Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 4: Adhikāra 4

One should treat the doṣa residing in the grahaṇī like indigestion,
and cook its āma according to the rules stated for diarrhoea. // 1

When the rasa accompanied by āma has permeated the body, fasting and digestive measures [are indicated].

For him whose stomach has been cleansed, one should provide light food such as thin gruel
combined with pañcakola and the like, and again appetising formulations. // 2

Kapittha, bilva, and cāṅgerī, prepared with buttermilk and pomegranate,
form a digestive thin gruel for malabsorption syndrome; when accompanied by vāta, [it should be prepared] with the pañcamūla. // 3

For those with disorders of the grahaṇī, buttermilk is appetising, bowel-binding due to lightness,
wholesome, and does not aggravate pitta because of its sweet post-digestive effect. // 4

Because of being astringent, hot, spreading, and dry, it is beneficial in kapha;
in vāta, because of being sweet, sour, thick, fresh, and non-burning. // 5

One should drink dry ginger, mustā, ativiṣā, and guḍūcī,
in equal parts, boiled with water,
in sluggishness of digestive fire, constant āma-condition,
perpetuation of āma, and in disease of the grahaṇī. // 6

Coriander, ativiṣā, udīcya, yavānī, mustā, dry ginger,
balā, dviparṇī, and bilva: one should administer this as an appetiser and digestive. // 7

Citraka, pippalī root, the two alkalis, the salts,
the three pungents, asafoetida, ajamodā, and cavya: one should powder these together. // 8

Pills made with citron juice or with sour pomegranate juice
digest āma and quickly stimulate the digestive fire. // 9

Sauvarcala, rock salt, biḍa salt, and audbhida salt,
equal with sea salt: here one should employ the five salts. // 10

Paste of unripe bael fruit
mixed with dry ginger powder and with jaggery,
habitually consumed by one who subsists on buttermilk, conquers extremely severe disease of the grahaṇī. // 11

Boiled with leaves of jambū, pomegranate, śṛṅgāṭa, pāṭhā, and kaṃcaṭa,
kept overnight, tender bilva with jaggery and dry ginger // 12

destroys all diarrhoeas and extremely stubborn malabsorption syndrome.
A decoction of dry ginger, ativiṣā, and mustā digests āma. // 13

Hiṅgvaṣṭaka powder and clarified butters in vāta-induced malabsorption syndrome.
Dry ginger, ativiṣā, mustā, dhātakī, along with rasāñjana, // 14

vatsaka bark and fruit, bilva, pāṭhā, and kaṭukarohiṇī:
one should drink this powder in equal parts, with honey and rice-water, // 15

in pitta-born disorder of the grahaṇī, when blood is passed in stools,
in haemorrhoids, pain in the anus, and it overcomes dysentery. // 16

This Nāgarādya powder is esteemed by Kṛṣṇātreya.
The preparation of rice-water is by the measure of a cold infusion; // 17

some say the infusion of rice is made with eight times [its weight of] water.
Equal parts of bhūnimba, kaṭukā, the three pungents, mustaka, and indrayava, // 18

two parts of citraka, and sixteen parts of vatsaka bark: one should powder them.
Drunk with jaggery and cold water, it removes disorders of the grahaṇī and abdominal lumps, // 19

and cures jaundice, fever, anaemia, urinary diseases, anorexia, and diarrhoea.
From the addition of jaggery, jaggery-water possesses the colour and taste of jaggery. // 20

In the grahaṇī vitiated by kapha, for one who has vomited according to rule,
one should kindle the digestive fire with pungent, sour, salty, alkaline, and sharp substances. // 21

Pippalī along with its root, the two alkalis, the five salts, / mātuluṅga, abhayā, rāsnā, śaṭhī, marica, and nāgara: // 22

Having made a powder of these in equal parts, one should drink it in the morning with warm water. / In malabsorption syndrome caused by kapha, it increases strength, complexion, and digestive fire. // 23

Clarified butter prepared with these very medicines should be drunk when it is accompanied by vāta. / Bhallātaka, the three pungents, triphalā, and the three salts, // 24

two palas of each, one should burn without smoke with a fire of cow dung. / Taken with alkali, it should be drunk with clarified butter, or applied with food. // 25

