Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Clarified butter, castor-oil, and milk, (each of the measure of 1 5 palas), should be added, and the whole boiled together.

When the boiling is complete, the product is called ‘Migraka Sneha.’ Honey should be mixed with it when it is cool. The medi¬ cine, thus prepared, is curative of phlegm-born ‘Gulma.’ H7

This ‘Migraka Sneha’ should be administered also in constipation caused by phlegm and wind, in leprosy and enlarged spleen, and in abdominal dropsy. In ‘£ula’ of the female organ, it is particularly efficacious. h8

The purgative called ‘Nilini-Ghrita’ whose composition has been already explained and which is curative of wind-born ‘Gulma,’ should be administered in double measure to persons afflicted with phlegm-born ‘Gulma’, for the purpose of purging them. *49

By licking a ‘kârshika’ of powdered Trivrit ( Convolvulus Turpethum) macerated in the liquid milk of Sudha (otherwise called Snuhi or Euphorbia neriifolia ), mixed with honey and ghee , one is properly purged.f iS°

DANTI-HARITAKI.

In a ‘drona’ of water, five and twenty chebulic myrobalans should be boiled, as also as many ‘palas’ of Danti ( Baliospermum montanum ), and the same measure of Chitraka (. Plumbago Zeylanica).\ 151

* The total weight of the paste being 15 palas, that of water should be 60 palas. This measure should not be doubled, for the quantity is below a ‘prastha’ which is equal to 128 ‘palas’. It is only when the measure of a fluid is stated to be a ‘prastha’ or more, that the quantity is doubled. — T.

+ A ‘Karshika’ or ‘Karsha’ is equal to 2 tolas. — T.

i A ‘drona’ consists of 32 seers. Here the measure should be doubled. — T.

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CHAR A KA-SAMHITA .

The boiling should go on till the liquid is reduced to an eighth •of its measure. It should then be strained (through a piece clean cloth).

Into it should then be thrown (old) treacle, well-strained, of the measure of Danti ( Baliospermum montanum ), as also the chebulic myrobalans already boiled. J52

Into this should be thrown half a ‘KudavaV of (sesame) oil, four ‘palas’ of powdered Trivrit ( Convolvulus Turpethum ), one ‘pala’ of powdered Pippali ( Piper longum ) and Vigwaveshaja (dry ginger), f and the whole should be boiled down to the consistence of what may be licked.

When cool, honey of the measure of the oil should be thrown, as •also a ‘pala’ of Tvach (bark of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum ), Eli. Elettaria cardamomuin), Patra (leaves of Cinnamomum Tamala), and Kegara (otherwise called NSgakegara, that is, the flowers of Mesua ferrea) reduced to powder.j

Licking a ‘pala’ of this lickable compound, and eating at the same time one of the chebulic myrobalans (boiled in the above manner), the person afflicted with disease becomes well oiled and agreeably purged and (thereby) freed of his disease. J53-I55

This medicine, duly taken, also cures ‘Gulma’, dropsical swellings, piles, chlorosis, disgust for food, diseases of the chest diseases of the ‘Grahani’, anaemia, intermittent fever, leprosy, enlarged spleen, and epistasis.

When one, after taking this medicine for some days, becomes convalescent, one’sregimen should be rice with meat-juice. 156-157

The well-tested unoily (or dry) enemata that should be adminis¬ tered .to persons afflicted with phlegm-born ‘Gulma’ will be spoken of in the Division called ‘Siddhi’ (of this treatise).

The well-tested combinations of ‘Arishtas’ also will be spoken of in the Lesson on the treatment of the disease of the ‘Grahani’ and piles.§ 158

All those powders, and all those pills which are prescribable for

* A ‘Kudava’ is equal to 4 palas ; hence, half a ‘Kudava’ is equal to 2 palas. t Of Piper longum and dry ginger a pala is directed to be taken ; that is, half a pala o each.

t Of Twach, Ela, Patra, and Kegara, a ‘pala’ is to be taken; that is, one-fourth of a ‘pala’or two tolas of each. — T.

S ‘Arishtas’ are vinous liquors manufactured from diverse substances. — T

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persons afflicted with wind-born ‘gulma’ are beneficial in phlegm* born ‘gulma’ also ; only in preparing them (for administration in phlegm-born ‘gulma’) the measure of ‘kshâra,* hingu (assafcetida), and amlavetasa ( Rumex vesicarius ), should be doubled. I59

Those ‘kshâras’ which are applicable to chronic diarrhoea and dysentery may very well be used in the case of persons afflicted with phlegm-born ‘gulma.’ These are, indeed, well-tested remedies for such ‘gulma,’ and their administration is free from danger.

The administration of ‘dahas’ also is highly spoken of at the end (when the above remedies fail).f 160