Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

* It is on the morning of the seventh or the eighth day that these should be administered after having ascertained that the patient has passed the pre¬ vious night in proper sleep and that the food he took has been properly . digested. There are two kinds of enemata, viz., dry and oily; the former is called ‘ asthapana ’ and the latter ‘ anuvasana.' Here the dry kind is indicated. — T.

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CHA RA KA -SA MHI TA .

The physician should (when he thinks that these should be administered) address the patient, saying, — Do thou collect these articles, vis., garden radish, mustard seeds, Lasuna (a), Karanja (6), £igru ( c ), Kharapushpa ( d ), Bhustrina (e), Sumukha (f), Surasa (g), Kutheraka (Ji), Kandira (/), Kalamalaka (/), Parnasa ( k ), Kshavaka (/), and Phanijjhaka ( m ).

These all, or as many of them as are obtainable, should be gathered.

Having gathered these, the physician should examine them and then cut them into pieces and then wash them in water, and place them in a well-washed vessel, and then cook them in cow’s urine mixed with water half and half.

It should be frequently stirred with a wooden ladle.

When the water is reduced to the quantity that is proper, and when the juice (in the process of cooking) has fully come out of the herbs, the vessel should be taken down.

The decoction should then be properly strained and, while yet lukewarm, should be mixed with the Kalka of Madanaa. Lasuna is Allium Sativum , Linn.

b. Karanja (Bengali, Dahar- Karanja). is Pongamia Glabra ; syn. Galedupa Indica, Lamk.

c. Moringa pterygosperma ; syn. Hyperanthera moringa, Willd. Some texts add, after ‘Qigru,’ ‘ Madhu-9igru’, meaning the red variety of the above.

d. Kharapushpa is otherwise called Yamani (as explained by Gangadhara). It is the Ptychotis Ajowan ; syn. Ligusticum Ajoisian, Flem.

e. Bhustrina (Gandhabena in Bengali) is the Andropogon Schcenanthus, f. Sumukha is a variety of Tulasi or Ocimum Sanctum, Linn.

g. Surasa is a variety of ditto.

h. Kutheraka is a variety of ditto.

i. Kandira is a variety of ditto.

j. Kalamalaka is a variety of ditto.

k. Parnasa is a variety of ditto.

l. Kshavaka is a variety of ditto.

m. Phanijjhaka is a variety of ditto.

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pliala (a), Pippali (3), and Vidanga (c), and then should a quantity of oil be poured upon it.

Then throwing some Sarjjika (d), and salt over it, the prepar¬ ation should be applied to the anal canal as enemata.20*

Then also, with the infusion of Arka ( e ), Alarka (f), Kutaja (g), Adhaki (k), Kustha (?’), Kaitarya (/ ), as also the infusion of Sigru ( k ), Pilu (/), Kustumvura (m), Katuka ( n ), and mustard seeds, and also the infusion of Amalaka (<?), £ringavera (/), a. Madanaphala means fruits of the Randia dumetorum.

b. Pippali is Piper longurn, Linn ; syn .\Chavica Roxburghii.

c. Vidanga is Embelia Ribes.

d. Sarjjika or Sarjjikshara is carbonate of soda.

*. ‘ Paniya ’ is a technical term, meaning a weak form of decoction prepared

by boiling one part of medicinal substances in thirty-two parts of water till the latter is reduced to one-half. Here, the word stands for common water.

‘ Gomutrenarddhodakena’ implies that the liquid in which the substances are to be boiled should be cow’s urine and water in equal proportions. ‘ When the water is reduced to the quantity that is proper this means that when a fourth of the water still remains, or sometimes an eighth. The usual rule is to allow three quarters to evaporate. — T.

“ Kalka or paste is prepared by grinding dry or fresh vegetable substances on a stone with a muller, and then making a thin paste, with the addition of water when necessary.” — U. C. Dutt’s Hindu Medicine.

e. Calatropis gigantea or procera ; syn. Asclepias gigantea.

f. A white variety of the above. Chakrapani, however, takes it as standing for Mandara or Erythrina Indica.

g. Holarrliena antidysenierica, Wall ; syn. Echites antidysenterica, Roxb.

h. Cajanus Indicus, Spreng ; syn. Cytisus Cajan, Linn.

i. Sanssurea auriculata ; syn. Applotaxis auriculata.

j. Otherwise called Katphala. Myrica Sapida, Wall.

k. Moringa pterygosperma ; syn. Hyper anther a Moringa, Willd.

l. Salvadora Persica, Linn ; syn. Salvadora Indica , Wight.

m. Zanthoxylum Alatum, Roxb ; syn. Zanthoxylum hostile, Wall.

n. Picorrhiza Kurroa, Royle.

o. Phyllanthus Emblica, Linn ; syn. Emblica Officinalis.

p. Zingiber Officinale, Rose. Common Ginger.

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CHAR A KA-SAM HI TA

Daru-haridra (a), and Pichumarddana (6), mixed with the Kalka of Madanaphala and the others, enemata should be applied by the physician for three nights or seven nights.21*

When the enemata last applied has come out of the anal canal, the physician should, after having assured the patient, administer, with due consideration, that very day, such correctives as operate both upwards and downwards.

The method of such administration is explained as follows :aa

Mixing an Anjali of the infusion of Madanaphala and Pippali, with an Aksha of the paste of Trivrit, the physician should give it to the patient to drink.

This drink will properly purge him in both directions.aef