Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

* Tbe last line, viz., ‘gulmanam &c.’, is omitted in Gangadhara’s edition. It is placed tower down. — T.

,f Some editions add ‘peyli’ as one of the drinks, — T.

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CHAR A KA-SA MHITA.

When the faults of persons afflicted with abdominal dropsy are gradually corrected by such treatment, they should have for regimen meat-juice prepared from the flesh of wild animals. np-HS

For the complete correction of the faults that may still remain, I shall now lay down the following (course of treatment) :

A person in such a state should drink the paste of Chitraka {Plumbago Zeylanica ) and of Amaradaru {Pinus deodara ), dissolving it in milk.* 146

Also taking the paste, of the measure of a jujube, of each of these, viz,, Mangsa (otherwise call Jatamansi, i. e., Nardostachys Jatamansi ), Hastipippali {Pothos officinalis ), Vigwabhesaja (dry ginger), Vidanga {Embelia Ribes ), Chitraka {Plumbago Zeylanica ), Danti {Baliospermuvi montanuni), Chavya {Piper Chaba\ and Vyos.ha (the three acrids), and boiling it with milk, one should drink it.

This drink conquers enlargement of the abdomen.

One may also drink the decoction of the three myrobalans, Danti {Baliospermum montanuni ) and Rohitaka {Andersonia Rohituka), mix¬ ing it with the pulv of the three acrids and the ashes of barley shoots.

When the medicine taken has been digested, the patient should eat boiled rice with meat-juice prepared from the flesh of wild animals.

Or, the patient may take flesh, boiling it with the milk of Snuhi {Euphorbia neriifolia ) and ghee. H7-W9

The physician should then prescribe, as an after-drink, milk or chebulic myrobalans with cow’s urine.f

Or, causing the patient to abstain from rice (or other kind of food), he should be given for a week the urine of the buffalo or buffalo milk. *5°

* The root-bark of Chitraka is taken. The grammar of the second line is doubtful. The instrumental dual (Chitrokamaradarubhyam) is followed by ‘kalkam’. The genetive dual is expected. Of course, the instrumental dual may be barely justified in this way : ‘tabhyam kalkam kritwa, tat kalkam pivet’. — T.

■f The paste of chebulic myrobalans should be dissolved in cow’s urine and given to the patient.— T.

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Or, the patient should be given camel’s milk for a month, mixed with the pulv of the three acrids, or goat’s .milk for three months, mixed with the pulv of the same (making him abstain all the while from rice or any other kind of food).

Or, he should be given a thousand chebulic myrobalans (increas¬ ing their number day by day), causing him to subsist on milk all the while; or ‘(julajatu’ may be given to him, under the same conditions. »5i

Or, the physician may administer ‘Guggulu’ (the exudation of {Balsamodendron Mukul) agreeably to the method in which ‘£il3jatu’ is administered.

The expressed juice of ginger, or the decoction of dry ginger, is regarded as beneficial as milk.* 152

Oil, boiled with the expressed juice of ginger of measure that is ten times its own, is regarded as equally beneficial.

The oil of the fruits of Danti ( Baliospermum montanum) and of those of Dravanti (Antkericum tuberosum) is beneficial in abdominal ailments. r53

If ‘£ula’ pains, epistasis, and constipation of the intestines, super¬ vene, the oil of Danti ( Baliospermum montanum ) and Dravanti (Anthericum tuberosum) is prescribable, mixed with the cream of curds, the soup of Phaseolus Mungo , and meat-juice.

The oil obtained from the seeds of Sarala ( Pinus longifolia), and Madhugigru (red variety of Moringa pterygosperma), as also that obtained from _the seeds of the garden radish, is beneficial in cases of abdominal dropsy born of excited wind, used as ointment for rubbing the body and also .as a drink.

In cases of abdominal dropsy in which the abdomen, from excited phlegm, becomes distended and hard, if such symptoms as stupefac¬ tion, and disgust for food, hiccup, and weakness of the digestive fire,

* By ‘(Jringavera’ is meant dry ginger, while ‘ardraka’ means raw ginger. When the ‘rasa’ of both is mentioned, it seems that the decoction of the first and the expressed juice of the last are intended. — T.

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supervene, and if the patient happens to be a habitual drinker ofT alcoholic spirits, the physician of knowledge and experience should' then, for checking the phlegm, administer ‘arishtas’ and alkaline ashes, duly considering the measure in which the phlegm itself and the other faults have been excited, rSMSfr

Pippali {Piper longum), Tinduka (Diospyros glutinosa), assafcetida, Nagara (dry ginger), Hastipippali ( Pothos officinalis ), Bhallataka {Semecarpus Anacardium ), the seeds of £igru ( Moringa pterygosperma ), the three myrobalans, Katurohini ( Picrorrhiza Kurroa), Devadaru ( Pinus deodizra), the two varieties of Haridra (viz., Curcuma long a and Berber is Astatic# ', S’arala ( Pinus longifolia), Ativisha ( Aconitum heterophyttum ),. Sthirai (. Hedysarum Gangeticum ), Kushtha ( Aplotaxis auriculatd), Musta {Cyperus rotundas'), and the five varietiesof salt :

Equal measures of these, with curds, ghee, fat, marrow, and oil,, should be inci-nnerated within a closed pot.