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

Pathyd should be employed as an errhine after the manner of Avapida-Nasya in the event of the blood passing through the nostrils. In case of excessive haemorrhage (in the disease) the patient should drink blood in combination with honey, or eat a goafs raw liver with the bile. 17.

Clarified butter duly cooked with the admixture of an adequate quantity of the expressed juice of (the bark of) Palds § a trees should be taken, when cool, in combination with honey, or clarified butter prepared by churning the milk duly cooked with* /the expressed juice of (the bark of) the Vanaspati-trees (Vata, etc.) should be used with sugar. A Pala weight of each of Drdkshdy Us* ira y Padmaka and sugar should be kept immersed in cold water during the (whole) night This cold infusion would cure a case of Rakta-pitta. A

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draught of milk with an equal quantity of water is also re:ommended for a patient comforming to a proper regimen of diet and conduct. 18.

The watery secretion of the dung of a horse or a bull should be taken with honey and sugar. In the alternative, powders of the seeds of Vdstuka or (of the roots, of Tanduliyaka- plants should be licked with honey. A lambative formed of Lâja (parched paddy) and Anjana * mixed with honey, or powdered Tugd-kshiri mixed with honey and sugar should be licked. A patient suffering from an attack of Rakta-pitta should take a compound of Drdkshd , Tikta-rohini , Yashti-madhu and sugar with cold water, or lick a compound of pulverised Pathyd , Ahinsrd and Rajani with clarified butter, ir.

The compound of (blue), Utpala Sourdshtra mrithikd (red earth), Priyangu , Lodhara , polcns of lotus and sugar mixed together and taken with honey and a decoction of Vdsaka would speedily stop the emission in a virulant type of Rakta-pitta. Similarly a compound consisting of flowers of Khadira , Jambu , Arjuna , (red) Koviddra , S' iris ha , Lodhra , A sana, S'dlmali and S'igru , pounded together and mixed with honey should be licked by the patient in a case of Rakta-pitta. 20—21.

The alkaline water prepared with the ashes of lndivara and taken with honey, powdered Karanja-seeds taken with honey and clarified butter and the decoction of Jambu , Arjuna and Amra— these three compounds prove curative in cases of Rakta-pitta. A paste made of the roots and flowers of Mdtulunga should also be taken with the washings of rice. 22 — 23.

* Kildnjana is a variant, in place of L^ja and Anjana. For KdUnjana Dallana reads Souvirdnjana. This should be the proper reading because there is a word in the receipe which shows that there will be only one thing and not two.

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A solution of milk or water saturated with sugar should be applied into the nostrils in the event of bleeding from the nose. The expressed juice of grapes, clarified butter prepared by churning milk or the expressed juice of sugar-cane should be taken cold (through the nostrils) in combination with sugar *. All cooling measures and sweet-drugs should be employed in the present disease 24 — 25.

Asthapana and Anuvdsna The application of an Asthapana-Vasti charged with milk duly cooked with the drugs of the Viddri-gandhddi group and mixed with honey, clarified butter, sugar and Drdkshd , proves extremely efficacious in the disease under discussion. The application of an AnuvâsnaVasti charged with clarified butter * would be attendded with equal benefit. The drugs known as Priyangn, Lodhra , Souvirdnjana, Gairika , Utpala , Suvarna - gairika , Kdliyaka , conch-shell, Chandana, sugar, Asvagandhd, Ambuda , Yashti-madhu , Mrindla and Sougan - dhika , taken in equal parts, should be pounded together and mixed with copious quantities of milk, honey and clarified butter. This solution should be injected into the rectum after the manner of Nirudha-Vasti. The patient should be sprinkled with cold water and given his diet with milk after which clarified butter duly cooked with Yashti-madhu should be injected into the rectum of the patient after the manner of AnuvSsana-Vasti. This measure proves extremely beneficial in cases of down-coursing Rakta-pitta and violent types of bloocfdysentery. In the case of an excessive discharge of

* S'rikantha Datla, the commentator of Vrinda, would mix sugar with the juice of sugar-cane only and not with the other two. All these should be applied into the nostrils.

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blood, if the patient be strong enough, vomiting should be induced after the cessation of the blood-discharge. 26-27.