An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)
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Treatment of Ananta-vaCta Cases of Ananta-vâta Snroroga should be treated like those of Suryavarta. Moreover blood-letting should be effected (by opening a local vein) and the diet should be such as to subdue the Vdyu and the Pitta and should cossist of Madhu-Mastaka, Sangydsa ;.nd Ghrita-pura (different kinds of confectionery made of wheat, sugar, milk, clarified butter, etc.). 15.
Treatment of Ssamkhaka Clarified
butter churned from milk should be given for a drink and used as an errhine in a case of Samkhaka and the diet should consist of (boiled rice mixed with) clarified butter and the essence of the meat of jdngala animals. Plasters composed of S'atdvari , black sesamum , Y ashti-madhu , Nilotpala , Durvd and Punarnavd pasted together, or of Mahd-sugandhd (Utpla-asAriv£) or Pdlindi pasted with Kdnjika should be applied to the affected locality. Cooling washes and plasters as well as different Avapida Nasyas prescribed in cases of Suryâvarta should also be prescribed for this disease (Samkhaka). 16.
Strong head-purgatives (errhines) composed of oil and honey should be first administered in cases of Siroroga with the exception of the Krimija and the Kshayaja types. Then the patient should be made to snuff in drops of mustard oil. In cases where the preceding remedies would fail to produce any relief, the patient should be treated with Sneha and Sveda, and bleeding should then be effected by opening a local vein. 17-18.
The Conclusion \ — The causes, symptortis and the therapeutics of the seventy-six kinds of ocular affection, of the twenty-eight kinds of the disease of the ear, of the thirty-one kinds of nasal disease, of the eleven kinds of the disease of the head as well as
$40 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITX. [Chap. XXVI of the sixty-seven (sixty-five) kinds of the affection of the mouth have been described in detail in other treatises (e.g. those of Videha, etc. dealing with this special subject — the diseases of the over-clavicular region). The number, symptoms and therapeutics of these diseases of the over-clavicular region are herein briefly described in accordance therewith. 19.
Thus ends the twenty-sixth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Sus'iuta SamhiU which deals with the treatment of the diseases of the head.
Here ends the £dldkya Tantra (Surgery Minor).
CHAPTEB XXVII.
Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the specific features (of the nine diseases of infant life, which are attributed to the influences) of the nine malignant Grahas (Nava-Grahakrlti -Vijtlrfnam). i.
Different Names Attentively hear me describe, Susruta, the origin, cause and medical treatment of the diseases of infancy which are due to the influences of malignant stars (Graha) or demons as well as the characteristic symptoms by which each can be accurately diagonosed. The diseases number nine in all and are called Skanda-Graha, Skandapasmâra, Sakuni, Revati, PutanA, Andha-PutanA, Sita-PutanA, Mukharnandika and Naigamesha or Pitri-Graha. 2-3.
General course of attack These malignant stars (Graha) or demons affect the person of a child in the cases where the directions laid down before (in the SArira-sthAna) in respect of the conduct of the mother or the nurse during the time the child is broughtup on the breast are not followed, and consequently where proper benedictory rites arc not performed and the child is allowed to remain in an uncleanly state, or where the child becoming anyhow uneasy gets frightened, is rebuked, or begins to cry. They (demons) make their appearance for the purpose of getting proper respect and worship. They being omnipotent and omnipresent arc not capable of being seen by man when they enter the person of a child. I should, therefore, discourse on the symptoms of their presence, as derived from the authority of the sages of yore, 4.
42 THE SUSI 1 RUTA SAM HIT A. [Chap. XXVIISymptoms of attack by Skandagraha and Skanda'pasm^ra-graha
Swelling of the eyes and distorted features of the face and an aversion to the breast-milk arc the indications of an attack by the Skanda-graha. The body of the chiid emits a bloody smell and one of the eyelids becomes fixed or motionless. The child looks frightened, closes his fists (as in a fit of convulsion) and moans a little. The eyes become highly rolling and the stool becomes hard and constipated. Alternate fits of fainting and consciousness, convulsive jerks of legs and hands like those in dancing, foaming (at the mouth), yawning and the passing of stool and urine with the passage of w ind are the characteristic features of an attack by the SkandsCpasms(ra-graba. 5-6.
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