Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 49: Adhikāra 49

Clarified butter is foremost in skin diseases with a predominance of vāta; emesis in those with a predominance of kapha; / letting of blood and purgation are foremost in those with a predominance of pitta. // 1

Scarification is praised in minor skin disease, and vein puncture in major; / a patient with skin disease who has abundant doṣa should be repeatedly cleansed, while guarding vitality. // 2
A decoction of vacā, vāsā, paṭola, nimba, and phalinī bark, / drunk with honey and combined with madana, causes vomiting. // 3

Purgation, however, should be performed with trivṛt, dantī, and the three fruits. // 4

The pastes for skin diseases that are applied / to those whose doṣas of blood have departed, / and whose viscera have been thoroughly cleansed, / achieve success immediately. // 5

Realgar, orpiment, black pepper, oil, / and arka milk is a poultice that destroys skin disease; / and karañja seeds and eḍagaja with kuṣṭha, / ground with cow urine, is an excellent poultice. // 6

Having ground leaves of caturaṅgula / with buttermilk, or leaves of kākamācī, / for a man whose body is smeared with oil, one should rub [the spots of] skin disease with leaves of aśvaghna. // 7

Āragvadha with eḍagaja, karañja, / vāsā, guḍūcī, madana, the two turmerics, / śrīvāsa, surāhva, khadira, and dhava, / nimba, viḍaṅga, and karavīra, // 8

and knotted bhūrja, garlic, śirīṣa, / salomaśa, guggulu, and kṛṣṇagandhā, / phaṇijjaka, vatsaka, saptaparṇī, / pīlu fruits, kuṣṭha, and jasmine sprouts— // 9

Vacā, hareṇu, trivṛt, kumbhī, / bhallātaka, red ochre, and collyrium, / realgar, orpiment, chimney soot, cardamom, / ferrous sulphate, lodhra, arjuna, mustā, and sarja —

these six, arranged in half-[verse] units, / macerated with ox-bile and ground once more, / then properly combined with mustard oil: / these powder-pastes should be applied by the physician.

Applied, they swiftly destroy in men / difficult skin diseases, newly arisen vitiligo, / alopecia, kiṭibha, and dadru, / fistula-in-ano, haemorrhoids, scrofula, and pāmā.

From realgar, bark of kuṭaja, along with kuṣṭha, / with lomasha, eḍagaja, and karañja, / birch knot, and root of karavīra: / the powders should be boiled with fermented grain-water,

or else with the resin of palāśa-wood, / taken in a karṣa measure, with an āḍhaka[-measured liquid]. / They call this paste a 'dārvī-paste'; / it is supreme for destroying skin diseases.

Kuṣṭha, the two turmerics, paṭola with its juice, / nimba, aśvagandhā, suradāru, and śigru, / with mustard, tumburu, dhānyāka, vanya, / caṇḍā, and dūrvā: one should make these in equal parts.

With these mixed with buttermilk, one should first endeavour / to rub down the body that has been smeared with oil. / Thus one's itching, eruptive boils, urticaria, / skin diseases, and oedema go to alleviation.

With emblic myrobalan, bibhītaka, harītakī, viḍaṅga, citraka, / bhallātaka, bākucī, iron, and bhṛṅgarāja, / increased by parts, mixed with sesame oil, / the paste destroys all skin diseases.

Ground with cow's urine, a paste of viḍaṅga, rock-salt, harītakī, bākucī, / mustard, karañja, and turmeric / tears apart skin disease, equal to the sun.

With viḍaṅga, eḍagaja, kuṣṭha, turmeric, rock-salt, and mustard / ground with fermented grain-wash, / this paste removes the pain of dadru and skin disease.

Dūrvā, harītakī, rock-salt, cakramarda, / and kuṭheraka, ground with fermented wash and buttermilk: / with three applications, they banish / dadru and skin disease that have struck deep roots.

Resin of the sāla tree, equal to chaff [in power?], / with cakramarda and mixed with harītakī, / ground with the water of fermented rice-gruel, / applied as a paste, is a lion to the elephant of dadru.

