Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 58: Adhikāra 58

One should treat conjunctivitis by fasting, plasters, fomentation, venesection, purgation, / collyriums, eye-drops, and so forth. // 1

With powdered śrīvāsa, ativiṣā, and lodhra, along with a little rock salt, / placed inside a cloth, dusting outside should be done when the eye-disease is unmanifest. // 2

Diseases arising in the eyes and the belly, catarrh, ulcers, and fever— / these five go to pacification within five nights by fasting. // 3

Fomentation, external plaster, bitter food, irrigation for four days, / and fasting are the six digestives of undigested eye-diseases. / Collyrium, eye-filling, and drinking decoctions are not recommended when āma is present. // 4

The juice of āmalakī-fruit dispels acute eye irritation by filling; / or irrigation with the juice of leaves born of śigru along with honey and rock salt. // 5

Or filling with dārvī and rasāñjana combined with breast-milk / quickly dispels burning sensation, lacrimation, and pains arising from conjunctivitis. // 6

Filled with abundant juice obtained from cutting / tender young sprouts of karavīra, / both eyes immediately become sound, / [though] violently irritated in that very instant. // 7

Apāmārga root rubbed with whey in a copper vessel mixed with a little rock salt, / through application as eye-drops, relieves acute eye irritation. // 8

Rock salt, dāruharidrā, red ochre, pathyā, and rasāñjana, when ground / and applied outside as a plaster, removes all eye diseases without remainder. // 9

Likewise, lodhra [powdered in] an earthen saucer and fried in clarified butter should be made into an eye-poultice (biḍālaka); / in the same way, harītakī fried in clarified butter should be made into an eye-poultice. // 10

An external application around the eyes is called biḍālaka by eye-specialists. // 11

An external paste composed of equal parts of red ochre, sandalwood, dry ginger, and chalk, / mixed with vacā, makes the eye free from disease, without doubt. // 12

Bhūmyāmalakī rubbed with rock salt and mixed with household water in a copper vessel, / when thickened, overcomes eye pain through external application. // 13

In [conjunctivitis] born of vāta, eye-drops (āścyotana) of a decoction of bilva and others are beneficial; / lukewarm, along with eraṇḍa, bṛhatī, tarkārī, and madhuśigru. // 14

Goat's milk boiled with eraṇḍa sprouts, root, and bark, / and with roots of kaṇṭakārī, pleasantly warm, is beneficial for irrigation. // 15

When the eye disease has fully matured, collyrium (añjana) and the like should be employed. / [The signs are] a healthy state of the eyelids, subsidence of irritation and lacrimation, // 16

mildness of pain, and itching—such is the characteristic of a matured eye disease. / The procedure for collyrium and the rest will be explained completely hereafter. // 17

Bark of bṛhatī and eraṇḍa roots, and roots of śigru, with rock salt, / ground with goat's milk, makes a wick-collyrium (varti) that cures vāta eye diseases. // 18

One should grind the two haridrās, madhuka, pathyā, and devadāru / with goat's milk; that collyrium is excellent in conjunctivitis (abhiṣyanda). // 19

Red ochre, rock salt, pippalī, and dry ginger, in successively increasing parts, / or ground with twice the amount of water, is recommended as a pill-collyrium (guḍikāñjana). // 20

With prapauṇḍarīka, yaṣṭīmadhu, niśā, āmalaka, and padmaka, / cold, mixed with honey and sugar, irrigation cures eye diseases born of pitta. // 21

Milk boiled with drākṣā, madhuka, mañjiṣṭhā, and the jīvanīya herbs, / as eye-drops in the morning, is wholesome for patients with eye disease having swelling and pain. // 22

Having coated lodhra powder or paste with leaves of nimba, / [heated] by the fire of sweating, / [applied as] eye-drops combined with human breast-milk, / it is said to be foremost in destroying pitta, blood, and vāta. // 23

In [the condition] born of kapha: fasting, sudation, nasal therapy, and food of bitter taste [are indicated]; / one should perform insufflation with sharp [medicaments], and poulticing with sharp ones. // 24

One should administer sudation with phaṇijjaka, āsphota, kapīta, bilva, / pattūra, pīlu, surasā, and leaves of arjagha / or a warm paste of barhiṣṭha, dry ginger, suradāru, and kuṣṭha. // 25

