Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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The leaves of Upodikg ( Basella Rubra), Tanduliya (Ajnaranthus , polygamus ), Virg or ‘Khirakgkoli’ (a bulbous plant of the onion tribe growing in the H-imalyas), Vastuka (Chenopodium album), Suvarehala (Gratiola Monnierid), LonikS (Portulaca oderacea), Yava ’( Hor¬ de uni hexastichuni), Avalguja ( Vernonia anthelmintica), Kakamachi ( Solanum nigrum ), Ruhg (Panicum dactylou of the blue variety), Mahapatra (Eugenia jambolana of the large variety), Amblikg (Tamarindus Indica), Jivanti (Ccelogyne ovalis), £atl (Curcuma Zerumbet), ■and Grinjanaka (Allium sativum ), boiled in curds and the expressed juice of pomegranates, and fried in (Yamaka) both oil and ghee, and mixed with the pulv of Dhgnya (coriander seeds) and Nagara (dry ginger), should be given to the patient.* 1 52-1 54
Iguana, the species of porcupine called ‘^wavit’, the species of jackal called ‘Lopaka’, cat, camel, cow, tortoise, and porcupine :
* The leaves of each of the plants mentioned in verses 152-54 are directed to be given, boiled in curds and the expressed juice of pomegranates, and fried in oil and ghee, and mixed with the pulv of coriander seeds and dry ginger. — T.
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CHARAKA-SA MHITA.
Meat-juice prepared from the flesh of these animals, cooked in the above manner (i. e., boiled in curds and the expressed juice of pomegranates, fried in oil and ghee, and mixed with the pulvs of -coriander seeds and dry ginger), may be given,* *55 with boiled rice of the ‘Rakta-fSli’ variety, for alleviating the sexdted wind.
When it is ascertained that the Piles are characterised by predom¬ inance of wind and are dry, and when the patient’s digestive fire has been weakened, >56 the physician should administer to him ‘MadirS’ distilled from Sugar, as also ‘£idhu’, whey, ‘Tushodaka,’ various spirits, the cream of curds, boiled water (rendered cool), water cooled by exposure to night-dew, or the decoction of Kantakfiri (Solatium Xantkocarpuin), or the decoction of Nagara (dry ginger), and Dhanyaka (coriander seeds), as after-drinks in consequence of the virtue they possess of restoring; stools and the wind to their normal course. 1 57- 158
Those patients (having Piles) who are afflicted with flatulence, or whose bodies have become exceedingly dry, or whose wind no longer moves In its normal course, or who are afflicted with ‘£ula’ pains, find the administration of oily enemata to be beneficial. >59
The fruits of Piper longuvt, Madana (the fruit of Randia dumelo - rmri),\ the fruits of ARgle marmolos, £atahvfi (dill seeds), Madhuka (liquorice), Vacha (Acorus Calamus ), Kushtha (Aplotaxis auriculata ), £ati (Curcuma Zerumbet ), Pushkara (the root so-called is brought from Central India, Aplotaxis auriculata being sometimess substituted for it), Plumbago Zeylanica , and Pinus deodara : 160
These are reduced to paste. Oil, mixed with milk of twice its measure, boiled with this paste, constitutes one of the best enemata for such piles as are characterised by constipated wind.
t Meat-juice, prepared from the flesh of each of the animats named, should be ad¬ ministered, cooking it in the manner directed and mixing it with the pulvs named. The reading which Gang5dhara adopts is slightly different.— T.
+ GangSdhara reads ‘Madhukam’, meaning liquorice.— T.
CHARAKA-SAMHITA.
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This enemata conquers the following diseases, vie., prolapsus am, severe pains in the anus, difficulty of micturition, white flux, weak¬ ness of the waist, the thighs, and the back-bone, confined wind ir> the pubic region, discharge of sticky matter (from the anus); swelling (in the anus), constipation of wind and stools, and the stoppage of wind and stools. 162-163
With the paste, mixed with oil and agreeably hot, of the drugs ending with Pinus deodara, which enter into the composition of oily enemata, such Piles as are paralysed and swollen, should be. plastered.* 164
Laved with this plaster, the Piles soon discharge phlegmonous and slimy matter mixed with blood. Such matter being discharged, itching, the absence of sensation (paralysis),, and. swelling with pains, disappear.-]- 165
Or, dry enemata may be administered, consisting of the decoction of the group of the ten roots, with (cow’s) milk, cow’s urine, oil and ghee, and ‘Saindbava’ salt, and the paste of the drugs beginning with the fruits of Randia dumetorum.% 166
ABHAYARISHTA.
Half a ‘prastha’ (equal to 8 palas) of chebulic myrobalans, one ‘prastha’ (equal to 16 palas) of the fruits of Phyllanthus Rntblica, 10 palas of (Kapittha) wood-apple, half a pala of Indravaruni ( Cucumis Colocynthis), i67 and 2 palas of each of these, vie., Vidanga (Rmbelia Rzbes)\. the: fruits of Pipes longum, Lodhra ( Symplocos racemosa\ black pepper,, and ‘Elabuluka’ (the red powder, obtainable in Indian markets, of that: name, — the seed of some plant).
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