Seeds of prapunnāḍa, emblic myrobalan, sarja-resin, and snuhī, / ground with sauvīra vinegar: this is an excellent / rub for cases of dadru.

Seeds of cakramarda and karañja in equal parts, / and a little root of sudarśanā, / destroy dadru and skin disease.

Through external application and eating, tṛṇaka destroys dadru; / also root of yūthī and punnāga, / applied after being ground with kāñjika.

And the root of kāsamarda ground with sauvīra vinegar: / through external application, this conquers / dadru, kiṭibha, and skin disease.

Radish seeds well ground with the juice of apāmārga / destroy sidhma through external application; / or [radish seeds ground] with alkali of plantain mixed with turmeric.

Ground with powdered sulphur / and barley alkali, or with mustard oil, / sidhma goes swiftly to destruction.

Seeds of kāsamarda, and likewise of radish, / mixed with sulphur, / are a supreme medicine for cases of sidhma.

Emblic myrobalan juice, sarja resin, and black salt, / ground and mixed with sauvīra vinegar: / it acts as a rub in such a way / that the patches of sidhma do not recur.

Kuṣṭha, radish seed, priyaṅgu, mustard, and turmeric: / this saffron-like kuṣṭha paste destroys / sidhma that has persisted for many years.

Having smeared the body repeatedly with the fresh juice of blue kuruṇṭaka leaves, / one should plaster it with radish seeds mixed with buttermilk; / for this destroys sidhma.

Cakramarda infused with snuhī latex, mixed with urine, / and slightly warmed by the sun: / applied as an ointment, it removes kiṭibha.

One should grind leaves of āragvadha with sour gruel; / it destroys dadru, kiṭibha, skin disease, / and indeed sidhma.

Or seeds of radish and mustard, / lac, turmeric, seed of prapuṇāḍa, / turpentine, the three pungents, viḍaṅga, and kuṣṭha: / having ground these with cow's urine, it should be an application;

it destroys dadru, sidhma, kiṭibha, pāmā, / and irregular kāpāla skin disease.

With eḍagaja, kuṣṭha, rock-salt, sauvīraka, mustard, and vermifuges: / a paste that destroys parasites, sidhma, dadru, and maṇḍala skin disease.

A paste made from mustard inside a stem of snuhī, cooked in a chaff fire: / through application, it destroys vicarcikā / just as the onset of passion destroys shame.

Having burnt chimney soot with rock-salt in a hollow stem of snuhī / by closed-pit combustion and mixed it with oil, / applied as an ointment, it destroys vicarcikā.

Eḍagajā, sesame, mustard, kuṣṭha, long pepper, the three salts, and curd-water, / allowed to ferment for three days: / this destroys vicarcikā, dadru, and skin disease.

Mustard oil should be cooked with seed of unmattaka / and the alkaline water of māṇaka; / it swiftly destroys cracked heels.

Rice placed in coconut water and allowed to ferment: / applied as an ointment, it destroys cracked heels / that have persisted for a long time.

Sarja resin, rock-salt, / jaggery, honey, bdellium, red ochre, with clarified butter / and beeswax: this preparation, cooked, / is proven to cure cracking of the feet.

Bākucī, kāsamarda, cakramarda, combined with turmeric, / equal in part to rock-salt, / ground with curd-whey and kāñjika,

conquers violent scabies and itching; this is a proven king of recipes. / Tender leaf of vāsā / ground with turmeric and cow's urine,

in three days invariably / destroys scabies through application. / Combined with a paste of turmeric, two palas of cow's urine

a man may drink while following his desires, to destroy scabies and pāmā. / Prepared with harītakī and cow's urine, / it removes oedema, anaemia, abdominal lumps, urinary disease, and kapha, / and likewise removes scabies and pāmā.

If a man suffering from pāmā drinks half a pala of sulphur powder / with mustard oil, well heated by the rays of the sun, / bathed after that for three days, and eating a milk diet, / he swiftly becomes endowed with passion and the lustre of gold.

