Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

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CHARAKA- SAM HIT A.

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along- with honey proves to be one of the foremost re med'ies for curing the discharge of blood* 111

The paste1 of Priyangu ( Aglaia Roxburghiana), with honey and water in which (atapa) rice has been washed, drunk, speedily conquers the discharge of blood- in diarrhoea, if one takes (after it) meat-juice prepared from the flesh of such animals and birds as- reside in marshy regions. 112

The paste of black sesame seeds, mixed with sugar the measure of which should be five times that of the paste, and dissolved in goat’s milk, drunk, conquers the discharge of blood in diarrhcea, the very day it is taken. ”3

[GangSdhara notes that the sesame seeds should all be divested of husk before their paste is taken. He notices also that some texts read ‘^arkarabhâgasamyutah.’ in which case the measure of sugar should be equal to that of the sasame paste.]

That patient who drinks the decoction of a pala of the seeds of Vatsaka ( Holarrhena antidysenterica ) and then takes meat-juice; speedily conquers bile-born diarrhoea. I1[4

[A pala of the seeds should be boiled in water of eight times their measure down to half of that measure.]

By drinking the paste of Chandana ( Pterocarpus Santalinus) dissolved in water in which (atapa) rice has been washed, mixed with sugar and honey, one becomes freed from thirst, burning of the skin,, gonorrhoea, and the discharge of blood (in diarrhcea), 115

When one’s rectum has been, through excited bile, inffam’ed (followed by suppuration) in consequence of repeated acts of evacua¬ tion, the rectum should be sprinkled over with the cooled decoc¬ tion of the leaves of Patola ( Trichosanthes dioica ) and Madhuka (liquorice).f 1*6

* Black earth, liquorice, and conch shells, should each be reduced to pulv, and then dissolved in Water of the kind mentioned.

The Calcutta and the Bombay editions read ‘Sakshaudram’ (meaning ‘mixed with honey’)' for ‘SamyuktSm’ which occurs in Gangadhara. — T.

f ‘Utthana’ is explained as meaning ‘Varam Varam Vidvisarga,’ that is, repeated acts of evacuation of stools.— T.

CHAR A K AS AM HIT A,

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Or, It may be sprinkled over with the decoction of the five barks and that of Madhuka (the flowers of Bassia latifolia ).

[The five barks are those of Mangi/era Indica, Eugenia Jambolana, Feronia elephantum , Citrus acida of the variety called TâbS, and AEgle marmelos ] ;

or, with the expressed juice of Ikshu (sugarcane) - or, with ghee raised from vaccine milk, mixed with sugar and honey ;

or, with ghee raised from goat's milk, with sugar and honey added to it ;

or, with the milk of the cow or of the goat, with sugar and honey added to it ; “7 or, the inflamed rectum may be plastered over with the paste of the drugs mentioned above {viz., the leaves of Trichosanthes dioica , liquorice, the five barks, the flowers of Bassia latifolia , and sugarcane), adding ghee thereto ;

or, the inflamed restum may be laved over with the pulvs rendered as fine as possible, of the drugs mentioned. “8

Thus laved over with the pulvs, the rectum ceases to discharge blood.

By this treatment, the inflamation is alleviated, and the pain also disappears. “9

[The Calcutta and the Bombay editions read, after verse 118, the following : “or, the rectum may be laved over with the pulvs of Dhataki ( Woodfordia fioribunda ) and Lodhra ( Syniplocos racemosa ), taken in equal measures.” Gangfidhara omits this.]

If the discharge of blood continues copiously notwithstanding the sprinkling of the rectum with the cooled decoction of the drugs already mentioned, then the rectum, groins, the waist, and the thighs, should first be rubbed with ghee and the sprinkling should go on afterwards.

Or, the rectum, the groins, and the other parts named, may be laved over with ‘Chandanadi oil,’ or with ghee washed a hundred times, using a soft wick of cotton for applying it.

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CHARAKA-SAMHITA.

[The composition of ‘Chandanadi oil’ has been explained in the lesson on the treatment of fevers, ante. In applying the oil or the-. ghee that- has been washed a hundred times, neither the hands nor the fingers should be used. A soft wick made of cotton, dipped into the oil or the ghee , should be the instrument for applying it.]

If in diarrhoea characterised by discharge of blood, the discharge of blood takes place frequently, the measure each time being small, and if ‘£ula’ pains are present, or, if the wind, being constipated, moves with difficulty (in The intestines, the stomach, and the rest), or does not move at all, then the appliance called ‘Pichccha-vasti’ should be applied agreeably to the method already laid down.

Or, ghee boiled with Prapaundarika (the root-stock of Nymphce lotus), should be applied as enemata. 122-123

[As regards the composition and application of the ‘Pichcchavasti,’ vide verses 93 to 96, ante, of this lesson.

‘AlpSlpam’ has reference to measure ; while ‘vahugah’ has refer¬ ence to frequency.]

Very generally the rectum of those persons that suffer from, diarrhoea for a long while, becomes very weak. Hence, oils and ghees should be constantly applied' to their rectum. 124