A bolus of dry ginger and nimba leaves, pleasantly warm, with a little rock salt, / should be held over the eye; as a poultice, it removes swelling, itching, and pain. // 26

The bark of pārijāta, sesame oil, sour gruel, and rock salt / destroy eye pain arising from kapha, just as a thunderbolt destroys a tree. // 27

Lodhra with rock salt, fried in clarified butter, / ground with sauvīraka vinegar and wrapped in a white cloth: / one should use that as eye-drops for the eye; / it destroys itching, burning sensation, and pain. // 28

[Eye diseases] originating from vāta [are relieved] by unctuous and warm measures, those born of pitta by mild and cold ones; / those of the nature of kapha are alleviated by sharp, dry, hot, and clear ones. // 29

That born of all three doṣas [is treated] by alternating sharp-hot and mild-cold measures. / Tirīṭa, triphalā, yaṣṭī, sugar, and bhadramustā / ground with cold water, as an irrigation, destroys conjunctivitis caused by blood. // 30

Powder of kaśeru and madhuka, mixed with water, / placed in rainwater, is a beneficial eye-drop. // 31

Dārvī, paṭola, madhuka, along with nimba, padmaka, utpala, / and prapauṇḍarīka: these one should boil in four times their amount of water; // 32

having boiled down to a quarter remaining, one should boil that one kuḍava again; / when it has cooled down, one should add honey in an amount of one-fourth part. // 33

This solid extract (rasakriyā) destroys burning sensation, tear-discharge, diseases, blood-vitiation, and pain. / Drinking of bitter clarified butter and frequent purgation, // 34

and applying leeches all around the eyes, / is also the established procedure that pacifies conjunctivitis born of pitta. // 35

Juice of śigru sprouts, well rubbed in a copper vessel, / fumigated with clarified butter, destroys swelling, irritation, tears, and pain. // 28

Having ground very clean leaves of nimba / mixed with jāti and rock salt, / forming an inner core, a firm pill coated with fried powder of lodhra, / wrapped all around with cotton thoroughly moistened with sauvīra vinegar and extremely soft, / rolled for a long time over the eyes, pacifies eye irritation. // 37

Filtered juice of bilva leaves, combined with rock salt and clarified butter, / rubbed with a cowrie shell in a copper vessel, fumigated with fire of cow dung, // 38

and stirred with milk, when filled into the eyes, relieves swelling and pain; / it is commended in conjunctivitis, adhimantha, discharge, and blood disorders. // 39

Mustard oil with salt, and sour gruel, in a bronze vessel, / thickened, rubbed with a stone, and fumigated over a cow-dung fire, / sprinkled with goat's milk, overcomes vitiation of vāta and kapha, / eye pain, discharge, swelling, and redness. // 40

The juice of an āmalaka pierced while remaining on the tree cures all eye diseases; / old clarified butter by all means cures all eye ailments. // 41

This very same procedure is recommended in adhimantha and the like; / if adhimantha is not pacified by all means, one should apply cautery above the eyebrows. // 42

Application of leeches is commended in netrapāka (suppurative ophthalmitis), [as well as] purgation; / or one should perform venesection; and irrigations and pastes [should be used] as in śukra (corneal opacity). // 43

A decoction of vibhītaka, harītakī, dhātrī, paṭola, ariṣṭa, and vāsaka, / taken with guggulu, destroys swelling, pain, and inflammation of the eye (akṣipāka); // 44

and it destroys pīlu, ulcerated śukra, redness, and the like; / clarified butter cooked with these also removes those diseases. // 45

With āṭarūṣa, abhayā, nimba, dhātrī, mustā, and akṣa (vibhītaka): / the 'vāsakādi' formulation is beneficial to the eyes and destroys bleeding and kapha. // 46

Vāsā, mustā, leaves of nimba and paṭola, / kaṭukā, guḍūcī, candana, bark of kutaja, / indrayava, dāruharidrā, citraka, dry ginger, / bhūnimba, dhātrī, abhayā, and vibhītaka: // 47

one should drink this decoction reduced to an eighth part [boiled with] śyāmā and yava on the previous day; / it destroys timira, itching, paṭala, tumors, / and corneal opacity (śukra), both ulcerated and non-ulcerated, // 48

as well as pīlu, kāca, severe conjunctival congestion, / night-blindness, redness, swelling with pain; / this vāsādi formulation of renowned efficacy / destroys all eye diseases. // 49

