Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

If there is burning in the Piles and filthy secretions, such Piles are cured by application of the following, plasters, viz., 1. Samanga ( Mimosa pudica ) and Madhuka (liquorice) ; 2. Tila (sesame seeds) and Madhuka (liquorice) ; 3. Rasanjana (galena) and ghee ; 4. Sarjarasa (exudation of Skorea robusta ), and ghee ; 5. Nimba {Melia Azadirackta) and ghee ; 6. Madhu (honey) and ghee ; 7. the bark of Darbi

* ‘(Jicirena tailena’, i. e., ‘with oil rendered cool by certain drugs’. — T.

•}■ ‘Prastambhani’, as the Calcutta Edition reads, or ‘Samstambhani’ as GangSdhara reads, means a styptic. — T.

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(j Berberis Asiatica ) and ghee ; and 8. Utpala (flowers of Nymphcea stellata ) and ghee , To each of these should be added the paste of red sandal wood.

The same plasters operate as curatives In prolapsus ani ,* 249-250

Unto him whose discharge of blood has been stopped by these methods of treatment or by the application of cooling agents, the physician endued with Intelligence should, at the proper time, admi¬ nister ‘tarpana’ by means of meat-juice that Is oily and warm.f 251

With ghee boiled with ‘Avapidaka’ (*. e., the decoction and the paste of the bark of Ficus Bengalensis, &c.), or rubbing with ghee and oil slightly hot, or sprinkling with milk, ghee, and oil that are slightly hot, the physician should, without losing time, treat the patient (for stopping the discharge of blood.). -252

In Piles characterised by predominance of wind (i. e., by copious discharge of blood), the physician should, without losing time, apply enemata made of ‘Ghritamanda’ (‘manda’ of ghee) agreeably hot : or, be should apply the well-tested enemata known by the name of Tichcchavasti’ in proper time. 253

4PICHCCHAVASTI.

The roots of Yavasa (otherwise called DurSlabba, i. e., Hedysarum Alhagi ), of Kuga {Poq cynosuroides ), and of Kfiga ( Saccharum spontaneuih), the flowers of £almali ( Bombax Malabaricum ), the buds of Nyagrodha ( Ficus Bengalensis'), of Udumvara {Ficus glomerata), and of Agwattha {Ficus religiosa ), the measure of each of the above being 2 palas, and 2 prasthas of water (equal to 4 seeers, double ‘ the measure being actually taken.

With the above, one prastha of milk ‘is cooked. (Two prasthas, equal to 4 seers, are actually taken).

When the above ‘KashSya’ (decoction) has been boiled down to 'the measure of the milk (that is, 4 seers'1, it is strained through -a a piece of clean cloth, and the .paste of the following is mixed with the liquid, viz., the exudation of £almali {Bombax Malabaricum ),

* ‘Eratisaraniy5h’ is exactly ‘curatives’. — X.

if ‘Tarpana’ is treatment by the application of oily and cooling agents.— T.

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SamangS (Mimosa pudicd), Chandana (red sandal wood), Utpala (flowers of Nymphcea steflata), the seeds of Vatsaka ( Hdlarrhena antidysenterim), Priyangjj (Aglaia Roxburghiana), and Padmakejara (filaments of ’the lotus).

With the product should be mixed ghee, 'honey, and sugar.

Even this preparation is called ‘Siddha PichcchSvasti.’

This cares dysentery (white flux), -Prolapsus ano, discharge of blood, and fever.

Prapaundafika (root-stock of Nymphcea lotus), Madhuka (liquorice), ;and all the ingredients named in making ‘PichcchSvasti,’ should be pounded together into a paste. With twice the measure of milk, this paste should be bailed. The result will be an oily -enemata .(of. great •efficacy). 258

HRIVERADI-GHRITAM,

Hrivera (Pavonia odor at a), Utpala (Nymphcea stellcltd), Lodhra (Symplocos racemosa), SamangS, (Mimosa pudicd), ,Ghavya (Piper •cCliaba), Chandana (red sandail wood), Patha (Cissampelos kernandi- ;falia ), Ativisha (Aconitum heterophyllum ), Vikva (yRglp marmelos), Dhataki (Woodfordia floribunda), Devadaru (Pinus deodqra), Dfirbitvach (the bairk of Berberis Asiatica ), N,Sgara (dry ginger), Mangsi (Nardostachys Jatama?isi), Musta' (the tubers of :Cyperus rotundas), the ashes of green barley shoots, and Chitraka (Plumbago Zeylanica ).

AU these should be pounded together into a paste. This paste, the expressed juice of Changed (Oxalisxorniculata),ym& :ghee, should •'be boiled together.

The ghm thus prepared is a highly beneficial medicine. It alle- -viates all the -three faults. It should be administered -in Piles, diarr :rhoea, lienteric dysentery, the disease -called .chlorosis, -fever, disgust ‘.for food, difficulty of micturition, prolapsus ano, abdominal flatulence, -dysentery (white flux), in discharges -of slimy -matter and the presence ■of ‘£ula’ pains in Piles. 259-262

SXJNJSHANNAKA-CHANGERI ©HRITA.

Arkapushpi (fennel -seeds), Ball (Sida cordifolia), T>lxbi.(Berberis Asiatica ), Prisniparni (Doodia lagopodioides), Trikantaka (otherwise called Gokshura, i. e., Tribttlus lanuginosus ), the seeds of Nyagrodha 176

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[ Ficus Bedgalensis ), of Udurnvara ( Ficus glomerata ), and of Aawattha [Ficus religiosd), the measure of each being 2 palas. The decoction of these is taken. To it is added the paste of the following, vis.,