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

in a case marked by watery and copious motions. Powdered Haritaki and Pippali with tepid water should be administered for purgative purposes in a case marked by scanty emissions of stool at times attended with pain and colic (Srnla). Fasting is the first remedy to be prescribed in cases of Ama (acute) Atisâra, or in the alternative, digestive remedies should be prescribed. The recipes of digestive medicinal compounds which are curative in the disease under discussion (Amdtisâra) are described below. 18 — 19.

Twenty different Recipes for AmatiSara : — (i) Deva-ddru , Vacha , Musta , N cigar a, Ativishd and Abhayd ; or of (2) Kalinga ( Indra-yava ), Ativishd , Hingu , Saiivarchala- salt, Vac/id and Abhayd , or of (3) Abhayd (D. R.-Nagara), Dhanydka , Musta , Vdlaka and Vilva ; or of (4) Musta , Parpataka , S'unthi, Vacha , Ativishd and Abhayd ; or of (5) Abhayd , Ativishd , Hingu, Vacha , and Sauvarchala-saih ; or of (6) Chitraka , Pippali - Vacha, Katuka-rohini, or of (7) Pdthd , Vatsaka - seeds (Indra-yava), Haritaki and Mahaushadha (Sunthi), or of (8) Murvd , Nirdahani \ (Chitraka), Pdthd, Tryushana ( Trirkatn ) and Gaja-pippali ; or of (9) Siddhdrthaka , Bhadra-ddru, S'atdhvd and Katu-rohini ; or of (id) Eld, Sdvaraka (Lodhra), Kushtha, the two sorts of Haridrd, Kutaja - seeds (Indra-yava); or of (11) Mesha-s’ringi, Tvak , Eld, Krimighna (Vidanga) and Vrikshaka (Indra-yava) ; or of (12) Brikshddani, Virataru, the two kinds of Vrihati and the two kinds of (Mudga-parni and.

Mâsha-parni) ; or of (13) barks of Aranda, Tinduka, Dddima, Kutaja and of S' ami \ or of (14) Pdthd, Tejcvati, Musta, Pippali and Indra-yava ; or of (15) Patola, Dipyaka (Yamdni), FY/z'#, the two kinds of Haridrd and Deva-ddru ; or of (16) Vidanga , Abhayd , Pdthd, Snngaveta , Ghana (Musta) and Vacha ; or of (17) Vacha,

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Vatsaka - seeds (Indra-yava), Saindkava and Katu-rohini ; or of (i8) Hingu , Vatsaka- seeds (Indra-yava), Vacka and dried green Vilva; or of (19) Ndgara , Ativishd, Musii , the two kinds of Pippali and Fa^tf/fo-seeds (Indra-yava) ; or of (20) Mahaushadha , Prati-vishd and Mustd , — these are the Twenty different recipes of the remedies which are digestive (of the mucous accumulations) in cases of Ama-AtisAra and should be administered (in the shape of powder) with Dhdnydmla (KAnjika), tepid water or wine, or their decoctions in luke-warm state should be used. This is a detailed list of the best remedies in cases of Ama~Atiss(ra. 20.

A compound of Haritaki , - Ativishd , Hingu, Sauvatchala and Vachd should be taken with tepid water in cases of Ama-AtisAras. Similarly a compound of Patola , Yamdni \ Vis'va , Vachd, Pippali, Ndgara , Musta , Vidanga , and Kushtha , or that of S'unthi and Guduchi should be taken with tepid water. 21-23.

The five following compounds separately composed (l) of all kinds of officinal salt, Pippali \ Vidanga and Haritaki ; or of (2) C hit r aka, S'imsapd , Pdthd , S'dmgashtd , and all kinds of officinal salt ; or of (3) Hingu , Fri^A^^seeds (Indra-yava) and all kinds of officinal salt taken in equal parts ; or (4) of Ndga-danti and Pippali , weighing two TolAs ; or (5) of and

Gto^fAi-stems, would be found beneficial, if taken with tepid water. Twenty Musta , should be boiled in a quantity of milk and thrice as much water. The milk which is left back after all the water is evaporated by boiling, should be used for the relief of the griping (Slula) due to the accumulation of mucus (Ama) in the intestines. 24-25.

Clarified butter mixed with SaindhavasoXt and Yava-kskdra should be given to a patient of weak

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2tp digestive power in a case in which the Viyu Râs not been restored to its normal condition in "spite of the subsidence of the intestinal Sula (griping) and which is marked by scanty (but repeated) motions passed with pain. The Ghrita duly cooked with Ndgara, Chdngeri and Kola (Vadara) and with milk*, curd (Dadhi) and Amla (Kdnjika), or simply the transparent part of clarified butter should be taken as a relief for Atisdra attended with Smia (pain). In the alternative, clarified butter mixed with (an equal quantity of) oil and duly cooked with curd, together with a paste of Tri-katu> Jdti (flower) and Chitraka , or with that of Pippali-mula, Vilva y Dddima-bark and Kushtha should be given. All these are the remedies to be employed in a type of Atisdra due to the action of Vata or of Sleshma ; and all the foregoing remedies with the exception of those of keen and heat-making potency, may be used in the Pittaja type of the disease. 26 — 27.