Three fruits of pathyā, six of vibhītakī, and twelve of dhātrī, / in half a prastha of water, [boiled as] a decoction reduced to one-eighth part: // 50

By drinking [this decoction], one overcomes abhiṣyanda, discharge, redness, and timira. (51)

It destroys agitation, redness, pain, and lacrimation, and clarifies vision. / When the eye is injured, however, one should apply cold eye-drops and similar measures. (52)

The physician should promptly perform the procedure that produces clarity of vision / using unctuous, cold, and sweet applications; / in the very same way he should treat [an eye] injured / by fomentation, fire, smoke, fear, grief, pain, or scorching heat. (53)

Having examined the accidental factor, the procedure should be performed: / first of all, it should be fomented with the warmth of the mouth; / and an eye-drop with woman's milk should immediately be given, / as well as whatever relieves pitta and blood. (54)

For one whose eyes are injured by looking at / a solar eclipse, fire, lightning, and the like, / refreshing treatment, unctuous, cold, and so forth, should be given, / and triphalā preparations should be taken in the evening. (55)

Haridrā, mustā, triphalā, dāruharidrā, combined with sugar and madhuka— / filling the eye [with these] mixed with woman's milk destroys eye pain caused by trauma. (56)

Likewise, fresh juice produced from sprouted itkaṭa is an eye-filling. / Goat's clarified butter, a vessel of milk, madhuka, and utpala, (57)

and also having ground jīvaka and ṛṣabhaka, one should cook the clarified butter. / This clarified butter is commended in all traumatic injuries of the eyes. (58)

Rock salt, devadāru, dry ginger, mātuluṅga juice, clarified butter, / with breast milk and water, should be made into a collyrium in śuṣkākṣipāka. (59)

In vātika mārutaparyaya, other measures should be taken as in vātābhiṣyanda; / clarified butter taken before food is beneficial, as is milk taken with meals. (60)

One should also drink clarified butter cooked with vṛkṣādanī, kapittha, and the great pañcamūla, / along with milk, in the juice of crabs. (61)

Abhiṣyanda, adhīmantha arising from blood, or arjuna, / śirotpāta, śirāharṣa, and other diseases arising in the eyes— (62)

in one who has been oleated with old clarified butter, one should bring them to peace by venesections. / For the relief of amlādhyuṣita, one should apply very cold pastes. (63)

Clarified butter prepared with tinduka or triphalā, or simply aged clarified butter, is beneficial. / The regimen that removes pittābhiṣyanda should be carried out, omitting venesection. (64)

Clarified butter and honey used as a collyrium is a medicine for śirotpāta. / Likewise, rock salt and kāsīsa ground with breast milk is praised. (65)

In śirāharṣa, one should apply as a collyrium treacle mixed with honey, / or rasāñjana with honey, or kāsīsa along with mākṣika. (66)

To appease vraṇaśukra, one should drink ṣaḍaṅga guggulu. / The seed of kataka, conch shell, tinduka, and silver, (67)

rubbed on bell-metal with breast milk, conquers the pain and redness of kṣataśukra. / Sandalwood, red ochre, lac, and fresh buds of mālatī, (68)

form a wick that removes vraṇaśukra and purifies the blood. / Or one should draw blood from the eye through a vein or with leeches. (69)

Collyrium made of bibhītaka marrow with breast milk applied in the evening destroys śukra; / or white lotus alone, irrigated with goat's milk. (70)

It destroys redness, discharge, pain, kṣataśukra, pākātyaya, and ajakā. / Blue vitriol combined with water destroys śukra by filling the eyes. (71)

A wick made of cuttlefish bone, fowl's egg-shell, rock salt, together with mākṣika / and horse-radish seeds, ground with horse-radish water, destroys śukra. (72)

Fruit of dhātrī, leaves of nimba and paṭola, / yaṣṭyāhva, lodhra, khadira, and sesame seeds: / their decoction, thoroughly cooled and sprinkled into the eye, / destroys every variety of śukra. (73)

Irrigation with water infused with crushed leaves of punnāga, / or with a decoction of śyāmā in water, removes corneal opacity. (74)

With equal parts of fowl's egg-shell, realgar, conch, glass, sandalwood, and red ochre, / this collyrium formulation scarifies corneal opacity, arman, and the like. (75)

