Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 61: Adhikāra 61

In gynecological disorders, treatment conquering vāta is predominantly recommended: / enemas, inunctions, affusions, plasters, and holding a tampon. // 1

Vacā, upakuñcikā, jātī, kṛṣṇā, vṛṣaka, saindhava salt, / ajamodā, yavakṣāra, and citraka, accompanied by sugar: // 2

having ground these and stirred them into clear wine, one should eat it fried in clarified butter / for the cure of vaginal pain, flank pain, heart disease, abdominal lump, and haemorrhoids. // 3

And affusion with decoctions of guḍūcī, triphalā, and dantī, / [or] with nata, vārtākinī, kuṣṭha, saindhava salt, and devadāru. // 4

A tampon prepared with this oil should be retained in the vagina; it removes pain. / For [disorders of] the vagina due to pitta, irrigation, massage, and tampon treatments [should be performed]

that are cooling and pitta-pacifying, and clarified butters [should be used] for oleation. / When the vagina is corrupted by kapha, all medicine should be dry and hot.

With pippalī, black pepper, māṣa, dill, kuṣṭha, and rock salt, / a suppository the size of the forefinger should be prepared and retained [in the vagina] to cleanse the vagina.

A woman suffering from vāta should apply lukewarm paste of hiṃsrā and retain it; / one suffering from pitta, [a paste] of the five barks; and one with predominance of kapha, [a paste] of śyāmā and the others.

Oil processed with mouse flesh and infused in the sun, / when applied by massage, destroys vaginal haemorrhoids; fomentation with its flesh and rock salt [is also beneficial].

Linen cloth infused twenty-one times in cow bile or fish bile, / or yeast powder with honey, should be applied; it removes acarāṇā.

That cleanses the channels and removes oedema, itching, and discharge. / For a passionate woman and in the case of a foul-smelling vagina, a fomentation procedure should be performed.

The proper sequence of treatment should then be carried out, followed by satiation with tampons soaked in unctuous substances. / With bark of śallakī, jiṅginī, jambu, dhava, and the five barks,

an unctuous substance prepared with these decoctions, applied as a tampon, overcomes viplutā. / In karṇinī, a suppository made with kuṣṭha, pippalī, shoot-tips of arka, and rock salt,

kneaded with goat's urine, should be retained, and all treatments that pacify kapha are beneficial. / Traivṛta [ghṛta], oleation, and fomentation [are prescribed] in conditions of udāvarta and afflictions of vāta; / and the very same [treatment] is prescribed in mahāyonī and when [the vagina] is prolapsed.

When rat flesh, freshly cut into many small pieces, / is boiled in oil until it is completely dissolved, / a woman constantly wearing a cloth soaked in that oil over the vaginal region / destroys the condition causing shame; regarding this, there is no doubt.

By an ointment of śatapuṣpā oil, and likewise from jujube leaves, / and by an ointment of peṭikā root, a fissured vagina is healed.

By an ointment of suṣavī root, a vagina that has retracted inward emerges outward; / and by massage with rat soup, a prolapsed vagina retracts inside.

An ointment of lodhra and bottle gourd fruit produces firmness of the vagina; / and likewise washing with a decoction of cane root [does the same].

Anointing with the fat of a mouse and a bat produces firmness of the vagina. / Vacā, blue lotus, kuṣṭha, and likewise black pepper,

aśvagandhā, and turmeric constitute an excellent tightener [of the vagina].

Filled with madanaphala, madhuka, and camphor, the female organ / of a woman whose youth has faded becomes exceedingly tight and delicate.

Clarified butter prepared with the five sprouts, yaṣṭīmadhu, and mālatī flowers, / either cooked in the sun or otherwise, destroys foul vaginal odour.

With seeds of bitter gourd, dantī, capalā, jaggery, madana, yeast, and yaṣṭīmadhu, / along with latex of snuk, a suppository inserted into the vagina induces the menstrual flow.

