Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Energy, strength, complexion, relish (for food), and the digestivefire fade away. Then fever, pains, cheerlessness of mind, loose motions, and loss of appetite set in.

When he coughs, he expectorates phlegm (mucus) that is mixed with blood, rotten, dark, of an exceedingly foetid odour, yellow, knotty, and copious.

The person with sore chest withers away exceedingly in conse¬ quence (particularly) of the waste of vital seed and ojas (through sexual indulgence). 7-9

The symptoms, slightly manifested, of this disease are called its incubatory indications.

Pains in the chest, vomiting of blood, and cough are the parti¬ culars of this disease (sores in the chest). 10

When he becomes very weak, the urine he passes is seen to be mixed with blood, and pains appear in his sides, back, and waist.

Of one in whom the symptoms have appeared slightly, whose digestive fire is not extinct, and who has not lost his strength, the disease is curable.f 11

When the disease has excited for more than a year, it is capable of being suppressed.

One in whom the disease has put forth all its symptoms should be avoided by the physician.

* In the second line, the correct reading, as given by Gangadhara, seems to be ‘Virujyate’ and not ‘nirujyate.’ Then again, the last word seems to be ‘Vidahyate’ and not (as Ganga¬ dhara reads) ‘Vibhajyate.’ — T.

t The last word of the second line of verse It is ‘narah.’ Some read ‘navah.’ If ‘navah’ be accepted, it means ‘new.’— T.

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When the physician thinks that the patient’s chest has got cracks (or sores), he should give him to drink, without delay, dac mixed with milk and honey.

The same day the patient should, when lac and milk and honey have been digested, eat boiled rice with milk and sugar.*

One who is afflicted with pains in his sides and pubic [regions, whose bile has been slightly provoked, and whose digestive fire has lost its strength (without being extinct), should drink (the pulv of) lac mixed with wine.

One who is getting loose motions should take (the pulv of) lac with the tubers of Musta ( Cypetus rotundus), Ativisha ( Aconitmn heterophylluni ), Path a ( Cissampelos kernandi/olid), and Vatsaka (the seeds of Holarrhena antidysenterica \

If his digestive fire be strong, he should take (the pulv of) lac mixed with the following drags boiled in milk, viz., the group of drugs called ‘Jivaniya,’ sugar, and Twak-kshiri (bambu manna).

One afflicted with this disease should drink, for the healing up of his sores, the decoction of IkshalikS (otherwise called Ikshuvalika, that is, a variety of sugarcane of small proportions), Visha (lotusstalks), Granthi (the roots of Piper longurn ), Padmakegara (filaments of the lotus), and red sandal wood, mixed with milk and honey.

If a person afflicted with this disease gets fever with burning of the skin, he should drink powdered barley boiled in milk and mixed with ghee ; or, fried barley reduced to powder, mixed with sugar ahd honey.

If one afflicted with this disease gets cough, or pains in his bonejoints, he should lick the pulv of liquorice, Madhuka ( Bassia latifolia ), grapes, bambu manna, Piper longum , and Sid a cordifolia, mixed with ghee and honey. I2-T7

ELADI PILLS.

Take half an aksha of each of these, viz , Elfi ( Elletaria cardamomum ), Patra (leaves of Cinnamomum Tamala ), and Twacha (bark of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum ) ;

* Las should be powdered and mixed with milk and honey. — T.

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Also half a pala of the fruits of Pippali {Piper longuni) ;

Also a pala of each of these, viz., sugar, liquorice, Kharjjura (dates), and Mridvika (raisins) ;

Reduce these to pulv, and mix the pulv with honey. Of the paste thus obtained, pills should be made.

Each of the pills should be of the measure of an aksha.

One afflicted with this disease should take a pill every day (for some time),* 18-19

These pills cure cough, asthma, fever, hiccup, vomiting, swoons, excitement of the brain like to what occurs in inebriation, vertigo, expectoration of blood, thirst, pains in the sides, disgust for food, consumption, enlargement of spleen, provoked wind, hoarseness of voice, sores (in the chest), waste, and blood-bile.

These pills are excellent aphrodisiacs and have cooling and nutritive virtues.! 2°-21

(Even this is the composition of the pills called Eladi-gudika).

If blood is vomited copiously, then the patient should drink eggs of the hen dissolved in the soup of Phaseolus Mungo , or in water ;

Or, he should drink the soup of the eggs of ‘Chatakas’ (sparrows), or the blood of goats or wild animals (such as deer, &c.).| 22

If the patient expectorates blood, he should drink the pulv of Punarnavfi (Boerhavia diffusa), red £ali rice, and sugar, boiled toge¬ ther in water mixed with the juice of grapes, milk, and ghee. 23

Or, he may drink the decoction of liquorice and the flowers of Bassia latifolia, mixed with milk, and boiled, again, with Tanduliyaka (otherwise called NatiS sak, that is, Amaranthus aleraceus ).

* An ‘aksha’ is equal to two tolas. Eight tolas make one pala. — T.

+ ‘Tarpani’ means, medicines that cool and oilify the system and thereby promote nutrition. Vide Lesson XXIII, Sutrasthana, ante. — T.

J Sparrows’ eggs are boiled with the seeds of Phaseolus Mungo to make the soup referred

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