Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Ghee boiled with Bala (Sida cot dif olid), VidarigandhS' (otherwise called (^alaparni, i. e., Desmodium Gangeticum), Pippali ( Piper longum ) Madhuka (liquorice), and ‘Saindhava’ salt, constitute a snuff that is the foremost restorative of voice. 88

Ghee produced from milk, boiled with Prapaundarika (a fragrant wood brought from central and southern India), Madhuka (liquorice), Pippali ( Piper longuui), Vrihati (, Solatium Indicum), and Bala ( Sida cordifolia), forms an excellent snuff for restoring the voice. 89

* The group of drugs known as ‘Chandanadi’ has been laid down in the chapter on Fever.— T.

+ The constitution of the patient should be first corected by the administration of (medicated) oils and of sweda (fomentation for producing perspiration). He should then have emetics, mixed with oils ; and then purgatives, mixed with oils. He should not, how¬ ever, be weakened. — T.

I ‘Gatrani munchati’, literally, ‘casts off (his) limbs’ ; used in the sense of ‘casts off his body, or dies’.— T.

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The following ghee, taken in copious measures after meals, alle¬ viates headache, pains in the sides and the shoulders, cough, and asthmatic breathing. 9°

■ Ghee boiled with the ten roots, milk, and meat-juice, (taken repeatedly and in copious measures, after meals), promptly checks all these ailments.

Ghee boiled with the paste of Bala {Sid a cordifolid), also checks these ailments (if taken repeatedly and in copious measures, after meals). 91

Ghee boiled with Rasna ( Vanda Roxburghii) and milk, as also ghee boiled with Bala {Sida cordifolia), and milk, taken, after or during meals, agreeably to the measure of one’s appetite, checks those ailments. 92

Hear now of those kinds of linctus and those oils which cure cough, improve the .voice, and check asthma and hiccup, and alleviate headache and pains in the sides and the shoulders : 93

Ghee boiled with the fruit of Kharjjura (date), Mridwika (raisins), sugar, and honey,* as also with Pippali (Piper longuni), cures loss of voice, cough, and asthma. 94

The fresh ghee which arises from milk boiled with the ten roots, mixed with Pippali {Piper longuni) and honey, cures defects of the voice, as also headache, and pains in the sides and the shoulders, and cough, asthma, and fever.

The (fresh) ghee that arises from milk boiled with the five kinds of five roots possesses the same virtues.-)- 95-96

Ghee boiled with the decoction of the five kinds of five roots, and milk of four times that measure, conquers the seven supervening symptoms of phthisis.): 97

Kharjjura (date), Pippali {Piper langum ), DrSksha (raisins), Pathya f There are five groups of five roots. These are I. Swalpa-panchamula, 2. Vriliatpanchamula, 3. Trina-panchamula, &c. — T.

* Some texts have Madhuka (liquorice), and Parushaka (Grevoia Asiatica) for Sarkara and Kshandra (sugar and honey). — T.

t ‘Saptakam Valam’, literally, ‘the seven strong ones’ ; i. e., the seven symptoms already referred to, viz., pains in the head, the sides, and the shoulders ; cough, asthma, and fever ; and loss of voice ; these, though supervening symptoms of phthisis, always manifest them¬ selves with virulence. — T.

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(ehebulic myrobalans), Sringi (Rhus succedanea ), and DurSlabha (Hedysarum Alhagi) ;

The three myrobalans, Pippali ( Piper longum ), Musta ( Cyperus rotundus), (^ringati (Trapa bispinosa), treacle, and sugar ;

Virfi (otherwise called Khirakakoli, a root brought from Morung in Nepal), £ati ( Curcuma Zerumbet ), Pushkara (otherwise called Pushk'aramula, which not being available, Kushtha, i. e., Aplotaxis auriculata is used), Surasa ( Ocimum sanctuni), sugar, and treacle ;

Nagara (dry ginger), Chitraka (Plumbago Zeylanica ), Laja (fried paddy), Pippali ( Piper longum ), Amalaka ( Phyllanthus Emblica), and treacle ; 98-99

Each of these four groups mentioned in each half couplet, forms; a linctus which the patient should lick, adding to it honey and ghee.

The medicines mentioned above cure cough and asthma, improve (or restore) the voice, and alleviate deep-seated pains in the sides, mo

White sugarcandy, Tugâkshiri (bambu-manna), Pippali ( Piper longum), Vahula (otherwise called Ela, He., cardamoms of the larger variety), and Twach (otherwise called Daruehini, i. e., the bark of Cinnamomum Z eylanicurri), each of twice the measure, counting back¬ wards from the last,* should be licked, mixed with honey andi ghee, mi

Or, reducing them all into fine pulv, the physician should cause it to be eaten by one afflicted with cough, asthma, fever, a paralysed tongue, f disgust for food, loss of digestive fire, and deep-seated pains in the sides, m2

This medicine,, in both forms, should be administered in burning of-' hands and feet and other limbs of the body, as also in fever, and. blood coursing upwards.

Vasa (Justicia Adhatoda), and ghee, boiled with the decoction of ^atavari (Asparagus racemosus), form a medicine that is highly beneficial, m3