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

made. The decoction, thus prepared, should be mixed with milk and fermented rice-grucl, etc., and then cooked with an adequate quantity of clarified butter, oil, lard and marrow by casting Kalka (^paste) of the Madhura (Kakolyadi group) into it This TraivritaGhrita* (lit. consisting of clarified butter with three other lardaceous articles), thus prepared, should be administered to Apatanaka-patients in potions and diet, in effusions and immersions, in anointings and errhines, as well as in Anuvasana measui'es. Diaphoretic measures should be applied according to the prescribed rules. In a case marked by an unusually aggravated condition of the Vayu, the patient should be made to stand neck-deep in a pit tolerably warmed or heated with burning husks, and cow-dung. As an alternative, Palas'a leaves should be strewn over a hot stone-slab or over a hot oven, after having sprinkled wine over them, and the patient should be laid full length upon these leaves, or fomentations should be made with Ves'avdrdy Kris'ara and Pdyasa. 24—25.

An oil, cooked in combination with the expressed viz., the Vataghna drugs, Yava, Kola, Kulaltha and flesh. Others, again, mean by the term "Pancha-varga" the five parts, viz., leaf, fruit, flower, bark and root, of the Vataghna drugs mentioned in the sentence.

We have, however, the authority of Vagbhata and Chakradatta in our side to accept the first view that the term "Audaka" is redundant, inasmuch as they have not read the word "Audaka" in their compilations. —Ed.

' According to Dallana, four seers of clarified butter, oil, lard and marrow (each weighing one seer), sixteen seers of Kanji, etc., sixteen seers of milk, sixteen seers of the decoction and one seer of the Kalka (paste) should be taken in its preparation. But Gayadasa is of opinion that four seers of milk should be taken instead of sixteen seers.

Four seers of Ghrita, etc., four seers of milk, six seers of Kanji, six seers of the decoction and one seer of the Kalka (paste) are generally taken byexperienced physicians in its preparation.— Ed.

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juice o{ Mtilaka, Eranda, Sphurja, Arj'aka, Arka, Saptald and S'amkhini should be used in washing (Parisheka), etc., the body of an Apatanaka-patient. Potions consisting of sour Dadhi (milk-curd) mixed with powdered pepper and Vachd, or of oil, clarified butter, lard, or honey, mixed with the same things and taken in an empty stomach, prove curative in cases of Apatanaka. 26.

These remedial measures are applicable in cases of Apatanaka when the action of the aggravated Vayu alone preponderates. In a case involving the concerted action of two or mere of the Doshas, drugs, remedial to each of them, should be combinedly employed. Medicinal liquid errhines {Avapida) should be employed after the subsidence of a severe attack. The fat or lard of a cock, crab, Krishna-fish, porpoise or of a boar should be taken* by the patient. As an alternative, he should be made to drink (a potion consisting of) milk boiled with Vayu-subduing drugs (Das'a-mula, etc.\ or a gruel (Yavagu) composed of barley, Kola, Kidatthapulse and Mulaka, cooked with curd, oil and clarified butter. Oily purgatives, Asthapana and Anuvasana measures, should be employed if the paroxysm does not subside even in ten days. Medicines and remedial measures laid down under the head of Vata-vy^dhi and the process of Raksha-karma, should be likewise adopted (in cases of Apatanaka). 27.

Treatment of Pakshaghata :— A physician is enjoined to take in hand the medical treatment of a patient laid up with Pakshaghata, unattended by a discolouring of the skin, but having pain in the affected part, and who habitually observes the rules of

* Vriddha Vagbhata recommends external application with these lards,

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