With turmeric, snuhī, and leaves of āragvadha and kākamācī, / along with dārvī and seeds of prapuṇāḍa, / ground with buttermilk and mixed with mustard oil: / this is recommended as a rub in cases of pāmā and the like.

Red lead and black pepper powder combined with buffalo-butter repeatedly / destroys scabies when applied as an unguent, or oil prepared with karavīra. // 49

Māṃsī, candana, sampāka, karañja, ariṣṭa, mustard, / śaṭī, kuṭaja, dārvī, and abda—this group destroys skin disease. // 50

Cooking bhallātaka, dvīpin, sudhā, arka root, / guñjā seeds, tryūṣaṇa, conch-shell powder, / blue vitriol along with kuṣṭha, the five salts, / the two alkalies, and lāṅgalikā // 51

in the milky latex of snuhā and arka until thick, kept in an iron vessel, / one should apply that paste with a probe / on skin disease, leucoderma, and freckles, / on all haemorrhoids, and on skin-warts. // 52

Poison, varuṇa, turmeric, citraka, soot from the chimney, / anala, black pepper, dūrvā, and the milky latex of arka and snuh: / merely on falling, it burns all varieties of skin disease without exception, / like the thunderbolt hurled in anger from the hand of Indra. // 53

Śaśāṅkalekhā along with the essence of viḍaṅga, / with pippalī, with the root of hutāśa, / with iron rust, with āmalaka, and with oil, / when licked, destroys all skin diseases. // 54

A person whose body is pervaded by severe skin disease, / who would eat somarājī as a regimen / for one year together with black sesame, / surpasses the moon in beauty of form. // 55

Basking in the sun, one should drink vāgujī with lukewarm water; / consuming milk, one is freed from skin disease within three weeks. // 56

One part of sesame and two parts of somarājī: / this, being eaten in the morning, destroys ringworm of the pudenda. // 57

Having drunk a karṣa of avalguja seeds with lukewarm water, / meals should be taken with clarified butter: it destroys all skin diseases. // 58

With triphalā, paṭola, rajanī, mañjiṣṭhā, rohiṇī, vacā, and nimba: / this decoction, taken repeatedly, destroys skin disease born of kapha and pitta. // 59

Or fresh juice of chinnā, consumed according to one's strength— / when it has digested, one should eat a little with clarified butter or with soup and water: / even a man whose body is excessively putrid becomes endowed with divine form. // 60

A patient suffering from skin disease, eating bitter food, who drinks a decoction / made from paṭola, khadira, ariṣṭa, triphalā, and black vetra, / dispels skin disease. // 61

Sesame, clarified butter, triphalā, honey, vyoṣa, bhallāta, and sugar, / in equal parts: this aphrodisiac promotes intellect and cures skin disease for those indulging in pleasures. // 62

Powder of viḍaṅga, triphalā, and kṛṣṇā licked with honey / destroys skin disease, worms, urinary disorders, sinus ulcers, and fistula-in-ano. // 63

Taking indrāśana that has been gathered on an auspicious day, / one should lick that powder with honey and clarified butter, subsisting on milk and clarified butter; // 64

and having destroyed all skin diseases, one would live for two hundred years. // 65

He who would eat abhayā and ariṣṭa, or marica and āmalaka, / would conquer all skin diseases after a month, without a doubt. // 66

The sap fallen into a jar placed at the root from a burning khadira tree, / taken with clarified butter, āmalakī juice, and honey, is a rejuvenator that destroys skin disease. // 67

Pills made with vayasyā, eḍagajā, kuṣṭha, and kṛṣṇā, / ground with goat's urine, destroy leucoderma through application as an unguent. // 68

Sprouts of pūtīka, arka, snuh, narendradruma, / and mālati ground in urine, // 21

destroy leucoderma, ringworm lesions, / skin diseases, haemorrhoids, and ruptured sinus ulcers through application as an unguent. // 69

Leucoderma would disappear from an unguent made of the ash of elephant, leopard, or tiger skin with oil, / or from an unguent of pūtikīṭa. // 70

A kuḍava of avalguja seeds mixed with a fourth part of yellow orpiment, / ground with cow's urine, is excellent for restoring normal color in leucoderma. // 71

