Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 54: Adhikāra 54

There, one should treat immature ajagallikā with leeches / and plaster it repeatedly with pastes of pearl-oyster shell, saurāṣṭrikā, and alkali.

And one should dissolve a hard ajagallikā with alkali preparations. / A physician should overcome anuśayī with the paste for kapha abscess.

Vivṛtā, indravṛddhā, gardabhī, jālagardabha, / irivellikā, and gandhanāmā one should treat like pitta erysipelas.

One should soothe the ulcers with clarified butter prepared with sweet medicaments; / with multiple blood-lettings, fomentations, and depleting therapies,

One should conquer vidārikā by plasters made of śigru and devadāru. / By this procedure, a physician should manage panasikā, kacchapikā,

And other hard swellings originating from the doṣas. / In antrālajī, kacchapikā, and likewise pāṣāṇagardabha,

One should foment and then plaster with suradāru, manaḥśilā, and kuṣṭha; / the plaster on pāṣāṇagardabha destroys swellings of kapha and vāta.

Having excised valmīka with a surgical knife, one should treat it with alkali and cautery. / With manaḥśilā, bhallāta, small cardamom, aguru, and candana,

And pastes of tender jasmine leaves, one should cook nimba oil; / for that destroys valmīka which has multiple openings and produces much sound.

In cracked feet, one should pierce the vein that purifies the sole; / and when the two feet have been treated with unction and sudation, one should plaster them repeatedly.

With beeswax, muscle fat, bone marrow, clarified butter, and alkali mixed together; / powder of sarja and rock-salt flooded with honey and clarified butter, / stirred and smeared with mustard oil, is beneficial as a foot-salve.

Oil boiled with ash-water of upodikā, mustard, nimba, plantain, / karkāru, and ervāruka, / together with a portion of salt— / that destroys cracked feet through plastering.

In alasa, the feet having been sprinkled for a long time with sour liquids, one should plaster them / repeatedly with paṭola, ariṣṭa, green vitriol, and triphalā.

Karañja seeds, rajanī, green vitriol, madhuka, honey, / rocanā, and yellow orpiment: this plaster is beneficial in alasa.

A plaster of lākṣā and abhayā juice should be applied, or blood-letting performed; / and having crushed jasmine leaves, a physician should apply them in alasaka.

The wise [physician], having anointed [the foot] with oil prepared with juice of bṛhatī, / should dust it with powder of realgar, rocanā, and kāśīsa. // 16

Having excised a corn (kadara), he should cauterise it with oil or fire. / In whitlow (cippa), having fomented it with hot water, cut it open, and anointed that wound, // 17

and applied sarjarasa powder, he should bandage it and treat it like a wound. / Having rubbed abhayā with fresh turmeric juice in a black iron vessel, // 18

he should repeatedly smear the whitlow with the resulting paste. / In whitlow, a paste made of borax and root of āsphotā causes the nail to regrow. // 19

Emesis with nimba water is beneficial in padminīkaṇṭaka. / Clarified butter prepared with nimba water, combined with honey, is recommended for drinking. // 20

Alkali prepared from lotus stalks destroys padminī by external application. / Or frequent rubbing with a paste of nimba and āragvadha is beneficial. // 21

Application of a paste of nīlī and paṭola roots mixed with clarified butter is beneficial; / and in the disease jālagardabha, it quickly relieves pain. // 22

In ahipūtanaka, one should first purify the wet-nurse's breast-milk. / Constant washing of the lesions should be done with decoctions of triphalā and khadira. // 23

Clarified butter prepared with karañja, triphalā, and bitter herbs is beneficial for the child; / rasāñjana is especially beneficial for both drinking and application as an ointment. // 24

In rectal prolapse, having anointed the rectum with unctuous substances, one should promptly reinsert it. / Once it is reinserted, it should be fomented and firmly bound with a goṣphaṇā bandage. // 25

One who eats a tender lotus leaf accompanied by sugar, / for him—this is stated definitively—rectal prolapse does not occur. // 26