One should also perform rubbing on the śukra with seeds of śirīṣa, black pepper, long pepper, and rock salt, / or simply with rock salt. (76)

A wick made of karañja seeds, repeatedly infused / with the fresh juice of palāśa flowers, quickly overcomes / a mass of opacities in the eyes, even if of long standing. (77)

Rock salt, triphalā, long pepper, kaṭukā, and conch-navel, / along with copper dust, ground into a wick, destroys śukra. (78)

Sandalwood, rock salt, harītakī, and the gum of the palāśa tree, / in progressively increasing quantities—this powder scarifies śukra, arman, and the like. (79)

With teeth derived from the elephant, boar, camel, cow, horse, goat, and donkey, / along with conch shell, pearls, and cuttlefish bone, with a one-fourth part of black pepper, / the tooth-wick turns back even the disease kṣataśukra. (80)

Four parts of conch shell, half of that of realgar, / half the amount of realgar of black pepper, and half the amount of black pepper of rock salt: (81)

this excellent powder-collyrium is used in both forms of śukra and in timira; / it should be applied with honey in piccaṭa, and likewise with whey in tumours. (82)

Mākṣikadhātu, or madhuka extract, the seed of bibhītaka, and rock salt: / [these] with honey form four collyrium formulations for the relief of śukra. (83)

Fine camphor powder combined with the milk of the banyan tree / swiftly destroys śukra even when dense and elevated, by its application as a collyrium. (84)

Pulp of triphalā, maṅgalyā, madhuka, and red sandalwood: / an eye-filling mixed with honey conquers kṣataśukra, ajakā, and lacrimation. (85)

Having prepared filtered alkali from palmyra palm, coconut, as well as aruṣkara, / karīra, and bamboos, (86)

powder made of camel bone, infused with the alkali / seven or eight times, one should make into a fine powder. (87)

This is an excellent blackening agent in dry, incurable [spots]; / and for those opacities that are curable, it is a supreme collyrium. (88)

Paṭola, kaṭukā, dāruharidrā, nimba, vāsā, triphalā, / durālabhā, parpaṭaka, and trāyantī, one pala each, (89)

and one prastha of āmalakī, one should boil down in abundant water. / When the liquid is reduced to a quarter, one should cook in it one prastha of clarified butter (90)

with a paste of bhūnimba, kuṭaja, mustā, yaṣṭyāhva, and sandalwood, / along with long pepper. This medicated [clarified butter] is beneficial to the eyes and wholesome for both forms of śukra. (91)

It relieves diseases and ulcers of the nose, ears, eyes, eyelids, skin, and mouth; / it is supreme in removing jaundice, fever, erysipelas, and cervical lymphadenitis. (92)

Cooked with pippalī, viḍaṅga, madhuyaṣṭikā, rock salt, / and dry ginger in goat's milk, this / oil, when applied in the procedure of nasal errhine, cures men's timira, śukra, headache, eye pain, / and pākātyaya. (93)

Having pierced ajakā from the side with a needle and drained the fluid, / one should fill the wound with powder of dry cow dung together with clarified butter. (94)

Rock salt and horse's hoof along with gorocanā, / combined with the fresh juice of śelu bark: as a filling, it cures ajakā. (95)

With the paste of a hare's head, in water boiled with its remaining parts, / a kuḍava of clarified butter is cooked; as a filling, it also cures ajakā. (96)

And in a decoction of hare, one should cook a kuḍava of clarified butter / with a paste of [yaṣṭī]madhu and prapauṇḍarīka, along with an equal part of milk. (97)

From the filling [prepared with] goat's [milk], it destroys śukra, wound, pākātyaya, ajakā, / pain in the eyebrows and temples, and burning sensation and redness completely. (98)

Triphalā, clarified butter, honey, barley, / foot massage, śatāvarī, and mung beans: / this group has been concisely declared / by physicians to be beneficial for the eyes. (99)

Or one should always lick finely powdered triphalā / mixed abundantly with honey in timira born of pitta; / with oil in that caused by vāta; and in that composed of kapha, / one should administer it skillfully mixed abundantly with honey. (100)

A paste, decoction, or powder of triphalā consumed / with honey or clarified butter brings an end to all timira. (101)

