Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

j- The juice of the three things mentioned and the three other articles, forming altogether a tale of six, should be boiled with Ghee or milk. ‘ Kshirasarpi ’ is ‘sarpi’ from ‘kshira. ’ Yava is Hordcum hexastichum ; Kola is Zizyphns Jujuba ) and^Kulattha is Dolichos biflora, Roxb.—T.

J The Commentators explain that the juice of Vadara ( Zizyphus Jujuba') and infusion of the triple fruit, should all be mixed together. This liquid then should be boiled either with each of the four articles mentioned, viz., oil or marrow or fat or Ghee • or it may be boiled with all the four oily articles. The physician should exercise his discretion in prescribing the kind of the five snehas to be thus got. — 7.

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CHRA RA-SA M HIT A.

As a piece of dry cloth sucks only a limited quantity of water so that if more water be poured upon it, the excess, without being sucked in, escapes and flows away, after the same manner, Oils, when administered in proper measure, are assimilated by the digestive fire, but when administered in overdose, they escape from the body (in the purging, without producing the benefits desired).01 As water, when quickly poured upon a clod of earth, drenches it only partially and flows away without dissolving it at all, after the same manner, Oils taken quickly, escape from the system (in the form of purging, without producing the result desired, viz., oilifying and cooling the body).*92

The diverse kinds of Oils mentioned before, when mixed with salts, succeed in quickly oilifying the body, Since, mixed with salts, they acquire the virtue of expelling diverse kinds of secre¬ tions from the system, become soft without retaining their charac¬ ter for dryness, Succeed in penetrating into the most subtile parts of the body, become warm, and all-pervading or extensively diffusive.t93

Oils should be administered first. After this should heat be administered for producing perspiration. For one unto whom both Oils and heat have beeii administered, the procceses should be resorted to of purging and vomiting.94

* In these two Verses, the Rishi explains a point not occurring in the questions addressed to him by his disciples. In the first Verse he points out that an overdose of Oil cannot be assimilated. The digestive fire fails to consume it. In the second Verse he points out that a rapid succession of doses proves futile. A clod of earth can be •dissolved by a certain quantity of water. This water, or even much more, when poured upon it, drenches the clod very partially and then escapes or flows away without pro¬ ducing the intended result, viz., dissolution of the clod. A rapid succession of doses, similarly, without being able to sufficiently oilify the body or make it cool, escapes from the system. Medicated Oils and Ghee are often administered as mild purgatives. A rapid succession of doses, without producing benefit, escapes from the body. — T.

t All kinds of Oils are directed to be mixed with salts. ‘Ushnam ’ is warm ; hence, the Commentator points out, they aid digestion. ‘Vyavayi ’ does not mean ‘increases virility ’ but only * all-pervading.’ In consequence of being all-pervading, they succeed in quickly oilifying the body. — T.

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