Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

After taking it down and allowing it to cool, and straining it with the aid of an untorn cloth, and placing it in a clean and strong earthen jar, and covering the mouth of that jar by a dish, and wrapping the whole with a piece of white cloth, and binding it up with cords, the physician should place it in a place unexposed to the wind.

Then a proper dose should be given to the patient for drink¬ ing.83

By means of this oil, the patient may be very well purged.

After his faults have been extracted (relieved), he should next have administered unto him that course of treatment which has been already laid down.

After this, when the time comes for administering enemata, enemata should be applied.84

Preparing, according to the same process of cooking, the oil of mustard seeds, linseed, Karanja (a), a’nd Koshataki ( b ), the physician, carefully observing all indications, should cause the patient to drink it. Through it the patient becomes free from poison.35

Thus have been expounded, in a general way, the cause, the place or seat, the shape and size, the colour, names, influence, and the different modes of treatment, of the two kinds of worms viz., those born of phlegm and faeces. 38

As regards especial treatment.

Among the medicines (spoken of above), a little measure of those particular ones that are exceedingly well-fitted for use as a. Pangamia glabra / syn, Galedupa Indica, Lamh.

b. Luffa amara, Roxb,

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enemata of both kinds, {viz., oily and dry), and that are welladapted for making the wind move in its natural directions, should be taken for the treatment of worms born of faeces.*

Among these medicines, a large measure of those particular ones that are exceedingly well-fitted as cerebral purgatives, as emetics; and as palliatives, should be taken for the treatment of worms born of phlegm.

Thus has been expounded the method of treatment for killing worms.87

The patient, while under this course of treatment, should en¬ deavour to avoid those causes that generate the kind of worms from which he is suffering.

The treatment of persons suffering from worms in their bodily vessels is duly expounded agreeably to what was premised.38

Here are some verses.

Extraction has been indicated as the first process in the treat¬ ment of worms.

After this, the prevention of their birth, and then the avoidance of their cause.89

Even this is the method, consisting of three ways, that has been declared, for the alleviation of all diseases ; referring to (the subject of) worms.40

They are the processes of correction, administration of alleviatives, and avoidance of the originating causes.

Even this, agreeably to the ordinances laid down, is what the physician should do in individual cases (of worms.)41

(The following verses contain a summary of the contents ).

The two sorts of diseased persons, learned and unlearned physicians, the effects of their respective treatments, the twenty varieties of worms, and the seven incidents beginning with their

* ‘Anulomaharana-bhuishtam’ seems to be an incorrect reading for ‘anulomakarana &c.’ Almost all the printed texts have ‘harana.’ Chakrapani, adhering to ‘harana,’ is obliged to suggest an interpretation that is very far-fetched and that is scarcely supported by the words of the text. The correction, ‘karana’ for 'harana' would at once make the sense clear. — T.

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origin, have all been declared, in the Vimanam called Vyadhitarupiyam, by the great Rishi, for the instruction of his pupils as also for the alleviation of disease.1-2

Thus ends the Lesson called Vyadhitarupiyam in the Division called Vimanam, in the treatise of Agnive?a as revised by Charaka.

LESSON VIII.

We shall next expound the Vimanam called “ how disease is to be conquered by the physician.”

Thus, said the illustrious son of Atri.*

If an intelligent man, who knows the difficulty and lightness of all acts, the results, immediate and. remote, of acts, and place and time, desires, impelled by proper reasons, to become a physi¬ cian, he should then, at the outset, select the particular treatise he should take up for study.

Diverse treatises appertaining to the profession of physicisan are in circulation.

Amongst these one should have recourse to that particular work which has been honoured by men of renown and wisdom, which is full of substance, which is worshipped by the inspired, which is well-suited to the understandings of the three kinds of pupils, which is free from the fault of tautology, which is ascribable to a Rishi, which has been well-compiled in respect of aphorisms, commentaries, and abstracts in due order, which treats of nothing but the professed subject, which is devoid of slang and provincial words, which contains no obsolete or unfamilar words, which is couched in words of wide import, which is duly arranged according to sense, which has been principally designed to lead to certainty of inferences, which is consistent, which has well-distri-

* This Lesson is called ‘Roga Bhishakjitiyam.’ This is explained differ¬ ently by different men. I follow Chakrapani in rendering it as equivalent to the conquest of disease by the physician.