He who, avoiding unwholesome things, consumes triphalā powder / in the evening with clarified butter and honey, / is freed from ocular disorders, / as a man whose wealth is exhausted [is abandoned] by his servants. (102)

Or one suffering from the disease timira should habitually take a decoction of triphalā with clarified butter. / Diseases that have arisen perish, and they never occur, / from washing the eyes in the morning with a decoction of triphalā. (103)

By mouthfuls of water in the morning, having filled the mouth cavity many times with water, / relentlessly splashing the eye, it instantly dispels timiras not [easily curable]. (104)

Having eaten and rubbed the palms together, that which is applied to the eyes / with that water removes timiras in no time at all. (105)

Kataka fruit, conch shell, the three pungents, rock salt, sugar, / cuttlefish bone, rasāñjana, honey, viḍaṅga, realgar, / and hen's egg-shells: this wick dispels (106)

timira, paṭala, kāca, arma, and likewise śukra; / it destroys itching, discharge, tumours, and dirt quickly—[this is] Sukhāvatī. (107)

Harītakī, vacā, kuṣṭha, pippalī, and black pepper, / marrow of bibhītaka, spiral of a conch shell, and realgar: (108)

making all these in equal parts, one should grind them with goat's milk. / It destroys timira, itching, paṭalas, and tumours, (109)

and extra fleshy growths, and [heals him] who cannot see at night; / it can cure even a two-year-old corneal opacity within one month. (110)

This wick named Candrodayā clears the vision of men. (111)

Harītakī, turmeric, pippalī, and the salts: / this wick which overcomes itching and timira is never thwarted anywhere. (112)

Eighty sesame flowers, sixty grains of pippalī, / fifty jasmine flowers, and sixteen black peppers: / this Kumārikā wick restores lost vision. (113)

Triphalā, hen's eggshell, green vitriol, iron dust, / blue water-lily, viḍaṅga, and foam of the lord of rivers [cuttlefish bone], (114)

ground with goat's milk, one should infuse in a copper vessel. / Having stood for seven nights, grinding it again with milk, one should make a wick. (115)

This sight-giving wick is for a blind person whose eyeball is not destroyed. / With sandalwood, triphalā, betel nut, and the sap of the palāśa tree, (116)

ground with water, this wick removes all timira. / The two turmerics, abhayā, māṃsī, kuṣṭha, and pippalī, finely powdered: (117)

this Saugata collyrium destroys all eye diseases. / A wick made with the three pungents, blue water-lily, abhayā, kuṣṭha, and rasāñjana removes (118)

tumours, paṭala, kāca, timira, arma, and discharge of tears. / The three pungents, triphalā, tagara, rock salt, orpiment, and realgar: (119)

this wick is praised as destroying moisture, coating, and itching, and removing kapha. / One part of pippalī, / and two parts of harītakī, ground with water: (120)

this wick brings comfort to the eyes / and removes arma, timira, paṭala, kāca, and lacrimation. (121)

Collyrium, white pepper, pippalī, madhuyaṣṭikā, / kernel of bibhītaka, spiral of a conch shell, and realgar: (122)

these in equal parts one should grind with goat's milk. / Having made a wick dried in the shade, one should apply it to the eyes. (123)

Tumour, paṭala, kāca, timira, red streaks, / fleshy growth, dirt, and [the affliction of] one who cannot see at night: / the wick named Candraprabhā clears even congenital blindness. (124)

Triphalā, the three pungents, rock salt, yaṣṭī, tuttha, rasāñjana, / prapauṇḍarīka, viḍaṅga, lodhra, and copper—these fourteen (125)

substances, having powdered them, a wick should be made with rainwater. / Inscribed by Nāgārjuna upon a pillar at Pāṭaliputra, (126)

it destroys timiras and likewise paṭalas. / Used with woman's breast milk, it certainly overcomes acute irritation immediately. (127)

With the fresh juice of kiṃśuka, or through blood from a pīlu flower, / or as a collyrium with lodhra water, one overcomes imminent timira. (128)

Combined with goat's urine, in an eye long clouded over, / it opens it without difficulty, and it attains clarity. (129)

Pippalī along with tagara and petals of the blue water-lily, / one should roll into a wick with madhuka and turmeric. / With this he should constantly apply collyrium / who desires an eye like that of Garuḍa. (130)

Combined with the three pungents, iron powder, rock salt, triphalā, and collyrium, / this pill ground with water, named Kokilā, removes timira. (131)

