Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 8: Adhikāra 8

Having examined the curable patient suffering from anaemia, / unctuated with clarified butter and purified upward and downward, || 22

one should manage [him] with administrations consisting of harītakī powder / combined thickly with honey and clarified butter. || 1

Or he should drink clarified butter cooked with turmeric, / or sesame oil with triphalā; / or he should drink formulations prepared with purgative substances / that are purgative, along with clarified butter. || 2

An unctuous regimen should be performed in that arising from vāta, but bitter and cold in that of pitta; / in that of kapha, pungent, dry, and hot; and in combined [doṣas], a combined [regimen]. || 3

In [anaemia] of pitta, one should drink half a pala of trivṛt powder with twice the amount of sugar; / but one suffering from kapha anaemia [should drink] moistened harītakī combined with cow's urine. || 4

The patient suffering from kapha anaemia should drink dry ginger, or iron powder, / kṛṣṇā, pathyā, bitumen, / or guggulu with cow's urine. || 5

Or a person should drink iron filings macerated for seven nights / in cow's urine, with milk, for the alleviation of anaemia. || 6

A decoction prepared from phalatrika, amṛtā, vāsā, tiktā, bhūnimba, and nimba, / mixed with honey, destroys anaemia together with jaundice. || 7

Equal parts of iron, sesame, tryūṣaṇa, and kola, / and an equal amount to all these of mākṣikadhātu powder: / a sweetmeat made from these with honey, followed by buttermilk, / is commended in anaemia even when deep-seated. || 8

Iron rust heated repeatedly and purified with cow's urine: / one should administer this powder with honey and clarified butter along with food. || 9

It is appetising, kindles the digestive fire, and removes oedema and anaemia. / Equal parts of tryūṣaṇa, triphalā, mustā, viḍaṅga, and citraka, || 10

[with] nine parts of iron filings: one should consume that powder with honey and clarified butter; / it removes anaemia, heart disease, skin disease, haemorrhoids, and jaundice. || 11

Three parts of triphalā, three of trikaṭu, / one part of citraka root, and likewise of viḍaṅga, || 12

five parts of bitumen, and likewise of silver slag, / of purified copper pyrite, and of iron filings, || 13

[and] eight parts of white sugar: all that finely powdered / and drenched with honey should be kept in a clean iron or earthen vessel. || 14

One should then eat a dose equal to an udumbara fruit according to one's digestive fire / day by day in this administration; when it is digested, one may eat food as desired, || 15

avoiding kulattha, kākamācī, and pigeon. / Known as Yogarāja, this recipe is like nectar. || 16

This is a supreme rasāyana, an excellent destroyer of all diseases: / anaemia, poisoning, cough, phthisis, irregular fever, || 17

skin diseases, chronic indigestion, urinary anomaly, dyspnoea, hiccup, anorexia; / especially it destroys epilepsy, jaundice, and diseases of the anus. || 18

Viśālā, kaṭukā, mustā, kuṣṭha, dāru, and kaliṅgaka, / one karṣa each; two picus of mūrvā; and half a karṣa of ghanapriyā: || 19

having drunk that powder with comfortable [warm] water, one should then lick honey. / Anaemia, fever, burning sensation, cough, dyspnoea, anorexia, || 20

abdominal lump, distension, āmavāta, and bitter-pitta it conquers. / Milk boiled in an iron pot for seven days while eating wholesome food [is beneficial]. || 21

One suffering from anaemia, wasting, or afflicted with malabsorption syndrome
should drink Kalyāṇaka, Pañcagavya, or Mahātikta [ghṛta]. // 22

For unction, clarified butter should be given to a patient with jaundice or anaemia.
In a patient afflicted with jaundice, purgation should first be employed once oleated. // 23

Then, a pacifying treatment should be carried out by a knowledgeable physician.
The juice of triphalā, of guḍūcī, of dārvī,
or of nimba, // 24

taken in the morning mixed with honey, dispels jaundice when used regularly.
The juice of droṇapuṣpī is considered a collyrium for one afflicted with jaundice. // 25

Or one may prepare a powder of niśā, red ochre, and dhātrī [for collyrium].
Root of karkoṭa may be used as an errhine, or fruit of jālinī smelled. // 26

For those with jaundice, tribhaṇḍī with sugar is beneficial,
as well as gavākṣī and ginger with jaggery. // 27

One suffering from jaundice or anaemia should lick dārvī, triphalā,
vyoṣa, viḍaṅga, and iron powder combined with honey and clarified butter. // 28

