An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. II — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1911)

In the case of such an emission or oozing out a plug of bristles or hiir as described in the preceding chapter and remedial agents laid down in connection therewith, should be used.

t The principle of splintering and bandaging may be profllably compared with those followed in Agnur'a splint.

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proper medicinal drugs) in the manner mentioned above in order to reduce it to its natural state. 39-40.

In the case of a faulty union of a (fractured) bone lying between two joints (Kaada-bhagna), the union should be again disjointed, and the fractured bone should again be set right and treated as a case of ordinary fracture. In the case where a fractured bone would be found to have protruded out of the ulcerated part and dried, it should be carefully cut off near the margin of the (incidental) ulcer, (so as not to create a fresh ulcer on any other spot of the affected part) and subsequently treated as a case of fractural ulcer. A fracture occurring in the upper part of the body should be treated with applications of Mastikya-Sirovasti [oil-soaked pads on the head] and pourings of oil into the cavity of the ears. Potions of clarified butter,* errhines and Anuvdsana (enematas) should be prescribed in cases of fractures in the extremeties. 41-43.

Gandha-Taila : — Now we shall discourse on the recipe of a medicated oil, capable of bringing about the union of fractured bones. A quantity of black sesamum-seeds (tied up into a knot with a piece of linen) should be kept immersed at night in a stream of running water and taken out and dried in the sun (for seven consecutive days). It should then be saturated with cow's milk (at night and dried in the sun, during the second week). During the third week the sesamum-seeds should be saturated with a decoction of Yashti-madhu (at night) and dried in the sun the next day. Then (during the fourth week) it should be again saturated with cow s milk and dried and powdered. The said sesamum-

* According to Jejjata, not, only Anuvasnnaenematas but potions of clarified butter and errhines also should be prescribed in cases of fractures in the extremeties.

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powder and powder of the drugs, constituting the Kakolyddi Gana as well as Yasthi-madhu, ManjisJithd, Sdrivd, Kushtha, Sarja-rasa^ Mdnsi, Deva-ddru, (red) Chandana^ and S'atapusJipd should be mixed together. Then a quantity of cow's milk boiled with the aromatic drugs (of the Eladi group) should be used with the preceding pulv^erised compound for the purpose of pressing out the oil therefrom.. The oil thus pressed out* should be boiled in four times the quantity of cow's milk with the drugs such as Eld^ S'dlpami, Tejapatra, Jivaka, Tagara, Rodhra, Prapaimdarika^ Kdldnusdri, (Tagara), Saireyaka, Kshira-Viddri, Anantd, Madhulikd, S'ringdiaka, and those of the aforesaid list (Kakolyadi group and Yasthi-madhu, etc., up to S'atapushpd) pasted together. The oil should be duly cooked over a gentle fire and is called the Gandha-Taila. This oil should be administered with good results in possible ways (e.g., as potions, liniments, unguents and errhines) to a fracture-patient. Its efficacy is witnessed in cases of convulsions, hemiplegia, parchedness or atrophy of the palate, in Ardita (facial paralysis) as well as in Manyd-stambha (Paralysis or stiffness of the neck), in diseases of the head (cephalagia), in ear-ache in Hanu-graha, in deafness and in blindness and in emaciation due to sexual excesses. Administered in food or drink, or employed as a liniment, in Vasti-karma (enemata measures) or as an errhine, it acts as a sovereign restorative. Rubbed over the neck, chest and shoulders, it adds to the strength and expansion of those parts of the body, makes the face fair and lovely like a full-blown lotus and imparts a sweet