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etc., should be resorted to in cases of the afteclion being due to the concerted action of the vitiated blood and the Pitta-

* Sarala here means Dhupa-kashtha, according to Dallana.

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S'ydmd and Arka pasted together (with cow's urine\ or with the pastes of Karanja-sQzd, Ingudi seed, Kutaja and Aragvadha (pasted with cow's urine). Mustard oil cooked* with the admixture of all the foregoing drugs and with Markka, Nhnba-\ca,\Q.s and wax, proves efficacious as unguents (in such cases). 14-15In cases where the ear-lobes are affected and have become either thin, or hard, an ointment should be applied to them in order respectively to increase their growth, or to soften them. 16.

The marrow of a jackal and of an animal frequenting and living in swampy grounds (Anupa, such as a buffalo, etc.), together with lard^ oil and fresh clarified butter, should be cooked with a quantity of milk weighing ten times their combined weight and with the drugs of the Madhura (Kakolyadi) group, As'va-gandhd and Apdmdrga and LdkshdRasa (decoction or infusion of Ldksha). The oil thus prepared should be filtered and preserved carefully in an earthen pitcher. The affected ear-lobes should be constantly fomented and well-lubricated with it. The use of this medicated oil helps the growth of the ear-lobes and makes them healthy, soft, smooth, painless, evenly developed and capable of bearing the weight of ear-pendants. 17.

Treatment of Palita :— The expressed

juice of the Bhringa-rdja and (the decoction of) Triphald, powders of indigo leaves, Arj'una-hark, Bhringa-rdja, Pirtditaka, black-iron, flowers of the Vija and of Sahachara, Haritaki, Vibhitaka and Amalaka mixed together and pasted with a quantity of mud found adher.:nt to lotus-bulbs weighing as much as the combined

* Dallana says that this oil should be cooked with cow's urine weighing four times as much as the oil.

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weight of the aforesaid drugs should be kept in an ironpitcher well covered and preserved inside a room for a fortnight. After this period it should be cooked wiih I .m adequate quantity of) oil and with the expressed juice* of the Bhringa raja and (a decoction of) Triphald. For the purpose of ascertaining the proper cooking of the oil, a (white) feather of a Valdka < crane) should be dipped into it, and satisfactory preparation should be judged from the deep blue colour imparted to the feather. The oil should be then preserved in a blackiron pitcher for a month Used as anointments, this oil arrests a premature greyncss of the hair. 18.

The flowers of the S'airiya, Jambu, Arjuna and of the Kds'mari, sesamum, Bhr{7iga-7-dja-?,cQd'~>, mangostones, Pw/mr/^^^'^', t mud, Kantakdri^ Kdsisa, marrow of the seeds oi Madana, Triphald, powdered iron, Rasdnj'ana, Yashti-madhu, Nilotpala, Sdrivd, and Madayanti\ should be pasted together with the decoction of the Sara (pith) of the Vijaka. It should then be mixed with seven Prastha measures of the decoction of the Sara of Vijaka and preserved for ten days in a covered iron vessel. This compound should then be carefully cooked with an A'dhaka measure of Vibhitaka-oil and again preserved in a new iron-pitcher for a month. Then after cleansing the system of the patient, the oil thus prepared

* In the cases of cooking an oil, the liquid substance to be used, should be, as a general rule, four times as much as the oil ; but in this case, the expressed juice of Bhringa-rdja and (the decoction of) Triphald should be continued to be added, so long as the feather does not become deep blue.

t According to Dallana, the reading would have b^en "g»fijT^," i e , the two kinds of Punarnava.

X One Karsha measure of each of the aforesaid drugs should be taken.

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