Having drunk a decoction of dhātrī and khadira combined with valgujā, / it swiftly destroys leucoderma white as a conch or the moon, without a doubt. // 72

When the ashes derived from elephant dung have been burnt and repeatedly strained with elephant urine, / having added seeds of avalguja in the quantity of a droṇa / along with a tenth part, one should cook it; // 73

when this reaches an oily consistency, / then one should use it as a well-prepared pill; / then, being rubbed, it should be smeared everywhere: / it then quickly attains the state of normal skin color. // 74

White jayantī root ground and drunk with cow's milk alone / unfailingly destroys leucoderma on a Sunday: such is the command of Vaidyanātha. // 75

At the flowering season, the flowers; and at the fruiting season, the fruits; / pulverising the bark, roots, and leaves of picumarda, // 76

taking them in two parts, one should provide the single parts: / triphalā, tryūṣaṇa, brāhmī, śvadaṃṣṭrā, aruṣkara, agnika, // 77

seeds of viḍaṅga, vārāhī, iron powder, and amṛtā in equal amounts; / the two turmerics, avalguja, vyādhighāta, along with sugar; // 78

and kuṣṭha, indrayava, and pāṭhā—making a well-combined powder, / one should saturate it with a thick decoction of khadira, asana, and nimba, // 79

seven times with Pañcanimba, and with fresh juice of mārkava. / Having an unctuous and purified body, the wise physician should administer it on an auspicious day // 80

with honey, bitter clarified butter, water of khadira and asana, / as a confection, or with hot water; increasing by a kola, one should drink up to a pala. // 81

When it has digested, meals should be taken that are unctuous, light, and wholesome. / Eczema, udumbara, puṇḍarīka, / kapāla, ringworm, kiṭibha, alasa, and the like, // 82

śatāru, visphoṭa, erysipelas, scabies, / aggravation of kapha, and the three varieties of leucoderma, // 83

fistula-in-ano, filariasis, vātarakta, / congenital blindness, sinus ulcers, diseases of the head, / all urinary disorders and all menorrhagic conditions, / fang poison, and root poison it destroys. // 84

One with a large abdomen acquires a slender waist like a lion, / with well-knit joints, by using it with honey; / and by proper use, snakes and the like that bite / quickly perish. // 85

Free from disease and old age, devoted to virtuous deeds, / with a complexion like the moon, he would live long. // 86

Citraka, triphalā, vyoṣa, ajājī, kāravī, vacā, / rock salt, ativiṣā, kuṣṭha, cavya, cardamom, yavakṣāra, // 87

viḍaṅga, ajamodā, mustā, and amaradāru: / as much as all these together, so much guggulu. // 88

Pounding it together with clarified butter, the physician should make pills; / one should eat it in the morning and at mealtime according to one's strength. // 89

It destroys the eighteen skin diseases, worms, and malignant ulcers, / disorders of malabsorption syndrome and haemorrhoids, diseases of the mouth, and throat spasms. // 90

It quickly overcomes sciatica, fractures, and abdominal lumps, / and conquers other diseases situated in the alimentary tract, as Viṣṇu [conquered] the Asuras. (91)

16 Having chopped five bhallātaka fruits, one should boil them according to rule in water; / with his lips and palate smeared with clarified butter, he should drink that cool decoction. (92)

He should drink it with an increase of five until seventy, and then decrease it. / When it has digested, he should eat cool boiled rice combined with clarified butter and milk. (93)

This is a rejuvenator that promotes intellect, destroys wrinkles and grey hair, / cures skin diseases, haemorrhoids, and worm infestations, and cures vitiated semen. (94)

One should drink the oil of bhallātaka for a month according to strength; / freed from all distress, he may live a full hundred years in strength. (95)

When repeatedly used for anointing, rubbing, bathing, drinking, and cooking, / khadira-water destroys all skin disorders. (96)

One should take half-pala portions each of nimba, paṭola, dārvī, / durālabhā, tiktarohiṇī, triphalā, parpaṭaka, and trāyamāṇā. (97)

