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

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Treatment of PIttaJa type:— in the

Pittaja-type of Pdndtyaya, wine mixed with the decoction of the drugs of the Madhura group and saturated and flavoured with the admixture of sugar and scented drugs should be taken, or wine profusely mixed with the expressed juice of sugar-cane should be taken and fully vomited out, a short while thereafter. Meat-juice (Rasa) of Ldva , Ena and Tittira unmixed with any acid, or Mudga soup should be taken with sugar and clarified butter. 17.

Treatment of Kapha ja and TriDoshaja type, etc. In the Kaphaja type of Pdndtyaya, the mucus should be eliminated by taking a potion of wine mixed with the expressed juice or decoction of Vimibi and Vidula (Vetasa). Meat-juice of any fatty Jdngala animal mixed with bitter and and pungent articles as also the Mudga - soup made bitter and pungent should be taken as beneficial to the patient. The diet should consist of preparations of barley, flesh of Jdngala animals and also the Kapha-subduing articles, as well as those calculated as remedial to the present type of Pdndtyaya. The above kinds of medicines and diet should be combinedly applied in the one due to the concerted action of the three Doshas of the body (Tri-Doshaja type), while in the Dvi~Doshaja types, the treatment should be according to the nature of the predominant Doshas. 18 — 19.

Now I shall describe the medicinal compounds which tend to relieve the delirious state of mind and may be employed for the relief of all forms of Pdnityaya in general. The fine powder of Ndga-puskpa , Mdgadkikd , Eld , Madhuka , Dhdnya , Ajdji and Mancha taken in equal parts mixed copiously with the expressed juice of Kapittha i water and Earns /taka should be duly taken

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in all forms of PAnAtyaya after the mixture is strained through a piece of cloth. The body of the patient should be anointed with a paste of Haridrd } Padma , Paripelava , Karavira , Padmaka , drugs of the Sdnvddi group and acquatic flower pasted togather, and clear and cold water should be sprinkled over the body of the patient in a case of MadAtyaya. 20—21.

Panaks : — A Ptfnak prepared with Tvak, Patra, Chocha , Marietta , Eld ) Ndga-pushpa and flowers of S'leshmdtaka ground together into a paste and mixed with treacle and Drdkshd , should be filtered and perfumed and given to a person suffering from an attack of PAnAtyaya. The patient would find relief by the frequent use of a Panaka (draughts) composed of Yashti-madhu , Katurohini \ Drdkshd and Trapusha- roots, or of Kdrpdsaroots, Ndga-vald and Suvarckald (SurjAvarta) all taken in equal parts. 22 — 23.

Treatment of Para-mada A Pafoaka

( cordial ) made of the fruits of Kdshmarya , Daru , Dddinia , Vit, Pippali, Drdkshd pasted together and disolvcd in water and taken in combination with the expressed juice of Vijapuraka , instantly gives relief in discomforts due to an abuse of wine (Para-mada). PAnakas made of sugar, Drdkshd , Madhuka , Jiraka, Dhdnya, Krislind{ Pippali) and Trivrit, or of Souvarchala, the meat-soup (Rasa) of any fatty JAugala animal and Phaldmla should be taken. Cold infusion of Bhdrgi would be found beneficial in sprinkling. 74 — 25.

Treatment of PsfasCjirna Vomiting should be induced with an Anjali measure of milk duly cooked with the admixture of Ikshvdku, Dhdmd !- rgava, Brikshaka and two kinds of Udumvarikd after which the patient should be advised to take wine in the evening in a case of indigestion due to an abuse

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of wine (Pfiinfitjirna). Phaldmla in combination with Tvak, Pippali , Ndga-pushpa , Vid, Hingu , Marietta and Eld, or a compouud consisting of Saindhava ,

Chabya , £ 7 #, Hingu, Pippali, Pippali-roots and S'unthi pounded and desolved in warm water should be taken. The food of the patient should be made palatable with the admixture of Khada-jusha * in the present instance. 27.

Treatment of P^na-vibhrama A

Pdnaka composed of Drdkshd , Kapittha , Phala ( Mdtulunga, etc.) and Dddima sweetened with profuse quantity of sugar and hone)’, as well as the one made with the expressed juice of Kola and Amrdtaka sweetened in the same manner would prove curative in a case of Pafoavibhrama. A compound consisting of Kharjura , Vetra, Karira , Parushaka , Drdkshd and Trivrit pounded together and disolved in cold water should be taken, sweetened with sugar, or the same should be taken in combination with S'ri-parni . In the alternative, the tender sprouts of Kshiri-trees, Visa (Mrindla), Jiraka, Ndgapuslipa , Patra , Elavdlu , Sita-sdrivd , Padmaka , ^4;#- rdtaka, Bhavya., Karamarda, Kapittha, Kola, Vrikshdmla , Fitfra-fruits, Jiraka , Dddima , Yashti-madhu and Utpala, all pounded together and mixed with the cold infusion of such drugs as Marietta , Jiraka, Ndga-pushpa , Tvak, Patra , Vis'va, Chavikd and £ 4 * filtered through a piece of thin linen duly perfumed with the addition of scented drugs would be found curative in the seven types of distempers which have their origin in drinking excesses. 28*

Objects which are pleasing to the five sense-organs of man and gratifying to the mind and heart, as well as an( * others read in place of

* Dailana in his commentatory says that some read in place of

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