Having consumed fried leaves of jyotiṣmatī along with hibiscus flowers in sour gruel, / and ground dūrvā grass, a woman obtains her menstrual flow.

Powder of āmalakī, añjana, and harītakī drunk with water stops the menstrual flow; / eating them ground and mixed with leaves of śelu accomplishes the same purpose.

The root of lakṣmaṇā, collected during its flowering [season], ground by a virgin / [or] of cakrāṅgā, drunk with milk and clarified butter during the fertile period, grants a son.

Milk boiled with a decoction of hayagandhā and mixed with clarified butter, / drunk by a young woman after her post-menstrual bath, enables her to conceive without doubt.

Pippalī, ginger, black pepper, and saffron / should be drunk with clarified butter; even a barren woman obtains a son.

When powder of gold, silver, / and copper, mixed with clarified butter, / is drunk when the field is cleansed, / conception occurs by the efficacy of the medicine.

Having bathed at the end of the menstrual period, / fasted on the following day, then in the morning / having bathed, and with devotion having worshipped the brāhmaṇa / and likewise the Lord of the world,

one karṣa each of white balā root and yaṣṭīmadhu, with one pala of sugar, / ground with milk of a cow of a single colour / whose calf is alive,

drunk with an abundant quantity of clarified butter; on that day no other food is to be given. / When hungry, she should be given food with milk until the arrival of the man.

On an even day, under an auspicious astrological conjunction, / lying on her right side, composed, / upon copulation merely with a man who has abstained from intercourse with other women, / whose mind is joyful, and whose semen is exceedingly increased, / she then invariably obtains a son.

Two leaf-buds born from the auspicious eastward branches of a banyan tree growing in a cowshed, / and likewise two white mustard seeds, mixed with curd / and drunk under the Puṣya asterism, cause a son to be born to a woman who has recently conceived.

These small figurines of a man made of gold, silver, or iron, / heated to the colour of fire, should be dropped into milk, curd, or water / held in the cupped hands and drunk under Puṣya; they produce maleness in the foetus.

Mañjiṣṭhā, madhuka, kuṣṭha, triphalā, sugar, balā, / medā, payasyā, kākolī, and the root of aśvagandhā,

ajamodā, the two turmerics, hiṅgu, kaṭurohiṇī, / blue lotus, white water-lily, grapes, the two kākolīs, and the two sanders;

with portions of one karṣa of each of these, one prastha of clarified butter should be cooked; / juice of śatāvarī and milk should be added at four times the amount of the clarified butter.

Having drunk this clarified butter, a man constantly acts like a bull among women; / a woman gives birth to sons endowed with intelligence and handsome appearance.

And she whose pregnancy is prolonged, or who gives birth to a dead child, / or who gives birth to a short-lived child, or who bears [only] daughters,

[for her] it is commended in vaginal disorders, disorders of the menstrual blood, and in prolapse / discharges. It increases progeny, promotes longevity, and removes all seizing spirits.

This is celebrated by the name Phalaghṛta by the Aśvins. / Physicians also add the unmentioned root of lakṣmaṇā to it.

Clarified butter from a cow of a single colour whose calf is alive is commended here; / the flame of the fire is to be provided using wild cow dung.

Having turned the two kinds of sahacara, triphalā, guḍūcī, together with punarnavā, / śukanāsā, the two turmerics, rāsnā, medā, and śatāvarī

into a paste, one prastha of clarified butter should be cooked with four times the quantity of milk. / When prepared, a woman afflicted with vaginal pain should drink it.

And whatever [vagina] is globoid, displaced, prolapsed, dilated, / or known as piṇḍayonī, relaxed, and ṣaṇḍayonī—

these indeed return to their place and repeatedly conceive a fetus. / This, named Phala-ghṛta, is the foremost dispeller of vaginal disorders.