The three pungents, karañja fruits, / the two turmerics, together with rock salt, / and root of the bilva tree and of varuṇa; / cuttlefish bone they declare as the tenth. (132)

It destroys darkness, timira, and paṭala, / and picciṭa, śukra, and arjuna. / This collyrium pleases the people, / and vision does not fail for a hundred years. (133)

Blue water lily, viḍaṅga, pippalī, red sandalwood, / antimony, and rock salt immediately destroy timira. (134)

Patra, red ochre, camphor, yaṣṭīmadhu, and blue water lily, / combined with nāgakeśara, destroy timira completely. (135)

Four parts of conch shell, half that of realgar, / half that of realgar of black pepper, and half that of black pepper of pippalī; (136)

with water it destroys timira; it destroys arbuda with curd whey; / it destroys picciṭa with honey; and with human milk it is excellent. (137)

Turmeric, neem leaves, pippalī, black pepper, / bhadramusta, viḍaṅga, and dry ginger as the seventh; (138)

a pill should be made with cow's urine, and applied as an collyrium with goat's urine. / It destroys all fevers, and likewise affliction by spirits. (139)

With water it destroys timira; likewise with honey, paṭala; / with bhṛṅgarāja, night blindness; with woman's milk, puṣpaka; / with cold [water], discharge, arbuda, and also picciṭa. (140)

Taking dead earthworms, rubbing them with alaktaka juice, / putting them into a wick of cotton dyed with lac, combined with yaṣṭīmadhu, / and washing them with the best clarified butter—the collyrium soot produced by the heat of a fire-flame / is declared to destroy far- and near-sightedness, night blindness, and all timira. (141)

A collyrium [applied] with a finger rubbed on the ground brings alleviation to both of them; / it removes timira, kāca, and pterygium, and destroys smoky vision. (142)

Lead quenched seven times in triphalā, bhṛṅgarāja, ginger, honey, clarified butter, goat's milk, and cow's urine / renders the eye like that of Garuḍa. (143)

When a piece of lead is heated and quenched seven times each day / in the decoction of triphalā, juice of bhṛṅgarāja, / clarified butter, aconite paste, goat's urine, and pungent honey, / then afterwards one should make a probe from it. (144)

Used at sunrise, either with a collyrium paste or without, / this probe, when applied, removes eye diseases—painful, itching, inflammatory, and picciṭa diseases, / those arising from the black and white parts [of the eye], and those born in the junctions and eyelids. (145)

Placing the juice of tamarind leaves in a clean copper vessel, / grinding guñjā root there along with rock salt, and drying it in the sun; / that powder combined with pure antimony is commended as an eye collyrium; / it banishes discharge in kāca, pterygium, arjuna, picciṭa, and timira. (146)

When pure rock salt is powdered during the conjunction of Citrā and the sixth [lunar day], / by using it as a collyrium for the eye, even timira that has been incurable for a year is cured. (147)

One should add powdered pippalī and rock salt to a decoction of uśīra; / that boiled down with clarified butter should be cooked again; when thick, honey should be added. (148)

When it has cooled, this collyrium is beneficial in timira caused by all [three doṣas]. (149)

A concentrated extract (rasakriyā) of āmalakī, rasāñjana, honey, and clarified butter / destroys eye diseases caused by pitta and vāta, and removes timira and paṭala. (150)

Fresh ginger and bhṛṅgarāja mixed with oil of yaṣṭīmadhu / should be administered as an errhine; it destroys extensive paṭala. (151)

In cataract (liṅganāśa) caused by kapha, after piercing properly according to rule / at the natural aperture, one should fill the eye with breast milk. (152)

Then, when forms are seen, one should slowly withdraw the probe; / having smeared the eye with clarified butter, one should bandage it with a cloth wrap. (153)

Then, lying flat on one's back in a quiet room, / [suppressing] belching, coughing, sneezing, spitting, and trembling; (154)

at that time and afterwards, one should not engage in them, like a boat filled with unctuous substance under restraint. / Every three days, one should irrigate [the eye] with decoctions that relieve vāta. (155)

Out of fear of vāta, after three days, one should lubricate the eye as before; / and having observed restraint for ten nights, remedies clearing the vision are beneficial. (156)