When they are cooked in an āḍhaka of water and the liquid is reduced to an eighth part, one should strain it and add / candana, kirātatikta, māgadhikā, trāyamāṇā, (98)

mustā, and vatsaka seeds made into a paste, in parts of half a karṣa each, / and six palas of fresh clarified butter. This prepared clarified butter should be drunk. (99)

Prepared properly, it destroys skin disease, fever, abdominal lump, haemorrhoids, malabsorption syndrome, anaemia, oedema, / scabies, erysipelas, boils, itching, and intoxicating foul smell. (100)

17 One should take ten-pala portions each, well pounded, / of nimba, paṭola, vyāghrī, guḍūcī, and vāsaka. (101)

It should be boiled in a droṇa of water until one-fourth remains; / with that [decoction], one should cook a prastha of clarified butter together with triphalā inside. (102)

This is known as the "Five-Bitters Clarified Butter", a destroyer of skin disease; / from merely drinking it, it eliminates eighty vāta-born diseases, forty pitta-born, (103)

and twenty kapha-born diseases; / it destroys malignant ulcers, worms, haemorrhoids, and the five kinds of cough. (104)

18 Triphalā, the two niśās, vāsā, yāsa, pārpaṭa, kulaka, / trāyantī, kaṭukā, and nimba, two palas each: (105)

Having boiled them in a droṇa of water until a quarter remains, / one should cook a prastha of clarified butter with that, using pastes of pippalī, ghana, candana, (106)

trāyantī, śakra, and bhūnimba. When drunk, that Bitter Clarified Butter / cures skin disease, fever, haemorrhoids, oedema, malabsorption disease, / anaemia, and erysipelas; and it is also recommended for the impotent. (107)

19 Saptacchada, prativiṣā, sampāka, tiktarohiṇī, pāṭhā, / mustā, uśīra, triphalā, paṭola, picumarda, parpaṭaka, (108)

dhanvāyāsa, candana, upakulyā, padmaka, the two rajanīs, / ṣaḍgranthā, viśālā, śatāvarī, and both śārivās, (109)

vatsaka seeds, vāsā, mūrvā, amṛtā, kirātatikta, / yaṣṭyāhva, and trāyamāṇā: the wise physician should make pastes of these. (110)

The paste should be one-fourth [of the clarified butter], / water eight times, and the juice of myrobalan fruits / twice that of the clarified butter. / That prepared clarified butter should be administered to drink. (111)

Skin diseases, bleeding disorder, / severe bleeding haemorrhoids, / erysipelas, hyperacidity, / vātarakta, anaemia, (112)

blisters, scabies, / psychosis, jaundice, fever, pale skin, / heart disease, abdominal lump, boils, / menorrhagia, and cervical lymphadenitis— (113)

this clarified butter, drunk at the proper time according to strength, / quickly destroys them: this Great Bitter [Clarified Butter] cures / severe disorders unconquered even by hundreds of formulations. (114)

20 Five tulās of khadira, two tulās each of śiṃśapā and asana, / and half a tulā each of all these: karañja, ariṣṭa, vetasa, (115)

parpaṭa, kuṭaja, vṛṣya, krimihara, / the two haridrās, kṛtamāla, guḍūcī, triphalā, trivṛt, (116)

and saptaparṇa, crushed in ten droṇas of water; / one should take down the decoction when reduced to an eighth part. (117)

One should cook an equal measure of emblic myrobalan juice and an āḍhaka of clarified butter / with the pastes prescribed for the Great Bitter [Clarified Butter], each measuring one pala. (118)

By using it for drinking and massage, it destroys all skin diseases; / this, named the "Great Khadira", is the supreme destroyer of skin diseases. (119)

