Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

The product should then be strained (through a piece of clean cloth), and mixed with the paste of the measure of a ‘karshika,’ of each of the following drugs, viz., Rohinikatuka (Picrorrhiza Kurrod), Musta (tubers of Cyperus rotundus), Trayamana (Ficus heterophylld ) and DuralabhS (Hedysarum Alhagi), and with that of TSmalaka (otherwise called Bhumyfimalaka, that is, Phyllanthus Niruri), Vira (standing here for Khirakfikoli which is the name of a bulb of the onion tribe brought from the Himavat mountains),* Jivanti (Ccelogyne ovalis ), Chandana (Pterocarpus santalinus ) and Utpala (Nymphcea stellata).

To this should be added the expressed juice of Amlaka (Phyllan¬ thus Emblicd), milk, and clarified butter, each of the measure of eight palas.

The whole should then be boiled properly.

This foremost of ghees cures bile-born ‘Gulma’, blood-born ‘Gulma,’ erysipelas, fever born of excited bile, diseases of the chest, jaundice, .and leprosy, -us-1 18

* ‘Vir5.’ is a name that is applied to various plants. The commentators are uncertain as to what particular plant is meant by it. I think that when ‘Jivanti’ is mentioned imme¬ diately after, ‘VirS’ stands here for ‘KshiralcSkoli’ ; both belong to the same group.— T.

CHA RA KA - SA MHITA.

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AMALAKADYA GHRITA.

One part of clarified butter should be boiled with two parts of the” expressed juice of Amlaka ( PhyllanthuswEmblica ) and of Ikshu ( Saccharum officinaruni), and one'part of the paste of PathyS (chebulic myrobalans).

This ghee should be drunk. It is. a, well-tested curative of bileborn ‘Gulma.’ ri9

D RAKSHADYA GHRITA.

Draksha (dried grapes), Madhuka (liquorice), Kharjjura (Arabian' ■dates), Vidari (Batatus paniculata ), with ^atSvari ( Asparagus racemosus ), Parushaka ( Grewia Asiatics}, and the three myrobalans, should be boiled in an Adhaka (8 seers) of water, taking^one pala of each.

The boiling should go on till a ‘pSda’' or quarter of the mixture remains.

After this, it should be boiled with the expressed juice of Amlaka ( Phyllanthus Emhlica ), clarified butter, the Juice- of the sugarcane, honey, and the paste of Abhaya (chebulic myrobalans) of the measure of a ‘pâda.’

To the ghee thus boiled should be added a pada’ of sugarj and honey.

Administered internally, it cures bile-born ‘Gulma’, as also all ailments born of bile.* 120-122

VASA-GHRITA.

Take some plants of Vrisha (otherwise called Vasaka or Justicia Adhatoda) with their roots (as also bark and leaves).

Pounding them (in a mortar), boil in water of eight times, the measure (of the pounded drug).

When one-eighth of the compound remains in the vessel, the paste of the flowers of the same plant should be added.

Clarified butter should then be boiled with the product thus obtained.

* Of each of the drugs mentioned at the outset, viz., grapes, &c., a ‘pala’, that is 8 toISs, should be taken. The measure of water should be 2 adhakas or 16 seers, because I adhaka is mentioned and the rule is that liquids should be doubled. Of the juice of Amalaka, clari¬ fied butter, &c., the measure should be 4 seers, but that of the paste of chebulic myrobalans the measure should be a ‘pSda’ or quarter, that is, one seer. _ T.

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CHARAKA-SAMHITA.

When cool, honey should be added to it. This ghee is capable of curing bile-bom ‘Gulma.’ It also cures blood-bile, fever, asthma, bronchitis, and the diseases of the ehest. 123-124

TRAYAMANADYA KSHIRA.

Two ‘palas’ of TrSyamana ( Ficus heterophylla ), should be boiled intwo ‘prasthas’ of water.

When an eighth of the measure remains in the vessel, it should be strained (through a piece of clean cloth).

Milk of equal measure should then be added, and the mixture* while lukewarm, should be drunk.

After this, one should drink as much 'warm milk as one is able to digest.

By this, which operates as a purgative, one’s faults are dispelled,, in consequence of which bile-born ‘Gulma’ becomes alleviated. 125-126

In bile-born ‘Gulma’, the patient, for purging the bowels, should drink the decoction of Draksha (grapes), and Abhaya (chebulic myrobalans), mixed with treacle ;

Or, lick the powder of Kampillaka ( Mallotus pkilippensis ) mixed with liquid honey. 127

Of persons, afflicted with bile-born ‘Gulma’, unguents made of ghee or those made of the oil of the group of drugs beginning with Chandana (sandal wood of both the white and the red varieties), or those made of oil mixed with the decoction of Madhuka (liquorice), alleviate burning of the. body. 128

Those enemata made of milk and bitters, which are laid down for persons afflicted with bile-born fever, are beneficial for bile-born ‘Gulma’, as. also those enemata of the same kind that are laid down in the Division (supra) called ‘Siddhi.’ I29

Different varieties of rice, the flesh of wild animals, the milk of the cow as also of the goat, clarified butter (made from vaccine milk), Kharjjura (dates), Amlaka (fruit of Phyllanthus Emblica), Draksha (grapes), Dadima (fruit of Punica Granatum ), and Parushaka (fruit pf Grewia Asiatica), should be given as food, and for drink, water boiled with BalS {Si da cordifolia ), and the group of drugs beginning with Vidarigandha {Hedysarum Gangeticum).