Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Enemata possessed of purging virtues take away the bile lying in its own place, as also phlegm and bile that lie there ; they also take away all the three faults when these lie in the ‘pakkagaya.’f 165 When the fever has become old, and when both phlegm and bile are attenuated, then unto one whose digestive fire has become strong and whose stools have become constipated and dry, oily enemeta should be given. 166

When there is a sense of heaviness or keen pain (called ‘£ula’) in the head, when the organs of sense have their functions suspended, when the fever has become mature, the physician should administer cerebral purgatives that are not disagreeable. l67

The physician should, in mature fever, prescribe (medicinal) oils (or ointments), plasters, and baths (in medicated waters) after causing the body to be rubbed with oils, carefully distinguishing those that are made of cooling and those that are made of heating ingredients.]: 168 By these means fevers that affect only the outer parts of the body become alleviated. The limbs obtain ease. Strength and com¬ plexion also increase^ i69

* Enemata are, of course, mild purgatives. — T.

+ ‘Qrangsana vasti’ means enemata made of such drugs as are possessed of purgative properties. ‘Pitta’ that is ‘pittHgayagata’, that is, bile lying in its own place, as also phlegm and bile lying in that place, are removed by such enemata. All the faults, again, while they lie in the ‘pakkagaya’, are removed by the same kind of enemata. Such enemata, therefore, act upon the ‘pittagaya’ and also the ‘pakkagaya.’ — T.

J In mature fevers, oils, plasters, and baths may be prescribed.

By oil is meant medicated oils (and not those oils with which people ordinarily rub their bodies before bathing). The baths prescribable do not mean ordinary baths in water, but baths in decoctions or infusions of drugs.

Before prescribing these, the physician should consider their ingredients. If made of cooling things, such as sandal-paste, &c., they may be prescribed in hot fevers, i. e., those which are born of excited bile. If made of heating ingredients, they are prescribable in cold fevers, i. e., those born of phlegm. — T.

§ Fevers are eitheir ‘Vahirmargagata’ or ‘Antarmargagata.’ The former are those which affect the skin, the ‘lasika’, &c. The latter are those which'affect the semen, the ‘ojas’, Sic.—1 T.

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Mature fevers are alleviated by” the administration of ‘Dhupanas’ or medicines whose smoke is inhaled, as also of ‘Anjanas’ or collyria.

Of mature fevers those also which remain only in the skin, as also those which are born of such accidental causes as the influence of deities and Asuras, &c., are alleviated by the same means. *7°

Thus has been expounded the process of treatment, of well- tested results, which alleviates fever. After this, hear of those articles upon which depends this process.*

Old red ‘£&li’ rice and other grains of the kind, along with ‘Shashtika’, are recommended for ‘yavâgu’, ‘odana’, and ‘laja’.

These are alleviatives of the fever of fever-stricken persons.f 112

A person stricken with fever should, at the outset, when he feels a little hunger and when his digestive fire has been slightly excited, drink the fever-alleviating ‘peya’ made of ‘laja’ (or fried paddy), which is easily digestible, cooked with the fruit of Piper longum . and dried ginger. *73

If the person becomes desirous of taking something that is sour, he should take the ‘peya’ (spoken of above), boiling it with dry ginger and made sour by adding the juice of pomegranates.

If there has been purging, or if the patient’s bile has been excited, the ‘peya’ (adverted to above) should then, (after having boiled it with dry ginger) be drunk, when cooled, with the addition of honey. J74

If there is pain in the sides, the rectum, and the head, the patient should then drink the ‘peya’, that is alleviative of fever, of red ‘cali’ and other varieties of rice, boiled with Tribulus lanuginosus, and Solannm Xantliocarpum. x75

If there is diarrhoea with fever, the patient should then drink the ‘peya’ (adverted to), mixing it with the juice of pomegranates and boiling it with Desmodium Gangeticum , Si da cordifolia , AEgle marmelos , dry ginger, Nymphcea lotus, and Coriandrum sativum. 176

If the fever-stricken one be afflicted with cough, or asthma, or

* Having laid down at the outset that gruels, &c , are to be given, the Rishi desires to explain what those articles are from which these are to he prepared. — T.

t ‘<*aii’ and ‘Shashtika’ are varieties of rice. The latter is supposed to ripen in sixty days. These and other grains should be used for preparing ‘Yavagu’ (gruels), ‘Odana’ (food), and the ‘Laja’ (the white product obtained by frying paddy on heated sand. — T.

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