Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Nigclla sativa), Karkata {Rhus suceedanea ), Trikatu (the three acrids), and Draksha (grapes), mixed with honey and ghee.

Or, one may eat this preparation, mixing it with treacle.

Jivanti {Ccelogyne ovalis), Madhuka (liquorice), Pstha {CissampeloS hernandifolia), Tvak-kshiri ( Bambu manna), TriphalS (the three myrobalans), £ati ( Curcuma Zerumbet ), Musta (tubers of Cyperus rotun¬ das), Ela (the seeds of Elettaria cardamomum), Pippali (the fruits of Piper longuni), Draksha (grapes), the two Vrihatis {viz., Solanum Xanthocarpum, and Solanum Indicum), VitUnnaka (otherwise called DhSnyaka or coriander seeds), Sariva {Echites frutescens), PaUshkaramula (a root which not being available is substituted by that of Aplotaxis auriczdata ', Karkata {Rhus suceedanea ), Rasanjana (galena), PunarnavS {Boerhavia diffusa ), Loha-rajas (the pulv of iron), Trayamana {Ficus heterophylla), Yamanika (the seeds of Ptychotis Ajowan), BhSrgi {Siphonanthus Indica ), TSmalaki {Phyllanthus Niruri), Ridhi (not being available, Bala or Sida cordifolia is used instead), Vidanga Embelia Ribes), Dhanwayasaka (otherwise called Duralabha, i. e., Hedysarum Alhagi ), Kshara (the ashes of green barley shoots), Chitraka ( Plumbago Zeylanica), Chavya {Piper Chaba) AmlavetSsa (otherwise called Chukra, i. e., Rumex vesicarius), Vyosha (the three acrids), and Daru {Pinus deodara) :

Reduce each of these to pulv, and take a pala of each. Mixing the pulvs with honey and ghee , a linctus is formed which one may lick with beneficial results.

The measure of a dose is a ‘panitala’ (equal to 2 tolas) This preparation cures all the five varieties of cough. 173-176

Padmaka (a root brought from Central India), Triphala (the three myrobalans), Vyosha (the three acrids), Viclanga {Embelia Ribes), Devadaru {Pinus deodara), Bala {Sida cordifolia ), and Rasna ( Vanda Roxburgii) :

Reduce these to fine pulvs, and take equal measures of these.

Add honey, ghee, and sugar, the measure of each being equal to the united measure of the pulvs.

Mixing all these together by pounding them in a mortar, make a linctus.

p. 194

CHAR A KA - SA MH1TA .

p. 1536

This linctus is highly beneficial and cures all varieties 6 f cough.177'i7'S

Or, one may lick the pulv of Maricha (black pepper), mixing it with ghee , honey, and sugar.

This preparation is the foremost of all linctuses, that a person afflicted with cough should use. *79

The paste of the leaves of Vadari (jujubes), fried in ghee , and mixed with ‘Saindhava’ salt, forms a linctus which should be pres¬ cribed in hoarseness of voice and cough. 180

The leaves of Tilvaka (otherwise called Lodhra, i. e., Syniplocos racemosa), reduced to paste, fried in ghee, and mixed with sugar, forms a ‘peya’ (drink), or ‘utkfirika.’

Either of these cures vomiting, thirst, cough, and diarrhoea charac¬ terised by evacuations of undigested food.* 1S1

Take white Sarshapa (mustard seeds), Gandira (otherwise called £amatha — a variety of pot-herb growing in aquatic regions), Vidanga ( Embelia Ribes), Vyosha (the three acrids), Chitraka ( Plumbago Zeylanica), and Abhaya (chebulic myrobalans)

Boil these in water.

With the decoction so obtained, prepare gruel of barley.

This gruel, mixed with ghee and salt, is beneficial in cough, hiccup, asthma, inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane, chlorosis, con¬ sumption, or waste, dropsical swellings, and otalgia.f 182-183

The soup of Mudga (the seeds of Phaseolus Mungo ) prepared with the decoction of Kantakari ( Solannm Xanthocarpum ), dressed with ghee and the pulv of black pepper, and rendered slightly sour by

* ‘Utkarika’ is like the preparation called ‘haluwH’ or ‘Mohanbhoga.’ It is a sort of solid frumenty. — T.

+ Gangadhara explains that the measure of white mustard seeds and the rest should be a ‘karshika’ (equal to 2 tolas) of each.; that of the water in which these should be boiledbeing a ‘pr5sthika’ (equal to 2 seers). In practice, double the measure, or 4 seers, of waies are taken. This quantity is boiled down to 2 seers.— T.

CHARAKA-SAMH1TA

*53 7 adding Gaura (white variety of mnstard seeds) and Amalaka (the fruits of Phyllanthus Emblicd), is very successful in all varieties of cough. i84

The decoction of such drugs as are alleviative of excited wind,, milk, soups of pulses, and meat-juice prepared with the flesh of ‘Vishkiras’ (domestic fowl and other birds which employ their feet for searching out their food), and ‘Pratudas’ (birds which employ their beaks for finding and taking their food), &c., should be given to one afflicted with waste-born cough.* * * § lSS

Those varieties of smoke, with the prescribed regulations, that have been laid down (as beneficial) in sore-born cough, should be administered in waste-born cough as well.f

Medicines that are ‘dipana’ (capable of kindling the digestive fire), that are ‘vringhana’ (capable of promoting nutrition and corpulency), that are capable of cleansing the ducts, and that promote strength, are all beneficial to persons afflicted with waste-born cough, if admi¬ nistered in proper measure agreeably to the faults excited.^ l8?