An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. II — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1911)
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* In drinks or baths, a decoction should be used and in plasters and rubbings the ingredients should be pasted with Takra and the expressed juice cf Kapiltha.
352 THE SUSIIRUTA SAMIIITA. [Chap. IX.
roots of Bhadrd (Udumbara) and Malapu, The use of this potion would produce blisters on the patches. These blisters should be treated, after their bursting, with a plaster (Pralepa) composed of the ashes of the burnt skin of leopards and elephants and made into a thin paste with (mustard) oil. A plaster composed of the insect known as the Tuti and the Kshara (alkalij of Aragvadha should be found to be the best remedy for Svitra. 13
All kinds of Svitra arc found to readily yield to the application of a medicinal plaster made of the black ashes of a well-burnt cobra (Krishna-Sarpa) pasted with the oil of Vibhitaka. The white ashes of the said cobra mixed with one and a half time of its own weight of water should be filtered seven times in the manner of preparing an alkali. Mustard oil* should be cooked with this alkaline water weighing four times as much. An application of this oil proves curative in cases of Svitra. 14.
The Praptinndda seeds, KusJitha and Yashti-madhu should be pasted together with clarified butter. The plaster thus prepared should be given to a domestic white cock, purposely kept without food for a day and a half when it would evince any sign of hunger after the period. The dung of the said cock should then be collected after a full digestion of the said medicated drugs and applied as plasters on the affected patches for a month. It would bring about the cure (even) of internali* Svitras. 15.
Well burnt ashes of the dung of an elephant^, mixed t The internal S'vitras are those under the blisters produced by the application of the remedy mentioned first in the list.
* This is the best medicine for curing S'vitra.
X S'ivadasa, the commentator of Chakradatta, says that some read gj^jj^g^ in place of Tj^i^nil^ >n which case it would mean "S'amatha,"
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with elephant's urine, should be filtered several times (twenty-one times or seven times) after the manner of an alkaline preparation. A Drona measure of this alkaline solution should be boiled with the seeds of the Somardji weighing a tenth part thereof. This compound should be taken down from the oven as soon as it assumes a glossy hue and should then be made into boluses. Having rubbed the diseased patches of Svitra, a plaster of these boluses should be applied to them which would soon assume a healthy and natural complexion. 16.
The leaves and bark (Dalatvacham) of the Amra (mango) and the Haritaki* should be well soaked in a decoction of the same drugs (after the manner of a Bhavand-saturation) and made into Vartis {i.e., plugs). These Vartis should again be well soaked in the milky exudation of the Vata tree and lighted (with mustard oil) in a copper vessel used as an Indian lamp. The lamp black, thus produced, should be collected and well soaked in a decoction of Haritaki. Kilasa (a particular kind of Kushtha) is destroyed, if rubbed with this preparation for several times after having been lubricated with mustard oil.f 17.
* According to some, both the leaves and bark of Ihe "Amra" and of the "Haritaki" should be taken.
+ The leaves and bark respectively of the A'mra and the Uaritaki should be taken in the preparation. The whole stanza seems to be of faulty construction. Dallana, in his commentary, says that some read the fourth line as "^%^ f%^ ^^?Tf ^r^T^rfTT^T^t^^^ ^if^^ ll" This seems to be a better reading. It removes the dittkulty in the construction, but it omits also the word "KilcCsa" from the text. This, however, is also an improvement, inasmuch as this preparation seems to be a remedy for Svitra (which is only a variety of Kilasa) like the preceding and the following ones ; and it seems unlikely that Sus'ruta would introduce a remedy for Kilasa in general in the special treatment of S'vitra.
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A case of leucodcrma would (undoubtedly) yield to the curative virtue of a medicinal plaster composed of Somardjl seeds, Mdkshika, Kdkodumbara, Ldkshd, powdered iron, Pippali and Rasdnjana^ taken in equal parts and black scsamum equal to their combined weight, pasted with the bile of a cow and applied to the diseased patches. Similarly, a case of Svitra would prove amenable to the application of peacock's bile, or of burnt Hrivera mixed with the said bile. i8.
Various types of Svitra are cured with the application of cither of the two following medicinal plasters. The first consists of 7«////<^? (sulphate of copper), Haritdla (yellow oxide of arsenic), Katukd, Trikatu, Simha (RaktaSobhanjana), Ar/ca, Karavira, Kushtha^ Avalguja, BhalIdtaka, Kshirini, mustard seeds and Sntihi ; and the second consists of the leaves of the Tilvaka, Arishta (Nimba\ Pilu and Aragvadha pasted together with the seeds of the Vidaiiga and Karavira and Haridrd, Ddruharidrd. Vrihati and Kantakdri. 19.
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