It removes heart disease, anaemia, malabsorption syndrome, abdominal lump, upward movement of vāta, and colic. / But in malabsorption syndrome born of all [three doṣas], a general procedure is prescribed. // 26

A powder consisting of marica, mahauṣadha, / and bark of kuṭaja, each successively doubled in quantity, / drunk mixed with jaggery and churned, / is renowned for destroying malabsorption syndrome. // 27

Pāṭhā, bilva, anala, vyoṣa, jambū, dāḍima, dhātakī, / kaṭukā, ativiṣā, mustā, dārvī, bhūnimba, and vatsaka: // 28

A powder of kuṭaja equal to all these combined, with rice water / and with honey, should be drunk by one suffering from vomiting, fever, diarrhoea, and colic; // 29

it overcomes thirst, burning sensation, malabsorption syndrome, anorexia, and sluggishness of digestive fire. / With yavānī, pippalī root, caturjātaka, nāgara, // 30

marica, agni, jala, ajājī, dhānya, and sauvarcala in equal parts; / with vṛkṣāmla, dhātakī, kṛṣṇā, bilva, dāḍima, and tinduka // 31

in three parts each, with six parts of sugar, and with eight parts of kapittha, the powder prepared / cures diarrhoea, malabsorption syndrome, phthisis, abdominal lump, and throat diseases; // 32

this [powder called] Kapitthāṣṭaka overcomes cough, dyspnoea, anorexia, and hiccup. / Tugākṣīrī measured at one karṣa, cāturjāta two karṣas, // 33

yavānī, dhānyaka, ajājī, granthi, and vyoṣa one pala each, / eight palas of dāḍima and [eight palas] of sugar, combined together: // 34

this powder called Dāḍimāṣṭaka is equal in properties to Kapitthāṣṭaka. / Four palas of stem of sudhā, three palas of the three salts, // 35

one kuḍava of vārtāku, eight [palas] of arka, and two palas of citraka, / burnt [together], made into pills with vārtāku juice, [and taken] after meals, // 36

quickly digest whatever is eaten; they are beneficial for cough, dyspnoea, and haemorrhoids, / and beneficial for destroying cholera, coryza, and heart disease. // 37

A paste of tryūṣaṇa and triphalā the size of a bilva fruit, and one pala of jaggery, / cooked in eight palas of clarified butter: one with sluggish digestive fire should drink a measured dose. // 38

One should cook clarified butter with a decoction of masūra and a paste of bilva; / it destroys all diseases of the belly, malabsorption syndrome, anaemia, and jaundice. // 39

A decoction of rice and animal meat alone, when stale, causes vitiation of doṣas. / Clarified butter cooked in water of daśamūla with a paste of viśvauṣadha / will destroy oedema, malabsorption syndrome, and diseases of undigested matter. // 40

Clarified butter prepared with a paste of nāgara promotes the downward movement of vāta, / destroys malabsorption syndrome and anaemia, and removes splenomegaly, cough, and fever. // 41

Clarified butter cooked with a decoction and paste of citraka destroys malabsorption syndrome; / it destroys abdominal lump, oedema, abdominal disease, splenomegaly, colic, and haemorrhoids, and is appetising. // 42

Clarified butter prepared with a decoction and paste of bilva, agni, cavya, ārdraka, and śṛṅgavera, / together with goat's milk, is pre-eminent in dispelling oedema, sluggishness of digestive fire, / and anorexia arising from malabsorption syndrome. // 43

Nāgara, pippalī root, citraka, hastipippalī, / śvadaṃṣṭrā, pippalī, dhānya, bilva, pāṭhā, and yavānikā; // 44

clarified butter cooked in fresh juice of cāṅgerī with these pastes, / and with four times as much curd: that clarified butter removes kapha and vāta. // 45

This clarified butter relieves haemorrhoids, malabsorption syndrome, dysuria, dysentery, / distress of prolapse of the rectum, and abdominal distension. // 46