21 One should boil ten palas each of nimba, amṛtā, vṛṣa, paṭola, and nidigdhikā / in a droṇa of water; / with that well-strained liquid reduced to an eighth part, / one should cook a prastha of clarified butter with pastes of a picu's measure each: (120)

with pāṭhā, viḍaṅga, suradāru, gajopakulyā, / the two kṣāras, nāgara, niśā, miśi, cavya, kuṣṭha, / tejovatī, marica, vatsaka, dīpyaka, agni, / rohiṇī, aruṣkara, vacā, kaṇāmūla, (121)

mañjiṣṭhā, ativiṣā, varā, yamānī, / and five palas of purified guggulu. / That, when taken, [cures] very severe and irregular vāta / even when situated in the joints, bones, and marrow, and skin diseases of such a kind; (122)

sinuses, tumours, fistula-in-ano, cervical lymphadenitis, / abdominal lumps situated anywhere above the clavicle, urinary disorders arising from the anus, / consumption, anorexia, dyspnoea, catarrh, cough, emaciation, / heart disease, anaemia, throat abscess, and vātarakta. (123)

22 Vāsā, guḍūcī, triphalā, paṭola, / karañja, nimba, aśana, and kṛṣṇavetra: / clarified butter cooked with the decoction and paste of these / is proclaimed as the "Vajraka", which removes skin diseases. (124)

Even a person whose ears, fingers, hands, and feet are falling apart, / afflicted by worms, and whose throat has broken down, / a patient with skin disease, having regained his former radiance, / may live an unobstructed hundred years. (125)

23 Āragvadha, dhava, kuṣṭha, haritāla, realgar, / combined with the two rajanīs: an expert in the method should cook an oil. / With this, a leucoderma patient should massage [himself]; quickly the leucoderma disappears. (126)

24 With shoots of mañjiṣṭhā, ruk, niśā, cakramarda, and āragvadha, / cooked in the fresh juice of tṛṇaka, the pungent oil cures skin diseases. (127)

25 Haridrā, triphalā, dāru, hayamāraka, citraka, / saptacchada, nimba bark, karañja, bālaka, nakhī, / kuṣṭha, eḍagaja seeds, lāṅgalī, gaṇikārikā, (128–129)

leaves of jātī, dārvī, haritāla, realgar, / kaliṅga, leaves of sesamum, calotropis milk, and guggulu, (130)

cinnamon bark, black pepper, saffron, granthiparṇaka, / leaves of sarja, aśana, khadira, viḍaṅga, pippalī, vacā, (131)

Mustā, reṇukā, amṛtā, yaṣṭīmadhu, saffron, dhyāmaka, vatsanābha poison,
śuṇṭhī, kaṭphala, mañjiṣṭhā, bola, and bottle gourd fruit;

Leaves of snuhī and āragvadha, seeds of vāguji, māṃsī,
elā, root of jyotiṣmatī, śirīṣa, and cow-dung juice;

The two candanas, kuṣṭha, nirguṇḍī, viśālā, the two mallikās,
vāsā, aśvagandhā, brāhmī, bilva, campaka, and kaṭphala —

With these as paste, using tṛṇaka juice as the liquid, one should cook the oil.
It cures all skin diseases and is named Mahātṛṇaka.

26. Roots of saptaparṇa, karañja, arka, mālatī, karavīra,
snuhī, śirīṣa, citraka, and āsphotā;

Karañja seed, triphalā, trikaṭu, the two haridrās,
white mustard, and viḍaṅga, along with seeds of prapunnāḍa and sesame;

Pounded with cow's urine, one should cook oil with these, which destroys skin diseases;
By massage, this oil, named Vajraka, removes sinus tracts and foul ulcers.

27. Marica, haritāla, manaḥśilā, latex of arka, root of karavīra, trivṛt,
cow-dung juice, viśālā, kuṣṭha, the two haridrās, devadāru, and red sandalwood;

One should cook one prastha of mustard oil with two akṣas [of each] combined with one pala of poison,
along with cow's urine; by massaging with it, ringworm and vitiligo are destroyed,
and this oil is commended in all skin diseases.

28. Marica, trivṛt, dantī, latex of arka, cow-dung juice,
devadāru, the two haridrās, māṃsī, kuṣṭha, along with sandalwood;

Viśālā, karavīra, haritāla, manaḥśilā,
citraka, lāṅgalī, viḍaṅga, cakramarda;

Śirīṣa, kuṭaja, nimba, saptaparṇa, snuhī, amṛtā,
āragvadha, karañja, mustā, khadira, pippalī, vacā;

And jyotiṣmatī, each one pala; there should be two palas of poison,
one āḍhaka of mustard oil, and four times as much cow's urine.

