Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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Even this is the manner of giving the flour of fried barley to a patient.
The physician should boil seven prasthas of these (seven) ingre¬ dients, viz., the expressed juice of Dhatriphala (fruits of Phyllanthus Emblica ), that of Vidari ( Batatus paniculatus ), that of sugarcane, the decoction of the group of drugs called ‘Jivaniya,’ ghee, the milk of the goat, and that of the cow, (a prastha of each being taken). 47
When boiled and cooled, two prasthas of sugar and honey should be added.
The ghee thus prepared cures phthisis, epilepsy, blood-bile, cough, gonorrhoea, and consumption. It also prevents the effects of age, increases one’s period of life, and imparts flesh, semen and strength.
When the bile increases, one should lick this ghee. When the wind increases, one should drink it. 48-49
Licked, it extinguishes the bile ; a little of it entering the system, it does not (when licked), extinguish the digestive fire.*
Drunk, it attacks the (excited) wind (and restores it to its normal state). At the same time, it does not extinguish the digestive fire. 5°
The physician should prescribe as drink all these ghees, mixing them with bambu manna, and the pulv of Piper longum and fried paddy, for such persons as are weakened by sores in the chest and those who have lost flesh. 51
The reading ‘analam’ is correct ; and not ‘anilam’. — T.
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CHARAKA-SAMHITA.
We shall speak below of another medicine that is called ‘Sarpirguda’ (boluses of ghee). The physician should prescribe it for the same class of persons, mixing it with a proper measure of honey. The patient should drink milk after taking this medicine. By drink¬ ing this medicine one quickly gets semen, energy, strength, and growth. 52
Bala ( Sida cordifolia ), Vidari ( Batatus paniculatus ), HrashS-Panchamuli (otherwise called ‘Swalpa-Panchamuli,’ that is, the group of the five smaller roots, viz., those of Hedysarum Gangeticum ), Doodia logopodioides, Solanum Indicum, Solanum X anthocarpum, and Tribulus lanuginosus), Punarnava {Boerhavia diffusa ), and the five milk-yielding trees {viz., Ficus glomeratus, Ficus Bengalensis, Ficus religiosa , Ficus infectoria, and Calamus rotang) : take the buds of each of these, of the measure of a pala.
In the decoction of these, mixed with two kinds of milk (viz., that of the goat and of the cow), as also with the expressed juice, of proper measure, of Vidari (Batatus paniculatus) and the meat-juice of goat’s flesh, an adhaka (8 seers) of ghee should be cooked, along with an aksha (2 palas) of the paste of the group of drugs called ‘Jivaniya.’ 53-54
When the boiling is over and it becomes cool, it should be strained through a piece of clean cloth. Two and thirty palas of sugarcandy should then be thrown into the strained liquid. The flour of wheat, the pulv of Piper lougum, the pulv of bambu manna, the pulv also of yringatfika (Trapa bispinosa), with honey, coming up in all to the measure of a Kudava (half a seer), should also be thrown into it.
The product should then be stirred with a wooden ladle till it becomes thick. The ghee, when it reaches this condition, should be made into pills. The pills should all be wrapped round with leaves of Betula Bhojpattra. 55-56
Swallowing these pills, one should drink milk, or wines if the phlegm be excited.
These boluses of ghee are regarded as beneficial in consumption, cough, sores in the chest, weakness, in afflictions brought about by
CHAR A KA - SA MHITA.
!30I excessive toil, by addiction to women, and by bearing heavy burdens, in expectoration of blood, in heat of the body, in deposit of the phlegm in the chest, in pains of the sides, in headaches, in hoarseness of voice, and loss of complexion. 57-s8
Even this is the composition and process of preparation of the medicine called ‘Swarpi-gudar (boluses of ghee).
A prastha of ghee should be boiled with a pala of each of the following drugs pounded with milk, viz., Tvakkshiri (bambu manna), £ravani (otherwise called Munditika or Munderi, i. e., Sphceranthus hirtus), DrSksha (grapes), Murva ( Sanseviera Z,eylanicd), Rishabhaka (not identifiable, bambu manna being used as a substitute), Jivaka (not identifiable, Guduchi, i. e., Tinospora cordifolia being used as a substitute), Vira (otherwise called £alparni, i. e., Hedysarum Gangsticuni), Riddhi (not identified, BalS i. e., Sida cordifolia ), being used as a substitute), Kshirakakoli (a bulbous root of the onion tribe brought from the Himalayas), Vrihati ( Solatium Indicum ), Kapikechcchu {Mucuna pruriens), Kharjjuraphala (dates), and MedS. (not identified, AcwagandhS, i. e., Physalis flexuosa being used as a substi¬ tute) ; as also with a prastha of the expressed juice of each of the following, viz., Dhatri (the fruits of Phyllanthus Emblica ), Vidari ( Batatus paniculatus ), and Ikshu ( Saccharum officinarmri).
When the boiling is over and the contents of the vessel become cool, half a Tula (i. e., six and a quarter seers) of sugar, and half a prastha of honey, should be thrown into vessel.
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