Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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These should be boiled in water. In this water the patient should be dipt till perspiration sets in.
A little while after he should be bathed in water that has been heated in the sun.
After this, his body should be laved with unguents. 64
The bark of milk-yielding trees including Vetasa ( Calamus Rotang \ and Manjishtha ( Rubia cor difolia), Lata (the roots of Andropogon muricatus ), Mrinala (lotus stalks), Chandana (red sandal wood), Padmaka (a fragrant wood brought from central and southern India), and Balaka (otherwise called BalS, i. e., Pavonia odorata), should be reduced to a paste.
This paste should be used for plastering the body of the patient whose swellings are caused by excited bile.
Boiling this paste in oil, the oil thus prepared should be used for rubbing the body again of such a patient.
After the process of rubbing, the patient should be bathed in water heated in the sun and mixed with the sandal paste and the paste of the roots of Andropogon muricatus and ‘Padmakfishtha.’
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A bath also in the decoction of the barks of milk-yielding trees Is regarded beneficial.
Beneficial results are also expected by bathing the patient irt water mixed with the milk of such trees.
After such baths, the patient’s body should be laved with sandalpaste and other unguents. 65-66
In the case of swellings caused by (excited) phlegm, the follow¬ ing plasters and other modes of treatment are beneficial :
KrishnasikatS (fruits of Piper longuvi), old Pinyaka (cakes of pressed mustard seeds), Sigru-tvach (bark of Moringa pterygosperma), and Uma (linseed) :
These should be reduced to a paste and the paste used as a plaster.
The body of the patient should also be sprinkled over with the decoction of Kulattha ( Dolichos biflorus ), and dry ginger, mixed with cow’s urine.
The patient’s body may also be laved with an unguent made of Chanda (otherwise called Sprikka, i. e., Trigonella corniculata) and Aguru [Aquilaria Agallocha). 67
Plasters made of the kernel of the fruits of Terminalia Bellerica r it has been laid down, are alleviative of the painful sensation of burn¬ ing in all kinds of swellings.
Liquorice, Musta (the tubers of Cyperus rotundus ), the leaves of Kapittha ( Feronia elepkantum), and Chandana (red sandal wood), con¬ stitute a plaster (that is beneficial) for the pimples that arise irt swellings.* 68
Rasna ( Vanda Roxburghii), Vrisha (otherwise called Vasaka, i. e.T Justicia Adhatoda), Arka {Calatropis gigantea), Triphala (the three myrobalans), Vidanga ( Embelia Ribes), Sigru-tvach (the bark of
* The last word in the first line is not ‘Pralepah’ (as in the Calcutta and Bombay editions) but ‘Pradishtah’ as in GangSdhara’s edition. ‘TatpidakSsu’ is explained as ‘£ot'he pi^SkSsu.’ — T.
CHARAKA-SAMHITA.
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Moringa pterygosperma), Mushikaparnika ( Salvinia cucullata), Nimba (. Melia Azadirachta ), Arjjaka ( Ocimum sancfum), the nails of Tiger, MurvS ( Sansviera Zeylanica ), Suvarchala (otherwise called Aditya Bhaktfi, — Cleome viscosa), Tiktakarohini ( Picrorrhiza Kurroa), K5kamachi ( Solatium nigrum ) Vrihati (Solanum Indicum), Kushtha ( Aplotaxis auriculatd), Punarnava {Boerhavia diffused, Chitraka ( Plum¬ bago zeylanica), and Nfigara (dry ginger).
These, pounded into a paste with cow’s urine, form an excellent unguent for rubbing the patient’s body with. The patient may also be sprinkled over with water in which dry radishes have been boiled. 66-70
Swellings which appear in different districts of the body are of multifarious kinds in consequence of differences in respect of locality, the Dhatus affected, shape and name.
Listen to us as we mention a few for particularising them.
The three faults (wind, bile, and phlegm), provoked by their respective causes, produce dreadful swellings in the head.
These also produce swellings within the throat, causing a sort of whizzing noise (Ghurghuriks) therin and threatening a suspension of the breath. Such swellings are called “£s1uka.’ 71-72
Those which appear in the joint of the throat (with body), or in the chin, or in the throat, each characterised by a burning sensation and red colour, and hard breathing, and severe pain, are called ‘Vitanika.’*
If the swellings called ‘Vitanika manifest themselves all round the throat like a necklace, they prove to be fatal. 73
That swelling which is born of the three faults, which appears in the palate, and which is characterised by a redness of colour and a burning sensation, is known by the name of ‘Talu-Vidradhi (swell¬ ings in the palate).f
* In the Calcutta and the Bombay editions, the name given is ‘Vi451ika.’— T. t I adopt the reading of the Calcutta and the Bombay editions and not that of Gangadhara. The fact is, in these verses the Rishi is giving the names of particular varieties of swellings and their differentiating symptoms. Hence the reading adopted by GangSdhara
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That swelling (or, rather, swollen growth) which appears on the surface of the (root of the) tongue owing to (excited) phlegm, is called ‘Upajihvika.’
That which appears on the lower surface of the (root of the) tongue owing to the same cause, is called ‘Adhijihvikfi.’* 74
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