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

being mixed with honey, etc.,* should be dissolved in the preceding medicinal decoction and injected lukewarm (into the bowels) in the manner of an Asthdpana-Vasti. Pain in the back, the thighs and in the regions of the sacrum (Trika\ stone, retention of stool, urine and flatus, diarrhoea (Grahani), Haemorrhoids and diseases due to the action of the deranged Va'yu, readily yield to the curative efficacy of such injections, by which also, the blood, muscles and the strength are improved. 13.

A decoction duly prepared with Guduchi, Triphald, Rdsnd,Das'a-mula and Vald weighing one Pala f each, and a pulverised compound consisting of Priyangu, Rasdnjana, Saindhava, S^ata-piishpd, Vachd, KrisJmd, Yamdiii, Kiishtha, Vilva fruit and treacle each weighing an Aksha (two Tolas) and half a Pala of pulverised Madana fruit, should be injected into the bowels (in the manner of an Asthapana enema injection), stirred and mixed with an adequate quantity of honey, oil, clarified butter, milk, Sukta, Kanjika, Mastu (curd-cream) and cow's urinej. Strength, energy, vigour, complexion, digestive capacity, verility and vital duration of the user would be increased by its application, and all derangements of the bodily Vayu would yield to its curative efficacy. It is one of the best rejuvenating agents. 14.

A decoction should be made by boiling together the drugs of the Kshudra-Pancha^mula group, Musta, t Dallana takes Pala in the sense of meat ^ff^Tr (M^msam).

* Honey, Sneha, milk, Kanjika, cow's urine, meat-juice, etc., should be taken.

X The quantity of honey, oil, and clarified butter, should be as before, that of S'ukta, Kanjika, Mastu and urine half a Pala each, and that of milk two Palas. — Dallana.

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Tri-phalA, Utpala, Vdsaka, SdrivA, Manjishthd, Rdsnd, Retiu, and Parushaka each weighing one Pala. A compound of S'rhigdtaka^ Atma-giiptd, Gaja-pippali, Kes'ara, Aguru, Chandana, Viddri, Misi (anisi), Manjishthd, S'ydmd, Indra-yava, Saindhava-salt, Madana-Phalay Yashti-madhu, Padma-kdshtha pasted together, should be disiolvcd in the preceding decoction which should be mixed and stirred with milk, honey and clarified butter and injected cold without the addition of any acid substance, in the manner of an Asthapana enema (Vasti). It should be applied in liquid form. A burning sensation of the body, menorrhoea (Asrig-dara), Haemorrhage, Pittaja-gulma, Pittaja-fever, yield to the curative efficacy of such a medicinal injection (Vasti). 15.

A decoction should be duly prepared with Lodhra, Rakta-chandana, Manjishthd, Rdsnd, Anantd, Vald, Riddhi, Sdrivd, Vrisha, Kds'maryya, Medd, Madkuka (Yashti-madhu\ Padmaka, the drugs included in the Sthiradi (minor Pancha-mula) and the Trma-Panchamula groups, each weighing three Karshas (six Tolds). Then a paste composed oi Jivaka^ Rishahhaka Kdkoli, KshiraKdkoli, Riddhi, Yashti-madhu, Utpala, Prapaundarika, Jivanti, Medd, Renu (Parpataka), Parushaka, Ahhiru (S'atdvarij, Misi, Saindhava, Vatsaka, Us'ira, Padmaka, Kas'eru and sugar pasted together should be mixed with the preceding decoction made into a fluid solution with an adequate quantity of milk, honey, and clarified butter and other fluid substances* other than juice (two Palas) as the liquafacient agents in this preparation. It should also be noted that coldness and non-addition of any acid substances are recommended as the injection is to be applied in cases of diseases due to the derangement of Pitta*

* Dallana recommends the use of meat-juice (one Pala) and sugar-cane

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strong acid ones (Kanjika, etc.). It should then be injected well cooled in the manner of an AsthapanaVasti. It would undoubtedly prove curative in cases of Gulma, menorrhcegia (Asrig-dara), heart diseases, Jaundice, Vishama-jvara, Haemorrhage (Rakta-pitta), dysentery, and other Pittaja ailments. 16.

A compound of Vald, Madana fruit, Sarshapa^ Saindhava, Deva-ddru, Kushtha, Eld, Pippali, Vilva and S'unthi (weighing three Palas in all) pounded together and mixed with the decoction of Bhadrd, Niniha, Kulattha pulse, Arka, Kos'dtaki, Amrita, (Guduchi), Diva-ddru, Sdrwd, Vrihati, Pdthd, Murvd, Aragvadha and /iTw/^'a-seeds (weighing sixteen Palas in all) cooked with water (one hundred and twenty-eight Palas) should be injected in the manner of an Asthdpana-Vasti, with the addition of an adequate quantity of mustard oil, honey, alkali, cow's urine, sesamum oil and water (three Palas). This would speedily conquer an attack of Chlorosis (Kdmald), Jaundice, Meha, obesity, impaired digestion, aversion to food, goitre, slow poisoning, (Gara visha), elephantiasis, Udara, or of any disorders due to the deranged Kapha. 17.

Musta, Sahtdhava, Deva-ddru, Pdthd, Pippali and Indra-yava, pounded together, and made into a paste with the admixture of the decoction prepared with such drugs as Das'a-mula, Haridrd, Vilva, Patola, TriphalA, and Deva-ddru, should be stirred and saturated with oil, Yava-kshdra and honey and reduced to a soluble fluidity by adding (an adequate quantity of) cow's urine, Madana-phala and Kdnjika. The solution thus prepared should be injected (into the rectum of the patient) in the manner of an Asthapana enema-injection and this would prove curative in cases of Jaundice, deranged Kapha, alcoholism, lassitude,