Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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breaths in the absence of such restoratives as are productive of im¬ mediate effects.41*
As one endued with intelligence must quickly catch a metallic Utensil, while drowning in a deep water, before it reaches the bottom, even so (should the physician of intelligence conduct him¬ self towards) the person afflicted with Apoplexy.45
Collyrium, cerebral purgatives, smoke, snuffs, punctures with needles, burns with heated weapons, pains inflicted below the nails, tearing out the hair on the head or on the body, bites with the teeth, and rubbing the beans of Mucuna pruriens on the body, are beneficial towards awakening the man afflicted with Apo¬ plexy.40-4^
Diverse kinds of strong spirits mixed together, and other liquids that are very bitter, should also be repeatedly poured down the throat of the person that is lying in an apoplectic fit.48J
Until consciousness of the patient is awakened, the juice of Matulunga (a), mixed with the Great Medicine (b), should similar¬ ly be applied ; as also Sauvarchala, mixed with spirits, sour juices and gruels and Assafcedita and Ushana ( c ), should be administered. When consciousness has been awakened, the patient should have light food administered to him.49-50 f The collyrium is to be applied to the eyes. It should be possessed of biting or irritating virtues. ‘Avapida,’ as also ‘Pradhamana, ’ is a species of cerebral purgative. Both should be of powerful effect before they can be applied to a person in Apoplexy. The parts below the nails is very sensitive. As long as torture was a recognised institu¬ tion for the defection of crime in India, sharp needles used to be thrust below the nails of suspected persons.
* ‘Sa na’ implies ‘that man,’ i.e., the weakened person. ‘Sadyah phalah kriyah’ are curative operations or restoratives producing immediate effects. The treatment adopted generally consists of what tends to bring back consciousness, such as piercing with needles. — T.
t ‘Sammurchcchitani’ implies, as Gangadhara explains, ‘militani.’ Diverse strong spirits, when mixed together, become stronger still. — T.
a. Citrus medica, Linn.
b. This word is employed to imply diverse drugs of great efficacy. What is meant here is dry ginger.
c. Otherwise called Chittraka ; Plumbago Zeylanica , Linn.
CHA RA KA-SA MEITA .
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After the patient has recovered consciousness, light food should be administered to him.50
He should also be made to listen to narrations that excite wonder or that appeal to his memory, or that are agreeable to hear. He should also be made to listen to vocal and instrumental music of great skill and see delightful sights.51*
The intelligent physician should also,’ after the patient has been restored to his senses, adopt, for removing the subsidiary symptoms, the treatment of applying purgatives and emetics, smoke (into the nostrils, for producing sneezing), collyrium (into the eyes), astringent gargles, and blood-letting. The patient should also be made to undergo physical exercises, and his oody should also be subjected to rubbing. Indeed, his mind should be protected from relapsing into the insensibility or stupefaction of Apoplexy.52-53
In cases of Insanity and Epilepsy, the patients should first have oils and the different processes of Swedana applied to them. Afterwards, the five processes of vomiting &c. may be resorted to according to the measure of the patient’s strength and the viru¬ lence of the disease.5 4f
In these two diseases the application is applauded of the eight and twenty kinds of drugs, as also of bitter ghee, and after the same manner, of the ghee called Maha-shatpala.?° The applica¬ tion also of the decoction of the triple fruit, mixed with ghee and honey and sugar ; as also of (^ilajatu, and of milk ; 56 also of Pippali and of Chitraka, and of the drugs numbered among the Rasayanas, as also of Kaumbha Ghee, is applauded.0 7 f
* The object, of course, is to keep the mind active through the emotions.— T.
t The five processes are vomiting, purging, sneezing, and the application of emata of the oily and the dry varieties. — T.
} The eight and twenty kinds of drugs are different varieties of Ghee, .
They form a class called Paniyakalyana.
Bitter Ghee is a preparation of Ghee with certain bitter substances.
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CHARAKA-SAMHITA.
Throug blood-letting and cultivation of the scriptures and the sciences as also of intercourse with those that are righteou, the diseases of Insanity and Swoons that appear in men become alleviated.*8*
Here occur two verses containing a summary.
Pure and impure blood, the causes thereof, the diseases that arise from the faults of blood, the medicines to be applied in those diseases, the causes, indications, and medicines of Insanity, Swoons, and Apoplexy. — all these have been declared in this Lesson called ‘ Vidhi-£onitiya’ (Ordinances in respect of blood).1-2
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