Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

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salt dissolved in the decoction >f the Pippalyddi Gana
of a conipound made of the powdered drugs of the latter
Gana with Sura-manda ;
of the powders of cardamom
and PanchiZ-kolas dissolved in the decoction of the
drugs of the Varunddi Gana ; of the powders of pepper
and Bhadraddru dissolved in the decoction of the
Prithakparnyddi Gana ; or of pulverized T^'ikafu,
Chaturjdtaka and Kiistumbuni mixed with old treacle ;
or of simple Arishta, should be prescribed. 19.
IVIanagcment of the Child: -The baby
being wrapped up in silk should be laid on a bed covered
with a silken sheet ; it should be fanned with the
branches of a Pilu, Nimha, Vadari, or Parushaka tree.
A (thin") pad (Pichu) soaked in oil should be constantly
kept on the head of the child, and its body should be
fumigated with the fumes of drugs {e,g., Vacha, mustard,
etc.) potent enough to keep off the (evil) influences of
demons and evil spirits. The same drugs should be tied
round the neck, hands, legs and head of the infant and
the floor of the lying-in room should be kept strewn
over with pounded sesamum, mastard, linseed [Atasi). A
fire should also be kept kindled in the chamber. Measures
laid down in the chapter on the nursing of an Ulcer-
patient (chapter IX. Sutra.) should be observed in the
present case as well. 20.
Then on the tenth day of its birth the parents having
performed the necessary rites of benediction and cele-
brated the occasion with suitable festivities, shall give
the child a name of their own choice or one determined
by its natal a'trism, etc. 21.
Lactation and selection of a wetnurse
: -For the healthy grovth of the child a wet-
nurse should be selected from among the matrons of
its own caste (Varna\ and possessed of the following
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