The Sushruta Samhita — trans. Bhishagratna

But their commentators accept the reading "^j^ TT^^^^inftcT^'' as in the text, to be a variant. We have the authority of Charaka, however, to accept the reading of the text.

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bodily Doshas. The dosage of a Sneha which takes three-quarter parts of a day to be digested, acts as a bodily emollient and should be prescribed in cases of extreme aggravation of the bodily Doshas, while the quantity which can only be digested in the course of an entire day (twelve hours) should be considered efficacious in all affections of the body and does not produce physical lassitude, fainting fits and delirious conditions. The measure or quantity of a Sneha which takes a whole day and night to be digested without undergoing any kind of vitiation (reactionary acidity) in the stomach, proves curative even in cases of Kushtha (cutaneous affections), insanity, poisoning (effects of poison) and Apasmdra (hysteric convulsions), ascribed to the baneful influences of the malignant stars. 19C.

The evil effects of Over-dosage :— A patient should be made to take as much of the Sneha as he would be able to easily digest inasmuch as an excessive over-dose may prove fatal. The patient should be made to vomit with draughts of hot water in a case of overdose or abuse of a Sneha and in the event of its continuing in an undigested or partially digested state in the stomach. In cases of doubtful digestion, similar potions of hot water should be administered which would produce good eructations and bring on a fresh relish for food. 19-D.

When the Sneha begins to be digested, it is attended with thirst, vertigo, lassitude, weariness, a disturbed state of the mind and a burning sensation. When the Sneha appears to have been fully digested the patient should be affused with hot water. A gruel prepared with only a small quantity of rice should be given lukewarm to the patient (at this stage). As an alternative, a wellp. 555-aromated soup (of Mudga, etc.) or meat-juice cooked without the addition of any Sneha (oil or Ghrita) or with only a small admixture of clarified butter should be given, or he may take Yavdgu (pure and simple). 19-E.

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aromated soup (of Mudga, etc.) or meat-juice cooked without the addition of any Sneha (oil or Ghrita) or with only a small admixture of clarified butter should be given, or he may take Yavdgu (pure and simple). 19-E.

A Sneha should be taken three, four, five or six days consecutively ; used (continually) for more than a week it becomes habituated to the user. A Sneha should be taken with food (at the time of mid-day meal) by a weak, or an old man or an infant, or a thirsty person, or one of a delicate constitution, or one averse to its use in summer. 19-F.

Sadyah-Snchana :-The administration of a potion composed of powdered Pippali and (Saindhava) salt mixed with curd-cream and the four kinds of oleaginous substances (Sneha) constitute what is known as the Sadyah-Snehana {i,e,^ it produces the effects of the Sneha within a very short time). The use of a Yavdgu well-cooked* with the soup of half* fried meat (instead of water) and a Sneha (clarified butter), and mixed with honey acts as a Sadyahsnehana. A Yavdgu prepared with milkf and a small quantity of rice and taken lukewarm with clarified butter produces the same result. The use of cow's milk milched into a pot containing clarified butter and sugar produces an instantaneous emulsive effect (Sadyah-snehana), if taken by a man with a parched state of the organism. Clarified butter cooked with three parts of the decoction of Yava, Kola and t In place of "TT?;:f^ff' (prepared with milk), Chakradatta reads '^ff^T^' (prepared with an abundance of sesamum which, according to S'ivadasa, would constitute three parts with only one part of rice).

* In place of "^qch^Mcil" (well-cooked), Chakradatta reads *^^- cT<i5^' (prepared with a small quantity of rice).

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Kulattha pulse (taken together) and one part each of milk, curd, wine and clarified butter churned from milk .acts as an instantaneous demulcent (Sadyah-snehana) and is hence recommended to kings and king like personages. This potent emulsive measure (Sadyahsnehana) should be prescribed for the old, the imbecile, to females and to persons of sluggish appetite, as well as to sensitive persons and in diseases due to a slight aggravation of the bodily Doshas. 19-G.

Forbidden cases of Sneha-pana :—

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Forbidden cases of Sneha-pana :—

The internal use of a Sneha is forbidden to persons suffering from ascites, fever, delirium, alcoholism, aversion to food and vomiting, as well as to weak, corpulent, thirsty, fatigued, or intoxicated persons. It is forbidden on a cloudy day, in an improper season of the year, after the application of Vasti-measures, purgatives and emetics and after premature parturition. The internal use of a Sneha (oil or Ghrita) gives rise to a host of maladies in the foregoing cases, or the diseases become more serious or may even become incurable. In cases of premature parturition, there remains a quantity of mucus and vitiated lochia in the womb j therefore, stomachic (Pdchana) and parching (Ruksha) drugs should be administered to females .after child-birth. After a period of ten days, however, draughts of oil or clarified butter should be given according to requirements. 19.

A dry or parched condition of the organism should be inferred from a general dryness of the body, the hard and knotty character of the foecal matter (stools), a sluggish digestion with a burning sensation on the epigastrium (Uras) and an upward coursing of the Vdyu from the abdomen (Koshtha) as well as from the weakness and discoloration of the body. Lassitude, a sense of heavinessp. 557 in the limbs, the oozing out of the Sneha through the lower orifices of the body and an aversion to any kind of oleaginous substance are the indications which mark the satisfactory action of an emulsive remedy in a human organism, while its abrupt excess or abuse is followed by aversion to food, salivation, a burning sensation about the anus, dysentery and diarrhoea and such like symptoms. A condition of dryness in the organism should be remedied with a Sncha, while an excess of the latter should be corrected with meals of S'ydnidka or Koradusha grains, as well as with milk-curd (Takra), levigated sesamum paste (Piny^ka) and powdered barley (Saktu). 20-23.

The good effects of Sneha-pana :—