An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. II — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1911)
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should be used as errhines (Nasya) and in anointing the head, and the patient should be advised to live on diet consisting of Mdsha-pulse, or of Kris' ai'd. In the course of a month, it imparts a (deep black) gloss like that of a black bee, or that of Rasdnjaiia to the hair and makes it grow thick and curly. It cures baldness, arrests the susceptibility of the system to an attack of premature decay, removes the wrinkles of the face, and invigorates the sense-organs in the performance oj their proper and respective functions. This oil should not be given to a man who does not wish to use it, nor to an indigent person, to an ungrateful wretch, nor to an enemy. 19.
Treatment of Vyanga, etc. x—Ldkskd,
Rodhra, the two kinds of Haridrd, Manah s'ild^ Haritdla, KusJitJia, Ndga (lead), Gairika, Varnaka^ ManjisJithd, VacJia, SaiirdsJitra-mrittikd , Pattanga^ Gorochand, Rasdnjana, bark of Hcmdnga i^Champaka), the tender leaves of Vata, Kdliya-Kdshtha, Padmakdshtha, the filaments of a lotus, both red and white cha?2dana, Mercury'^" and the drugs of the Kdkolyddi group should be pasted together with milk. The paste, thus prepared, as well as lard, marrow, wax, clarified butter, milk, and a decoction of the drugs of the Kshira trees should be cooked together. This medicated clarified butter, is the best of all the unguents that may be applied to the face. It cures the most difficult cases of Vyanga and Nilika, and removes all tans, specks, marks, moles, eruptions, etc., from the face. It imparts smoothness to the wrinkled skin, gives a healthy plumpness and bloom to the cheeks, and makes the face as beautiful as a lotus.
* This is the first time that we come across the mention and use of "Parada" (Mercury) in the Sus'ruta Samhita. — Ed.
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It should be recommended to kings and to the ladies of the royal court, as well as to persons of the same rank. It acts as a good remedy for cutaneous affections (Kushtha), and may be as well applied in cases of Vipadika. The use of a cosmetic compound consisting of powdered Haritaki, leaves of Nimba, the bark of mango, stems of the pomegranate, atid the flowers and leaves of Madyatitikd'^d&'iQd together, imparts a god-like effulgence to the complexion of a man. 20-21.
Thus ends the Twenty-fifth Chapter of the Chikitsita Sthanam in the Siib'ruta Samhita which deals with the treatment of a variety of diseases.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment for increasinp^ the strength and virile power of weak persons (Kshina-Valiyam Vaji-Karana). r.
A youth in sound health taking regularly some sort of Vaji-Karana (aphrodisiac) remedy may enjoy the pleasures of y^uth every night during all the seasons of the year. Old men^ those wishing to enjoy sexual pleasures or to secure the affections of women, as well as those suffering from senile decay or sexual incapacity, and persons weakened with sexual excesses, should do well to submit themselves to a course of Vaji-karana remedies. They arc highly beneficial to gay, handsome and opulent youths and to persons who have got many wives. 2-A.
Definition of Vaji-Karana ".—if duly
taken, the Vaji-karana* remedies make a man sexually as strong as a horse (Vaji\ and enable him to cheerfully satisfy the heat and amorous ardours of young maidens, a fact which has determined the nomenclature of this class of i^medicinal) remedies. 2-B.
IVIeans of Vaji-Karana : — Various kinds of (nutritious and palatable) food and (sweet, luscious and refreshing) liquid cordials, speech that gladdens the ears, and touch which seems delicious to the skin, clear nights mellowed by the beams of the full moon and damsels young, beautiful and gay, dulcet songs that charm the soul and captivate the mind, use of betelleaves, wine and wreaths of (sweet-scented) flowers,
* The VsLJi-Karana remedies are of three kinds, vis., (i) those producing the semen, (2) those secreting the semen, and (3) those producing as well as secreting the semen.
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and a merry careless heart, these are the best aphrodisiacs in life. 2.
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