Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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The above decoction, mixed with Trivit ( Convolvulus Turpethum) and sugar is alleviative of fever born of (excited) bile and phlegm.* 2°l
The following, viz., £ati ( Circuma Zermnbei), Pushkaramula (this root not being available, that of Aplotaxis auriculata is substituted), Vyaghri (Solatium Xanthocarpum ), £ringi (Rhus succedanecP, Duralabha (Hedysarum Alhagi ), Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia), Nfigara (Cyperus pertenuis ), Pâtha ' Stephania hernandifolid), Kirata (Ophelia ChireytcP, and Katurohini (Picrorrhiza Kurroa) constitute what is called the group beginning with £ati. This group is alleviative of fever born of three faults. 2°2
The decoction is prescribable.
(The decoction of) this group is highly commendable in cough, or bronchites, pains in the chest, pains in the sides, asthma and hardbreathing, and drowsiness. 2°3
The two Vrihatis (Solatium Indicum and Solatium Xanthocarpum), Paushkara (or Pushkaramula for which the root of Aplotaxis auri¬ culata is substituted), Bbârgi (Clerodendron siphonanthus), £ati (Cur¬ cuma Zerumbet), £ringi (Rhus succedanea ), DuralabhS (Hedysarum Alhagi), Vatsaka (the seeds of Holarrhena antidysenterica), Patola (the leaves of Trichosanthes dioica) and Katurohini (Picrorrhiza), Kurroa ), — these are called the ‘gana’ or group beginning with Vrihati. This group is alleviative of fever born of the three faults.
It should be administered also in the diseases beginning with cough mentioned above, even when they are accompanied with supervening afflictions. 204-205
* Gangadhara explains tliat the decoction, without the pulv of Trivrit and sugar, is not efficacious in alleviating fever barn qf bile and phlegm.— T.
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The form in which the drugs are to be administered is decoction.
The physician should administer those ‘kashayas’ (decoctions and infusions), and gruels also that have been laid down, in the Lesson on drugs, as alleviative of thirst and fever.* 206
The fevers that are not alleviated of a person who has been dried by the administration of ‘kashayas’ (decoctions and infusions), and emetics, as also by fasts and light food, have (medicated) ghees for their remedy. 2°7
The heat that causes fever is dry. Of a fever-stricken person who has been dried by heat, that constituent ‘dhatu’ which strengthens the heat is the wind. The wind is alleviated by oily substances.f 2°8
All the ‘kashSyas’ (decoctions and infusions) mentioned above, mixed with ghee , should be administered for the alleviation of fever. They are capable of stirring up the digestive fire and are beneficial. 2°9
(In mature fevers, ghees made of the group of drugs beginning with Pippali are prescribable.)
Pippali ( Piper longuiri), Chandana ( Pterocarpns santalinus), Musta (tubers of Cyperus rotundus ), Ushira (roots of Andropogon muricatum ), Katurohini ( Picrorrhiza Kurroa ), Kalingaka (seeds of Holarrhena antidysenterica ), TSmalaki (Pkyllantkus Niruri), SarivS ( Hemidesmus Indicus ), AtivishS ( Aconitum heterophyllum ), Sthira ( Desmodium Gan - geticum ), Draksha (Vitis Vinifera), Amlaka [Phyllanthus Rmblica ), Vilwa (fruit of. AEgle Marmelos ), Trayamana ( Ficus heterophylla ), and Nidigdha (Solanum Xanthocarpum) :
Ghee boiled with these dispels mature fever the very day.
It also cures consumption, bronchities, headaches, severe pains in t The object of this verse is thus explained by the commentators : fever is bom of the wrath of Siva. Wrath corresponds with heat which is one of the five primal essences. Hence, it may be asked how oils can possibly alleviate the fever of a person who has been dried by heat ? Oils are more likely to provoke that heat which has caused the fever. The answer is that although fever-causing heat is dry and, therefore, dries up a person, yet it is the wind that supplies strength to that heat. The wind is always alleviated by oils. Hence, oils alleviate heat or heat-born fever. — T.
* ‘The Lesson on drags’ means Lesson IV, Sutrasthana, headed ‘The six centuries of purgatives,’ as also Lesson II, Sutrasthana, headed ‘Apamarga-Tunduliya.’ Numerous kinds of ‘Kashayas’ and gruels have been mentioned there as alleviatives.of thirst and fever. These are directed to be used for the alleviation of fever. — T.
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CHARAKA-SAMHITA.
the sides, malignant jaundice, pains in the shoulders, and irregularities of the digestive fire.* 210-212
{Ghee cooked with the group of drugs beginning with Vfisaka )
VSsS {Justicia Adhatoda), Guduchi {Tinospora cordifolia), Triphala (the three myrobalans), Tray am ana (Ficus heterophylla ), and YavSsaka (Hedysarum Alhagi), — these should be boiled for obtaining their decoction. To the decoction thus obtained should be added twice the measure of water.
The mixture should then be boiled with the paste of Pippali {Piper loriguin) Musta (tubers of Cyperus rotundus), Mridvika (dried grapes), Chandana (. Pterocarpus santalinus ), Utpala {Nympheea stellata) and Nagara (dry ginger).
The product should then be boiled with ghee.
The ghee thus prepared is alleviative of mature fever. 213-214
[Ghee cooked with the group of drugs beginning with Bala].
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