One suffering from prolapse of the rectum should regularly take, with buttermilk, vṛkṣāmla, anala, cāṅgerī, bilva, pāṭhā, and barley alkali, / which stimulate the digestive fire. // 27

And one should fearlessly smear the rectum with cow's marrow; / a rectal prolapse that is difficult to reduce enters quickly, without doubt. // 28

Or an application properly smeared upon the rectum should be made with the fat of rats; / or else one should foment the rectum with steamed rat meat. // 29

Clarified butter boiled with cāṅgerī, jujube, sour curd, dry ginger, and alkali / should be drunk; it cures the pain of rectal prolapse. / Here, dry ginger and alkali are the paste, while the rest are considered liquid. // 30

Having boiled the great pañcamūla and an eviscerated rat in milk, / one should cook oil in that [milk], prepared with vāta-alleviating medicines. // 31

This oil overcomes rectal prolapse through drinking and unction. // 32

Having applied fomentation and a poultice in parikartikā, / and thereafter having well anointed [it] with clarified butter, / one should slowly reinsert the skin; and one should apply a poultice / with the remaining pleasantly warm meats. // 33

One should likewise treat avapāṭikā with unction and fomentation. / In niruddhaprakāśa, having inserted a double-ended tube made of gold or other metal, // 34

and leaving it in, one should irrigate [the area] with oil or other unctuous matter, / or with oil prepared with vacā, dāru, and aromatic herbs; and every two days, // 35

a thicker tube should again be inserted to enlarge the channel; / or, avoiding the raphe, having incised [the stricture] with an instrument, one should treat it like a wound. // 36

And unctuous food [is prescribed]; this same course of treatment is also used in anal stricture (baddhaguda). / Warts (carmakīla), jatumaṇi, elevated moles (masaka), and freckles (tilakālaka)— // 37

having excised them with an instrument, one should cauterise them entirely with alkali or fire. / Friction with the powder of a castor stalk destroys elevated moles; // 38

or an elevated mole always subsides from friction with snake-slough ash. / Acne (yuvānapiḍakā), nyaccha, nīlikā, vyaṅga, and śarkarā // 39

one should conquer with venesection, pastes, and likewise unctions. / A paste of lodhra, coriander, and vacā removes acne; // 40

likewise, black pepper combined with gorocanā, by easy application as a paste; / and an application of white mustard, vacā, lodhra, and rock salt, // 41

as well as emesis, quickly destroys acne arising in youth. / On vyaṅga, arjuna bark or mañjiṣṭhā with honey [is beneficial]; // 42

or ash of a white horse's hoof mixed with fresh butter is an ointment. / Red sandalwood, mañjiṣṭhā, lodhra, kuṣṭha, priyaṅgu, // 43

banyan sprouts, and lentils destroy vyaṅga and bestow facial lustre. / And anointment of vyaṅga lesions with the blood of a hare is commended. // 44

A face smeared with lentils ground with clarified butter and mixed with milk / becomes within seven days, truly, radiant like a white lotus petal. // 45

Root of citron, clarified butter, realgar, and the juice of cow dung: / this paste produces facial lustre and overcomes pimples and freckles. // 46

A paste of fresh butter, jaggery, honey, and jujube pulp / overcomes vyaṅga; or bark of varuṇa finely ground with goat's milk. // 47

Application of a paste of nutmeg destroys nīli, vyaṅga, and other blemishes; / and in the evening, massage with mustard oil purifies the face. // 48

Smeared with kālīyaka, blue water lily, kuṣṭha, / curd cream, jujube seed kernels, and phalinī, / the face becomes moon-bright / within seven nights. // 49

By applying a paste of fine, dehusked barley / flour with yaṣṭīmadhuka and lodhra, / the face attains charming elegance / that utterly surpasses gold. // 50

The face, smeared with milk / prepared with white mustard, the two turmerics, / mañjiṣṭhā, and red ochre, / shines like the disc of the rising moon. // 51

With mature curd, śarapuṅkhā, / petals of the blue water lily, kuṣṭha, sandalwood, and uśīra, / it creates the splendour of a lotus face / and overcomes facial wrinkles and freckles. // 52

