Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 59: Adhikāra 59

In head disease caused by vāta, one should perform oleation, sudation, nasal therapies, / drinks, foods, and presentations of diet that destroy vāta diseases. // 1

Kuṣṭha and castor oil, ground with sour gruel as an application, / quickly destroys pain in the head, or the flower arising from mucukunda. // 2

One should administer milk boiled with pañcamūla as nasal drops in head disease. / Having made a piece of leather extending around the head, eight aṅgulas high, // 3

having wrapped the head with it, one should smear it underneath with black gram paste; / and of the person seated motionless, one should fill it with warm oil. // 4

One should keep it until the relief of pain, or for a yāma or half a yāma. / This head basti conquers head disease originating from vāta, // 5

pain in the jaw, nape, eyes, and ears, facial palsy (ardita), and trembling of the head. / Having filled the head with oil, for five hundred mātrās // 6

the patient with head disease should stay in [case of] kapha; eight [hundred] in pitta; ten [hundred] in vāta. / The very same method should be performed likewise in filling the ears and eyes. // 7

In a bilious [head disease], clarified butter, sprinklings of milk, cooling plasters, along with nasal therapies, / clarified butters of the jīvanīya group, and drinks and foods that pacify pitta [are prescribed]. // 8

In head disease of the nature of pitta, one should thoroughly purge the oleated patient / with juices of raisins, triphalā, and sugarcane, and also with milks and clarified butters. // 9

Anointing with hundred-times-washed clarified butter, resorting to cool breezes and the like, / and cooling touches should always be indulged in for the pacification of burning and pain. // 10

With sandalwood, uśīra, madhuka, balā, vyāghrī, nakha, and blue lotus / ground with milk, there should be a poultice, or sprinkling with them boiled. // 11

With lotus fibers, lotus stalk, lotus root, sandalwood, and lotus filaments, / unctuous and cold, one should smear the head; similarly with āmalaka and blue lotus. // 12

Clarified butter prepared with madhuka, sandalwood, anantā, and milk is beneficial; / or a nasal therapy with sugar, grapes, and madhuka in a pitta-born [head disease]. // 13

Cinnamon and patra ground with sugar as nasal therapy with rice-water, / or clarified butter from milk is beneficial as nasal drops, or wholesome meats from arid-land animals. // 14

In [headache] caused by blood, everything—diet, plaster, and irrigation—is like that for pitta;
alternation between cold and hot, and especially blood-letting, [should be employed]. // 15

In that caused by kapha, fasting, fomentation with dry, hot, digestive [substances],
sharp nasal drops (avapīḍa), sharp herbal smokes, and gargles are beneficial. // 16

He should also be made to drink clear, old clarified butter, and then undergo fomentation;
and once his head has been fomented, it should be purged with madhūka essence. // 17

A plaster to the head made of pippalī, abda, ginger, madhuka, dill, blue water-lily, and kuṣṭha,
ground with water, immediately relieves pain. // 18

Devadāru, nata, kuṣṭha, spikenard, and dry ginger,
pounded with sour gruel and mixed with oil as a plaster, relieves head pain. // 19

In that arising from sannipāta, therapy that alleviates all three doṣas must be done;
they especially prescribe the drinking of old clarified butter. // 20

A decoction of the three pungents, puṣkara, turmeric,
rāsnā, devadāru, and aśvagandhā,
drunk through the nose, relieves
the whole mass of head pain. // 21

Milk mixed with a paste of dry ginger, administered as nasal drops to men,
vanquishes even the most severe headache born from various doṣas. // 22

Nata and blue water-lily together with sandalwood and kuṣṭha,
mixed with clarified butter, makes a poultice for head pain;
prapauṇḍarīka, devadāru, kuṣṭha,
yaṣṭīmadhu, cardamom, white water-lily, and blue water-lily;
and with iron, irakā, padmaka, and coraka,
mixed with clarified butter, makes a poultice for head pain. // 23

Dill, castor root, and gravel boiled with vyāghrī fruits:
this oil used as nasal drops removes vāta, kapha, cataracts, and supraclavicular diseases. // 24

Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, grapes, sugar, yaṣṭīmadhu, balā, and blue water-lily:
oil cooked with milk used as nasal drops is indicated in head disease of vāta and pitta. // 25

Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, grapes, madhūka, madhuka, balā,
blue water-lily, sandalwood, vidārī, and sugar: // 26

One prastha of oil should be cooked slowly with these in six parts of milk,
and with the meat broth of half a tulā of wild animals. // 27

When prepared, this oil should be used as nasal drops; it overcomes hemicrania (ardhāvabhedaka),
deafness, earache, cataracts, uvulitis, // 28

and cures head diseases of vāta and of pitta;
it dispels loose teeth, headache, and facial palsy. // 29

Castor root, tagara, dill,
jīvantī, rāsnā, along with rock salt,
bhṛṅgarāja, viḍaṅga, madhuyaṣṭikā,
dry ginger, and oil of black sesame, // 30

mixed with goat's milk and oil,
cooked in four parts of bhṛṅgarāja juice:
six drops should be administered into the nose;
they quickly eradicate disorders of the head, // 31

and strengthen fallen hair, loose teeth,
and those whose roots are poorly fixed;
and give vision resembling the sight of Garuḍa,
and extraordinary strength to the arms. // 32

