Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 34: Adhikāra 34

Śyāmāka, kodrava, uddāla, wheat, chickpeas, āḍhakī, / and horsegram are always wholesome in the food of those with longstanding urinary disorders. // 1

Meat of arid animals, bitter vegetables, barley-food, and likewise honey. / [Decoctions] separately of pārijāta, jayā, nimba, citraka, and khadira; // 2

of pāṭhā with aguru, of turmeric with dāruharidrā, and of the autumnal [herbs], drunk with honey: / these eight decoctions progressively overcome watery, sugarcane-like, alcoholic, sandy, / slow, salty, flour-like, and dense urinary disorders. // 3

Dūrvā, kaśeru, pūtīka, kumbhīkā, jalavallī, and moss, / boiled with water and drunk, is supreme in curing semen-like urinary disorder. // 4

A decoction of triphalā, āragvadha, and grapes, mixed with honey / and drunk, invariably destroys the urinary disorder known as frothy in men. // 5

[1] of lodhra, abhayā, kaṭphala, and mustaka; / [2] of viḍaṅga, pāṭhā, arjuna, and dhanvana; / [3] of kadamba, śāla, arjuna, and dīpyaka; / [4] of viḍaṅga, dārvī, dhava, and śallakī—

these four decoctions, taken with honey, / should be used in pramehas of kapha.

From aśvattha; from caturaṅgula; from the nyagrodhādi group; from the three fruits; / and from jiṅgī and raktasāra—these five decoctions, along with honey,

destroy in order the pramehas called nīla, daridra, phena, kṣāra, and mañjiṣṭhaka. / Combined with honey, a decoction prepared from dates, kāśmarya, tinduka seeds, and amṛtā destroys raktameha.

[1] Of lodhra, arjuna, uśīra, and red sandalwood; / [2] of ariṣṭa, sevya, āmalaka, and abhayā; / [3] of dhātrī, arjuna, ariṣṭaka, and vatsaka; / [4] of blue water-lily, cardamom, tiniśa, and arjuna—

these four decoctions are prescribed / in prameha of pitta, administered with honey.

A man suffering from sarpirmeha should drink pāṭhā, kuṭaja, asafoetida, / kaṭukā, and kuṣṭha, powdered together, along with a decoction of chinnā and agni.

In the [prameha] called kṣaudra, one should drink a decoction of kadara, khadira, and betel nut; / in vasāmeha, however, one should administer a decoction of agnimantha.

In hastimeha, the physician should administer a decoction / of pāṭhā, śirīṣa, dusparśa, mūrvā, kiṃśuka, tinduka, and kapittha.

The flowers of kampilla, saptacchada, and śāla, / vibhīta, rauhītaka, and kuṭaja, / and the flowers of kapittha, finely powdered, / should be licked with honey by one who suffers from kapha-pitta prameha.

Juice of dhātrī with honey and turmeric cures all pramehas; / or a decoction prepared from triphalā, dāru, and mustaka.

Having boiled the three fruits, tree-turmeric, viśālā, / and musta, and adding paste of a portion of turmeric, / one should drink the decoction mixed with honey / whenever any prameha arises.

A decoction prepared with equal parts of kaṭaṅkaṭerī, madhuka, triphalā, and citraka / should be drunk to destroy pramehas.

A decoction of triphalā, dāru, dārvī, and abda taken with honey destroys prameha; / or one derived from kuṭaja, aśana, dārvī, abda, and the three fruits.

Powder of triphalā, iron, śilājatu, and pathyā, licked separately / with honey like the juice of amṛtā, eliminates all pramehas.

One should drink a karṣa of the paste of śāla, muṣkaka, and kampilla / with dhātrī juice and honey; it is supreme in removing all pramehas.

Nyagrodha, udumbara, aśvattha, syonāka, āragvadha, and aśana; / āmra, jambū, kapittha, priyāla, kakubha, and dhava;

madhuka, liquorice, lodhra, varuṇa, pāribhadraka; / paṭola, meṣaśṛṅgī, dantī, citraka, āḍhakī;

karañja, triphalā, indrayava, and bhallātaka fruit— / one should make a fine powder of equal parts of these.

