An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. I: Sutrasthanam — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1907)
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surface and whose dull monotony is enlivened here and there by scanty growths of thorny shrubs and the tops of a few isolated hills or knolls, and in which the waters from springs and wells, accumulated during the rains, become nearly drained, and strong gales of warm wind blow (during the greater part of the year) making its inhabitants, though thin, strong, tough, and sinewy in their frames, subject to attacks of diseases, is called Jangala. A country, which exhibits features common to both the aforesaid classes, is called Sadharana or ordinary.
Authoritative Verses on the Subject : — A country derives the epithet of Sadharana from the ordinary character of its heat, cold and rainfall, and from the fact of the bodilv humours maintaining their normal state of equilibrium within its confines. A disease originated in, and peculiar to a particular country fails to gain in intensity, if brought over to, and transplanted in a country of a different character. A man, who observes a regimen of diet and conduct soothing to the deranged bodih' humours accumulated in the country he has come from, and aggravated and manifest in the shape of a disease in the country he has been living for the time being, need not apprehend any danger from the altered conditions of his new abode, for the fact of his not observing a regimen of diet and conduct regarded beneficial in consideration
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of the physical features of the latter place. A disease of recent growth' or origin unattended with any distressing or unfavourable complications, and unsuited to the nature of the country*, the season of the year,t the temperament,; and § the adopted or congenial or naturalised traits of the physique of a patient with a regular and unimpaired state of digestion (Samagnij, and who exhibits traits of strength, fortitude and longevity and commands the co-operation of the four commendable factors of a course of medical treatment, readily yields to medicine.
A disease, which is marked by features other than those described above, should be regarded as incurable, while the one exhibiting traits common to both the abovesaid types, should be looked upon as extremely hard to cure.
In the case of a former medicine proving abortive, a different one should not be resorted to as long as the effect of the first would last, inasmuch as a mixture or a confusion of medicinal remedies tends to produfce a positively injurious effect. A medicine or any medicinal
* As the development of a disease due to the deranged Kapham in a country of the JAngala type.
+ As the attack of a bilious distemper in forewinler, or of a \'5laja malady in autumn, or of a Kaphaja atifectiun in summer.
J As the appearance of Kaphaja disease in a patient of bilious temperament.
§ As the appearance of a Kaphaja disease in a subject habituated to the use of viands of pungent taste.
328 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [ Chnp. XXXV.
measure, failing to produce any tangible effect, may be repeated in quick succession in a difficult or dangerous disease, if it be empirically found to be beneficial in the case under treatment. The intelligent physician, ^vho, considering the nature of the season, etc., fully conforms to the abovesaid rules of medical treatment, conquers the bodily distempers and dispels the gloom of Death from the world with his medical skill.
Thus ends the Thirty-fifth Chapter of the Sulrasthinam in the Sushrula Samhila, which treats of clinical oliservalions.
CHAPTER XXXVI. Xow we shall discourse on the Chapter, which treats of miscellaneous remedies for swellings, etc. (lYI ish raka- m ad hyayam) . *
Metrical Texts :— A medicinal plaster, composed of Matulanga, Agnimantha, Devadaru, Mahaushdham, Ahinsra, and Rasna pasted together and applied to the seat of the affection, leads to the resolution of a swelhng, due to the action of the deranged Vayu.
A plaster composed of Durva, Xalamulam, Madhukam, and Chandanam, as well as plasters composed of drugs of cooling properties,t brings about the resolution of an inflammatory swelling of the Pittaja type, and proves similarly beneficial to a traumatic swelling, or to one which has its origin in the vitiated condition of the blood.
Measures, laid down in connection with a swelling resulting from the effects of poison, would lead to the resolution of a Pittaja swelling as well.
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