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of old and matured clarified butter (and boiled rice), in the case where the aggravated condition of the deranged Vayu would be found to predominate. As an alternative, ho should be made to drink a potion consisting of goat's milk mixed with half its quantity of oil, with two Tola weight of Yashti-madhu or goat's milk cooked with Pris'niparni (two Tola weight) with honey and sugar (added after cooking), or cooked with S'tinthi, S'ringdtaka, and Kas'eruka, or cooked with S'j'dmd, Rdsnd, Siishavi, Pris'niparni, Pilu, S'atdvari, S'vadamshtri and Das'a-niiila. 6.

Oil, cooked with the addition ol milk previously boiled with the decoction of Das'a-mula of eight times its own weight and a Kalka of Madliiika, Mcsha-s'ringi (A. R. Sarngashta), S'vadains/nrd, Sara/a, B/iadra-ddru^ Vachd and Surabhi pasted together, should be administered in drinks, etc , (viz , anointment, sprinkling, ctc.\ As an alternative, the oil cooked with the decoction of S'atdvari, Mavuraka, Madhuka, Ks/iira-Viddri, Vald, Ativald and Trina-pancha-fnula , with the paste of the drugs belonging to the Kdkolyddi group, or the oil* cooked with the decoction and a Kalka of Vala for a hundred times should be prescribed for the patient. The affected part should be washed with the milk, boiled with the roots of the Vata-hara (Vayu-subduing) drugs [i.e., Das'a-mula), or simply with Amla (gruel, etc.), or a plaster composed of barley, Madhuka, Erafida (castor) and Varshdbhu (pasted together and heated), should be applied to the part. 7,

Plasters, etc. : — Barley, wheat, sesamura, Mudga pulse aud Masha pulse should be taken in equal

* According to Jejjata Acharyya, the " Vala-Taila", which is administered in the medicil treatment of Mudha-garbha, should be prescribed in this case.

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parts and pounded separately ; and the paste of the following drugs, viz., Kdkoli, Kshira-kdkoli, /ivaka, Rishabhaka^ Vald, Ati-vald, Visa-mrindla (lotus stem), Pris'niparni, Mesha-s'ringi, Piydla, S'arkard (sugar), Kas'eruka, Surabhi, and Vachd should be mixed with each of the preceding powders and each of these compounds (so formed) should be boiled with milk, oil, lard, marrow and clarified butter. The fiv'c compounds, thus prepared, arc called Payasas, which should be applied as a hot poultice (Upandha) to the affected part ; or an Utkarika, made of the pulp of oily fruit (seeds) * (prepared by cooking them with milk) should be applied ; or powders of wheat, barley, sesamum, Mudga pulse, or Masha pulse, and Vcsavdra, made of various kinds of fish and flesh, should be used as a plaster. Vilvapes'ikd, Tagara, Deva-ddni, Sarald, Rdsnd, Haremi, Ktishtha, S'ata-pushpd, Eld, Surd and cream of milk-curd pasted together, should be applied to the affected part as a plaster (Upanaha'. As an alternative, the expressed juice of Matulunga, mixed with Kanjika, Saindhava salt and clarified butter, pasted together with the root of the Madhii-s'igru and with sesamum,-f should be used in a similar way. The preceding remedies should be administered in a case of Vata-Rakta maikedbya preponderance of the aggravated Vdyu. 8.

Vsita-Rakta with a preponderance

of Pitta : — In cases of Vata-Rakta where the Pitta preponderates, the patient should be made to drink a potion consisting of a decoction of Drdkshd, Aragvadha, Katphala, Kshira-viddri, Yashti-madhii, Chandana and Kds ;«(^?2)'« sweetened with a quantity of sugar and honey.

* Such as sesamum, castor«seed, linseed, Vibhitaka-seeds, etc. t Some say that a paste of sesamum only should be used as ^ \ separate plaster.

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As an alternative, a decoction of S'atdvari, Yashtimadhii, Patola, Triphald, and Katu-rohini, or a decoction of Gtiduchi, or a decoction of the drugs belonging to the Chandanadi group, which are possessed of virtues for allaying pittaja fever, should be administered to the patient, sweetened with sugar and honey. Clarified butter, cooked and prepared with a decoction of bitter and astringent drugs* also proves beneficial in such cases. 9.

The affected part should be washed (Parisheka) with a decoction of Visa-inrindla, Chandana and Padtnaka (taken in equal parts and) mixed with half its quantity of milk. As an alternative, the aff'ected part should be sprinkled with a compound composed of milk, the expressed juice of Ikshu (sugar-cane), honey, sugar, and washings of rice (taken in equal parts) ; or with curdcream, honey, and Dhanyamla (fermented paddy-gruel), mixed with a decoction of grapes and Ikshu ; or the affected part should be anointed with clarified butter cooked with the drugs of the Jivaniya group, or with the clarified butter washed a hundred times in water, or with clarified butter cooked with the Kalka of the Kakolyadi group. 10.

Pradeha (plaster) composed of S'dli, Shashtika,Nala, Vanjula, Tdlis'a, S'rigdtaka^ Galodya, Haridrd, Gairika, S'aivala, Padma-kdshtha, leaves of padma (lotus), pasted with Dhdnydmla and mixed with clarified butter, should be applied to the affected part. This plaster (Pradeha) may be applied lukewarm even in cases of Vata-Rakta, marked by a preponderance of the aggravated Vayu. All the remedial measures (laid down above) may also