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The use of pulverised Atmaj^uptd and Ikshuraka (Kokildksha) seeds mixed with suc^ar and taken with milk just milched enables a man to indulge in the pleasures of youth for the whole night without any sense of fatigue. The powders of the Uchchatd should also be taken similarly .^with milk and sugar). S'atdvari and Uchchatd roots should also be similarly taken by a man wishing to have (sexual) vigour. A soup of Atmag'uptd seeds and Mdsha-'^vX'^c (boiled together) should be taken". AtMajfuptd-secds,Gokshura needs and Uchchatd should be boiled with milk and constantly stirred with a ladle. The use of this preparation (with an adequate quantity of sugar) enables a man to enjoy the pleasures of love all the night long. Likewi.se the milk boiled with Mdsha-pulse, Viddri, or Uchchatd should be taken with honey, clarified butter and sugar. By using this a man may indulge in the pleasures of the bed for the whole night like a sparrow. 1519.

The use of the milk of a Grishti (a cow delivered only once) with a grown up calf (one year old) and exclusively fed on the (fresh) leaves of the Mdshaparna, is recommended as a sexual tonic. All kinds of meat and milk, as well as the drugs of the Kdkolyddi group should be regarded as being highly possessed of the virtue of imparting tone and vigour (to the male productive organs>. They should, therefore, be used (for that purpose). The medicinal remedies and compounds described in the present chapter should be taken in sound health and proper seasons, as they are exhilarating and invigorating, and help the procreation of children. 20-21.

Thus ends the Twenty-sixth Chapter of the Chikitsita Stha'nam in the Sus'tula Samhita which deals with the treatment of the viiile impotency.

CHAPTER XXVII.

Now we shall discourse on the recipes and modes of using elixirs and rejuvinators of the human organism which will make it invulnerable to the inroads of any disease or of decay (SafVOpaghata—

^amaniya-Rasayanam). i.

IVIetrical Texts :^A wise physician should (invariably) prescribe some sort of tonic (.Rasdyana) for his patients in their youth and middle age after having their systems (properly) cleansed by the applications of a Sneha and purifying remedies (emetics and purgatives) . A person whose system has not been (previously) cleansed (Sodhana) with the proper purifying remedies (^emetics and purgatives) should not, in any case, have recouise to such tonics inasmuch as they would fail to produce the wished-for result, just as the application of a dye to a piece of dirty cloth will prove non-effect ive. 2.

Now we shall describe the remedial measures and agents for the maladies due to the aggravated Doshas* both mental and physical, which have already been described (in several places). Old age and senile decay would ba arrested (lit. perpetual or life-long youth would be secured) by drinking milk, cold water, honey and clarified butter, either severally or jointly (?> , in any combinationt taken one, two, three or four at a time\ in early life (just on or t There would be four combinations of one each, six of two each, four of three each and one of four jointly ; thus there would be fifteen combinations in all.

* The mental Doshas are Rajas and Tamas, whereas the physical Doohas are Vayu, Pilta and Kapha.

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just before the completion of the process of o;ganic development) 3-4.

Vidanga-Rasayana :— The powdered seeds

of the Vidajjga (Tandula) and pulverised Yashti-madliu should be mixed together and taken in cold water in an adequate dose (according to the strength of the patient), and a potion of cold water should then be taken. This medicine should be regularly continued for a month. The same pulverised Vidanga seeds should be similarly taken for a month through the vehicle of the decoction oi Bhalldtaka mixed with honey; or of the decoction of grapes mixed with honey ; or with the expressed juice of Amalaka sweetened with honey ; or through the vehicle of the decoction of Guduchi. Thus there are these five ways (of taking pulverised Vidanga seeds (Tandula) as an c'ixir. A meal of boiled rice with a copious quantity of clarified butter should be taken with the soup of Amalaka and Mudga pulse unseasoned with salt and cooked with oiily a small quantity of Sneha (claiified butter) after the medicine has been well digested. These (Rasayana) remedies prove curative in cases of hjemorrhoids and in complaints of w'orms. They improve memory and the power of comprehension and their use for every month increases the life-time of the user by one hundred years. 5.

Vidanga- Kalpa ;— One Drona measure of Vidanga (seeds; should be boiled in the way of preparing cakes in an Indian cake-pan. When the watery portion (of the cakes have been removed vcvaporated) and the Vtdanga-gvsi'ms well boiled, they should be taken down and well pasted on a stor.e-slab. They should then be kept in a strong iron pitcher after having been mixed with a copious quantity of the

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