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

with any sort of pain or complication should be remedied with medicines prepared in the maner of Ptttaprfka preparation (described below). The barks of Dirgha-vrinta ( S'yondkd ), and polens of lotus should be pasted together and wrapped up in leaves of Kds'mari or of Padma (lotus) with their ends tied w|th string or thread (D. R.— Kusa). The cover should be then coated with a plaster of clay and duly scorched in the fire of (smokeless) charcoal (of Khadira). When well cooked, it should be taken out and the juice, squeezed out of its contents. This juice should be cooled and administered in combination with honey in a case of Atisira. Similar preparations of the drugs known as Jivanti and Mesha-s'ringi , etc., may also be used in the same way. The skin of a Tittira bird should be peeled off and a paste of the drugs of the Nyagrodhddi group should be stuffed into its belly after it has been previously drawn. After this it should be duly stitched up and cooked (scorched) in the fire in the above manner. The juice should then be squeezed out therefrom and administered, when cool, with the admixture of honey and sugar in a case of Atisira. The drugs known as Lodhra , Chandana, Yashtumad/iUy Ddrvi, Pdthd, Sitd (sugar), Utpala and the barks of Dirgha-vrinta pasted together with the washings of rice should be duly scorched in the fire in the above manner (of a Puta-pika). The juice pressed out of its contents and taken with honey, when cold, proves curative in cases of Atisira due to the action of the deranged Pitta and Kapha. Simitar preparations may be made of the aerial roots of Vata> etc and may be advantageously prescribed with the soup of the flesh of any Jângaia bird (such as Tittira, Kapinjala, etc ,). 43-47.

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The Kutaja-bbtk taken with treacle would cure perforce the long-standing cases of Atisdra attended with blood and marked by the diminished action of the bodily Vdyu but a predominant action of the deranged Kapha. The drugs of the Ambashtddi group as well as those of the Pippalyddi group taken with honey would be similarly beneficial. 48-49

A Peytf duly prepared with the admixture of Pris'ni - parni, Bald , Vilva (D. R. Vis'va\ Bdlaka , Utpala, Dhanydka and Ndgara , should be taken by a patient suffering from Atisdra. A case of Pakvdtisdra would yietd to the curative efficacy of a light medicinal gruel ( Yavdgu) duly prepared with the admixture of the paste of S'yottd/ca-bâxky Priyangu , Y ashti-madhn , and tender sprouts of Dddima pasted together with curd. A case of Atisdra attended with blood and colic (Sula) would te readily cured by the use of Rasdnjana , Ativishd , Dhdtakiy Ndgara and the bark and seeds of Kutaja taken with honey and the washings of rice. 50 — 52.

Yashti-madhu , (dried) green Vilva-fruit mixed with honey and sugar, or particles of S'dli and Shashtika rice (administered with the same drugs) would prove curative in a case of Atisdra. Badari-xoots pasted with honey should be given to be licked with the same result Barks of Badari y Arjuna ) Jambu , Antra , S 9 allaki and Vetasa taken with honey and sugar would cure a case of Atisdra. Gruels (Yavdgu), MandaS (thick gruel squeezed through a piece of linen) and Yusha (soup) may also be duly prepared with the admixture of ^hese drugs, and in a case marked by excessive thirst, the water for drinking should be prepared by duly boiling these drugs. The cold infusion of * S'dlmali-stems kept in the open powdeys of S'dlmâli stem should be kept immersed for whole

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space for a whole night, may be given good with good results as a drink in combination with Yasthi-madhu and honey. 53 — 54.

Use of Milk in Atlsrfra ■ — Milk should be given in a case of Atisâra marked by the suppression of stool and Viyu and attended with griping (Sula), constant scanty motions, symptoms of Rakta-pitta and thirst Milk is ambrosia itself in such a case of Atisdra (Dysentery), and in long-standing cases the milk to be taken should be duly boiled with thrice as much water. This would remove the remnant, if any, of the Dosha involved and is, therefore, considered as the best remedy in such cases. Oily purgatives and application of Pichchila-Vasti (slimy intestinal injections) as well as the medicated Ghrita duly prepared with the expressed juice of the barks of slimy trees, c. g., S'yond , S'dUnali, etc., are beneficial under the circumstances (in chronic or longstanding cases). 56.

Draughts of clarified butter duly prepared with the tender sprouts of the Kshiri trees and mixed with honey and sugar (as an after-throw) should be taken in a case of Atisdra marked with a discharge of blood before or after the passing of the stool and with a cutting pain (in the region of the anus). Draughts of medicated clarified butter duly prepared with the barks of Devaddru, and with Pippali , S’unthi ’, Ldkslid , Indr ayava ) and Bhadra-rohini (Katukdj administered through the medium of any kind of Peyd , would prove highly efficacious in a case of Tri-doshaja Atisdra of severe type. 57 - 58 .

night in an equal quantity of water. In the morning the water should be passed through a piece of linen. Four-Pala-weight of this water mixed with a Karsba weight of iYashti*madhu and honey should be taken.

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