā. 4.

One should drink fresh juice of nidigdhikā filtered through vātāntara, / or saffron paste kept overnight in water, combined with honey. 5.

A man suffering from urinary retention should drink ash of pāṭalā with oil, or strained like alkali, / [or] surā liquor containing black salt. 6.

Having drunk surā with salt, along with pomegranate juice, prime cardamom seeds, / and dry ginger, one is freed from urinary retention. 7.

One should drink śilājatu in a decoction of the vīratarādi group, / or the juice of durālabhā, or in a decoction of vāsaka. 8.

Milk boiled with gokṣura, eraṇḍa, and śatāvarī, / or with the roots of the five grasses, / or milk laden with jaggery and with clarified butter, / is praised in diseases such as dysuria. 9.

Roots of nala, kuśa, kāśa, and ikṣu / boiled, thoroughly cooled, and drunk cold in the morning: / retention of urine certainly departs for him who drinks it, / so said Kaca. 10.

The root of godhāvatī / boiled and mixed with clarified butter, oil, and cow's milk, / drunk, quickly breaks / an obstructed accumulation of urine. 11.

Seed of khadirī taken with water removes urinary retention and calculus; / the root of trijaṭā drunk with buttermilk produces that same effect. 12.

When urine is obstructed, one should introduce powder of camphor into the penis. / One who consumes milk boiled and cooled [should take] sandalwood with rice-water; 13.

one should drink it with sugar: this is best in uṣṇavāta with blood. / A cold tub-bath up to the pelvis relieves uṣṇavāta. 14.

Also juice of kūṣmāṇḍaka, drunk with alkali and sugar, [is beneficial] / for one who discharges blood due to excessive intercourse with women. 15.

Cessation of sexual intercourse and a nourishing regimen are wholesome for him. / Powder of kapikacchū fruit, raisins, long pepper, sugar, and sugarcane juice— 16.

in equal parts, and milk, honey, and clarified butter in half-parts: / having churned all thoroughly, licking an akṣa-measure, one should drink milk. 17.

It destroys disorders arising in the seminal vesicle and grants offspring to a barren woman. / Citraka, śārivā, balā, kālānuśārivā, 18.

drākṣā, viśālā, long peppers, and likewise citraphalā; / in the same way, one should add madhuka, and add āmalakī fruits. 19.

One should cook one āḍhaka of clarified butter with these pastes of an akṣa each, / in a droṇa of milk and a droṇa of water; when it is prepared, one should remove it. 20.

Once cooled and strained, the wise person should mix it all / with a prastha of sugar and bamboo manna. 21.

Then, in a measured dose at the proper time, according to the doṣa and according to strength, / one whose semen is affected by vāta, pitta, or kapha, 22.

or by blood, or who has knotted semen, should drink it, wishing for health. / This clarified butter, endowed with great virtues, is invigorating and aphrodisiac, 23.

beneficial for progeny, auspicious, dispelling all diseases, and salutary. / A woman using this clarified butter quickly conceives. 24.

It also overcomes disorders of the menstrual blood and manifold disorders of the vagina. / One should perform this treatment in all urinary disorders. 25.