The Sushruta Samhita — trans. Bhishagratna

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A non-falling placenta (Aparai) should be extracted in the way indicated before or the enciente should be firmly pressed and the placenta extracted with the hand. Her body should be constantly shaken or her shoulders constantly rubbed at the time (of extracting the placenta') after lubricating the passsage of parturition with oil. i r .

After- measures :— Thus having extracted the Salya (foetus^, the body of the mother should b^ washed with warm water and anointed with oil, etc. Oil should also be copiously applied to the passage of parturition * as it would soften the Yoni and alleviate the pain therein. After that, powdered Pippali, Pippali-roots^ S'unthi, Eld^ Hingii^ Bhdrgi, Dipyaka, Vachd, Ativishd, t<dsnd and Chavya should be given in a Sneha (clarified butter, etc.), for the (proper) discharge (2>., purification) of the Uoshas (lotia) and for the alleviation of the pain. A plaster, or a decoction, or a pulverised compound of the said drugs without the addition of any Sneha (clarified butter, etc.) may also be given to her. As an alternative, the physician should ask the parturient woman to take S' dka-hdixV^ Hingu, Ativishd, Pdthd, Katu-rohini and Tejovati prepared and administered in the preceding manner. Then for three, five or seven days, Sneha (clarified butter, etc.) should again be given ; or the patient should be asked to take well prepared Asavas and Arishtas at night time. A decoction of the bark of S'irisha and Kakubha should be used for washing (Achamanaf) purposes and the other supervening distresses {i.e.^ complications) should be remedied with proper medicines.. 12- A.

* The oil should be introduced into the vaginal canal by means o. PicllUt i e.y cotton plugs soaked in oil, etc.

t This decoction should be specially used for 1 washing the uterus (Yoni).— Ed.

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Diet and regimen of conduct :— The

PicllUt i e.y cotton plugs soaked in oil, etc.

t This decoction should be specially used for 1 washing the uterus (Yoni).— Ed.

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Diet and regimen of conduct :— The mother should always be neat and clean and subjected to a course of a small quantity of wholesome and emollient diet and to daily anointments and fomentations ; and she should be advised to renounce all anger. Milk cooked with the Viyu-subduing drugs should be used for the first ten days. Meat-soup should then be prescribed for another such period, after which a diet should be prescribed according to the patient's health and nature. This regimen should be observed for a period of four months, after which, the patient would be found to have regained her health, strength and glow of complexion, without any complications, when the medical treatment, etc , should be discontinued. 12-14.

The following Vald-Taila should be used for applying into the Yoni (Vagina, etc.), for anointing the body and for drinking and eating purposes (i.e., along with other food) as well as for Vasti-Karma, as the oil is highly efficacious in curbing the action of the deranged and aggravated bodily Va(yu. 15— A.

The ValSL Taila : -* An adequate quantity of sesamum oil should be cooked with eight times as much of the decoction of each of the following ; viz., Vald roots, Dasa-mula and the three combined drugs of Yava^ Kola and Kulattha and with eight times as much of milk and (one-fourth as much of) a paste (Kalka) compound of the drugs included in the Madhura group as well as with Saindhava-sdXt, Aguru, Sarja-rasa, Sarala- Kdshtha^ Deva-ddru, Manjishthd, Chandana^ Kushthay

* Four seers of sesamun oil, thirty-two seers of the decoction of the Vala-roots, thirty-two seers of the decoction of Das'a-mula, thirty-two seers of the decoction of the drugs Yava, Kola and Kulattha taken together, thirty-two seers of milk and one seer of the paste compound (Kalka) should be taken in the preparation of the oil.

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Eld^ Kdldnusdrivd, Mdnsi, S' alley a, Teja-patra, T agar a, S'drivd^ Vachd^ S'atdvari, As'va-gandhd, S'dta-pushpd and Punarnavd. After the completion' of its cooking the oil should be kept carefully in a golden, silver, or earthen pitcher with its rnouth well-stoppered. This oil is known as the Valai-Taila and proves curative in all diseases due to the action of the deranged Vdyu. A newly delivered woman should use this oil in adequate doses, according to her physical condition. Women wishing to be mothers and men seeking the blessings of fatherhood should use this Taila, which proves equally beneficial in cases of an emaciation of the body due to the action of the deranged Vayu, weariness of the body through hard labour, and also in cases of hurt or injury to any vital and vulnerable part of the body (Marma), in cases of fractured bones, convulsions, Vata- Vyddhi, hiccough, cough, Adhimantha, Gulma and dyspnoea. A case of hernia would likewise yield to the continuous use of this oil for six months. The essential and vital principles (Dhatus) of the organism of a man are strengthened through its use and his youth will suffer no decay. It should be used alike by kings, kinglike and wealthy persons, as well as by those of a delicate and ease-loving temperament. 15— B.

The Vala-Kalpa :— Seeds of sesamum should be successively soaked a number of times in a ■decoction of Vald roots* and then dried (in the manner of a Bhavana saturation). The oil pressed out of such sesamum should be successively cooked a hundred times with the decoction of Va/d-roots. This being done, the oil should bs poured into an earthen pitcher and the

* Vala wouM be the Kalka in this oil, says Dallana. But he also says that some authorities hold that the Kalkas used in the Vala-Taila should be used as the Kalka in this oil as well.

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patient, while taking it in adequate doses, should live in a lonely chambsr protected from the wind. After its digestion, the patient should partake of milk and boiled Shashtika rice. A Drona measure of the oil, should in this way, be gradually taken and the regimen of diet (milk and Shashtika rice, etc.) should be observed for double that period. This oil is efficacious in improving one's strength and complexion and adds a century (of years) to the duration of one's life, and at the same time absolves him from all sins. It is said that the use of each succesive Drona measure of this oil adds a century to one's days on earth. 16.