Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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Old ‘9&li’ rice, ‘Shashthika’ rice, wheat, and barley, (boiled), are beneficial to persons afflicted with hiccup and asthma. 99
Gruel of barley, boiled with assafostida, ‘Sauvarchala’ salt, the seeds of Ajaji ( Nigella sativa), ‘Vit’ salt, Pushkara (a kind of root which not being available, the roots of Aplotaxis auriculata are used as a substitute), and the roots of Chitraka ( Plumbago Zeylanica ;, or, with Karkatajringi ( Rhus succedanea), is beneficial for persons afflicted with hiccup and asthma.* 100
One should drink gruel of barley, duly boiled with the ten roots, £ati {Curcuma Zerumbet), Rasna {Vanda Roxburgh'ii), Pippali (the fruits of Piper longum), Vilwa (fruits of Zigle marmelos \ ‘Pushkara,’ £ringi ( Rhus succedana), Tamalaki {Phyllanthus Niruri \ Bhfirgi {Siphonanthus Indica ), Guduchi {Tinospora cordifolia }, Nagara (dry ginger), and Riddhi (not being attainable, Bala or Si da cordifolia is used as a substitute, )f or, the ‘Kashaya’ (decoction) only of these, for the alleviation of cough, feeling of oppression on the chest, pains in the sides, hiccup, and asthma. 101-102
Food and drink boiled with the decoction of Pushkara 'a variety of roots which not being obtainable, those of Aplotaxis auriculata are used as a substitute), <^ati ( Curcuma Z erumbei), Vyosha (the three acrids, vis., dry ginger, the fruits of Piper longum , and black pepper), Matulunga {Citrus acidd), and Amlavetasa (otherwise called Chukra, i. e., Rumex vesicarius), and mixed with the pulvs of ‘Vit’ salt and assafcetida, and ghee , should be prescribed for one afflicted with hiccup or asthma. 103
If one afflicted with hiccup or asthma feels thirsty, he should drink the decoction of the ten roots, or the decoction of DevadSru {Pinus deodara ), or wine. 104
* The gruel should, after being boiled with the drugs named, be fried in ghee, before use. — T.
-]- The Calcutta edition has ‘Mulapaushkaraih’ for ‘Vilwapaushkaraih’ at the end of the first line, and ‘Amvubhih’ for ‘Riddhibhih’ at the end of the second line. — T.
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CHARAKA-SAMHITA.
Paths ' [Cissampelos herna?idifolia ), Madhurasa (otherwise called Murva, i. e., Sanseviera Zeylanica, Rasna ( Vanda Roxburghii), Sarala [Pinus longifolia), and Devada.ru ( Pinus deodara ) :
Wash these in water, and then pound them in powder, and throw the powder into ‘Suramanda.’*
Adding a little salt to it, the physician should cause it to be drunk, the measure of a dose being a ‘prasrita’ (2 palas). This drink allevi¬ ates hiccup and asthma. 105-106
One afflicted with hiccup or asthma should drink Hingu (assafcetida), ‘Sauvarchala’ salt, Kola (jujubes), Pippali (the fruits of Piper longmn), and Bala < Si da cor difolia), pounded with the juice of Matulunga ( Citrus medica ), and dissolved in ‘aranSla’ (a variety of ’Kânji’). i°7
One afflicted with hiccup or asthma may drink the paste 1. of Bhargi ( Siphonanthus Indica), and Nagara (dry ginger), or 2. of black pepper and the ashes of green barley shoots, or 3. of Pitadru (other wise called Daruharidra, i. e., Berberis Asiatica ), Chitraka ( Plumbago Zeylanica, ) Ashphota (otherwise called Haparmâli, i. e.t Echites dichotoma), and Murva ( Sanseviera Zeylanica ), dissolved in water. 108
The expressed juice of the flowers of Cirisa [Mimosa Sirissd), as also that of Saptaparna [Echites scholaris ), each mixed with the pulv of the fruits of Pippali [Piper longum ), and honey, is beneficial in hiccup and asthma when these are characterised by predominance of phlegm and bile. i°9
Madhulika (the small unbroken particles of wheat-flour-), Tugakshiri (bambu manna), dry ginger, and the fruits of Pippali ([Piper longum \ boiled in ghee, form an ‘CJtkârika’ that is beneficial in asthma when it exists with provoked bile.f 110
* Yeast or froth of vinous liquor. — T.
-f- Some commentators take ‘Madhulika’ to be a variety of liquorice growing in water. Gangadhara takes it for the small unbroken particles of wheat that remain after the flour has been strained through.
The articles mentioned are boiled in water, with a sufficient quantity oi ghee. ‘Utkarika’ is known as ‘Mohanbhoga’ in Bengal. — T.
CHA RA KA-SA MHITA .
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The flesh of the large porcupine and of the hare, and blood of the small porcupine, boiled with the pulv of Pippali {Piper longum ) and ghee (adding water to if', is beneficial in asthma when it exists with the provoked wind. 111
The expressed juice of Suvarchala (otherwise called Suryabhakta, or Hudhude in Bengali, i. e., Cleome Viscosa ), or the milk of the cow. or ghee, mixed with the pulv of the three acrids {viz., dry ginger, the fruits of Piper longum, and black pepper), forms a beneficial drink after taking boiled ‘£ali’ rice, in asthma existing with excited wind and bile.* 112
Madhuka (liquorice), the roots of Pippali ( Piper longum ) reduced to pulv, treacle, the expressed juice of cow-dung, honey, and ghee, constitute a linctus which, if licked, is beneficial in those varieties of asthma, cough, and hiccup, in which secretions take place. ”3
In asthma characterised by copious phlegm, one should drink, mixing it with honey, the expressed juice of the dung of the ass, or of the horse, or of the camel, or of the boar, or of sheep, or of the elephant. ”4
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