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

A pulverised compound consisting of Prithvikd , A jdji, Chavikd , Yavdni , Vyosha , Chitraka , Pippali \ Pippala-miila and Saindhava pounded together should be taken with milk or Kdnibalika or Madhvdsava (wine of honey) or Chukra or Surd (wine) or with Sauviraka (fermented rice-boilings) as alternatives. The above pulverised compound should be soaked in the expressed juice of Matulunga and with the decoction of Badara several times after the manner of Bhavand saturation, and the compound should be taken with a profuse quantity of Hingu , and with sugar. A Varti made of the same powders and pulverised (pith of) Dddima w'oocl mixed together should be lteked with treacle or honey or taken with wine in cases of Vataja Sula as giving an instantaneous relief. 53.

In a case of Sula due to hunger, light and sparing diet should be given with lukewarm milk, Yavdgu or meat-soup charged with clarified butter. Emulsive diet should be given in a case of Vataja Sula to a patient of dry or parched organism, use of well seasoned Ghrita-puras being specially recommended. The patient should also take Vâruni wine wherefrom he will get relief. $4 — 55- *

Treatment of Pittaja £ula : — The treatment of VAtaja Sula has been described above. Now I shall narrate the therapeutic agents and remedies in

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respect of IHttaja-Sala. A person afflicted with an attack of the present type of the disease, should be made to vomit without any violent effort by drinking (a stomachful of) cold water. He should have recourse to cooling measures and avoid all heat-making ones. Vessels of copper, silver, or precious stones and cooling gems and filled up to the brim with water, should be placed upoq the seat of affection (Sula) in his body. Treacle, barley, S'a'li rice, milk, (draughts of, clarified butter, purgatives, the flesh of any Jângala animals— these should be prescribed in cases ofTittaja Sula. All Pitta-generating articles should be avoided and those which soothe the Pitta should be used. The soup of the meat of JAngala animals may be taken with sugar as an alternative. Parushaka, grapes, dates and aquatic fruits such as S'ringa'taka , etc., should also be taken with sugar as they tend to relieve Pittaja Sfula. 56.

Treatment of Kaphaja S$ula s— a fit of J>ula due to the action of the deranged Kapha is aggravated just after eating. Vomiting should be induced in such a case with draughts of the decoction of Pippali * Dry fomentations and other heating measures * should be likewise resorted to and the patient should be made to take Pippali and S'unthi *(in any shapjp) in cases of Kaphaja Sula. Pdthd , Vachd , Tri-katu % and Katuka-rohini should be used with the decoction of Chitraka y or the soup (of any S>ula-subduing article) should be taken with an equal part of Arjaka. 57-58.

Seeds and roots of Etanda , Gokshura- roots, S'dlaparni , Pri$'ni-pami y Brihati \ Kantakdri \ S' rigdla-vinnd (a killd of Prisni-parni), Sahadevd, Mahdsahd (Mishapami),

* Some commentators, according to Dallana, take (I*ippali to mean seeds of Madana-phala.

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Kshudra-sahA (Mudga-parni) and Ikshuraka-roots should be duly boiled with a Drona measure (sixty-four seers) of water and should be boiled till reduced to a quarter part. This decoction should be used with the admixture of Yava-kslidra *. By this compound attacks of VAtaja, Pittaja, Kaphaja and Tri-doshaja types of Jsula would be thrown off just as the floating clouds are shattered and driven by the wind. Pippali> Yava , Chitraka , Us'ira and Sarjikd-kskdra should be burnt together and reduced to ashes. Taken with tepid water, this compound proves curative in an attack of Kaphaja Sula. 59-60.

Symptoms of Pars'va-£>ula The deranged Kapha in the regions of the PArsva (sides) arrests the course of local Vâyu which thus irritated causes an immediate distention of the abdomen and a rumbling in the intestines. A pricking pain is felt in the affected part, which seems as if being pierced with needles, and the patient complains of insomnia and has nc relish for food and his respiration becomes painful and difficult. The disease is named Ptfrwa-Sala (sidecolic) and is brought on by the action of the deranged Vdyu and Kapha. 61.

Treatment of Peirs'va-^ula : — A pulverised compound of Pushkara- roots, Hingu , Sauvar - chala , Vit-salt \ Saindhava , Tumburu and Pathyd should be taken with a decoction of barley in a case of (colic) pain at the sides, at the region of the heart and at the region of the bladder. The medicated Ghrita mentioned in connection with abdominal dropsy due to the en-

* The total weight of the drugs should be 8 seers, according to Dallana. According to others, however, it should be 12 seers. The preparation should be used in any shape both internally and externally a. & a bath, washings, etc.

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