Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 38: Adhikāra 38

Water boiled with dry ginger, punarnavā, castor, and the lesser five roots / is commended for vātika oedema, taken as drink and food. / Daśamūla is praised in every way, especially in vāta. (1)

Living on milk, in oedema produced by pitta, / one should drink a decoction of trivṛt, guḍūcī, and the three myrobalans, / or mixed with cow's urine, / or a dose of an akṣa of the powder of the three myrobalans. (2)

Harītakī, devadāru, liquorice, kaṭukā, dantī, along with pippalī, / paṭola, sandalwood, tree turmeric, trāyamāṇā, and indravāruṇī: (3)

a decoction of these along with clarified butter destroys oedema, fever, and burning sensation, / erysipelas, thirst, burning fever, sannipāta, and poison. / One should also apply anointings and the like with cold-potency remedies and chilled water. (4)

In oedema arising from kapha, one should drink the paste of punarnavā, dry ginger, trivṛt, guḍūcī, / āragvadha, harītakī, and devadāru, / combined with guggulu, along with [cow's] urine, or the water [boiled with] these. (5)

In kapha, however, there should be an external application of black sand, aged / oil-cake, horseradish tree bark, and flaxseeds; / sprinkling with horsegram and dry ginger water and urine; / and inunction with caṇḍā and aguru. (6)

Cumin, pāṭhā, mustā, the pañcakola herbs, / kaṇṭakārī, and the two turmerics, drunk with warm water, / and bhūnimba and dry ginger, destroy / longstanding, aggravated oedema born of all three doṣas. (7)

A decoction of punarnavā, neem, paṭola, dry ginger, / kaṭukā, guḍūcī, tree turmeric, and harītakī / destroys anaemia accompanied by whole-body oedema, / abdominal disease, cough, colic, and dyspnoea. (8)

Fresh ginger juice, drunk mixed with aged jaggery, / in those who subsist on goat's milk, quickly cures all oedemas. (9)

In a decoction of punarnavā, devadāru, and dry ginger, or in pure cow's urine, / or in a decoction of daśamūla, guggulu destroys oedema. (10)

One should administer strained bilva leaf juice, which is desiccant, in oedema born of all three [doṣas], / in constipation, in haemorrhoids, and also in jaundice. (11)

Powder of jaggery, pippalī, and dry ginger destroys oedema, / alleviates indigestion due to āma, cures colic, and purifies the bladder. (12)

Guggulu should be consumed with cow's urine, or pippalī along with milk, / or harītakī with an equal amount of jaggery, or dry ginger, by patients with oedema. (13)

Jaggery with fresh ginger, or jaggery with dry ginger, / or jaggery with harītakī, or jaggery with pippalī: / increasing by a karṣa up to a measure of three palas, / a man should eat it for a fortnight or even for a month. (14)

It destroys oedema, coryza, diseases of the throat and mouth, / together with dyspnoea, cough, anorexia, and chronic coryza, / chronic fever, haemorrhoids, malabsorption disorders, / and likewise other diseases of kapha and vāta. (15)

One should administer a paste made of sthalapadma stirred into milk; / it cures spleen diseases and conquers generalized and localized oedema. (16)

A paste of devadāru, guggulu, and dry ginger taken with cow's urine conquers oedema; / or a paste of punarnavā and fresh ginger conquers all oedemas. (17)

Having prepared a decoction of vāsā, guḍūcī, and kaṇṭakārī, mixed with honey, / a person, drinking it, overcomes oedema, dyspnoea, cough, vomiting, and fever. (18)

Having eaten a paste of bhūnimba and dry ginger, a decoction of punarnavā should be drunk; / it surely and swiftly removes whole-body oedema in men. (19)

Ash of kokilākṣa with cow's urine or water removes oedema. / Milk boiled with devadāru, punarnavā, and dry ginger cures oedema; (20)

or [milk] prepared with citraka, the three pungents, trivṛt, and devadāru should be drunk.

Meat broths, thick gruels, milks, and soups / prepared with punarnavā roots, kapittha, devadāru, / guḍūcī, and citraka roots, containing daśamūla within, / should be administered in oedema. (21)

The two alkalis, four salts, / iron filings, the three pungents, the three myrobalans, / pippalī roots, viḍaṅga seeds, / mustā, ajamodā, devadāru, bilva, (22)

indrajava, citraka root, pāṭhā, / liquorice, ativiṣā, palāśa, / with asafoetida, each one karṣa, and then dried powder— / a droṇa of dried radishes; (23)

from the ashes; it should be boiled with that water,
stirred until thick, without burning.
Then, when solidified, having made a dose equal [in size] to a jujube fruit,
well dried, one should administer it according to the rule. // 24

It dispels splenomegaly, vitiligo, chlorosis, haemorrhoids,
anaemia, anorexia, oedema, consumption,
cholera, abdominal lumps, artificial poison, urinary calculus,
together with dyspnoea, cough, and skin diseases. // 25

