Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

The diseases beginning with Diabetes (that have been mentioned as due to Santarpana (indulgence in sedative and nutritive food and practices) are cured by the administration of Chebulic myrobalans (reduced to powder) mixed writh butter-milk, or of the (infusion of the) triple fruit mixed with butter-milk, or of the spirits known by the name of Arishta.16

The Mantha of the three Ushans {viz., dry ginger, Piper longum, and Piper nigrum), the triple fruit ( viz., the three myrobalans, i,e„ the Chubulic, the Emblic, and the Belleric), honey, Krimighna, with Ajamoda, drenched with the infusion of Aquilaria Agallocba, and powdered barley and Ghee, is beneficial in diseases due to Santarpana or indulgence in sedative and nutritive food and practices.17*.

Dry ginger. Piper longum, and Piper nigrum, the seeds of Vidanga and Sigru, (a), the triple fruit [viz., the Chebulic, Emblic, and Belleric myrobalans), Katurohini ( b ), the two varieties of Vrihafi ( c ), the two varieties of Haridra ( d ), Patha ( e ), Ativisha if) Sthira (g), Assafoqdita, the roots of &evuka ( h ), Yamani (i), a. Vidanga, as already explained, is Embelia Ribes. Sigru is Moringa pterygos. perma ; syn. Hyperanthera Moringa, Willd.

* Krimighna is otherwise called Vidanga. It is Embelia Ribes, Burnt ; syn. Em¬ belia glandulifera, Wight. It is called Krimighna owing to its seeds being endued with anthelmintic properties. Loha is otherwise called Aguru. It is, of course, the Aquilaria Agallocha. As to Mantha, it is prepared in the following way : — Saklubhih Sarpishabhyaktaih Citavaripariplutaih, Ndtyachccha, ndtisandrafcha mantha ityabhidhiyate ; i.e., the infusion is to be taken, with cold water, and it should be mixed with flour of barley and ghee ; and it should be neither very thin nor thick. — T.

b. Otherwise called Katuka or Picorrhiza Kurroa, Royle.

c. The two varieties of Vrihati are i. Solatium Indicum, Linn, and 2. Solanutn Xanthocarpum, Schrad., syn. Solanum Jacquinii, Willd.

g. The two varieties of Haridra are i, Circiima longa, Roxb, and Berberis Asiatics, e. Cissampelos hernandifolia, Linn.

f. A coni turn heterophyllum. Wall.

a. Desmodium gangeticum ; syn. Hedysarum gangelicum, Linn.

h. Called also Kemuka. Coitus speciosus, Linn.

j. Ptyrhotis Ajouian ; syn. Ligusticum Ajowan, Plan.

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Dhauya (a), Ciiitraka (6), Sauvarchala ( c ), Ajaji (d), and Havusha (tf) — these should all be pounded or reduced to powder.18-10

Take a quantity of this powder, and take as much of the oil of sesame and ghee and honey, each ; then take of the flour of fried barley as much as represents sixteen times the measure of each of the above. Make of all these a (dry) sedative, and drink it.20 By the use of this medicine, the diseases that arise from indulgence in sedative and nutritive food and practices, become allayed, such as diabetes, the different varieties of Leprosy, piles, aggravated Jaundice,21 spleen, anaemia, swellings and inflammations, strangury, disgust for food, thoracic diseases, phthisis, consumption, asthma, enlargement of the glands of the neck, 22 worms (in the system), the faults of the Grahani, (abnormal) whiteness of the skin, and excessive corpulency. Verily, the use of such a medicine causes the digestive fire to blaze up, and enhances the memory and under¬ standing.23*

One who is habituated to physical exercise and exertion, who eats only after proper digestion, and whose food consists of barley and wheat, becomes freed from Corpulency and from all those faults that are due to indulgence in food and practices included under Santarpana.24

The diseases arising from indulgence in food and practices included under Santarpana, as also the remedies in the form of in¬ dulgence in the reverse thereof and included under Apatarpana, have thus been spoken of. After this we shall speak of the diseases a. Oryza saliva, Linn.

b. Plumbago Zeylanica, Linn.

c. A kind of salt ; supposed to be Natron, Vide note in p. 9 ante.

d. Cummin seeds (of the smaller variety).

e. Called also Hapusha. They are black stalks like those of black pepper, possess¬ ed of an aromatic smell.

* There are two kinds of Santarpana, viz., the oily and the dry. The preparation referred to in 18 to 20 is dry Santarpana. It cures those diseases that arise form the use •f oily Santarpana. This should be borne in mind for understanding 20 and 21.— T.

CHA RAKA SA M HIT A .

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that arise from indulgence in food and practices included under Apatarpana, together with their remedies.*20