Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

With that decoction, and the paste also of these very drugs, and the following added thereto, viz., ‘Sura’, ‘Sauvira’, ‘Tushodaka’, ‘Maireya’ ‘Medaka’, ‘Dadhimanda’, ‘Aranala’, and ‘Katfara’, (sesame) oil of the measure of a ‘patra’ (8 seers) should be boiled.* 268

With that oil, while lukewarm, the fever-stricken person that is desirous of hot things should be rubbed.

This medicine relieves cold fevers (that is, those in which the patient feels a sensation of. cold and, therefore, wishes for hot things). 269

With these very drugs, pounded into a grainless paste and slightly heated, plasters should be made. Boiling these very drugs in water, the water, while lukewarm, should be used for bathing the patient as also for sprinkling the patient’s body with.

(Thus ends the oil of the group of drugs beginning with ‘Aguru’, used in cold fevers).

In this connection are three and ten kinds of ‘sweda.’ These have been mentioned in the Lesson on ‘Sweda, (XIV, pp. 153 — 166, Sutrasthâna, ante).

Administered by a physician that is conversant with Measure and Time, ‘sweda’ is alleviative of cold fever.f 271

That kind of chamber, that kind of bed, and that kind of

* ‘SnrS’, ‘Sauvira’, ‘Tushodaka’, ‘Maireya’, and ‘Medaka’ are varieties of wine or distilled spirits. These are all manufactured from paddy. Vide p. 291, Lesson XXV, SutrasthSna, ante.

‘Dadhimanda’ is whey. ‘AranUla’ is Kanji. ‘Kattara’ is a kind.of whey. A ‘patra’ is of the measure of 8 seers. Being liquid, the measure actually taken is 16 seers, t By ‘Sweda’ is meant methods adopted for bripging about perspiration.— T.

covering, (which have already been spoken of) speedily alleviate cold fever.

Thick sticks, made of Aguru ( Aquilaria Agallocha ) do the 3same.* 272

Women that are beautiful and of full-grown limbs, and that are endued with youth, speedily alleviate, by the heat that is in their bodies in consequence of their youthfulness, cold fevers, if only they embrace the person that is afflicted therewith.! 273

‘Swedanas’, as also those kinds of food and drink which are alleviative of wind, of phlegm, and of wind and phlegm, speedily conquer cold fever, by such drugs being administered therewith as enhance their strength (or efficacy)! 274

In fevers born of wind, or those born of toil, or those that are old (chronic), or those born of wounds, fast, it should be known, is not beneficial. These fevers should be treated by such medicines as are called ‘gamanas.’ 275

Since the faults ( 'viz ., wind, bile, and phlegm), dispelling the heat of the Amagaya, and seizing (next) the food-juices of men, produce fever, therefore, the digestive fire is enfeebled (by the fever that is thus produced) 276

As a blazing fire, even when fed with fuel, does not properly cook the (raw) food in the pot, when its flames happen to be blown away by the wind, 277

Even so the digestive fire of men, blown away from the chamber

* Tbe reference is to Lesson VI, Sutrasthana, ante. Vide pp. 68-69. The ‘Kuti’ or chamber is spoken of in aphorism 7 ; the bed is mentioned in aphorism 8 ; and the kinds of covering are mentioned in aphorism 9. .

Some are of opinion that the reference about ‘Kuti’ is to Lesson I, called ‘Rasayana’, of Chikitsasthana. Certainly, the instructions about 'Kuti1 occurring in the last are more elaborate. — T.

t The reading I adopt is ‘CharupachitagStrSh’. Some editions read ‘Pavitra charugStrah’. ‘Upachitag5tra’ means full-grown, that is, of deep bosoms and symmetrical proportions. — T.