Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 53: Adhikāra 53

For all [eruptive fevers], emesis is wholesome with paṭola, ariṣṭa, and vāsaka / decoctions, and pastes of vacā, vatsaka, yaṣṭyāhvā, and madana fruit.

One should administer the juice of brāhmī or hilamocikā with honey. / Purgation should be given to one who has vomited, but soothing therapy to a weak man.

One should drink the juice of suṣavī leaves combined with powder of haridrā / for the pacification of measles, fever, blisters, and smallpox.

In one whose doṣas have been cleared by both [emesis and purgation], the smallpox eruptions dry up; / they are free from complications, have little pus, and ripen with little pain.

The root of kaṇṭākumbhāḍu decocted according to rule / and combined with one māṣa of asafoetida drunk; / the seed of jayā drunk with clarified butter, or cold water kept overnight; the root of sikaṭyā drunk; / the root of māghā, or the root of the flower of damana, / with black pepper, or pūti, / or these formulations taken with water should be employed as soon as the disease appears.

Whatever medicament is administered after picking it and concealing it in the fist, / those devoted to hand-gripped formulas call that a muṣṭiyoga.

The root of uṣṭrakaṇṭaka, or indeed the root of anantā, / gathered according to rule and drunk with cold water kept overnight, destroys smallpox.

Likewise the root of śṛgālakaṇṭaka taken with water kept overnight. / Mercury combined with half its weight of sulphur, processed into kajjali, destroys smallpox.

Likewise, leaves of niśā and ciñcā drunk with cold water. / As many smallpox pustules as there are on the body, with that many leaves of śelu

cut in the name of the patient, the eruptive condition subsides and does not increase. / Water kept overnight and drunk with honey relieves burning sensation and the condition.

Or sprinkling of cold water prepared with śelu bark is applied for body-dryness. / Ugrā, clarified butter, vaṃśa, nīlī, barley, vṛṣa, kārpāsa, kīkasa, brahmī,

fresh juice, peacocks' feathers, and lākṣā as a fumigation destroys measles and related afflictions. / In that born of vāta, one should first give a refreshing drink of roasted paddy flour with sugar,

and food with bitter soups or with meat juice of peck-feeding birds. / The two pañcamūlas, rāsnā, dārvī, uśīra, durālabhā,

together with amṛtā, dhānyaka, and musta, conquer that arising from vāta. / Guḍūcī, madhuka, rāsnā, the minor pañcamūla,

candana, kāśmarya fruit, balā root, and vikaṅkata / should be administered at the time of suppuration in smallpox born of vāta.

With drākṣā, kāśmarya, dates, paṭola, ariṣṭa, and vāsaka, / roasted paddy, āmalaka, and dusparśa, and combined with white sugar in the paittika type.

A plaster of the bark of śirīṣa, udumbara, aśvattha, śelu, and nyagrodha / with clarified butter quickly removes wounds, blisters, and burning sensation.

Having boiled durālabhā, parpaṭaka, bhūnimba, and kaṭurohiṇī, / one should give it to drink in that born of kapha or pitta.

Nimba, parpaṭaka, pāṭhā, paṭola, kaṭurohiṇī, / vāsā, durālabhā, dhātrī, uśīra, and the two types of candana—

This well-known nimbādika drink, taken with sugar, / cures masūrī caused by the three doṣas accompanied by fever and erysipelas.

If it has erupted and then recedes inwards, one should draw it outwards again.

Water boiled with paṭola, kuṇḍalī, musta, vṛṣa, dhanvayavāsa, / bhūnimba, nimba, kaṭukā, and parpaṭa—

Alleviates immature masūrī and dries it up when matured; / there is nothing superior to this for pacifying the fever of visphoṭa.

One should drink root of paṭola and red taṇḍulīyaka / combined with a paste of haridrā and āmalaka / to alleviate the burning pain of eruptions of masūrikā; / it also removes measles, vomiting, and fever.

Paṭola root and red taṇḍulīyaka / likewise combined with dhātrī and khadira; / one should drink the well-boiled, well-cooled water, / which is supreme in destroying the disease masūrikā.

A decoction of eight ingredients made of khadira, triphalā, ariṣṭa, paṭola, amṛtā, and vāsaka / overcomes measles and masūrikā, / as well as skin disease, erysipelas, visphoṭa, itching, and the like.

The amṛtādi decoction overcomes that which is of pitta and kapha nature. / Filaments of mātuluṅga ground with sour gruel,

When applied as a plaster, quickly causes [the eruptions] to fall away and swiftly subdues burning pain. / A boil arising on the feet causes burning of the feet;

In that case, they praise frequent sprinkling with rice-water. / At the time of ripening, however, vāta dries them all up;

Therefore, nourishing treatment should be administered; drying treatment is not wholesome. / Guḍūcī, madhuka, drākṣā, and moraṭa together with pomegranates—

At the time of ripening, this medicament should be given mixed with jaggery; / by this it quickly ripens, and vāta is not aggravated.

Or, to promote ripening, one should lick powder of jujube with jaggery; / by this, those of vāta, pitta, and kapha nature are quickly brought to maturity.

For a patient beset with colic and flatulence and trembling due to vāta, / meat soups of arid-land animals mixed with a little rock-salt are recommended.

Soups prepared with the sour juice of pomegranate are beneficial in anorexia. / One should drink boiled and cooled water infused with khadira and asana.

For washing, one should use water prepared from gāyatrī and bahuvāra. / Jasmine leaves, along with mañjiṣṭhā, dārvī, areca nut, śamī,

And dhātrī fruit with madhuka, boiled and combined with honey, / is commended as a gargle in diseases of the mouth and throat.

They praise sprinkling the eyes with water of gavedhu and madhuka. / Madhuka, triphalā, mūrvā, bark of dārvī, blue water-lily,

Uśīra, lodhra, and mañjiṣṭhā are beneficial as a plaster and as eye-drops; / through this, masūrī lesions that have arisen in the eyes disappear and do not discharge.

One should dust an exuding lesion with powder of the five barks; / some prefer ashes, and others dust of dried cow-dung.

Out of fear of worm infestation, one should also fumigate with sarala and the like. / For the relief of pain and burning, and for cleansing discharging lesions,

One should employ a decoction of the best [triphalā] with guggulu, or the khadirāṣṭaka. / One should lick powder of kṛṣṇā and abhayā with honey to purify the throat.

Or else the eight-part electuary, and a mouthwash of ginger and the like. / One should employ the five-bitters preparation in drinks, massage, and meals.

One should apply the treatment for ulcers and avoid oil and the like for a long time. / And one should repeatedly stroke [the patient] with anti-venomous, proven mantras, / and treat some lesions mixed with blood by means of blood-letting.

With the two niśās, uśīra, śirīṣa, and mustaka, / along with lodhra, bhadraśrī, and nāgakeśara: / a warm plaster removes sweating, visphoṭa, erysipelas, skin disease, / foul odour, and measles.

A decoction of tender shoots of bimbī, atimuktaka, aśoka, plakṣa, and vetasa, / kept overnight, removes the danger of masūrī.

On the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of Caitra, [a plant of] snuhī accompanied by a red flag / and placed in a whitewashed jar in the house keeps evil diseases far away.