Equal parts of iron powder, pathyā, and turmeric powdered [and mixed] with honey and clarified butter
should be licked by one with jaundice, or bhayā with jaggery and honey. // 29

By licking dhātrī, iron powder, vyoṣa, niśā, honey, clarified butter, and sugar,
one quickly wards off even severe jaundice. // 30

Having burned iron slag with wood of akṣa
and quenched it eight times in cow's urine,
one powders it and licks it with honey; after a long time,
it destroys the anaemia known as kumbhāhvaya. // 31

All the treatments for anaemia should also be applied in halīmaka;
and whatever is prescribed for jaundice should also be carried out by excellent physicians. // 32

One should cook iron powder with an equal measure of viḍaṅga, musta, triphalā, devadāru,
and the six pungent spices, in eight times as much cow's urine. // 33

Having made pills the size of an akṣa-nut from these, he should eat them day by day;
one afflicted with jaundice and anaemia surely attains comfort after some time. // 34

The three pungents, triphalā, musta, viḍaṅga, cavya, citraka,
dārvī, cinnamon bark, mākṣika mineral, granthika, and devadāru: // 35

having made separate powders of these, two palas each,
and taking twice as much purified iron slag as the powder, resembling collyrium, // 36

and boiling it in eight times as much [cow's] urine, one should then throw in [the powders].
He should make pills the size of an udumbara fruit, and according to his digestive fire, // 37

one should consume them with buttermilk, and eat wholesome food once digested.
For these maṇḍūravaṭakas are givers of life to patients with anaemia. // 38

They also alleviate skin diseases, ajaraka, oedema, stiffness of the thighs, diseases of kapha,
haemorrhoids, jaundice, urinary disorders, and splenomegaly. // 39

Iron slag is accepted when repeatedly quenched in cow's urine.
They take eight times as much cow's urine as the powder of iron slag. // 40

Punarnavā, trivṛt, dried ginger, pippalī, and black pepper,
viḍaṅga, devadāru, citraka, that which is named puṣkara, // 41

triphalā, the two turmerics, dantī, and likewise cavika,
fruit of kuṭaja, tiktā, root of pippalī, and mustaka: // 42

these in equal parts, and twice as much iron slag;
having boiled it in eight times as much cow's urine, one should store it in an oiled vessel. // 43

It cures anaemia, oedema, abdominal disease, abdominal distension, colic, haemorrhoids, worms, and abdominal lumps.
Pañcakola along with black pepper, devadāru, the three fruits [triphalā], // 44

combined with viḍaṅga and musta, in parts measuring three palas;
whatever the quantity of these powders, one takes twice as much iron slag, // 45

and having cooked it in eight times as much [cow's] urine, when it has thickened, one should take it out.
Then one should drink pills measuring an akṣa with buttermilk, subsisting on buttermilk. // 46

This overcomes anaemia, impaired digestive fire, anorexia,
haemorrhoids, malabsorption syndrome, or even stiffness of the thighs; // 47

and it destroys worms, splenomegaly, abdominal disease, and artificial poison.
This [formulation], named Maṇḍūravajra, destroys hosts of diseases. // 48

Having pressed out the juice from two thousand fruits of dhātrī, the physician
adds one-eighth part of honey, half a kuḍava of powder of pippalī, // 49

mixed with half a tulā of sugar; cooked and kept in an oiled jar,
one afflicted with anaemia should drink it, eating wholesome and moderate food once it is digested. // 50

This fermented liquor destroys jaundice, anaemia, heart disease, vātarakta, irregular fever,
cough, hiccup, anorexia, and dyspnoea. // 51

A prastha of aged clarified butter prepared with half a prastha of drākṣā
dispels jaundice, abdominal lump, the pain of anaemia, fever, and severe abdominal disease. // 52

Buffalo clarified butter prepared with turmeric, triphalā, nimba, balā, and madhuka,
along with milk, is an excellent remover of jaundice. // 53

With mūrvā, tiktā, niśā, yāsa, kṛṣṇā, candana, parpaṭa,
trāyantī, vatsa, bhūnimba, paṭola, ambuda, and dāru, // 54

measuring an akṣa each, one prastha of clarified butter prepared with four times as much milk
cures pallor, fever, eruptions, oedema, haemorrhoids, and bleeding disorders. // 55

Vyoṣa, bilva, the two kinds of turmeric, triphalā, the two kinds of punarnavā,
mustā, iron powder, pāṭhā, viḍaṅga, and devadāru, // 56

vṛścikālī, and bhārgī: clarified butter boiled with these along with milk
alleviates all disorders produced by [eating] earth. // 57