With the two turmerics, yaṣṭyāhva, kālīyaka, red sandalwood, / prapauṇḍarīka, mañjiṣṭhā, lotus, padmaka, and saffron, // 53

and leaves of kapittha, tinduka, plakṣa, and banyan mixed with milk— / one should apply these as a paste, or prepare an oil for massage. // 54

One who uses this daily quickly conquers piplava, / nīlikā, vyaṅga, freckles, and facial eruptions, and makes the face delightful. // 55

With a decoction of madhuka, one should cook one kuḍava of oil, / with pastes of priyaṅgu, mañjiṣṭhā, sandalwood, and lotus filaments. // 56

That oil, named Kanakataila, greatly enhances facial beauty; / it cleanses fearless nīlikā and vyaṅga, and is highly revered. // 57

Mañjiṣṭhā, madhuka, lac, citron, along with licorice— / with these, each in the measure of a karṣa, and one kuḍava of oil, // 58

and twice that amount of goat's milk, one should cook slowly over a gentle fire. / By mere unction, it destroys nīlikā, pimples, and vyaṅga. // 59

The face becomes clear, plump, and free from wrinkles and grey hair; / by use for seven nights, it becomes like gold. (60)

Saffron, sandalwood, lac, Indian madder, liquorice, / kālīyaka, uśīra, padmaka, blue water lily, (61)

aerial roots of the banyan, shoots of plakṣa, stamens of the lotus, / along with the two pañcamūlas: with decoctions of these, one pala each, (62)

one āḍhaka of water should be boiled down until a quarter remains, and then taken off. / Indian madder, madhuka, lac, sappanwood, liquorice— (63)

these measuring one karṣa, together with one kuḍava of oil / and twice as much goat's milk, one should cook slowly over a gentle fire. (64)

When properly cooked, this is supreme for clearing the complexion of the face; / just by inunction it destroys dark pigmentations, pimples, and chloasma. (65)

By use for seven nights, [the face] becomes like gold. / This Kuṅkumādi oil was fashioned in ancient times by the Aśvins. (66)

Saffron, kiṃśuka, lac, Indian madder, red sandalwood, / kālīyaka, padmaka, stamens of citron, (67)

safflower, liquorice, phalinī, madayantikā, / the two kinds of turmeric, rocanā, lotus, blue water lily, and realgar: (68)

with these combined with the kākolyādi group, equal to an akṣa in amount, / along with lac-juice and milk, the physician should cook one prastha of oil. (69)

By inunction, this Kuṅkumādi oil immediately makes the face like gold, / giving nourishment, beauty, and radiance; / it produces good fortune and prosperity, and is an excellent means of subjugation. (70)

Madhuka, sandalwood, kaṅgu, mustard, and likewise padmaka, / kālīyaka, turmeric, and lodhra: with these made into a paste, (71)

the physician should cook clarified butter; when it is cooked and strained through cloth, / he should add a quarter part of saffron and beeswax, and cook over a gentle fire. (72)

When it is ready, he should cast it into cold water and then draw it out. / This clarified butter, named Varṇaka, clears the complexion. (73)

Constantly smeared with this, even a face covered with wrinkles / gradually becomes like the spotless disc of the moon, as that of a charming woman. (74)

In arūṃṣikā, when blood has been removed / by venesection or by leeches, / on the head sprinkled with neem-water, a plaster should be applied / made of horse-dung juice and rock salt. (75)

Or old oil-cake, or cock's droppings, / ground with urine: this plaster quickly destroys arūṃṣikā. (76)

Fried kuṣṭha powder mixed with oil destroys arūṃṣikā. / Prepared with the two turmerics, bhūnimba, triphalā, neem, and sandalwood, / this oil is beneficial for massage in arūṃṣikā. (77)

In dāraṇa, however, one should prick a vein of the forehead after it has been unctuated and fomented; / and one should administer errhines, head-basti, and oil-massages. (78)

An alkaline wash made of the grass of kodo-millet should be used for washing; / a plaster mixed with honey should be applied to the head in dāraṇaka. (79)

