Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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Take also powdered rice and the drugs that produce fermentation in the manufacture of spirits from sugar.
Cook these also with the kind of water indicated above.
When the meat, the rice, and the drugs mentioned, [united toCHARAKA-SAMHITA .
[221 gether, form a paste from which boluses may be easily made, the paste should be dried.
The dry paste forms an approved plaster which cures those varieties of leprosy which are characterised by circular patches. It should be noted that after applying the plaster, the patient should be exposed to the sun.
The plaster possesses the virtue also of killing worms. 86-87
Take Musta (tubers of Cyperus rotundus), Madana (fruit of Randia dumetoruni), Triphala (the three myrobalans), Karanja ( Pongamia glabra ), Aragbadha ( Cassia fistula], Kalingayava (otherwise called Indrayava, i. e., the seeds of Holarrhena antidys enter ica), Darbi ( Berberis Asiatica ), and Saptaparna {Echites scholaris ).
Cause the patient to bathe in the decoction of the above drugs. This bath is called ‘Siddharthaka’. 88
This decoction operates as an emetic, and also as a purgative. It improves also the complexion.
These drugs, reduced to powder and rubbed on the body, check faults of the skin, leprosy, and swellings.
They cure chlorosis also.* 89
Kushtha (Aplo taxis auriculatd), Karanjavija (the seeds of Ponga¬ mia glabra ), and Edagaja ( Cassia Tora ), form a plaster that cures leprosy.
The seeds of Prapunnâra ( Cassia Tora), Saindhava salt, Rasanjana (Galena or the extract of the wood of Berberis Asiatica), Kapittha (Eeronia elephantuni), Lodhra ( Symplocos racemosus), the bark of the roots of Karavira ( Nerium odoruvi), the fruits of Kutaja (. Holarrhena antidysenterica ), as also of Karanja {Pongamia glabra), the bark of Darbi ( Berberis Asiatica), and the buds of Sumanas (otherwise called Malati, i. e., Echites Caryophyllata ), form a plaster whose virtues have been well tried in curing leprosy. 9°-9i
Lodhra ( Symplocos racemosus), Dhataki ( Woodfordia fioribunda), Vatsakavija (seeds of Holarrhena antidysenterica), Naktamala (other¬ wise called Karanja, i. e., Pongamia glabra ), and Malati ( Echites Caryophyllata), should be pounded together into a paste.
* Gangadhara correctly points out that the decoction also checks the faults of skin, leprosy, swellings, and chlorosis. Only the decoction should be used, for bathing the patient.— T,
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CHARAKA-SA MHITA.
This paste, applied either as a plaster or rubbed over the body, cures leprosy. 92
The bark of £irisha ( Mimosa Sirissa), the flowers of KSrpâsi (the cotton plant), the leaves of Rajavriksha (otherwise called Sondalu, i. <?., Cassia fistula ;, and Kakamâchi ( Solanum nigrum ), form a plaster that cures leprosy.
These are the four kinds of plasters that are curative of leprosy.* 93
The decoctions, numbering six, of Darbi ( Berberh Asiatica ) and Rasanjana (Galena^, of Nimba ( Melia Azadirachta ) and Patola ( Trichosanthes dioicd, of the stem of Khadira ( Acacia Catechu ), of Aragbadha ( Cassia fistula ) and Vrikshaka (Holarrhena antidysenterica\ of Triphala (the three myrobalans), and of Saptaparna ( Echites scholaris), have been laid down as curative of leprosy. The seventh decoction, possessing the same virtues, is that of Tinish {Dalbergia oojeinensis ).
The decoctions should be used for purposes of bath as also of drink.
The eighth is that of Agwamara (bark of the roots of Karavira, i. £?,, Nerium odoruni). 94-65
For the Belief of leprosy, these eight decoctions may by ad¬ ministered as plasters, or for rubbing the body with, or as powders ;
They may also be used in combination with the oils and the ghees that are cooked. 96
Triphala (the three myrobalans\ Nimba ( Melia Azadirachta') Patola ( Trichosanthes dioica ), Manjishtha ( Rubia cordifolia) Rohini ( Picrorrhiza Kurroa ), Vacha ( Acorus Calamus ), Rajani (1 Curcuma longa), — the decoction of these, taken daily, cures leprosy born of phlegm and bile. 97
Ghee boiled with these decoctions checks leprosy characterised by predominance of wind.
Ghee boiled also with Khadira ( Acacia Catechu ), Asana-daru (Terminalia tomentesa , syn. Pentaptera tomentosa ), and Nimba ( Melia Azadirachta'., is seen to produce the same effects.* 98
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