Sauvarcala salt, saindhava salt, viḍa salt, and audbhida salt:
these should be the four salts here, and the water should be eight times [the quantity]. // 26

With a paste of punarnavā, citraka, devadāru,
the five acrids, alkali, and harītakī,
cooked in water of daśamūla,
this excellent clarified butter destroys oedema. // 27

Clarified butter prepared with a decoction and paste of punarnavā dispels oedema.
Boiled with a paste of dry ginger in water of daśamūla,
clarified butter destroys oedema, malabsorption syndrome, and anaemia. // 28

With citraka, coriander, yavānī, pāṭhā,
with dīpyaka, the three acrids, vetasāmla,
the fruit of bilva, pomegranate, barley-alkali,
with pippalī root, and also cavya, // 29

ground to the measure of an akṣa each, and cooked with an āḍhaka of water
and a prastha of clarified butter, one should then consume it.
It cures haemorrhoids, abdominal lumps, oedema, and dysuria,
and makes the digestive fire blaze. // 30

One should cook clarified butter in a decoction of the five spices and horsegram,
with a paste of punarnavā;
this clarified butter destroys oedema. // 31

Milk curdled in a pot smeared with a paste of citraka
is thoroughly churned; with that,
the clarified butter produced from it, cooked with a paste of citraka root
and with buttermilk, is preeminent in destroying oedema. // 32

It cures haemorrhoids, diarrhoea, vāta-type abdominal lumps, and urinary disorders,
and increases strength. // 33

One should cook a prastha of clarified butter with a decoction and paste of māṇaka.
It dispels single-doṣa, dual-doṣa, and tridoṣa oedema. // 34

Eight palas of sthalapadma, four palas of the three acrids:
one should cook a prastha of clarified butter with these, having added four times [as much] milk.
It quickly removes the five coughs and exceedingly stubborn oedema. // 35

With śaileya, kuṣṭha, aguru, devadāru, kauntī,
cinnamon, padmaka, cardamom, bottle gourd, palāśa, mustā,
priyaṅgu, sthauṇeyaka, saffron, māṃsī,
tālīsapatra, plava, patra, coriander, // 36

śrīveṣṭaka, dhyāmaka, pippalī,
pṛkkā, or nakha, as available:
when accompanied by vāta, an oil prepared with these is desired for massage,
and also a poultice with them finely ground. // 37

With dried radish, punarnavā, devadāru, rāsnā, and dry ginger,
oil cooked [with these], through inunction, overcomes oedema accompanied by pain. // 38

In an āḍhaka of juice of punarnavā, guḍūcī, devadāru, and daśamūla,
and a prastha of fresh ginger juice, one should cook a tulā of jaggery. // 39

When it is cooked, one should throw in the three acrids, cavya, cardamom, and cinnamon,
one karṣa of each in powdered form; when cold, one should lick it with a kuḍava of honey. // 40

This electuary named Paunarnava destroys oedema and pain;
it removes dyspnoea, cough, and anorexia, and increases strength, complexion, and digestive fire. // 41

In a kaṃsa of decoction of daśamūla, one should cook a hundred harītakīs;
when thickened, one should add a tulā of jaggery, four palas of the three acrids and alkali, // 42

a suvarṇa portion of the three aromatics, and half a prastha of honey when cold.
These Daśamūlīharītakīs destroy very severe oedemas, // 43

fevers, anorexia, abdominal lumps, haemorrhoids, urinary disorders, anaemia, and abdominal diseases.
Here, each of the three aromatics should be one karṣa in measure. // 44

And this Kaṃsaharītakī is read differently in Caraka;
therefore, its equivalence in this measure is described there as well. // 45

In a kaṃsa of decoction of the two pañcamūlas, one should cook
a hundred abhayās and [a tulā] of jaggery.
When the electuary is properly cooked, one introduces the powder
of the three acrids and the three aromatics, and when it is cooled, // 46

the measure of half a prastha of honey,
and a little powder of barley-alkali.
Having eaten one abhayā and then a śukti of the electuary,
it cures advanced oedema, // 47

cough, fever, anorexia, urinary disorders, abdominal lumps,
splenomegaly, anaemia arising from the three doṣas,
emaciation, āmavāta, bleeding disorders, acid dyspepsia,
discolouration, and disorders of urine, vāta, and semen. // 48

Here no other explanation is stated,
because the earlier explanation is excellent. // 49

A paste with sesame seeds, milk, honey, and fresh butter
destroys oedema caused by bhallātaka,
or with the earth from beneath that tree,
or with leaves of śāla, before long. // 50

In oedema caused by poison, however, the treatment stated for poison is approved. // 51

Meat of domestic or wetland animals, salt, dried vegetables, newly harvested grains,
preparations of jaggery, flour-based food, curd with kṛśarā, slimy dishes, sour wine,
roasted grains, dried meat, eating mixed meals, heavy, unwholesome, and burning food,
and sleeping by day and at night [excessively], and sexual intercourse: one suffering from oedema should avoid these. // 52