Priyāla seeds, madhuka, and kuṣṭha, mixed together with rock salt / and black gram kept in sour gruel for three weeks, remove dāraṇaka. (80)

Equal parts of myrobalan with blue water lily stamens, / liquorice, madhuka, and sesame seeds / brings to rest even a long-standing / dāraṇa disease of the head. (81)

With triphalā, rajomāṃsī, mārkava, blue water lily, and śārivā, / along with rock salt, one should cook oil; by inunction it overcomes ukthikā. (82)

Grinding a paste of citraka and danti root, / together with koṣātakī, one should cook oil that destroys ringworm of the hair. (83)

Oil boiled with guñjā fruits and bhṛṅgarāja juice / destroys itching, dāraṇa, skin disease, and diseases of the cranium. (84)

Bhṛṅgarāja, triphalā, blue water lily, śārivā, / and rust of iron: / cook this oil that removes dāraṇa / and makes the hair curly, dense, and firm. (85)

With prapauṇḍarīka, madhuka, long pepper, sandalwood, and blue water lily, / one karṣa each, one kuḍava of oil, and twice as much emblic myrobalan juice, (86)

should be prepared for use as daily nasal drops; it removes all head diseases. / Cooked with jasmine, oleander, citraka, and karañja, (87)

this oil is praised for massage, supremely removing alopecia; / for it swiftly and surely destroys dāraṇa in men. (88)

From the application of emblic myrobalan and mango seed kernel, the hair becomes firm, thick, and unctuous. / In alopecia, having punctured a vein, (89)

one should smear all around with pastes of realgar, iron sulphate, and blue vitriol, and an oil is beneficial for massage / prepared from kuṭannaṭa, śikhin, jasmine, karañja, and oleander. (90)

Having scarified the deep-seated patch again and again, / one should plaster the scalp all around with guñjā fruits for a long time. (91)

Making ash of elephant tusk together with prime rasāñjana, / by means of this hairs grow even on the palms of men. (92)

Smeared with any one of bhallātaka, bṛhatī fruit, and guñjā root or fruit, / together with honey, alopecia subsides. (93)

Guñjā fruit and root ground with the juice of bṛhatī fruit / should always be applied to alopecia that has been rubbed with dhattūra and scarified. (94)

Drying and dusting with powdered black pepper on alopecia / that has been rubbed with rough leaves should be done to check alopecia. (95)

Smeared with the ash of elephant tusk burnt in an enclosed pot, / along with goat's milk and rasāñjana, / curly hairs grow after seven nights / even on a bald scalp. (96)

By an application of liquorice, blue lotus, mūrvā, / sesame, clarified butter, cow's milk, and bhṛṅgarāja, / hairs soon become thick, / firm, rooted, long, and straight. (97)

Latex of snuhī, latex of arka, mārkava, lāṅgalī, aconite, / goat's urine along with cow's urine, guñjā, and indravāruṇī, (98)

white mustard, and sharp oil, having added these as paste and boiled / until cooked over a gentle fire, this oil destroys baldness. (99)

Even a scalp resembling a tortoise's shell, whose hair has been stolen by disease, / when smeared with this, will become hairy like the body of a bear. (100)

Boiled in the sun with the powder of aerial roots of banyan and keśinī / in fresh guḍūcī juice, oil applied as massage promotes hair growth. (101)

Sandalwood, madhuka, mūrvā, triphalā, blue water lily, / priyaṅgu, aerial roots of banyan, guḍūcī, and lotus root: (102)

Iron powder, keśī, and both kinds of sārivā— / one should cook an oil with the fresh juice of mārkava over a mild fire. // 103

Hairs that have fallen out on the head grow thick and curly, / firmly rooted, unctuous, and resembling black bees. / Administered as nasal drops, this excellent oil destroys premature greying. // 104

Oil boiled in milk with yaṣṭīmadhu and āmalakī fruits, / when given as nasal drops, produces hair and beard. // 105

Triphalā, nīlinī leaves, iron, and bhṛṅgarāja in equal parts, / combined with sheep's urine, is an excellent blackening agent. // 106