In that caused by wasting (kṣaya), having treated the wasting, a nourishing regimen should be carried out;
clarified butter boiled with vāta-dispelling sweet [drugs] should be used for drinking and nasal drops. // 33

In that caused by worms, nasal drops should be made with the three pungents, karañja, and drumstick seeds;
nasal drops along with goat's urine in [headache] caused by worms is the foremost worm-conqueror. // 24

Oil boiled with apāmārga fruit, the three pungents, turmeric, alkali, and asafoetida,
along with viḍaṅga, in urine, used as nasal drops, overcomes worms. // 35

Dry ginger with jaggery, or ginger, or pippalī with rock salt
[should be applied as nasal therapy] in stiffness of the arms and other diseases, and in all supraclavicular diseases. // 36

In sūryāvarta, medicaments such as nasal therapy should be applied;
one should make [the patient] drink clarified butter with jaggery, and he should eat pastries filled with clarified butter. // 37

In sūryāvarta, venesection of the head, nasal drops with milk and clarified butter,
regular intake of milk and clarified butter, and purgation with those two are wholesome;
fomentation with sesame pounded with milk and with life-giving drugs is commended. // 38

Saffron fried in clarified butter and mixed with sugar
should be applied as nasal drops in that arising from vāta and blood,
in pain of the brow, temple, ear, eye, and hemicrania,
and in the disease that increases with the day (sūryāvarta). // 39

Fresh butter processed in the juice of cassia fistulosa sprouts
with a paste of apāmārga
certainly overcomes, by nasal application,
even stubborn sūryāvarta. // 40

A decoction of daśamūlī with clarified butter and rock salt
as nasal drops destroys hemicrania and removes the head pain of sūryāvarta. // 41

One should also apply nasal drops (avapīḍa) made from the roots and fruits of siris,
or a beneficial avapīḍa is that prepared with sweet flag and pippalī. // 42

He should also have poultices made of wild game meat;
by this, his dreadful disease sūryāvarta is calmed;
this entire regimen must also be carried out in hemicrania. // 43

Śārivā, blue water-lily, kuṣṭha, and madhuka ground with sour gruel,
combined with clarified butter and oil, is a plaster for sūryāvarta and hemicrania. // 44

In these two, one should drink milk with sugar, or coconut water,
or very cool drinking water; or clarified butter should be applied through the nose. // 45

In anantavāta, the procedure wholesome for sūryāvarta should be done;
and venesection should be performed for the relief of anantavāta. // 46

Diet destroying vāta and pitta should also be prescribed,
and the course [of food] consisting of honey, curd-scum, saṃyāva pastries, and ghṛtapūra pastries. // 47

Whatever is wholesome in sūryāvarta, except fomentation, is wholesome in śaṅkhaka;
they praise nasal application and drinking of milk and clarified butter in śaṅkhaka. // 48

One should properly apply a plaster of asparagus, black sesame,
madhuka, blue water-lily, mūrvā, and punarnavā. // 49

Sprinkling with cold water, cool sprinklings of milk,
and plastering the temples with pastes of milky trees [should be done]. // 50

For him who has been treated with the meat broths of curlew, teal, swan,
śarārī bird, and tortoise, then the veins arising at the junction of the temples, // 51

the three veins above, the wise [physician] should puncture, not strike.
In trembling of the head, unctuous substances with guḍūcī, rāsnā, and balā, along with aromatics, // 52

oleation, fomentation, and other vāta-dispelling therapies, and head-enema are commended.
Clarified butter prepared with a decoction of yaṣṭīmadhu, balā, rāsnā, and daśamūla,
and finished with sweet [drugs], relieves supraclavicular diseases. // 53

With three palas each of daśamūla, balā, rāsnā, and madhuka,
a peacock freed of its feathers, bile, entrails, dung, feet, and beak, // 54

boiled in water; in that, one prastha of clarified butter should be cooked with an equal quantity of milk
and with pastes of sweet drugs measuring one karṣa each; it relieves head diseases and facial palsy. // 55

It destroys diseases of the ears, nose, eyes, tongue, mouth, and throat. / This [formulation], known as Mayūrādya, cures diseases of the supraclavicular region. // 56

Indeed, an intelligent [physician] may also cook clarified butter that cures supraclavicular diseases / with rats, cocks, geese, or hares, using this paste. // 57

A peacock equal [in weight] to the daśamūla and other ingredients is taken here; / others, however, understand the taking of a peacock by the measure of a single individual. // 58

Oil prepared with prapauṇḍarīka, madhuka, pippalī, candana, and utpala, / along with the juice of dhātrī, when used regularly as nasal drops or as an inunction, / kills all supraclavicular diseases and greying of the hair. // 59

One should crush one hundred [palas] of peacock meat and one tulā of daśamūla and balā, / and cook them in a droṇa of water; then, when one quarter remains, // 60

having poured in a droṇa of milk, one should cook an āḍhaka of clarified butter therein, / along with the medicaments mentioned in the Prapauṇḍarīka group and the jīvanīya [group]. // 61

It promotes intellect, intelligence, and memory, and cures diseases of the supraclavicular region. / This is declared as Māyūra [ghṛta], supreme in dispelling all vāta [disorders]. // 62

It destroys pain in the nape of the neck, ears, head, and eyes, and epilepsy; / it relieves poison, vāta-diseases, dyspnoea, irregular fever, and cough. // 63