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

light wine should be always prescribed in a case of Panrftayaya and the patient should be enlivened with the embrace of handsome and youthful damsels exceedingly attached to the gratification of the senses with splendid hips and thighs with their slender waists drooping under the weight of the exuberance of their breasts. 29.

Potions prepared with powders of Ndga-pushpa , Ajdji, Krishnd and Markka taken in equal parts mixed with sugar, Madhuka and Tri-sugandhi and then disol ved in the expressed juice of Kushmdnda fruits, should be taken. The drugs known as Varshdbhu , Yashtydhva , Madhuka , Ldkshd , Tvak, tender sprouts of Karvudara, Jiraka , Drdkshd , Krishnd and Kes'ara should be given mixed with tepid milk. 30—31.

A person afflicted with diseases due to the excess of SurA, Asava, etc. should be treated with the same wines (Surd, Asava, etc.) duly administered otherwise he will be ruined, in the same manner as a person who has incurred the king’s displeasure, should be saved by courting the royal favour. An inveterate drunkard giving up his habit of drinking is afflicted with the symptoms of Pândtyaya if he suddenly revert to his former pernicious habit. 32 — 33.

The Agneya and Vdyaviya virtues of wine tend to produce a dryness in the water carrying channels of the body, hence thirst is experienced by a drunkard person. A cold infusion of Patola , flowers and bulbs oi'Utpala, and Mudga-parni mixed with Mdgadhika 9 should be taken under the circumstances (reactionary thirst), or oil, clarifiied butter, Vas£ (lard) and marrow (D. R. — milk) should be duly cooked with curd (four times), expressed juice of Bhringa-raja (four times), and the decoction of Vilva and Yava (four times) with the Kalkas of the drugs known as the Sarva-gandhd should b$

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applied as an Abhyanga. The body should be sprinkled (Seka) with the cold decoction*. Palatable foods and cold, pleasing and scented cordials should be prescribed according to the nature and intensity of the deranged bodily Doshas underlying the disease, 34 -35,

The heat generated by drinking being aggravated by bodily Pitta and blood of an intoxicated person, escapes through the surface of the skin and causes a feeling of intense burning (DaCha) which should be remedied with measures and therapeutic agents prescribed in connection with the aggravation of Pitta. 36.

Remedies for DsCha S— Now I shall describe the cooling measures which should be employed for alleviating the burning sensation (Diha) in the case of a rich patient. The body of such a patient under the circumstances should be smeared at the outest with Chandana v white sandal wood) pastes made cooler by the contact of cold beams of the moon, pearl-necklaces and the water produced from melted ice. Pie should be laid down in a bed of full-blown lotus flowers sparkling with dew drops or of lotus-leaves sprinkled with spray of translucent water, and youthful damsels decked with necklace and bangles of lotus-stems cooler even than cold water, should be asked to touch him. Pic should try to alleviate the burning feeling by strolling on the banks of a tank in a garden in the soft, cool and sweet breeze bearing on its wings the soft perfume of Kalhdra (red) lotus and water-moss dancing in the f * adjoining tank. Water cooled and changed with UJira , Vdlaka and (white) sandal paste should be sprinkled over his body, or he should be made to sport in a cleansed tank filled with freshly collected water em-

* Decoction of the drugs of Madhura-gana and of the drugs of cold virtues.

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balmcd with full-blown red and blue lotus-flowers and scents (e. g, sandal pastes) after being smeared with vandal paste and with the hairs of his body standing on their roots with the magnetic touch of beloved female hands. Here he should take his bath with young, gay and beautiful damsels skilful in aquatic sports refreshing him with the lotus-like touch of their cold hands, thighs and mouth and hard (ie., full-grown) breasts and with their sweet words. 37-A.