Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Milk, hot from the udders, promptly subdues fever caused by excitement of wind and bile. 229

Of all varieties of mature fevers, milk is the best alleviative. It should be drunk either hot or cold, after being boiled with drugs suited to the kind of fever the patient has. 230

When the (excited) fault or faults characterising the fever, has or have found a place in the ‘pakkSgaya’, then such enemata, oily or dry, as is alleviative of fever, should be administered.

Instructions regarding them will be laid down in the Division called ‘Siddhi’ of this work.* 231

The leaves of Patola ( Ttichosanthes dioica ), those of Arishta (Melia Azadirachta ), the roots of Ugira ( Andropogon muricatum), Chaturangula (otherwise called Aragbadha, Cassia fistula), Hrivera (otherwise called BalS, Pavonia odorata ), Rohinitikta ( Picrorrhiza Kurroa), ^wadanshtra (otherwise called Gokshura, Tribulus lanugi-

* The stomach is divided into two parts, 1. ‘am3£aya’ and 2. ‘pakkagaya,’ Food taken first goes into the farmer. In the latter, digestion goes on. — T.

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nosus), Madana (fruit of Randia dumetoruni), Sthira (otherwise called (^alaparni, Desmodium Gangeticuni ), Bala (Sida cordifolid), — all these should be boiled in milk mixed with half Its measure of water.

When the whole has been boiled down to the measure of the milk, the decoction should be taken down.

Having strained it (through a piece of cloth), it should then be mixed with honey and ghee. 232-233

It should then be mixed with the paste of these drugs, viz., Madana (fruit of Randia dumetoruni), Musta (tubers of Cypei us rotudus), Pippali (Piper longuni), Madhuka (liquorice), and Vatsaka (the seeds of Holarrhena antidysenterica ).

The following product forms an enemata destructive of fever. 234 The bowels having been cleared by the administration of this enemata, and the faults removed, and the ‘dhfitus’ restored to cheer¬ fulness, and the pains of the limbsjrelieved, and the body made light, the patient becomes speedily freed from fever. 23s

Aragbadha (Cassia fistula ), Ushira (roots of Andropogon muricatuni), Madana (fruit of Randia dumetoruni), the four varieties of Parni, viz., (^alaparni, Prishniparni, Mâshaparni, and Mudgaparni, (i. e. Desmodium Gangeticuni, Doodia lagopodioides, Glycine debilis, and Phaseolus trilobus), and Madhuka (liquorice) : the decoction of these, should be taken. 236

With the decoction should be mixed Priyangu (Aglaia Roxburghiand), Madana (fruit of Randia dumetoruni), (^atahbha (otherwise called Sulpha, dill seeds), Madhuyashtika (liquorice), reduced to paste. Ghee, treacle and honey, should then be added. This preparation forms an excellent enemata alleviative of fever. 237

Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolid), TrSyamana (Ficus heterophylla ), Chandana (Pterocarpus santalinus), Madhuka (liquorice), Vrisha (Justicia Adhatoda ), Sthira (otherwise called ^alaparni, Desmodium Gangeticuni), Bala (Sida cordifolid), Prishniparni (Doodia lagopodi¬ oides), Madana (the fruit of Randia dumetoruni ), should be boiled together. 238

The decoction obtained should be mixed by the physician with the meat-juice of wild animals.

The result should then be mixed with the paste of Pippali (Piper longum ), Phala (the fruit of Randia dumetoruni), Musta (the tubers of Cyperus rotundas), and Madhuka (liquorice). 239

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Mixing the product then with a little salt, and with honey and ghee also, the physician should apply it as an enemata. This enemata is alleviative of fever, l£. imparts strength also to the patient, and causes perspiration and relish for food'. 240

Jivanti ( Ccelogyne ovalis), Madhuka (liquorice), Meda (not identifi¬ able, Agwagandha or Physalis flexuosz. being used as a substitute), Pippali {Piper longum), Madana (the fruit of Randia dumetorum ), VachS ( Acorus Calamus ), Riddhi, (not identifiable, BalS, or Pavonia odorata being used as a substitute), Rasns, ( Vanda Roxburghii ), Bala (Sida cordifolia ), Vilwa ( zEgle Marmelos ), £atapushpa (dill seeds)* (fatSvari {Asparagus racemosus') : 24J

These should be pounded into a paste. With the paste the physi¬ cian should boil milk, water, ghee, and oil.

The result should be used as an oily enemata alleviative of fever.* 242

Patola (leaves of Trichosanthes dioica), Pichumardda (leaves of Melia Azadirackta ), Madhuka (liquorice), and Madana (fruit of Ran¬ dia dumetorum) :

, These should be boiled together with any of these, viz., ghee, or oil, or fat, or marrow, and water. The result will be an oily product that forms an enemata destructive of fever). 243

Chandana {Pterocarpus santalinus ), Aguru {Aquilaria Agallocha), KSgmaryya {Gmelina arborea), Patola (leaves of Trichosanthes dioica ), Madhuka (liquorice), Utpala {Nymphcea stellata ) : these should be pounded into a paste and then boiled (with water and any of the four oily substances mentioned above).

The result will be an enemata that is highly spoken of as an alleviative of fever. 244