Marica, pippalī root, nāgara, and pippalī, / bhallātaka, yavānī, viḍaṅga, hastipippalī, // 47

hiṅgu, sauvarcala, biḍa, saindhava, and dārvī, / then sāmudra with yavakṣāra, and citraka along with vacā: // 48

with half-pala portions of these, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter / prepared in decoction of daśamūla and with twice as much milk. // 49

Prepared thus, it is beneficial for those with sluggish digestive fire, destroys malabsorption syndrome, / and removes constipation, undigested matter, debility, and splenomegaly. // 50

It destroys cough, dyspnoea, phthisis, haemorrhoids along with fistula-in-ano, / and diseases born of kapha, born of vāta, and originating from worms. // 51

It destroys them all quickly, like fire [burns] dry wood. / Sauvarcala, pañcakola, saindhava, hapuṣā, vacā, // 52
ajamodā, yavakṣāra, hiṅgu, jīraka, audbhida, / kṛṣṇājājī, and bhūtīka, having made half a pala of each into paste, // 53

with juice of ginger, cukra, milk, curd whey, and sour gruel, / one should cook a prastha of clarified butter with a decoction of daśamūla. // 54

It should be given by the wise with food or on an empty stomach. / Worms, splenomegaly, abdominal disease, indigestion, fever, skin disease, dysentery, // 55

diseases of vāta, disorders of kapha, colic, anorexia, / anaemia, phthisis, cough, debility, and malabsorption syndrome: // 56

this [clarified butter] named Mahāṣaṭpala [destroys them], just as Indra's thunderbolt [destroys] a tree. / That which consists of curd whey and the like, with jaggery, honey, and sour gruel, // 57

kept in a clean vessel within a heap of grain for three nights, is called śukta or cukra. / Salt, jaggery, honey, sour gruel, and curd whey in succession here: // 58

One prastha of rice water, three prasthas of chaff water, / half a prastha of sour curd, eight palas of sour radish, / two mānikās of jaggery, two mānikās of cleaned ginger pieces, / two palas of saindhava and ajājī, / two palas of kṛṣṇā and ūṣaṇa, two palas of turmeric; placing [these] into a sturdy, // 59

unctuous vessel, one should keep it placed in a heap of grain, barley, and the like: / for three days in summer and at the end of the rainy season; for four [days] in the rains and at the onset of flowering [spring]; / for six in the cold season; for eight days in [late winter]. Then, after decanting this, / one should powder it combined with a pala of cāturjāta: this is that śukra and cukra. // 60

It destroys many kinds of diseases produced by vāta, kapha, and disorders of undigested matter; / having destroyed haemorrhoids, abdominal lump caused by vāta, colic, and abdominal disease, it kindles the digestive fire. // 61

Yamānī, āmalaka, pathyā, and marica, three palas each, / and the five salts, one pala each: one should powder [them] together. // 62

There, a man should drink the fermented buttermilk liquor produced in the bell-metal vessel. / It stimulates the digestive fire and destroys oedema, abdominal lump, haemorrhoids, worms, urinary disorders, and abdominal disease. (63)

One should add one āḍhaka measure each / of roasted barley flour and [regular] barley flour, / and sixty-four chopped radishes / of medium size; (64)

having steeped them in a droṇa of water in a well-washed jar, / one should add this group of medicaments: / the two alkalis, tumburu, goat-weed, / coriander, biḍa salt, and rock salt, (65)

sauvarcala salt, asafoetida, sirāṭikā, / and cavya, each to the measure of two palas; / and one should crush these others / to the measure of a pala and throw them into the jar: (66)

long pepper, cumin, black caraway, / black mustard, kāravī, and plumbago. / Having stood for a fortnight, this gives strength, complexion, bodily vitality, / and longevity, and bestows immense strength. (67)

Because it arose thinking 'whom shall I revive?', / the experts call it kāñjika. / And because it digests meals within the span of an āyāma, / they also call it āyāmaka. (68)

Ascites, abdominal lump, splenomegaly, / heart disease, tympanites, anorexia, / weak digestive fire, pain in the alimentary tract, / haemorrhoidal disorders along with fistula-in-ano, (69)

and all kinds of vāta diseases in men / it swiftly destroys when properly consumed. (70)

