Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

In diarrhoea characterised by discharge of blood, goat’s milk, rendered cool after having been boiled, and mixed with honey and sugar, should be used for drink, and curry (with boiled rice), and also for washing the rectum.f i°°

As regards the diet of such a patient, he should be given red ‘£ali’ rice (boiled), with goat’s milk, or with meat-juice prepared from the flesh of pigeons and birds of similar species. Such meat-juice, however, should be fried in ghee and mixed with sugar. 101

[Sugar should be added to goat’s milk when it is taken with boiled rice.]

Meat-juice prepared from the flesh, possessing cooling virtues, of the hare or the rabbit, or of animals and birds residing in marshy

* Gangadhara reads ‘(Josha,’ meaning waste or drying up of the body.— T. t The drink alleviates thirst ; used as curry, it helps digestion and exercises a curative ■effect on the discharge of blood ; lastly, it is directed to be used fpr washing the rectum when inflammation has s.et in. — T,

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'CHAR AKA- SAM -HIT A,

regions, without adding any sour juice fried in ghee , and adding sugar, should be given- to such. a patient. 102

[The reading of the Calcutta and the Bombay editions is slightly different. The sense, however, is almost the same. ‘^itanSm’ is explained by Gangadhara as implying the possession of cooling virtues.]

The blood of the deer or of the goat, fried in ghee , is highly spoken of.

. The decoction of the fruits of Kacmaryya (otherwise called Gambhari, i. e., Gmelina arborea), rendered slightly sour (with the usual juices), and with the addition of sugar, is similarly beneficial. i°3

The pulvs of Nilotpala (flowers of Nymphoea stellata), Mocharasa (the exudation of Bombax Malabaricum), Samanga ( Mimosa pudica), and Padmakegara (the filaments of the lotus), mixed with goat’s milk, should be given to the patient ; after this is digested, (boiled) rice mixed with milk should be given. I04

If one afflicted with bloody diarrhoea be very weak, then (boiled) rice with milk should be given to him immediately after the ad¬ ministration of the pulvs mentioned above.

Or, before (boiled) rice with milk be given to him, (fresh) cheese with honey and sugar, should be given to him. 1Q5

[In case of weakness brought about by repeated discharges of blood with the stools, boiled rice with milk should be given without waiting for the digestion of the pulvs. Or, cheese mixed with honey and sugar, should be given before boiled rice and milk are given. The maintenance of the strength of the patient should be the aim of the physician.]

If one, having drunk ghee raised from (vaccine) milk, takes meatjuice prepared from the flesh of francoline partridges, one is cured in three days.

The same result follows if one takes (boiled) rice with milk (after having drunk fresh ghee) ; or if one takes (boiled rice) with milk (without having drunk fresh ghee).* I06

* We follow Gangadhara in rendering this verse. He takes ‘payasa’ (in the second line) as implying boiled rice with milk, ‘having drunk ghee' being understood before it. ‘KshiraCH A RAKA- SA MHITA.

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Having drunk the paste of £atfivari ( Asparagus racemosus ) boiled with milk, and then taking milk (as after-drink), 'one conquers diarrhoea characterised by bloody evacuations.

The same result follows if one drinks ghee boiled with the paste. of (^atavari (Asparagus racemosus) and takes milk (as an after¬ drink). 107

[Gangfidhara notes that the paste of Asparagus racemosus should first be boiled in water of four times its measure, and then boiled with ghee. It appears that milk is to be taken only as an after-drink, and not with boiled riee.]

For curing the discharge of blood in diarrhoea one may take ghee boiled with the seeds of Kutaja ( Holarrhena antidysenterica ), and mixed with the gruel or ‘manda’ of barley.

Having drunk this ghee, one should take ‘peya’ as after-drink. 108

[The ‘peya’ should be of barley. • The distinction between 'peya,' ‘manda,’ ‘vilepi,’ &c., depends on the degree of thinness or thickness of the preparation.] *

The seeds of Vatsaka ( Holarrhena antidy sent erica] , the bark of DSrbbi (otherwise called Daruharidrg, i. e., Berberis Asiatica ), Pippali (the fruits of Piper longum ), £ringavera (dry ginger), lac, and Katukarohini (Picr.orrhiza Kurroa ) : *°9

Ghee boiled with these six, and mixed with the ‘peya’ or the ‘manda’ (of barley and other grain), speedily conquers even violent' diarrhoea characterised by the excitement of all the three faults, no :

[The' six drugs named should first be reduced to paste and boiled in water of four times their measure, and then cooked with ghee. The Calcutta and the Bombay editions read the first line of verse 109 differently. The sense, however, remains unaltered. In the second line of that verse, they read ‘draksha’ for ‘laksha’ which occurs in Gangâdhara’s edition.]

Black earth, liquorice, conch shells, Rudhira (red ochre or saffron), and water in which (atapa) rice has been washed, drunk together, bhuk’ he takes as implying ‘c %hee before .’ — T.