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

spit blood with the progress of the disease. The patient feels an excessive pain in the throat and his Uras (chest) seems to be broken and pricked into with sharp needles, and cannot bear the least touch on account of the pressure of an intolerable aching pain (Sula) in the locality. Breaking pain in the joints, fever, asthma, thirst, and loss of voice arc the symptoms which mark the Kshataja type of the disease and the patient lies moaning like a pigeon, io.

Kshayaya- KâSa — The fire of digestion in a person who is addicted to the habit of taking unwholesome and incongenial food or of taking it at improper time and quantity or who is given to sexual excesses or who indulges in grief or disgust or abhorrence (of food) in his mind, or who voluntarily represses any natural urging of his body, becomes affected and diminished. It (thereby) aggravates all the three DoShas of the body, which, in their turn, give rise to a type of cough attended with a gradual emaciation of the body. The disease is called Kshayaja Kisa. Cramps in the limbs, fever, burning sensation in the body, fainting fits (Moha), loss of strength (Prdna) and of flesh, emaciation of the body, spitting blood streaked with pus, and weakness are the symptoms of this type of Kdsa known as Kshayaja KAsa. It is said by medical experts to be due to the concerted action of all the three Doshas and to be included within the category of diseases which are very hard to be cured. A case of cough (in an old man) due to his declining years is only susceptible of palliation. II— 12.

General Treatment : — A compound consisting of £> \nngi y Vachd, Kat-phala, Ka-trina y Musta, PJtanyAka , AbhayA , Bhdrgi y Deva-ddm y Vis'wa and

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Hingu taken in hot water would rapidly cure a case of long-standing cough. A lambative composed of the equal quantity of Tri-phald , Vj’osha, Vidanga , S'ringi, Rdsna' > Vacha\ Padmaka and Deva'-ddru pounded together and mixed with a copious quantity of honey, sugar and clarified butter, would speedily conquer a serious attack of cough. 13 -14.

A patient afflicted with cough should use a lambative composed of Pathyd , sugar, Amalaka , fried paddy, Mdgadhiy and S'unthi pounded together and mixed with honey and clarified butter, or take Krishnd and Saindhava salt with warm water. He should use Ndgara and Pippali in combination with treacle, or use a lambative of the paste of Drdkshd mixed with honey and clarified butter. A compound composed of the equal parts of Drdkshd , sugar and M dgadhikd, or of S'ringavera , Yashthnadhu , and Tugd (Vams'a-lochana) should be licked with honey and clarified butter ; or a compound consisting of S'itopala (sugar) and an equal quantity of Markka should be licked with honey and clarified butter. A compound consisting of Dhdtri ’, Kand , Vis’va and S'itopala (sugar) should be taken with curd-cream (Dadhi-manda). A person suffering from an attack of cough should use Harenukd and Mdgadhikd taken in equal parts and pounded together through the medium of curd. The two kinds of Haridrd , Deva-ddru, S'unthi and the pith of a Gdyatri- tree pounded and mixed in equal k parts, should be taken with the urine of a goat, or a pulverised compound consisting of Danti, Dravanti and Tilvaka should be taken. Leaves of Vadara pasted with Saindhava salt and fried in clarified butter should be taken ; or a Kola (two tolas) weight of Hingu should be taken with fermented rice-boilings (Souviraka) or with the juice of acid fruit.

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Powdered Maricha should be likewise licked with honey. 15.

Inhalation of Dhuma The patient should be made to inhale the smoke of a burning Varti (medicinal stick) composed of Bhdrgi, Vachd and Hingu, pounded together and mixed with clarified butter, or of the scrapings of (green) bamboo,* Eld and Lavana mixed with clarified butter. Similarly, a patient suffering from an attack of cough due to Vita and Kapha should inhale the smoke of a Varti prepared with Musta, bark of Ingudi, Yashti-madhu , Mdtisi, Manah-s’ild and Haritdla pasted together with goat’s urine and then take a draught of milk. 16.

In the alternative, Sidhu (a kind of wine) should be taken in combination with Maricha, whereby a fit of cough would be instantaneously subdued. Milk duly boiled and cooked with the admixture of Drâkshd, Ambu (Vdlaka), Manjishthd and Buraf should be taken with honey. Well-boiled Mudga pulse should be taken with powdered Kanta-Kdrikd , Nagara and pippali mixed with honeyj. Utkardka (a kind of confection) prepared with clarified butter, Mula §, Truti (Eld), leaves of Vadara and a copious quantity of powdered Ndgara should be used. A thin Peyd prepared with the preceding drugs may be taken cold in' combination with honey. 17 — 19.

Treatment of Vaftaja Kasa The medicated clarified butter mentioned in connection with the t Pura means S'allaki (gum) or Guggulu.-Dallana. t Dallana reads WJrfariRl^ as a variant and explains that the powders of Tri-katu should be added in a large quantity in place of honey.

* Dalian* explains as (leaves of bamboo),

|r By the term some mean (raddish*. while others take it to mean the drugs of the Pancha-mula -group.

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