Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 56: Adhikāra 56

One should fill the ear with the good, comfortably warm juices
of kapittha, citron, and ginger for the relief of earache. (1)

Or ginger, honey, rock salt, and sesame oil,
given moderately warm into the ears, relieves pain. (2)

The fresh juice of garlic, fresh ginger, śigru, suraṅgī, radish,
and plantain, tepid, is excellent for filling the ear;
or one may dust [the ear] with cuttlefish bone powder mixed with it. (3)

The fresh juices of fresh ginger, sūryāvarta,
roots of śobhāñjana, and radish,
combined with honey, oil, and rock salt,
individually warm, remove earache. (4)

The exudate of śobhāñjana mixed with sesame oil,
distinctly warm, when filled into the ear, is for the relief of earache. (5)

One should fill the ears with lukewarm urine of any one
among the eight urines, for the relief of earache. (6)

Or having fashioned a mortar of sacred fig leaves out of multiple leaves,
smeared with oil and filled with burning coals, one should place it over the ear. (7)

The oil that trickles from that leaf-mortar heated by the burning coals,
upon reaching the auditory channel, immediately takes away the pain. (8)

The juice produced from a leaf of snuhī wrapped in a leaf-fold of arka and scorched,
tepid, by mere filling, dispels earache. (9)

Having wrapped pieces of the great five roots measuring eight finger-breadths
with linen, and moistened them with oil, one should then kindle them. (10)

The oil that trickles from them, comfortably warm, should be applied;
it should be known as dīpikātaila: it immediately takes away the pain. (11)

The wise [physician] should similarly prepare dīpikātaila
with bhadrakāṣṭha, kuṣṭha, and wood of sarala, dispelling earache. (12)

A leaf of arka turned yellow with age,
smeared with clarified butter, heated over a fire,
and squeezed, its liquid poured into the ear,
destroys pain and severe suffering. (13)

In an ear afflicted by severe ache, with ringing and yielding distress,
one should put warm goat's urine dusted with rock salt. (14)

In horse's and sheep's urine mixed with bamboo scrapings, the physician
should cook oil; with it he should fill the ear of one suffering from earache. (15)

Mustard oil should be prepared with asafetida, tumburu, and dry ginger; / filling [the ear with it] is said to be the foremost beneficial measure in earache. (16)

Alkali of tender radish and dry ginger, asafetida, together with dry ginger, / dill, sweet flag, kuṣṭha, deodar, śigru, rasāñjana, (17)

black salt, barley alkali, sarjikā, udbhida salt, rock salt, / knot of birch-bark, viḍa salt, mustā, honey, four parts of sour gruel, (18)

juice of citron, and also juice of plantain: / with these, oil should be thoroughly cooked; it is supreme in removing earache. (19)

Deafness, ear noises, terrible purulent discharge, / and worms residing in the ear, by filling [the ear] with this oil, (20)

quickly go to destruction, by the teaching of Kṛṣṇātreya. / This excellent alkali-oil removes diseases of the mouth and teeth. (21)

A vinegar dominated by honey, however, is another [variety called] madhuśukta. / The fruit juice of jambīra lime mixed with long pepper roots, (22)

poured into a vessel containing honey, should be kept inside a heap of grain. / After a month, when its liquid has matured, it is declared to be madhuśukta. (23)

In ear noises and tinnitus, filling with mustard oil [is indicated]. / In ear noises and deafness, one should administer the medicine prescribed for earache. (24)

Sesame oil prepared in alkali-water of apāmārga / with a paste made of that [same plant], / removes ear noises / and also deafness, by filling [the ear]. (25)

Sarjikā, dried radish, asafetida, black pepper, dry ginger, / and dill: oil cooked with these along with four times as much vinegar / quickly removes noise, pain, deafness, and discharge. (26)

One should cook one prastha of oil with the decoction of daśamūla, / adding just this [previously mentioned] paste; it is the supreme medicine in deafness. (27)

Having crushed a bilva fruit with [goat's] urine, one should cook oil / with goat's milk; that indeed removes deafness when filled into the ear. (28)

This very procedure should be performed in ear noises, preceded by nasal therapy. / An errhine with jaggery and dry-ginger water is suitable in both. (29)

The powder of the five astringent barks mixed with the juice of wood-apple / and honey, they praise as a filling in ear discharge. (30)

When filled with the juice of jasmine leaves and honey, or with cows' urine, / the pair of ears is completely abandoned by the disease of foul-smelling ear. (31)