One should also adopt post-operative treatment and consume light food in moderation. / Redness, sucking pain, tumour, swelling, bubble-like protrusion, squinting, (157)

adhimantha, and other diseases may arise from improper puncture / or from improper conduct; one should treat them according to their specific nature. (158)

Now learn from me further formulations for pain or eye disease: / dūrvā, barley, red ochre, and śārivā made into a paste with clarified butter (159)

should be applied as comfortable poultices for the alleviation of pain and disease; / also with payasyā, leaves of śārivā, mañjiṣṭhā, and madhuka, (160)

combined with goat's milk, a pleasantly warm poultice is declared wholesome. / Clarified butter processed in four times the amount of milk prepared with vāta-alleviating drugs, (161)

with an addition of drugs of the kākolyādi group, should be used in all procedures. / If the pain does not subside in this way, one should bleed [the vessels] of one who has been unctuated and fomented; (162)

then the wise physician should also cauterise the vein, as described. / Henceforth, hear from me two auspicious collyriums for clarifying vision: (163)

Leaves of meṣaśṛṅga, and of śirīṣa and dhava, / and of mālatī in equal parts, as well as pearl and lapis lazuli; (164)

ground with goat's milk, one should keep it in a copper vessel for seven days; / shaping it into a wick, the physician should use it as a collyrium. (165)

Stibnite, coral, cuttlefish bone, realgar, / and black pepper: the physician should make a wick of these as before. (166)

Rasāñjana, clarified butter, honey, tālīsa, and red ochre, / combined with cow-dung juice, [are beneficial] for vision afflicted by pitta. (167)

Filaments of red lotus and blue water lily, combined with cow-dung juice: / this should be a pill-collyrium beneficial for day-blindness and night-blindness. (168)

River-born stibnite, conch shell, trikaṭu, antimony, / realgar, the two turmerics, cow dung, / and sandalwood: this pill is praised as a collyrium / for those who cannot see in the night or daytime. (169)

Pippalī cooked inside goat's liver and ground with its juice / quickly destroys night blindness; black pepper mixed with honey acts likewise. (170)

One should cook the liver of an iguana prepared / with pippalī and water; / applied once as a collyrium, / it undoubtedly destroys night blindness. (171)

Black pepper rubbed with curd is an excellent collyrium for night blindness; / eating a firefly along with betel leaf accomplishes the same purpose. (172)

Ash of carp fish destroys night blindness when applied as a collyrium; / likewise asafoetida, borax, and earwax, applied individually as a collyrium with honey. (173)

Fish roe cooked with keśarāja, when eaten, / inevitably destroys night-blindness in seven days for men who follow a wholesome regimen.

Clarified butter boiled with milk, a decoction of triphalā, and [triphalā] paste, / when drunk at nightfall, quickly destroys timira.

One prastha of triphalā juice, one prastha of bhṛṅga juice, / one prastha of vṛṣa juice, and an equal amount of śatāvarī [juice];

goat's milk, and juice of guḍūcī, and likewise āmalakī, / having taken one prastha of each, one should cook clarified butter with all of these.

The paste is: kaṇā, sugar, drākṣā, triphalā, blue water-lily, / madhuka, kṣīrakākolī, madhuparṇī, and nidigdhikā.

Knowing that it is well prepared, one should store it in a clean vessel. / It is praised for drinking before meals, after meals, and between meals.

Just by drinking it, it removes all eye diseases, however many there are: / in conditions with blood, when blood is vitiated, and even when blood has flowed excessively;

in night-blindness, timira, kāca, nīlikā, paṭala, tumors, / conjunctivitis, severe glaucoma, and very severe inflammation of the eyelids;

in all eye diseases caused by vāta, pitta, and kapha; / for sightlessness and dim vision vitiated by kapha and vāta;

for eyes discharging due to vāta and pitta, with itching, or [impaired] near and far vision. / It immediately bestows the sight of a vulture, increases strength, complexion, and digestive fire, / and destroys all eye diseases: this is Mahātriphalā Ghṛta.

Triphalā, the three pungents, drākṣā, madhuka, kaṭurohiṇī, / prapauṇḍarīka, small cardamom, viḍaṅga, nāgakeśara,

blue water-lily, the two kinds of śārivā, sandalwood, the two kinds of turmeric— / with one karṣa of each of these, an equal amount of milk, and three times as much triphalā juice,