An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. I: Sutrasthanam — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1907)
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Twenty pulverised Pathyas mixed with the powders of Danti and Chitraka roots, each weighing a Pala in weight, as well as with two tola weights each of powdered Pippali and Trivrit, should be cooked with eight pala weights of treacle. The compound thus prepared should be made into ten large balls of confection (Modaka), each of which should be taken on every tenth da}'. Warm water should be used for drinking and bathing purposes while using the medicine, which does not entail any strict regimen of conduct (as non-exposure to cold wind, etc.). It proves curative in dysentery, jaundice, pile and cutaneous affections and subdues the three deranged humours of the bod5\
Trivrida'Shtaka :~The nine following drugs, viz. Trikatu, Trijata, Musta, Vidanga and Amalaka taken in equal parts, and eight parts of Trivit, and two parts of Danti roots should be separately pulverised and sieved through a piece of thin linen. The powders thus prepared should be pounded together and mixed with six parts of sugar and a little quantity of honey and rock salt.* Cold water should be given to the patient after he had taken the medicine, which proves curative
* The term little (Ishat) in the present instance stands for a quarter part.
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in colic pain in the bladder (Vasti-Shula), thirst, fever, vomiting, anasarca (Shotha), chlorosis and vertigo. It does not entail any strict regimen of conduct like other purgatives and acts as a good eliminator of poison. The compound is called the Trivridashtakam and is specially recommended in Pittaja affections. Persons, suffering from diseases due to the action of the deranged Pittam and Kapham, should take the medicine through the vehicle of milk. The medicine should be prescribed for rich persons, owing to its dietetic character.
Purgative barks : — The external skin of the Lodhra bark, to the exclusion of its inner lining, should be taken and pulverised. The powder, thus prepared, should be divided into three equal parts, two of which should be soaked in a decoction of the same (Lodhra) bark and filtered twenty- one times according to the process laid down in connection with the preparation of alkalis. The remaining third part of the powders should be soaked in the aforesaid filtered decoction and subsequently dried in the sun, and again soaked in a decoction of the drugs, which coUectiveh' go by the name of Dashamulam. The medicine should be prescribed in forms (wines, electuaries, etc.) previously described in connection with the Trivrit compounds.
The mode ol preparing and administering purgative medicines out of barks endued with similar virtues hasp. 413 been described. We shall presently deal with those made with purgative fruits.
Fruit Purgatives :— Sound and stoneless Haritakis administered in the wa}' of Trivrit compounds prove curati^'e in all forms of disease and in malignant sores and internal abscesses. Thev are the best of elixirs and improve the intellectual faculties. Haritaki and Vidanga, as well as rock salt, Xagaram, Trivrit and Maricha mixed in equal parts and taken with cow's urine, act as good purgatives. Similar!}', powders of Haritaki, Bhadra-daru, Kushtham, Puga-phalam, Saindhava salt and Shringaveram taken through the medium of cow's urine, act as good purgative. For purgative purposes, a man should lick a compound consisting of the powders of Xilini fi-uits, Nagara, Abhaya and treacle and subsequently drink a good draught ot vrarin water. A compound composed of Haritakis pasted with a decoction of the drugs constituting the group of Pippalyadi and a bit of Saindhava salt, exerts an instantaneous purgative action.
Haritakis eaten with Nagaram or treacle and with a bit of rock salt added to it, is an excellent stomachic. The specific virtue of Haritaki consists in restoring the normal condition of the bodily Vayu (laxative), in rejuvenating an used up or exhausted frame, and in soothingly in^•igorating the sense organs. Haritaki destroys all diseases, which are due to the use of
414 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XLIV .
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