Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

The juice of Matulunga ( Citrus medico), Hingu (assafcetida), Dadima ( Punica Granatum), Vit salt, and Saindhava salt, should be drunk with the ‘manda’ of wine.

This medicine cures the pains of. wind-born ‘Gulma.’ 82

£athi (1 Curcuma Zerumbei), Pushkara (implying Pushkaramula, a root that is not available ; the roots of Aplotaxis auriculata being used as substitute), Hingu (assafcetida), Amlavetasa ( Rumex vesicarius), Kshfira (YavakshSra or the ashes of green barley blades), Chitraka ( Plumbago Zeylanica ), Dhanyaka (coriander seeds), Yamani ( Ptychotis Ajowari), Vidanga ( Embelia Ribes), Saindhava (rock-salt), Vacha ( Calamus Rotang ), Chavya ( Chavica officinarum), Pippalimula (the roots of Piper longuvi, Ajagandha ( Seseli Indicuni), Dadima (. Punica Granatum ), Ajaji (cumin seeds), and Ajamoda ( Pimpinella tnvolucrata ) :

These should be reduced to powder and administered to the patient. 83-84

Macerating the powder in the juice of Matulunga ( Citrus medico), and adding honey to it, it should be kneaded into, a soft paste or dough. Boluses should then be made of the dough thus obtained, each of the size of a Kola (fruit of Zizyphus jujuba). 85

‘Gulma,’ enlargement of the spleen, epistasis, asthma, bronchitis, disgust for food, hiccup, diseases of the chest, piles of all varieties, headaches, chlorosis, nausea caused by excited phlegm, diarrhoea born of all causes, and pains in the sides, the chest, and the pelvis, are all removed by these boluses. &>-%7

Or, half a pala of Nagara (dry ginger), two palas of husked sesame seeds, and one pala of treacle, should be pounded together, and taken with hot milk. 88

This medicine cures wind-born ‘Gulma’, suppression of urine and stools, and pains in the genital organ of women.

One should drink the oil of Eranda ( Ricinus Communis), mixed with the ‘manda’ of the wine called ‘Varuni.’

A person afflicted with wind-born ‘Gulma’ should drink the same oil, mixing it with milk.

If wind-born ‘Gulma’ be accompanied by excited phlegm, the former of the above medicines is beneficial. If it be accompanied by excited bile, the latter is beneficial. 89-9°

CHARAKA-SAMHITA.

LAgUNA-KSHIRA.

Four palas of Laguna (garlics), dry and well-husked, should be boiled in milk, to which should be added water that is eight times the measure of the milk. Boiling should go on till the liquid is reduced to the measure of the milk.

A person should drink this milk. It promptly relieves wind-born ‘Gulma’, suppression of urine and stools, sciatica, intermittent fever, diseases of the chSst, deep-seated abscesses, and inflammatory swellings. 91-92

T AI LA-PAN C H K AM .

(Sesame) oil, Prasanna (a variety of wine), urine of the cow, Aranâla (a variety of kanjika), Yavagraja (implying Yavakshâra or the ashes of green blades of barley), compounded together, taken internally, cures ‘Gulma’, abdominal dropsy, and epistasis. 93

QILAJATU COMPOUND.

(^ilajatu* should be drunk, compounding it with the decoction of the five roots (beginning with Vilwa or JEgle marmelos) and milk. By taking this compound, one becomes freed from wind-born ‘Gulma.’ 94

By taking Vâtya (manda of barley), mixed with the juice of Pippali ( Piper longum ) or that of Mulaka (garden radish), and with ghee , one becomes freed from suppression of urine and stools as also wind-born ‘Gulma.’ 95

If a person with wind-born ‘Gulma’ be afflicted with ‘£ula,’ epis¬ tasis and constipation of the bowels, he should have ‘Sweda’ adminis¬ tered to him in those methods which are known by the names of ‘Nadi’, ‘Prastara’, ‘^ankara’ and which have been described among the ordinances on ‘Sweda. ’f 96

The administration of enemata, it should be known, is highly efficacious in curing ‘Gulma.’

* A bituminous substance supposed to be exuded by rocks in the hot season. — T. t The different methods of ‘Sweda’ have been described in Lesson XIV of Sutras th5n». There are ^altogether 13 kinds of ‘Sweda’, viz., Qankara, Prastara, Nadi, Parisheka, Avagahana, Jentaka, Agmaghna, Karshu, Kuti, Bhu, Kumbhi, Kupa, and Holaka. For particulars about (Jankara-sweda, Nadi-sweda, and Prastara-sweda, vide pp. 159 and 169 of SutrasthSna, ante. — T.

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CHAR A KA - SAM HIT A.

The administration of enemata, subduing at the outset the wind in its own seat, destroys ‘Gulma.’ 97

Hence, ‘Gulmas’ of every kind, (viz., wind-born, bile-born, and phlegm-born) are relieved if constantly treated with enemata both dry and oily. 98

As regards those oils which relieve ‘Gulmas’, they will be spoken of in the Lesson on Diseases of Wind.* 99

All those oils, administered in wind-born ‘Gulma’ in the form of drink, of unguents for rubbing the body with, and of enemata, promptly produce successful results. Verily, of all things, oils are very efficacious in subduing excited wind. T°°

Any of the several ghritas mentioned above, [viz., Tryushanadi, &c.), mixed with the powders of Nilini (Indigo plant'', should be administered to a person suffering from wind-born ‘Gulma’ and having impurities (in his system). This medicine operates as a ‘^odhana’ or corrective.! 101

NILINADYA GHRITA.