Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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Those diseases are diabetes, Itches, eruptions on the body, urticaria evanida, anaemia and jaundice, fever, 4 the diverse varie¬ ties of skin-diseases (commonly called leprosy), indigestion and the other diseases born of it (such as diarrhoea, cholera), stran¬ gury or suppression of urine, disgust for food, drowsiness and procrastination, loss of virility, corpulency, inactivity, heaviness of the body, 6 stoppage of the ducts of the different senses, stupe¬ faction of the understanding or the mind, lassitude or enervation inducing a dreaming wakefulness, and swellings or inflammations.
The meaning of the word Santarpana will abundantly appear from the followCHaRAKA-SAMHITA. 251 and other diseases of the kind, unless the person soon undergoes treatment for prevention of the same.8*
For such men have been laid down the administration of emetics, and purgatives, blood-letting, physical exertion, fasts, the different kinds of smoking, the diverse methods of Swedana, eating chebulic myrobalans (reduced to powder and) mixed with honey, and use, generally, of food that is dry, as also the application of all those powders and plasters that have been laid down as des¬ tructive of Itches and urticaria evanida.7"8
The decoction, in water, of the triple fruit, Aragbadha {a), Patha ( b ), Saptap'arna (c), with Vatsaka(«?), Musta (e), and Nimva (f), with Madana ( g ), should be drunk.9 With the aid of this, admin¬ istered in proper measure and at the proper time, Diabetes and the other diseases arising from Santarpana (indulgence in sedative and nutrive food and practices) are sure to disappear from those persons that have recourse to it.l0t
Musta (A), Aragbadha (t), Patha (/), the triple fruit (k), a. Cassia fistula, Linn ; syn. Cathartocarpus fistula, Pers.
* By indulging in such food and such acts are are both sedative and nutritive, a person incurs the risk of catching the several diseases idicated. * Kushtha’ has many varieties, such as Leucoderma, Psorsiasis, Furuncle, &c. Though ‘ Kushtha’ is different from tubercular Leprosy, yet it is commonly taken as a kind of leprosy whose action is confined to the skin without being deep. — T.
b. Cissampelos hernandifolia, Linn ; syn. Stephania hernandifolia, Walp ,
■c. A Istonia scholaris ; syn, Echites scholaris, Roxb.
d. Otherwise called Indrayava. The seeds of Holarrhena antidysenterica, Wall.
e. Cyperus rotundas, Linn.
f Melia Azadirachta, Linn ; syn. Azadirachta Indica, fiuss, g. Randia ditmetorum, Lamk. Amongst these, the exudation of a, the bark of b and c, and /, and the fruits of d and g, and e by itself, are taken. AH these are boileif in water and the decoction is obtained. — T.
+ The decoction here specified is an emetic. The triple fruit consists of the. Chebulic, the Emblic, and the Belleric myrobalans.
h. Vide note e above.
i. Vide note a above.
j. Vide note b above.
k. Vide note + above.
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CHAJRAKA-SMAfilTA
Devadaru (a), Afwadangshtra (6), Khadira (c), Nimva ( d ), Haridra (e), the bark of Vatsaka (f),11 — the infusion of these, according to the strength of the disease, one should drink every morning. By this, one is sure to be freed from the diseases due to Santarpana (indulgence in sedative and nutritive food arid acts.).1?
With these, accompanied by oil, and administered for rubbing as Udvartana or Udgharshana or for baths, all faults of the skin become cured. 13^
Kushtha (g), Gomedaka (Ji), Assafoedita, the bones of the crane, the three Ushans (*), Vacha (/), Vrishaka (k), small, cardamoms, A9wadangshtra (/), Kharahva ( m ), A9mabhedika («), mixed with butter-milk or whey or with the sour juice obtained from Vadara (o), if drunk, cures strangury and diabetes.1 Ea. Cedrus deodara ; syn. Pinus deodara , Roxb.
b. Called also Gokhuri. Tributes, terrestris, Linn ; syn. Tributes lanuginosus, c. A,cacia Catechu ; syn. Mimosa Catechu, Linn.
d. Vide note/p. 35-t e. Circuma tonga , Roxb.
f. Halarrhena antidysenterica, Wall ; syn. Echites antidysenterica, Roxb.
* Udvartana is rubbing after the body has been previously rubbed with oil. Ud-. gharshana is rubbing without the body having been previously rubbed with oil. The oil referred to in this is the oil of mustard seeds. — T.
g. Saussurea auriculata; syn. Aflotaxis auriculata.
h. The Commentators speak of it as a kind of gem or precious stone.
i. The three Ushanas are dry ginger, Piper longttm, Linn, and Piper nigrum , Linn, or black pepper.
j. Acorus calamus, Linn.
k. Vrishaka is otherwise .called Vasaka ; it is Justicia Adhatoda, Roxb; syn, Adhatoda Vasica, Nees.
l. Called also Gokhuri ; vide note b above.
m. Kharahva is, as explained by Gangadhara, the Ajamoda of Khorasan. PimpU nella involucrata : syn, Apte’n involucratum, Roxb.
n. Otherwise called Pashanabhedika. In Bengali, Patharchur, Coleus A mboini pis, Linn; syn. Coleus aromaticus, Benth,
0. Zixyphus Jujuba,
CHA RA KA-SA M HIT A.
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