Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 42: Adhikāra 42

Application of leeches is recommended in all abscesses, / as well as gentle purgation, light food, and fomentation, except when pitta is predominant. // 1

With pastes of vāta-dispelling roots soaked in lard, oil, and clarified butter, / a thick, comfortably warm plaster should be applied in a vāta-born abscess. // 2

Fomentations and poultices prepared with śigru roots should be applied, / and one should smear with [flour of] barley, wheat, and mudga cooked and ground. // 3

In this way, an unripe abscess dissolves in an instant. / With a decoction of punarnavā, dāru, dry ginger, daśamūla, and harītakī, // 4

one should drink guggulu or castor oil in a vāta-born abscess. / For a paittika [abscess], one should plaster with sugar, parched paddy, madhuka, along with śārivā, // 5

or with payasyā, uśīra, and sandalwood ground with milk; / or one should drink a decoction of triphalā combined with an akṣa of trivṛt paste. // 6

A plaster made with a paste of the bark of the five trees mixed with clarified butter, / or a plaster of yaṣṭīmadhu, śārivā, dūrvā, nalamūla, and sandalwood, // 7

ground with milk, is for pacifying a pitta-born abscess. / With bricks, sand, iron, cow dung, chaff, and ashes, // 8

ground with urine, one should constantly foment a kapha-born abscess. / With a decoction of daśamūla, or with unctuous meat soup, // 9

one should irrigate a painful oedema or wound while lukewarm. / With a decoction of triphalā, śigru, varuṇa, and daśamūla, // 10

one should drink guggulu, or with urine, in an abscess arising from kapha. / Like a pitta-born abscess, an expert should perform all treatment without exception // 11

for the two abscesses caused by blood and by external injury. / A decoction of śigru combined with asafoetida and rock salt, // 12

consumed every morning, quickly destroys an abscess. / Sigru root washed in water and crushed a little should be strained; // 13

drinking that juice with honey, a man destroys an internal abscess. / The root of white punarnavā and the root of varuṇa, // 14

boiled with water and drunk, conquers an unripe abscess. / When an internal [abscess] has arisen and is unripe, one should drink a decoction of the varuṇādi group / with an additive of the uṣakādi group for its alleviation. // 15

Root of pāṭhā mixed with honey and drunk with rice-water / quickly pacifies an intense internal abscess in a man. // 16

This is taught for an unripe [abscess]; but when it is ripe, treatment is like that of a wound. // 17

Even when [pus] has discharged upwards and downwards, [a decoction of] the drugs beginning with varuṇaka or juice of madhuśigru should be drunk with maireya, sour beverages, surā, or asavas. // 18

Oil should be cooked with priyaṅgu, dhātakī, lodhra, kaṭphala, and bark of tiliśa; it is supreme for healing an abscess. // 19