Taking three prasthas of pure juice of āmalakī, / having added half a tulā of jaggery, / and the powdered roots of long pepper, cumin, cavya, / the three pungents, habuṣā, ajamodā, (71)

viḍaṅga, rock salt, triphalā, caraway, / pāṭhā, and plumbago, each measuring one pala; / and having added eight palas of trivṛt powder / and eight of oil, one should cook it properly. (72)

One should eat it to the measure of an akṣa fruit, / behaving as one pleases, mixed with the three aromatics. / By this, all malabsorption syndrome disorders, / accompanied by dyspnoea, cough, hoarseness, and oedema, (73)

are pacified; and this is the cause of increase / of a long-sluggish digestive fire and of destroyed virility; / and it destroys barrenness in women: / it is declared as the molasses preparation called Kalyāṇaka. (74)

Physicians fry the trivṛt slightly in oil here. / From parity with the measure stated here, the three aromatics are one pala each. (75)

One hundred palas of mature ash-gourd, well steamed / and stripped of seeds and skin, / should be cooked slowly in a copper vessel in one prastha of clarified butter. (76)

Long pepper, root of long pepper, plumbago, greater long pepper, / coriander seeds, viḍaṅga, caraway, and black pepper, (77)

triphalā, ajamodā, indrajava, cumin, rock salt, / each one pala, and eight palas of trivṛt; (78)

eight palas of oil and fifty [palas] of jaggery, / together with three prasthas of juice of āmalaka: (79)

when it adheres to the ladle, one should take it down. / According to one's capacity, one should make molasses pills measuring a karṣa or half a karṣa. (80)

Employed by this method, it overcomes these / violently: malabsorption syndrome diseases, skin diseases, haemorrhoids, fistula-in-ano, (81)

fever, tympanites, heart disease, abdominal lump, abdominal disease, cholera, / jaundice, anaemia, and the twenty urinary disorders, (82)

gout, erysipelas, ringworm, carmadala, halīmaka; / and it completely removes all well-established / kapha, pitta, and vāta [disorders]. (83)

For men depleted by disease, depleted by age, / and depleted by women, / it is aphrodisiac, strength-giving, and life-prolonging. (84)

The molasses preparation named Kalyāṇaka / is supreme for giving conception to barren women. / And the pill Kṣudhāvatī is to be prepared in acid-peptic disorder. (85)

There, purified according to the stated method, equal parts of mercury and sulphur / should be ground in a firm vessel until resembling collyrium. (86)

Then, liquefied in an iron vessel placed over a fire of jujube wood, / by pouring it onto a plantain leaf spread over cow dung, (87)

one should make it into the form of a thin wafer (parpaṭikā). / Its administration is gradually from two raktikās / up to twelve raktikās, after half a prahara. (88)

After that, chewing much betel-nut is prescribed; / on the third day again, / meat, clarified butter, and milk are prescribed in this treatment. (89)

One must avoid burning foods, women, plantain roots, and mustard oil; / having avoided small fish and aquatic birds, one should drink milk while staying awake. (90)

It destroys malabsorption syndrome, consumption, skin diseases, haemorrhoids, cachexia, and indigestion; / this is the renowned Rasa-parpaṭikā composed by Cakrapāṇi. (91)

In a pot, one māṣa each of mercury and sulphur should be ground and placed; / above it, two māṣas of taṇḍulīya crushed with nails. (92)

Then, having covered it with Nepalese copper and so forth, well smeared with mud, / one should fill the whole upper part of the pot with sand. Then fire (93)

should be applied beneath the pot for the duration of a nālikā. / Of the calcined copper thus obtained, a woman [or patient] takes one rakti of copper, one raktikā of triphalā powder, (94)

one raktikā of the three pungents, and of viḍaṅga; this, mixed with honey / and clarified butter, is to be licked on the first day. Then, (95)

an increase of one rakti is to be made every day in the three ingredients starting with copper, / while the viḍaṅga rakti remains fixed. When laxative action is desired, (96)

then one should add more viḍaṅga, namely two raktis again. / For twelve days there is increase in the formulation, and then this same order of decrease. (97)

Malabsorption syndrome, acid-peptic disorder, / consumption, and pain at all times / this copper formulation conquers, increasing strength, complexion, and digestive fire. (98)