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

Diet: — The diet should consist of articles made of old and matured S'ali or Shashtika rice, wheat or barley, taken with milk \ or with the soup of Mudga

* Milk four times of oil should be taken.

t The " Vala-Taila" desciibed in the medical treatment of Mudhagarbha, ch. XV.

X In the case of Vata-roga with preponderant Pitla, the patient should take the food with milk ; in the preponderance of Vayu, with the soup of Jangala meat; and in the preponderance of Kapha, with Mudga-soup, devoid of any acid combination.

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pulse or flesh of Jdngala animals and devoid of any acid combination.* 21.

Frequent blood-letting should be resorted to and measures, such as, emetics, purgatives, Asthapana and Anuvasana should be adopted in cases of the aggravated Doshas-f (involved in the case). 22.

IVIemorable Verses :— A case of VdtaRakta of recent growth, proves readily amenable to the remedial measures described before. Long-standing, i.e., chronic cases (of Vata-Rakta) are never perfectly cured, but can only be palliated. The application of poultices (Upanaha), of medicinal washes or sprinkles (Parisheka), hot-plasters, anointings (Abhyanga), spacious and comfortable bed-chambers which do not admit of too large an influx of air, shampooing, and the use of soft and pleasant beds and soft pillows, are chiefly recommended in a case of Vata-Rakta ; whereas physical exercise, sexual intercourse, display of anger, the use of heat-making, saline, acid and difficultly digestible food and eatables producing effuse scrus or slimy matter in the bodily channels, and sleep in the day-time (should be deemed extremely injurious and hence) should be studiously refrained from. 23.

The Medical Treatment of Apatanaka : — The medical treatment of a patient suffering from Apatanaka (hysterical convulsions), not exhibiting fixedness of gaze and arched eye-brows, with an absence

* In the case of Vata-roga, with a pref onderance of PiUa, the patient should take his food with milk ; in the preponderance of Vayu, with the soup of Jangala meat ; and in the preponderance of Kapha, with Mudgasoup, devoid of any acid combination.

t In the preponderance of Kapha, emetics should be employed ; in the preponderance of Pitta, purgatives should be given ; and in the preponderance of Vayu, Anuvasana and Asthapana measures should be resorted to.

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of perspiration, quivering, delirium and the numbness of genitals, found not to fall on the i^Tound but capable of being supported on his arms (Akhattd-pati) and whose trunk is not bent or arched on its posterior (dorsal) side (Vahirayama), may be attempted (with success). The body of the patient should be first anointed with emulsions (Sneha) and then fomented ; strong medicated snuff should then be administred for purifying (the accumulated mucus in) the head. After that the patient should be made to drink a clear potion prepared of clarified butter, cooked in combination with a decoction of the drugs constituting the Vidari-gandhadi group, extract of meat, milk and milk-curd, so as to arrest the further expansion of the deranged Vayu into the system.

Traivrita Ghrita : — A decoction of the V^yusubduing drugs, such as, Bhadra-ddrvddi, etc., barley, Kidattha pulse, Kola, and the flesh of the Anupa and Audaka animals with the Pancha-Vargassc should be

* According to Jejjata, "Pancha-Vargam" means the flesh of the five kinds of Anupa animals, viz,^ Kuiachara, Plava, Kos'astha, Padin and Matsya (fishes).

The reading here is doubtful. The term "Audaka" in the compound word " Sanupaudaka-mamsam " seems to be redundant, inasmuch as "Audaka" animals are included in the "Anupa" class. (Sutra, chap. XLVI. Page 487, Vol I). In this case the word " Pancha-vargam " also seems to be only an explanation of the term "Anupa" meaning the fiive kinds of Anupa flesh, and it seems to have surreptitiously crept into the body of the text from the marginal notes of some authoritative manuscript copy of the book. If, however, we are to abide by the current reading of the book, "Panch'a-varga" cannot mean the five kinds of flesh in the presence of the word ''Audaka" mentioned separately, as Jejjata would have it. In that case it can only mean either the five groups of Pancha-mulas, viz., the major Pancha-mulas, the minor Pancha-mulas, the Valli-Pancba-mulas, the Kantaka-Pancha-mulas and the Tiina-Pancha-muIas. (Sutra, chap, XXXVIII, Pages 355-6, Vol, I), as some would explain it to mean. Others, however, prefer the reading as it is and explain the term "Fancha-varga" to be the five kinds of medicinal drugs mentioned before in the sentence,

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