Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

If the wind of the patient becomes immoveable, he should take the adeps of the goat, fried in wine, and mixed with ‘Saindhava’ salt. *4

If a person with sores in his chest becomes wasted and weak, and sleepless in consequence of his wind being excited, he should then eat boiled rice mixed with boiled milk, meat-juice, and honey, ghee, and sugar.* 2S

If weakened and emaciated, he should lick sugar, the flour of barley and wheat, Jivaka, Rishavaka, and honey, mixed together, and then drink "boiled milk. 26

Such a patient may also drink the soup of the meat of carnivorous animals and birds, fried in ghee, and mixed with the pulv of Pippall (fruits of Piper longuiri) and honey. This soup promotes the growth of flesh and blood. 21

A person afflicted with sores in his chest should eat boiled rice of the £ali variety, mixed with the ghee obtained from milk boiled with Nyagrodha ( Ficus Bengalensis), Udumvara ( Ficus glomerata \ Acwatha ( Ficus religiosa ), Plaksha ( Ficus infectoriay, £ala (Shore# robust# ), Priyangu (Aglaia Roxburghiana ), Tamalaka (the head of Borassus flab ellif or mis'), j amvutwach (the bark of Eugenia Jambolana ), Piyala (Buchanania latifolia ), Padmaka (otherwise called Padmakashtha — a fragrant wood of that name), and Agwakarna (a variety of (Shorea robusia ; some identify it with Termendlia tomentosa which is the same as Asana^f 2%-29

The following is beneficial in sores of the chest, mz., ghee with an equal measure of milk boiled with the decoction of liquorice and NSgabala (otherwise called Goraksha-chakulia, i. e., Sida spinosa), and the paste of PayasyS (otherwise called Kshirakakoli, i. e., a bul¬ bous root of the onion tribe brought from Nepal), Pippali ( Piper longuiri), and Vangi (bambu manna). The ghee should be taken with boiled £ali rice. 3°

* Gangadhara reads ‘avale anile.1 It should be ‘savale anile.1 — T. f The drugs mentioned are first reduced to a paste which is boiled in milk mixed with water. The boiling produces a kind of ghee. It is this ghee that is directed to be taken with gali rice. — T.

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CHAR A KA-SAMHITA.

This ghee also is beneficial in sore chest, viz., that which is boiled, in the same way, with milk of equal measure as also with the decoc¬ tion of Kola ( Zizyphus jujuba) and lac, (and with the paste of PayasyS Pippali, and Vângi),*

Ghee boiled with milk of eight times its measure as also with the paste of Katwanga (otherwise called Syonaka, i. e., Bignonia Indica), DSrbitwach (the bark of Berberis Asiaticd), Vatsakatwach (the bark of Holarrhena antidysenterica ), and the fruits ( or seeds) of the same (*, e.. Holarrhena antidysenterica', is beneficial in sore chest. 31

Take a Karshika (or two tolas) of each of the following, viz,, Jivaka (not identifiable, Tinospora cordifolia being used as a substitute), Rishabhaka (not identifiable, bambu manna being used as a substi¬ tute), Vira (otherwise called ^Slaparni, i. e., Hedysarum Gangeticuni), Jivanti ( Ccelogyne ovalis ), Nâgara (dry ginger), £athi {Curcuma Zerumbet), the four Parnis [viz., (^filaparni i. e., I. Hedysarum Gangeticum ; 2. Prisniparni, i. e., Doodia logopodioides, 3. Mudgaparni, i. e., Phaseolus trilobus, and 4. Mashaparni, i. e., Teramnus labialis), the two Medas (viz., Meda, which is unidentifiable, Aqwagandha, Physalis ftexuosa being used as a substitute) and" 2. Mahameda, which also is unidentifiable, £ariva, i. e., Echites frutescens. being used as a sub¬ stitute), the two Kakolis (viz, Kakoli and Kshirakakoli, both being bulbous roots brought from the Himalayas), the two Nidigdhikas- {viz., Kantakari, i. e., Solunum Xanthocarpum, and Vrihati, i. e., Solanum Indicuni), the two Punarnavas {viz., the red and the white varieties of Boerhavia diffusa), the two Madhukas {viz., liquorice andBassia latifolia), Atmagupta {Mucuna- pruriens), ^atavari {Asparagus racemosus), Riddhi (not identifiable, Bala or Pavonia odorata being used as a substitute), Parushaka {Grewia Asiaticd), BhSrgi {Siphonanthes Indica), Mridvika (raisins), Vrihati {Solanum Indicum ), (^ringataka {Trapa bispinosd), Tamlaki (otherwise called BhumySmlaki, i. e., Phyllanthus Niruri)y Payasya (here taken for KshiravidSri or Bhumikushmanda, i. e., Batatus paniculatus), Pippali {Piper longum), Bala {Si da cordifolia)y V adara {Zizyphus jujuba), Akshaka (Juglans regia).