White mustard seed, vacā, brāhmī, śaṅkhapuṣpī, punarnavā, / payasyā, amayā, yaṣṭyāhva, kaṭukā, elā, the three fruits [triphalā],

the two śārivās, rajanī, pāṭhā, bhṛṅgarāja, dāru, suvarcalā, / mañjiṣṭhā, triphalā, śyāmā, flowers of vṛṣa, along with red ochre—

the wise one, having properly cooked one prastha of clarified butter with these, consecrated with mantras according to measure: / a woman pregnant for two months should use it, but not after the sixth month.

She gives birth to a son with all his limbs complete, heroic, and considered learned. / By mere drinking [of it], it removes dullness, stuttering, and muteness;

by administration for seven nights, a man becomes capable of retaining what he hears. / Fire does not burn that house, lightning does not strike, nor do possessing spirits harm it;

no child dies there where he who bears the name of Soma resides. / Even a barren woman obtains a son free from all diseases; / and women whose vaginas are impaired, and men whose semen is impaired—

by its power, even [the child] remaining in the womb speaks with clear speech. / Grapes, parūṣaka, and kāśmarya are declared to be the three fruits [here].

“Oṃ, salutation to the Great Vināyaka! Protect the nectar, grant me success in my fruit, by the command of Rudra, svāhā!” / It is consecrated with seven blades of dūrvā grass.

With blue water lily, uśīra, madhūka, yaṣṭī, / grapes, vidārī, the kuśa-pañcamūla, / and the jīvanīya [herbs], clarified butter cooked / mixed with the juice of śatāvarī and with milk,

endowed with one-fourth part of sugar, is praised / in menorrhagia, in vātarakta, in internal haemorrhage, / when strength is depleted, when semen is lost, / in dysuria, and in abdominal lump arising from blood.

One should press four tulās of śatāvarī root. / With that juice, equal to the milk, one should cook an āḍhaka of clarified butter,

with the jīvanīya [herbs], śatāvarī, dried grapes, parūṣaka, / ground priyāla, each measuring one akṣa, and two parts of yaṣṭīmadhu, the physician [cooks it].

When it is prepared and cooled, having added an aṣṭaka palam [eight palas] each of honey and long pepper, / and ten palas of white sugar, mixed with it,

he should first feed it to Brahmins, and then she should lick the measure of a palm. / It destroys disorders of the vagina, menstrual blood, and semen, is aphrodisiac, and produces a male offspring.

It conquers chest wound with consumption, internal haemorrhage, cough, dyspnoea, halīmaka, / jaundice, vātarakta, erysipelas, stiffness of the heart and head, / and insanity, epilepsy, and other conditions of the nature of vāta and pitta.

Having incinerated a conch shell, one should throw it into plantain juice; when ground with that / and an equal amount of orpiment, it destroys by application hair arising on the pubes and other parts.

Mustard oil mixed with powder of red collyrium and tail [hair], / left for seven days, undoubtedly destroys hair from the roots. / Or anointing with safflower oil puts an end to hair after it has been plucked out.

One pala of āragvadha root, two karṣas of conch-shell powder / and of yellow orpiment, cooked in a prastha of donkey's urine with mustard oil—

this oil, powdered with conch shell and yellow orpiment, / uproots hairs by local application, and no other [hairs] appear at all.

Camphor, bhallātaka, conch-shell powder, / alkali of barley, and realgar; / oil cooked mixed with yellow orpiment / uproots hairs in an instant.

Taking the alkali incinerated from oyster shell, snail, and conch shell, / and from dīrghavṛnta and muṣkaka, one should filter it with donkey's urine.

The wise one should cook half part of the alkali with mustard oil. / This oil, praised by Ātreya, should be administered in the royal harem.

Where a single drop falls, there hair never grows again. / It should be applied to ulcers from venereal sores, etc., and was formulated by the two Aśvins.

For haemorrhoids, skin diseases, scabies, ringworm, and eczema, / this alkali oil is excellent, the foremost dispeller of all excessive moisture.