Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 57: Adhikāra 57

Milk boiled with the five roots, citraka-harītakī, / medicated clarified butter, jaggery, and ṣaḍaṅga soup serve to calm pīnasa. // 1

The three pungents, citraka, tālīsa, tamarind, amlavetasa, / along with cavya and cumin in equal parts, and cardamoms, cinnamon, and cinnamon-leaves, each one-fourth part: // 2

this powder called vyoṣādika, mixed with old jaggery, / cures pīnasa, dyspnoea, and cough, and is supreme for promoting appetite and voice. // 3

With pāṭhā, the two turmerics, mūrvā, long pepper, jasmine leaves, / and dantī, an oil properly prepared as nasal medication is effective in pīnasa. // 4

Cooked with vyāghrī, dantī, vacā, śigru, surasā, the three pungents, and rock salt, / the oil [used as] nasal drops conquers the disease foul-smelling nose. // 5

With the three pungents, viḍaṅga, rock salt, bṛhatī-fruit, śigru, surasā, and dantī, / oil cooked with cow's urine serves as nasal medication for foul-smelling nose. // 6

With kaliṅga, asafoetida, black pepper, lac, surasā, kaṭphala, / kuṣṭha, vacā, śigru, and vermifuge [plants], an errhine is praised. // 7

With those very ingredients combined with urine, he should boil pungent oil. / In apīnasa and foul-smelling nose, it is celebrated as an excellent soothing agent. // 8

In inflammation of the nose, the entire pitta-dispelling regimen / should be carried out, both externally and internally. / He should remove blood, and the barks of milk-bearing trees / are to be employed in irrigation, and plasters mixed with clarified butter. // 9

Decoctions and nasal drops that conquer purulent discharge and bleeding disorders [should be used]. / With pastes and decoctions of dry ginger, kuṣṭha, long pepper, vilva, and grapes, / oil or clarified butter prepared as nasal medication dispels sneezing and pain. // 10

In the burning paittika disease, one should carry out the entire / regimen that is sweet and cooling. / In nasal obstruction, drinking unctuous substances is foremost, / along with unctuous medicinal smokes, and constantly head-enema. // 11

In vātika catarrh, however, he should drink clarified butter in proper sequence, / prepared with the five salts and with the first group [of drugs]. // 12

In nasal medications and the rest, he should observe the entire procedure stated for facial paralysis. / In those arising from pitta and blood, clarified butter boiled with sweet herbs is to be drunk. // 13

He should also apply cooling irrigations and plasters. / In that born of kapha, having unctuated [the patient] with clarified butter, or having caused him to vomit with thick gruel cooked with sesame and black gram, // 14

he should carry out the regimen that dispels kapha. / With dārvī, iṅgudī, nikumbha, kiṇihī, and surasā, // 16

wicks made here should be used for medicinal smoking according to the rules. / Or else, placing roasted barley-flour mixed with clarified butter in a double earthen cup, / the physician should administer the smoke to those suffering from acute catarrh. // 17

He who, having mounted his bed at bedtime, drinks very cold / water on the ground, afflicted with pīnasa, is freed from that disease. // 18

Jayā leaves cooked in a closed vessel, combined with rock salt and oil, / regularly used, is a supreme medicament in all catarrhs. // 19

A meal of unctuous, sour curds mixed with black pepper and jaggery / cures acute catarrh and especially digests kapha. // 20

In acute catarrh, soup made from tamarind leaves is recommended. / Then, knowing kapha to be digested, he should expel it with head-purgatives. // 21

With head-anointing, fomentation, nasal medication, pungent and sour food, / emesis, and drinking clarified butter, he should treat them according to each specific condition. // 22

If immediately after a meal one eats / steamed black gram with salt, extremely hot, / he conquers catarrh arising from all [doṣas] / and of long standing. // 23

Long peppers, śigru seeds, viḍaṅga, and black pepper: / this errhine is praised for preventing catarrh. // 24

One should apply the therapies indicated, ground with urine, in case of parasites, / and the wise man should use parasite-destroying medicaments for nasal drops. / For the remaining disorders, treatment should be according to each condition. // 25

Flowers of red oleander, jasmine, aśana, and mallikā: / oil [prepared] in equal parts with these is best for destroying nasal polyp. // 26

Oil prepared with soot, long pepper, devādāru, alkali, karañja, rock salt, / and seeds of apāmārga is beneficial for nasal polyps. // 27

With citraka, cavya, ajamodā, / kaṇṭakārī, seeds of karañja, rock salt, and arka, / oil cooked along with cow's urine / is prescribed for nasal polyps. // 28

Having added one hundred [palas] each of the juice of citraka, āmalakī, / guḍūcī, and the decoction of daśamūla, one āḍhaka of pathyā powder, and one hundred [palas] of jaggery, // 29

he should cook it; when it is thickened, he should toss in twelve palas / of the three pungents and the three aromatics, and half a pala of alkali; on the next day, // 30

having added half a prastha of honey, he should eat it according to digestive fire without sloth. / This rejuvenating tonic, for the increase of digestive fire, destroys consumption, cough, / intractable pīnasa, worms, abdominal lumps, upward movement of vāta, haemorrhoids, and dyspnoea. // 31