An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)

Vibhitaka , Mandura (iron-rust), Ndgara and Til a should be pounded together and made into a paste with the addition of a profuse quantity of treacle. Pills prcpaied from this compound should be administered through the medium of Takra whereby a violent attack of jaundice would be defeated. Pills of the KalAya weight of each of Sauvarckala , Hingu and Kirdta-tikta pasted together, should be taken with tepid water. As an alternative, a lambative compound of Murvd , Haridrd and Amalaka pounded together and alternately dried and soaked in cow’s urine for a week, should be given to be licked by the patient. 21-22.

A patient suffering from Pandu-roga should observe a proper regimen of diet and take two-TolA-w eight of the compound of the powders of Vald and Chitraka (with cow’s urine or tepid water). The compound of Soindfmva salt and powdered S'z^rw-seeds taken in equal

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parts should be taken with tepid water, followed by a meal of cooked rice with milk. The decoction of the drugs of the Nyagrodhddi group should be taken, when cold, with honey and sugar followed by a proper regimen of diet. Powders of the drugs included within the S'dla* sdrddi group or of Amalaka should be formed into a lambative with the addition of honey and given to be licked by the patient. 23-26.

The pulverised compound of Vidanga , Musta , Triphald , Ajamodd , Parushaka , Vyosha and Chitraka as well as clarified butter, honey, sugar and treacle should be dhly cooked in the decoction of the drugs of the S^dla-sdrddi group till reduced to the consistency of a lambative. It should then be taken down and preserved inside a covered vessel prepared of Mokshaka (Mushkaka). This lambative proves curative in cases of PAndu attended l with a general edema as well as in cases of the violent types of KdmalA. 27.

Treatment of Kâmala, etc \—Tiibhandi

(Trivrit) taken with sugar as well as Gavdkshi or S’unthi taken with treacle, is beneficial to a patient suffering from an attack of Kdmald. Clarified butter duly cooked with Kdleya - wood and mixed with turmeric as an after-throw is also efficacious. In the alternative the patient should take Srotdnjana and S'ildjatu with cow’s urine in a case of Kumbha-Ksfmalrf. Manduia (rust of iron) kept immerged in cow’s urine should be likewise taken with Saindhava - salt continually for a month. Mandura should be burnt in the fire of Vibhitaka - wood and cooled with cow’s urine. The process should be repeated eight times in succession. The iron-rust thus tempered should be subsequently reduced to powders. Licked with honey it would act as a speedy cure in cases of Kumbha-Kdmald. 28-30.

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Stundhava - salt once made red-hot by heating (in the fire of Vibhitaka- wood) should be cooled in cow’s urine. Iron-rust (Mandura) should be successively heated in fire and cooled with cow’s urine as directed above, the process being repeated many times. The two substances (Saindhava and iron-rust) thus prepared, (taken in equal parts) and made into a paste with (five times of) cow’s urine, should be cooked on an oven, care being taken to guard against their ignition. When dried, the compound should be reduced to powder and taken with Udasvit (a kind of Takra). The medicine acts as a good appetiser and proves curative in cases of PAndu. The patient using it should ^take his diet with Takra after the assimilation of the medicine. Clarified butter duly cooked with the expressed juice of Drdkshd y Guduchi and Amalaki proves curative in cases of Ltfgharaka. 31.

Articles Of Diet : —Arishtas and Asavas prepared with treacle or with honey or with sugar or with cow’s urine or with Kshara (alkali) as well as the essence of meat of any JAngala animal saturated with clarified butter and mixed with the expressed juice of Amalaka or of Kola should be prescribed and meals of cooked barley grains or of S'dli rice and the preparations prescribed in cases of swelling (Sopha) should be daily taken by a patient suffering from an attack of PAndu-roga. 32.

Treatment of supervening Symptoms S — The supervening symptoms such as difficulty of breathing, diarrhoea, aversion to food, cough, epileptic fits, thirst, vomiting, colic pain, fever, swelling (Sopha), burning sensation in the body, indigestion, hoarseness, lassitude, etc. should be remedied on the principles laid down in the S>Astras with due regard to the nature and

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