Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Or, one may take, every morning regularly, for a number of days, the decoction of the three myrobalans, mixed with honey, or that of Guduchi ( Tinospota cor difolia), or that of Darbi ( Berberis Asiafica), or that of Nimba ( Melia Azadirackla), each mixed with honey.

Each of these is curative of ‘KamalS.’

One afflicted with chlorosis should drink for a fortnight the milk, mixed with the urine, of the cow, or the milk, mixed with the urine, of the buffalo ; or, he may drink the decoction of the three myroba¬ lans, mixed with the urine of the cow for a week,

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Or, one may drink the sprouts of the Matulunga tree ( Citrus medico), burnt in fire, and soaked in cow’s urine. The burnt sprouts ■ should be pounded with the urine Jn which they are extinguished). The liquid should be strained through a piece of clean cloth (before it is drunk). This medicine is curative of chlorosis as also abdominal swellings.

Or, one may drink Swarnakshiri ( Polanasia felind), Trivrit ( Convol¬ vulus Turpethum), £yama ( Ichnocarpus frutescens ),* BhadradSru (Pinus deodara ), and dry ginger, reduced to paste by being pounded with an ‘anjali’ (equal to 4 palas) of cow’s urine.

The decoction of the same obtained by boiling them in cow’s urine may also be drunk.

Or, milk boiled with these may be drunk.

All these preparations are capable of restoring the faults to their normal course. S9-66

Or, chebulic myrobalans (soaked in cow’s urine and) mixed with cow’s urine as also with other prescribable drugs, may be taken.

When the chebulic myrobalans thus taken are digested, boiled rice may be taken, mixed with milk or with meat-juice sweetened (by the addition of sugar).f 67

Qr, the physician, for alleviation of chlorosis, should cause the patient to. drink the pulv of iron macerated for seven nights in cow’s urine, and dissolved in milk. 68

NAVAYASA CHURNA.

Tryushana (the three acrids), Triphala (the three myrobalans), Musta (the tubers of Cyperus rotundus), Vidanga (Embelia Ribes ), and Chitraka (the roots of Plumbago Zeylanica ) :

Take equal measure of these nine. Add nine parts of the pulv of iron. Pounding all these together, and mixing the pulv with ghee and honey, one should take it.

* ‘QylmS’ is identified by Gangadhara as Trivrit with dark-coloured roots. — T. 4 ‘Prayogena’ implies ‘with the addition of proper ingredients.’

‘Kshirena bhunjita’ means ‘eat with milk,’ that is, boiled rice with milk.— T.

CHAR A KA-SA MHITA .

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This medicine cures chlorosis, diseases of the chest, leucoderma, piles, and anaemia.

This medicine, called ‘NavSyasa Churna,’ has been declared by Krishnatreya (dark-complexioned scion of Atri’s race), 69-70

MAN DURA BAT AKA.

Treacle, Nfigara (dry ginger), Mandura (iron pyrites); and sesame seeds : take equal measures of all these. Add the pulv of the fruits of Piper longuin, of twice the measure of the other drugs.

Make boluses of the compound, and administer them to one afflicted with chlorosis.* 7i

TriphalS. (the three myrobalans', Tryushana (the three acrids), Musta (tubers of Cyperus rotundus), Vidanga ( Embelia Ribes \ Chavya {Piper Chabd), Chitraka {Plumbago Zeylanica ), Darbi {Berberis Asialica), Tvach (the bark of Cinnamomum Zeylanica ), Makshika (iron pyrites of the best variety), Granthika (otherwise called Pippali, i. e., the fruits of Piper longum ), and Devadaru {Pinus deodara ) :

Take two palas of each of these, and reduce each of them, separate¬ ly, to pulv. Take also pyrites, reduced to pulv, of twice the united measure of the pulvs mentioned above. The pyrites used should be pure and of the complexion of antimony.

Boiling the pyrites in cow’s urine of eight times its measure, throw into the vessel the pulvs of the three myrobalans and the rest.

Boluses are then- made of the size of the fruits of Udumvara ( Ficus glomerata).

The measure of a dose should depend on the strength of the digest¬ ive fire.

It should be administered with whey.

After the medicine taken has been digested, the patient shauld eat such food as is easily assimilable.

These are called ‘Mandura-Bataka.’ Unto those afflicted with chlorosis, these are givers of life. 72-75

* This verse occurs lower down in GangSdhara’s edition. There is a difference of reading also. GangSdhara reads ‘tinisSn’ for 'tiianggan,'. ‘Tinisa’ is (Dalber^ia Oojeinemii Roxb). — T.

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CHARAKA-SA MI11TA .

These alleviate leucoderma and other skin-diseases, indigestion, gonorrhoea, paraplegia, diseases born of (excited) phlegm, piles, anaemia, and enlarged spleen. 76

Three parts of Triphala (the three myroba!ans\ three parts of Trikatuka (the three acrids), one part of the roots of Chitraka {Plumbago Zeylanica), one part of Vidanga ( Embclia Ribes), five parts of Agmajatu (otherwise called £ilajatu) the same measure Y e., five parts) of the dross of silver, five parts of that variety of iron pyrites which is called ‘Mâkshika’ (or Svarna-makshika), five parts of the pulv of pure iron, and eight parts of sugar : 77-78

All these are pounded into fine pulv. Mixed with honey, the united product is kept in a clean vessel of iron. 79