An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. I: Sutrasthanam — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1907)

potency and proves curative in cases of haemoptysis. The Pushkara fruit is sweet, and is long retained in the stomach in ^n undigested state. It produces the Kapham and is tonic, and heavy of digestion (hard to digest). Raw and tender Vilva fruit subdues the Vayu and Kapham. It is keen, demulcent astringent, and appetising, has a pungent, bitter and astringent taste, and is heat-making in its potency, while in its ripe state it leaves a sweet after- taste. Further it is heavy of digestion, can be but incompletely digested, and is long retained in the stomach, causing it thus to distend and producing the emission of a fetid- smelling flatus. The Vimvi fruit, as well as that known as the Ashva karna, is galactagoguic. They destroy the Pittam and Kapham and prove beneficial in cases of thirst, burning sensation of the skin, fever, hgemoptysis, cough, asthma and consumption.

The fruits such as, the Tala, Narikela, Panasa and Maucba, etc. are sweet in taste and of digestion, and subdue the Vayu and Pittam. They are cooling in their potencies, and act as constructive tonics. Of these the fruit of a Tala is sweet in taste and heavy of digestion. It subdues the deranged Pittam. The pulp found inside its seeds is sweet of digestion and diuretic, and it subdues the Vayu and Pittam. The Narikela fruit is heavy of digestion, demulcent, anti-choleric, sweet, cooling in its potency.

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tonic, tissue-building, pleasant, laxative and diuretic. It subdues the Pittam, The Panasam is sweet and astringent in taste, demulcent and heiivy of digestion. The Maucham has a sweet and astringent taste, not cooling in its potency, proves curative in cases of hccmoptysis, acts as a spemiatopoietic and improves the relish for food. It generates the Kapham and is heavy of digestion.

The fruits such as the Drakshas, Kashmaryas, Madhukas, Kharjuras, etc., have a sweet taste, are heavy of digestion and prove curative in cases of haemoptysis. Of these grapes are laxative, beneficial to the voice, sweet, demulcent, and cooling in their potency. They prove beneficial in cases of haemoptysis, fever, asthma, thirst, burning sensation of the skin, and consumption. The fruit known as the Kashmarya Phala is pleasant and diuretic. It purifies the blood, improves the intellect and growth of hair, and is rejuvenescent and subdues the Vayu and Pittam. Kharjuras are possessed of the virtue of ari'esting all bodily wastes. They prove beneficial in Urakshata, are pleasant, cooling in their potenc)', refreshing, heavy of digestion, sweet in taste, and prove curative in cases of haemoptysis. The flowers of Madhuka trees are tissue-building, unpleasant and heavy of digestion, while their fruit subdues the Vayu and Pittam.

Chap. XLVI.] SUTRASTHANAM.

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Fruits such as the Vatama, Akshoda, Abhishuka, Nichula, Pichu, Nikochaka, and Urumana, etc. are demulcent, heat-ifiaking in their potency, heavy of digestion, constructive, tonic, and sweet in taste. They subdue the Vayu, Pitta m and Kapham. *

The fruit known as the Lavali is astringent and shghtly bitter in taste, improves a rehsh for food, and is pleasant, aromatic and refreshing to the whole system. It subdues the Kapham and Pittam. The fruits such as the Vasiram, and the Shitapakyam, as well as the stems of Bhallataka trees, are hard to digest and are long retained in the stomach in an undigested condition. They tend to produce a state of dryness in the organism, derange the Vayu, are cooling in their potency, sweet of digestion, and prove curative in cases of heemoptysis.

The fruits known as the Aii'avata and the Dantashatba have an extremely acid taste and tend to bring on an attack of haemoptysis. The fruit known as the Tanka is coohng in its potency, has a sweet and astringent taste, is heavy and generates the Vayu. The fruit known as the Aingudam is demulcent, and heat-making in its potency, has a sweet and bitter taste, and subdues the V.4yu and Kapham. The Shami fruit is heavy, sweet and heat-making, produces a state of parchedness in the organism, and helps the falling off of hair. The Shleshmataka fruit is

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heavy of digestion, generates the Kapham, and is sweet in taste and cooling in its potency.