Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 52: Adhikāra 52

By means of purgation, emesis, poultices, affusion, and blood-letting, / with non-burning substances, one should manage erysipelas according to the doṣas.

With paṭola, neem, pippalī, and madana fruit, / emesis is recommended in erysipelas, likewise with indrayava.

Clarified butter combined with decoction of triphalā along with trivṛt / should be administered for purgation, for the calming of erysipelas and fever.

Or one should give the juice of āmalakī mixed with clarified butter. / The four groups of five roots, excluding the grasses, should be employed / through poultices, affusions, and clarified butters in erysipelas arising from vāta.

Kuṣṭha, dill, devadhūpa, mustā, / vārāhī, coriander, kṛṣṇagandhā, / vātavṛkṣa, arka, bamboo, and ārtagala are to be used / in affusions, poultices, and clarified butters.

With prapauṇḍarīka, mañjiṣṭhā, padmaka, uśīra, and sandalwood, / along with liquorice and blue lotus ground with milk, one should apply an ointment in [erysipelas caused by] pitta.

Water chestnut, śṛṅgāṭaka, lotus, gundrā, / together with algae, water-lily, and mud, / separated by a cloth, applied with clarified butter, very cold, / are to be prepared as poultices in erysipelas caused by pitta.

Poultices and affusions made with the five barks are commended; / or it is commended with padmaka, uśīra, liquorice, and sandalwood.

In pitta, mud of lotus ponds, or ground conch-shell with algae, / root of gundrā, or mother-of-pearl, or red ochre combined with clarified butter [are used].

Aerial roots of banyan, gundrā, and the inner core of banana plant, / should be an application with lotus rhizome nodes, drenched in hundred-times-washed clarified butter.

Hareṇu peas, lentils, and mung beans, along with rice, / should be separate poultices, or made of all together with clarified butter.

With grape, āragvadha, kāśmarya, triphalā, castor, and pīlu, / and with trivṛt and harītakī, evacuation is wholesome in erysipelas.

With khadira, saptaparṇa, mustā, vāsā, āragvadha, devadhūpa, / and kaivartamustā, there should be a poultice in erysipelas arising from phlegm.

Ajā, aśvagandhā, śaralā, and kālā, / together with ekeśikā, or else ajaśṛṅgī, / applied as an ointment ground with cow's urine, / quickly destroys erysipelas born of kapha.

Madana, liquorice, neem, and seeds of vatsaka— / emesis should be performed [with these] in erysipelas arising from kapha.

Triphalā, padmaka, uśīra, samaṅgā, karavīra, / madana fruit, and anantamūla: this poultice destroys kapha erysipelas.

Leaves of āragvadha, the barks arising from śleṣmātaka, / flowers of śirīṣa, and kākamācī are wholesome as poultices and dustings.

A decoction of mustā, neem, and paṭola cures all types of erysipelas; / or [a decoction] of dhātrī, paṭola, and mung beans, flooded with clarified butter.

Amṛtā, ativiṣā, paṭola, together with pastes of nimba, / equal parts of the triphalā, khadira heartwood, and vyādhighāta, / all this decocted and combined with a portion of guggulu, / conquers erysipelas from poison, and the eighteen kinds of skin disease.

Amṛtā, vṛṣa, paṭola, mustaka, saptaparṇa, / khadira, asitavetra, nimba leaves, and both haridrās / remove various erysipelas from poison, skin disease, blisters, itching, / smallpox, urticaria, and fever.

A decoction of paṭola, amṛtā, bhūnimba, vāsaka, ariṣṭa, and parpaṭa, / together with khadira and abda, relieves blisters, pain, and fever.

With paṭola, the triphalā, ariṣṭa, guḍūcī, musta, and candana, / along with mūrvā, rohiṇī, pāṭhā, rajanī, and durālabhā:

one should administer this decoction, which removes fever born of kapha and pitta, / and destroys itching, skin disorders, blisters, poison, and erysipelas.

Prepared with bhūnimba, vāsā, kaṭukā, paṭola, / the three fruits, candana, and nimba, / the decoction removes erysipelas, burning sensation, fever, dryness of the mouth, / blisters, thirst, and vomiting.

When kapha is associated with pitta, however, one should employ the triphalā with guggulu.

One may drink durālabhā, parpaṭaka, paṭola, and kaṭukā, / warm and combined with guggulu, or the khadirāṣṭaka.

Water of kuṇḍalī and picumarda, or water of khadira and indrayava, / destroys blisters swiftly, like wind scattering clouds.

Candana, nāgapuṣpa, taṇḍulīyaka, both śārivās, / śirīṣa bark, and jātī: this plaster destroys burning sensation.

Śukataru, nata, māṃsī, rajanī, and padmā in equal parts, / ground with cold water, serve as a plaster for all blisters.

Śirīṣa root, mañjiṣṭhā, cavyā, āmalaka, and yaṣṭikā, / along with young leaves of jātī and honey, are mouth-gargles for blisters.

Śirīṣa, udumbara, and jambu are beneficial for sprinkling and plasters; / or the bark of śleṣmātaka is beneficial for plasters and irrigation.

Prepared with śirīṣa, yaṣṭī, nata, candana, elā, / māṃsī, both haridrās, kuṣṭha, and bālaka, / the ten-ingredient plaster with clarified butter is prescribed / as removing erysipelas, itching, fever, and oedema.

By applying a plaster of śirīṣa, uśīra, nāgāhvā, and hiṃsrā, / erysipelas, poisons, and blisters quickly subside without doubt.

Prepared with decoctions and pastes of vṛṣa, khadira, paṭola leaves, nimba / bark, amṛtā, and āmalakī, / this fresh clarified butter, quickly cooked, / conquers erysipelas diseases, along with skin disease and abdominal lump.

Prepared with paṭola, saptacchada, nimba, vāsā, / the three fruits, and chinnaruhā, / that pañcatikta clarified butter swiftly destroys / blisters from the three doṣas, erysipelas, and itching.

Padmaka, madhuka, lodhra, stamen of the nāgapuṣpa, / both haridrās, viḍaṅga, fine elā, and tagara,

kuṣṭha, lākṣā, patraka, beeswax, and tuttha, / bahuvāra, śirīṣa, and kapittha fruit:

stirring all this with water, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter. / Hear now, O great sage, which diseases it destroys:

in bites of snakes, insects, and rats, in afflictions caused by spider urine, / in diverse eruptive blisters, and likewise in skin diseases and erysipelas,

in sinus ulcers, and especially in burst cervical lymphadenitis, / this auspicious Padmaka Mahāghṛta was formulated by Agastya.

As for the disease called snāyuka, its treatment is like that of erysipelas. / Having drunk cow's clarified butter for three days, one should drink the fresh juice of nirguṇḍī for three days; / it inevitably destroys very severe snāyuka, of this there is no doubt.

A plaster of śobhāñjana root-leaves / ground with fermented rice-water and salt / destroys the disease snāyuka, / or a plaster of the bark of mocaka.