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

Chap. XtL]

UTTARA-TANTRA.

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to a fine paste with the addition of honey and clarified butter skimmed out of the milk of a she-goat, or of sugar, As'vagandhd and Pippali pounded together and made into a fine paste with the addition of honey and * clarified butter. Milk duly cooked with the admixture of As'vagandhd may be prescribed as a constructive tonic. Butter skimmed out of the preceding preparation of milk and mixed with copious quantity of sugar should be taken, as an alternative, every morning and this should be then followed by a draught of milk. 24.

As'vagandhd , Punarnavd and Yava should be used in rubbing (Utsâdana) the body of the patient Clarified butter duly cooked with (the decoction of) the whole of a Vdsaka tree (viz., its roots, leaves, branches and barks) and with its flower (as Kalka) and mixed with an adequate quantity of honey* should be taken by a consumptive patient strictly conforming to the regimen of diet. Thus a virulent attack of Phthisis accompanied with cough, asthma and chlorosis would be speedily conquered. 25-26.

A wise physician should take equal parts of clarified butter, milk, decoctions of Murvd , Haridrd and of Khadira and the expressed liquid of the dungs of a cow, a horse, an elephant, a she-goat and a ewe. Ten equal parts of the above ten articles should be duly boiled and cooked together with the Kalka of powdered Tri-kiitu , Tri-phald , Devaddru and the drugs of the sweet (Kdkoiy£di) group. This medicated clarified butter would be found highly beneficial in the cure of Phthisis (Yakshmd). 27.

Six Pâtra measures of the duly prepared decoction of Das a-mula x Vatuna , Karanja', K hall dt aka, Vilva , the' two

* This preparation is also found in the Charaka Samhitd though in different language under the treatment of Rakta-pitta#

244 THJE SljstiRUTA SAMtilT^. tdiap. XLt kinds of Punarnavd , Yava, Kulattha , Badara , Bhirgi , Pdthd, Chitraka and Mahi-Kadatnba should be cooked with a Pitra measure of clarified butter and with (the Kalka of) Vyosha (Tri-katu), the milk of Mahd-vriksha (Snuhi), Abhayd, Chavya , Devaddru and Saindhava salt (D. R. Pippali). The medicated clarified butter thus prepared proves efficacious in cases of Phthisis, Ascites and Vâtaja-Prameha. Clarified butter duly cooked with the milk, blood, meat-essence and the expressed liquid of the dungs of a cow, a mare, a ewe, a she-goat, a cowelephant, a hind, a she-ass and a she-camel and with the Kalka of Drdkshd , Asvagandhi , Magadhd and sugar proves extremely beneficial in cases of Phthisis. 28-29.

Eladi-mantha A Praslha measure of clarified butter should be duly cooked with the decoction of Eld> Ajamodd, Amalaka , Abhayd , Aksha , Gayatri, Arishta , As ana, S'dlasdra , Vidanga , Bkalldtaka, Chitraka , Ugrd *, Tri-katu , Ambhoda and Surdshtraja-zâx\h. When duly cooked it should be taken down from the oven and thirty Pala weight of candied sugar, six-Pala-weight of Tuga-kshira (Vamsa-Iochana) and two-Prasthameasure of honey should be added to it and stirred with a laddie. A Pala weight of this preparation followed by a draught of milk should be given to be licked every morning to a Phthisical patient. The present elixir is possessed of ambrosial sanctity. The extent of its therapeutic application embraces such diseases of the body as Phthisis, chlorosis, fistula-inano, asthma, loss of voice, cough, troubles of the heart, enlarged spleen, Gulma and chronic diarrhea or indigestion. It imparts longevity to a person using it, leads to the expansion of his intellectual faculties and

*Chakrad*tfe does sot read Ugii is the list*

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24 § tends to invigorate his eye-sight. It is the best of all rejuvenating preparations cf our pharmacopea and no strict regimen of diet and conduct is required to be followed while it is used. 30.