An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)
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The mode of application The patient being laid on his back at the time, the fluid extract in both the cases (Tarpana and Puta-pdka) should be dropped cold into the KaninikA (Cornea) of the eye in cases of derangement of the blood and the Pitta ; it should be used lukewarm when the VAyu and the Kapha would be found to have been aggravated. A burning sensation in the affected eye as well as its consequential inflammation would result from the use of too hot (warm) or strong or keen-potencied (Tikshna) extract for the purpose. A thrilling sensation (Harsha), pain and numbness in the locality and lachrymation from the affected organ originate from the use of a cold and mild-pJBâcied Puta-pAka or Tarpana eye-drop. Redness and contraction of the eye attended with a jerking and throbbing sensation therein are the effects of an excessive (over-dose) application of the Puta-pAka and Tarpana, whereas a deficient (under-dose) use of them produces an aggravation of the deranged bodily Doshas in the locality. Properly applied, they alley the burning and itching sensation, swelling, pain, lachrymation and mucous secretion, as well as the (unnatural) coating and redness in the affected eye. As every one is desirous of avoiding the aggravation of Doshas, so the Puta-pAka and Tarpana measures should be applied in such a way as would give health and happiness (to the eye). The evils resulted by a course of injudicious application of Puta-pAka or Tarpana, are to be remedied with the application of errhines (Nasya), Dhuma and Anjana
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remedial to the specific deranged bodily Dosha or Doshas involved in each case. 20.
The affected eye should be fomented before the use of a Puta-pika or a Tarpana measure with a piece of cloth soaked in hot water (and rinsed). Fumigation of the affected organ in the end should be prescribed in a case marked by an aggravation of the deranged Kapha of the locality. 21.
As'Chyotana and Seka Properly prepared and applied, the As'chyotana and Seka measures would respectively subdue cases of slight and violent attacks of the eye. Like the Puta-paka measure these two also are devided into three classes viz. t (Lekhana, Snehana and Ropana). Seven or eight drops of the medicinal fluid should be used in Lekhana-Aschyotana (for the purpose of scraping the affected eye) ; ten drops in the Snehana (for emulsive purposes) and twelve drops in the Ropana Aschyotana ( for the purpose of setting up a granulative process in a local sore or wound). The maximum period for which an (affected) eye should be subjected to the Seka measure is twice as long as is enjoined in respect of a Puta-p^ka measure * or until the disease is gradually and wholly removed/}" Both the Aschyotana and the Seka applications should be made in the morning or evening or at noon (in accord-
* The period for which an affected eye should be subjected to the As'chyotana measure, is not given in the text, but jDallana says that It should be the same as observed in cases of Puta»patk&< Some, however, hold that in cases of both Seka and As'chyotana the period would be twice as that for Puta-pika.
t This rule for subjecting the affected eye to the measure till the disease is gradually and wholly removed is for Seka and As'chyotana only 3 but according to some it is a general rule which applies also to cases of Tula-pika and Tarpana, elc.
gi THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XVIlL ancewith the aggravation of the deranged Doshas),* or whenever there would be pain (in the affected eye), f The symptoms of proper and improper (excessive and deficient) applications of a Sneha (emulsive) Seka are identical with those of Tarpana. 22-23.
£$irO-vaSti : — The serious diseases peculiar to the head readily yeild to and are conquered by the application of Siro-vasti, which also produces the very good effects known as the Murdha-tailika ones peculiar to the use of (emulsive) Siro-vasti. The patient having been treated with purgatives and emetics (according to requirements ) should be given a proper diet according to the nature of the disease, and made to sit erect in the evening, when an animal bladder (the bladder of a goat being usually used for the purpose) filled with the proper Sneha, should be placed on his crown and firmly tied up with a bandage. The Snehafiiled bladder should be so retained on the head ten times as long as is necessary for Tarpana measure, according to the nature of the disease. 24-25.
Anjana S — Proper Anjana for Lekhana (scraping), Ropana (healing), or Prasadana (invigorating) purposes should be applied after the cleansing ( purging, etc.) of the system in cases where the deranged bodily Doshas would manifest themselves in the region of the eye only. 26.
A Lekhana-Anjana should be prepared with the
* The Lekbana-seka and As'chyotana should be applied in the morning in the aggravation of Kapha* while the Snehana one should be applied in the afternoon in the aggravation of Vdytl»— the Ropana ones being applied at noon in the aggravation of Blood and Pitta*
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