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224 THE SUSHRUTA SAMIIITA. [Chap. X.
roots should be applied to the palms and soles of hcf
hands and feet ; or the milky juice of Snuhi tree
should be applied over her scalp ;
or a compound made
of pasted Ldngali roots and Knshtha mixed with either
wine or the cow''s urine should be given her for drink.
A Kalka either of S'dli roots or of the drugs con-
stituting the Pippalyddi Gana mixed with wine (Sur^)
should be given her for the purpose In the alterna-
tive, an Asthapana (enema) of white mustard seeds
KusJitha (Kuda), Ldngali, and the milky juice of Mahd-
vrikiha, mixed with Sura-manda should be prescribed.
(Iftheaboxe measures fail) an Uttara-Vasti (uterine
douche) prepared with the aforesaid drugs and boiled in
mustard oil should be applied ; or else the placenta
should be removed by the hand lubricated with an olea-
ginous substance and with the nails clipped off, i8.
IVIakkalla and its Treatment :—The
lochia of a newly delivered woman whose organism
has become excessively dry on account of profuse use
of absorbants or deranged by any other causes,— the
lochia being obstructed in its exit by the local Vayu,
gives rise to Granthis (nodules) which may appear
below the navel, on the sides of the pelvis about the
region of the bladder or of the pubis. Severe piercing
pain (Sula) is felt about the region of the navel, the
stomach and the bladder and a sensation of pricking
with needle and cutting pain in the intestines.
At the same time the abdomen becomes distended
with the retention of urine. Theic arc the symptoms
of Makkalla. In such a case, a decoction of the drugs
of the Virataj-oddi 6^rt/z