Orpiment with cow's urine, used as a filling, overcomes foul-smelling ear. / The juice of cotton-plant fruit mixed with powder of sarja-bark / and blended with honey, is well praised in ear discharge. (32)

Tender jambū and mango leaves in equal parts, / and fresh fruits of wood-apple and cotton-plant: / pounding them, that juice mixed with honey, / experts declare to be a remover of discharge. (33)

Boiled with these [ingredients], neem and karañja oil / with mustard oil is taught to remove discharge. (34)

Juice extracted from an elephant-dung ball steamed by the sealed-pot method, / combined with oil and rock salt, is supreme in removing ear discharge. (35)

One should cook mustard oil with the flesh of a jackal; / by merely filling [the ear] with it, ear fistula is subdued. (36)

Eight palas of mustard oil cooked with one pala each of turmeric and gandhapala / in the juice of datura leaves, is an excellent remedy overcoming ear fistula. (37)

Now, in obstruction of the ear, one should employ oleation and sudation; / then, having purged the patient's head, one should perform the treatment that is called for. (38)

One should treat suppuration of the ear like erysipelas in a wound. / Tubular sudation, emesis, fumigation, and head-purgation, (39)

and all measures that subdue kapha, eliminate itching of the ear. / Having moistened [it] with oil and dissolved [it] by sudation, (40)

the physician should properly clean out earwax with a probe. / Fresh juice of nirguṇḍī, oil, rock salt, chimney soot, and jaggery, (41)

combined with honey, soothes foul-smelling ear through filling. / Oil thoroughly cooked in the juice of jasmine leaves conquers foul-smelling ear. (42)

Oil prepared with sprouts of varuṇa, arka, wood-apple, mango, and jambū, / or with the juice of jasmine leaves, removes foul-smelling ear. (43)

Fresh juice of sūryāvarta, likewise juice of sindhuvāra, / and juice from the root of lāṅgalī dusted with the three pungents, (44)

should be used to fill an ear infested with worms; it is supreme in destroying pests. / For the eradication of ear-worms, one should employ anti-parasitic treatment. (45)

Smoke of brinjal is beneficial, and mustard oil as well. / When [the ear] is abundantly filled with the fresh juice of halin, sūryāvarta, and the three pungents, (46)

all types of worms immediately fall out of the ear. / Juice of nīlavunnā combined with oil, rock salt, and sour gruel, (47)

lukewarm, drops out all worms without remainder when filled into the ear. / Guggulu is said to be best for fumigation in foul odour of the ear. (48)

Washing of the ear should be done with the decoction of the rājavṛkṣādi group or water of the surasādi group, / and filling [should be done] with these powders. (49)

Clarified butter, rasāñjana, woman's milk combined with honey: / this is praised in foul-smelling ear with discharge, even when long-standing. (50)

With kuṣṭha, asafetida, sweet flag, deodar, dill, dry ginger, and rock salt, / oil prepared with goat's urine removes foul-smelling ear. (51)

And in ear abscess, one should indeed administer the medicine prescribed for abscess. / With asparagus, aśvagandhā, payasyā, and castor seeds, (52)

oil cooked with milk is supreme in nourishing the earlobes. / When buffalo milk mixed with guñjā powder has curdled, the butter that arises (53)

increases the earlobes by anointing with it. / Poison-containing oil of bitter bottle-gourd cooked in eight times as much urine of an ass: (54)

anointing with it enlarges the earlobes. / Oil prepared in milk with the life-giving paste (55)

and the decoction of meat of wetland animals nourishes and enlarges the earlobes. / Combined with buffalo butter and kept inside a grain heap for seven days, (56)

powder of fresh musalī tuber causes enlargement of the earlobes. / When an improper piercing of the ear has occurred, inflammation and pain arise; (57)

there, for healing the improper piercing, a plaster with honey and clarified butter combined / with madhūka, barley, madder, and castor roots should be applied all around. (58)

Of an ear torn in diverse ways, the physician should indeed reconstruct the join; / however it may be situated, that he should adapt accordingly. (59)

Irrigation, however, [should be done] with fermented rice-water and warm water when it is corrupted by vāta, / with milk when by blood and pitta, and with warm water when by kapha. // 60

Then, having sutured, he should make the union firm, or else by bandaging. / Then, having anointed it with honey and clarified butter, wrapping the union with a swab of cotton, / he should then dust it with skull-bone powder or with pathyā. // 61