In an earthen vessel or an iron vessel, one should cook it slowly over a gentle fire.
Having cooked it, one should smear this supreme oil on leprous ulcers.

Scabies, eczema, ringworm, itching, boils,
wrinkles, grey hair, dark circles, blue patches, and freckles
are destroyed through massage, and youthfulness is produced.

If it is administered as nasal therapy to women in their first age,
even on reaching extreme old age their breasts do not sag.

An ox, a horse, or an elephant afflicted by vāta,
by vigorous inunction with this, will attain the prowess of the wind.

29. Karañja, the two haridrās, arka, and tagara,
karavīra, vacā, kuṣṭha, āsphotā, red sandalwood;

Mālatī, saptaparṇa, mañjiṣṭhā, sindhuvārikā —
half a pala of each of these, and one pala of poison;

One should cook one prastha of oil in four times as much cow's urine.
Vitiligo, boils, kiṭibha skin disease, insect bites, spider bites, eczema;

Itching, scabies affections, and whatever ulcers are corrupted by poison —
this medicated oil, named Viṣataila, purifies all ulcers.

30. Juice of white karavīra, cow's urine, citraka, and viḍaṅga:
this prepared oil formulation for skin diseases is approved by physicians.

31. White karavīra root prepared with a portion of poison in cow's urine:
this oil cures carmadala, scabies, tinea versicolor, boils, worms, and kiṭibha.

32. Having pounded half a pala of red lead and a pala of cumin,
one should cook one mānī of mustard oil; it immediately relieves scabies supremely.

33. Red lead, sandalwood, māṃsī, viḍaṅga, the two haridrās,
priyaṅgu, padmaka, kuṣṭha, mañjiṣṭhā, khadira, vacā;

Jātī, arka, trivṛt, nimba, karañja, poison,
kṛṣṇavetraka, lodhra, and prapunnāḍa should be gathered.

All finely pounded, one should combine them with a measure of oil.
One should apply it as an massage: it destroys all skin diseases.

It destroys scabies, eczema, itching, erysipelas, and the like;
it destroys many such diseases arising from raktapitta.

34. With powdered mañjiṣṭhā, triphalā, lākṣā, haridrā, manaḥśilā, and sulphur,
oil cooked in the sun is supreme in removing scabies.

35. One should cook oil with four times as much juice of dūrvā grass;
by massage alone it destroys itch, eczema, and scabies.

36. Mustard oil cooked in the juice of arka leaves, with haridrā,
or combined with manaḥśilā, destroys scabies, itch, and the like.

37. With gaṇḍīrikā, citraka, bhṛṅgarāja, arka,
kuṣṭha, bark of kutaja, and salts, along with cow's urine,
one should cook an oil that removes maṇḍala skin disease, ringworm, skin diseases,
foul ulcers, and kiṭibha.

38. One pala each of the root of citraka, nirguṇḍī, and karavīra,
and of nāḍī, seed, and poison, pounded with sour gruel;

Eight palas of karañja oil, and again a pala of sour gruel,
mixed together and heated by the sun: this oil overcomes skin diseases, ulcers, and blood defects.

39. Somarājī, the two haridrās, mustard, āragvadha, kuṣṭha,
karañja, and seeds of cakramarda, added as the paste —

One should cook oil produced from mustard seeds, which removes sinus tracts and foul ulcers.
By this, indeed the eighteen skin diseases are quickly pacified,

As well as dark spots, pustules, freckles, deep vāta-rakta;
it relieves severe itching and destroys itch and scabies.

40. Fortnight by fortnight one should undergo emetic therapies,
and month by month downward purging;
every three days a nasal errhine therapy,
and every six months one should bleed blood.

Renouncing women, meat, and liquor, aged śāli rice, mudga beans, barley, and the like,
bitter vegetables, and meat of arid-zone animals are wholesome for those suffering from skin diseases.