One should place iron powder mixed with triphalā powder / into a slightly ripe coconut filled with bhṛṅgarāja juice. // 107

Having kept it [buried] for one month, one should completely extract it from the interior. / Then, having shaved the head, the excellent physician should apply it as a paste. // 108

Having wrapped it with banana leaves, he should remove it on the seventh day. / For one who eats milk and meat broth, he should wash [the head] with decoctions of triphalā. // 109

This dyes the scalp and is an excellent blackener. / One should place blue water-lily together with milk in the earth for a month; // 110

it is prescribed for blackening and unctuousness of the hair. / Bhṛṅgarāja flower and javā flower ground with ewe's milk, // 111

stirred with that very [milk], placed in an iron vessel, and buried under the earth— / extracted after seven days and then stirred with bhṛṅgarāja juice, // 112

having anointed the head and wrapped it, one should remain through the night. / In the morning, washing should be done; in this way hair-dyeing occurs. / Likewise is the procedure done with red lead, bālāmba, conch shell, and bhṛṅgarāja juice. // 113

Powder of freshly burnt conch shell, / having rubbed lead sprinkled with sour fermented gruel, / by application as a paste to hairs wrapped with arka leaves, / turns white [hairs] exceedingly black. // 114

A man who always bathes with pastes of iron slag and āmalakī, / along with javā flowers, / does not see greying hairs in this world, / just as one who bathes in the Gaṅgā does not see hells. // 115

Nimba seeds impregnated / with water of bhṛṅga and of asana— / the oil of these, through nasal drops, destroys / grey hair from its roots for one who consumes food with milk. // 116

Nimba oil in its natural state alone, / instilled as nasal drops according to rule, / in a month, for a man eating cow's milk, / destroys greying that has appeared ahead of old age. // 117

From milk and mārkava juice, two prasthas of each, one pala of madhuka, / and a kuḍava of oil are cooked; that nasal drops remedy removes grey hair. // 118

Roots of ādityavallī and of kṛṣṇaśairīyaka, / leaves of surasa, and fruit of kṛṣṇāśana, // 119

mārkava, kākamācī, madhuka, and devadāru, / in separate parts of ten palas each; pippalī, triphalā, añjana, // 120

prapauṇḍarīka, mañjiṣṭhā, lodhra, kṛṣṇāguru, utpala, / mango stone, black river mud, mṛṇālī, red sandalwood, // 121

nīlī, marking-nut stones, kāsīsa, madayantikā, / somarājī, aśana, iron, black variety of piṇḍīta, citraka, // 122

flowers of arjuna and kāśmarī, and fruits of mango and jambū, / in separate portions of five palas, well ground, one should cook with an āḍhaka // 123

of vibhītaka oil and four times as much āmalakī juice, / or one should cook it in the sun until the juice becomes dry. // 124

Then, strained and purified in an iron vessel, one should use it / in drinks, in the procedure of nasal drops, and likewise in head massage. // 125

And this is beneficial for the eyes, prolongs life, and removes all diseases of the head; / known as ‘Mahānīla’, it is an unequalled destroyer of grey hair. // 126

Clarified butter cooked in bhṛṅgarāja juice with a paste of peacock bile, / when used as nasal drops, destroys grey hair through a seven-day course. // 127

Kernel of śeluka ground with sour fermented gruel, placed in a perforated iron container; / the oil that drips from the heat of the sun, by its nasal application and smearing, // 128

hairs quickly become unctuous and like black bees; / and this destroys diseases of the eyes, ears, neck, and teeth. // 129

Kāsīsa, an equal amount of rocanā, realgar, and rasāñjana, / ground with sour liquid—this paste is for scrotal eczema and infantile intertrigo. // 130

Clarified butter cooked with paṭola leaves, triphalā, and rasāñjana, / when drunk, quickly destroys even difficult infantile intertrigo. // 131

Turmeric and mārkava root ground equally with cold water, / applied as a paste, destroys the terrible erysipelas called ‘boar's tooth’. // 132

Or having ground powder of nāgakeśara with clarified butter washed a hundred times, / a paste should be applied in burning and tingling of the feet. // 133