One should cause this Nyagrodhādi powder to be licked with honey / and drink the juice of the three fruits after it; the urine is purified.

By this recipe the twenty pramehas and dysurias that there are / are pacified, and carbuncles do not arise. / Here, in this Nyagrodhādi formulation, the stones of āmra and jambū are taken.

With trikaṇṭaka, aśmantaka, and somavalka; / with bhallātaka, ativiṣā, and lodhra; / with vacā, paṭola, arjuna, nimba, and musta; / with turmeric, dīpyaka, and padmaka;

and with mañjiṣṭhā, pāṭhā, aguru, and sandalwood— / with all of these combined, one should boil an oil in pramehas born of kapha and vāta; / but clarified butter in pitta, and a mixture [of oil and clarified butter] when all three signs are present.

Clarified butter prepared with a decoction that removes kapha-prameha is beneficial in kapha; / clarified butter prepared with an extract that destroys pitta-prameha is beneficial in pitta.

The ten roots, both karañjas, devadāru, harītakī, / varṣābhū, varuṇa, dantī, citraka, together with punarnavā,

sudhā, nīpa, kadamba, bilva, and bhallātaka, / śaṭhī, puṣkaramūla, and pippalīmūla:

cook ten palas each of these parts in an armaṇa of water, / and add a prastha each of barley, kola, and kulattha; / with that [decoction] reduced to a fourth, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter

together with this paste: nicula, triphalā, bhārgī, rohiṣa, gajapippalī, / ginger, viḍaṅga, vacā, and kampillaka.

When prepared, one should have it drunk according to strength. / This, renowned as the supreme clarified butter called Dhānvantara,

curbs skin disease, gulma, pramehas, oedema, gout, / splenomegaly, haemorrhoids, abscesses, the carbuncles that arise, / epilepsy, and insanity.

There, one should cook each hundred palas of ingredients in an armaṇa of water; / when [the substance] exceeds three hundred [palas], water should be [calculated] according to the standard rule of proportion.

The physician should prepare pills of guggulu mixed with an equal amount / of the powder of trikaṭu and triphalā, combined with a decoction of gokṣura.

Taking into account the doṣas, season, and strength, one should eat [these pills], which regulate downward movement.

Here there is no dietary restriction; one may do work as one wishes. / It overcomes pramehas, urinary retentions, diseases of children, and abdominal disease.

The śilājatu that has been impregnated with the decoction of the Śālasārādi group, / ground according to strength, should be drunk by one whose body has been purified, with that same [decoction].

When it has digested, one should take food along with meat broth of arid-zone animals; / a man should use it in this manner up to one tulā.

Free from madhumeha, urinary gravel, and calculus, / endowed with beauty, complexion, and strength, he lives for a hundred years free from disease.

Iron combined with viḍaṅga, triphalā, and musta, / with pippalī, dry ginger, and the two jirakas, / destroys pramehas that are exceedingly hard to overcome / and all urinary disorders; there is no doubt.

One may also administer mākṣika mineral in the same way, and it too has this efficacy. / When the decoction of the Śālasārādi group has reached condensation,

one should throw in powder of dantī, lodhra, harītakī, magnetic iron, and copper. / Having eaten it when thickened and unburnt, one dispels pramehas.

Devoting oneself to every form of exercise, one dispels pramehas: / walking without footwear and umbrella, eating alms like an ascetic, restrained,

even if by sheer effort, one should walk a hundred yojanas or more without stopping / to conquer pramehas, subsisting on wild grain and āmalaka.

The physician should treat eruptions such as śarāvikā like oedema; / and when suppurated, he should treat them like a wound. For their drinking, it is recommended [to use]

a decoction of big trees and goat's urine, which cleanses wounds; / and he should prepare an oil with the elādi group for healing wounds.

He should prepare a decoction and rubs with the āragvadhādi group, / sprinkling with the śālasārādi group, and food and the like with the kaṇādi group.

He should avoid fermented barley-water, surā liquor, fermented gruel, oil, milk, clarified butter, jaggery, / sour things, sugarcane juice, flour-based food, and meat of marsh animals.