Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. I.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 257
purification of the sore of a long-standing ulcer which is
of an indurated character with its margin raised higher
(than the surrounding skin), and is marked by itching
and a stubborn resistance to all purifying medicines. So.
Agni- Karma (actual cauterization) :—An ulcer
incidental to an act of lithotomic operation allowing the
urine to dribble out through its fissure, or one marked
by excessive bleeding, or in which the connecting ends
have been completely severed, should be actually cauter-
ised with fire. 8i
Krishna- Karma
: -The blackening of a
white cicatrix, which is the result of a bad or defective
granulation, should be made (after the complete healing
up of the ulcer) in the following manner. Several Bhalld'
taka seeds should be first soaked in the urine of a cow
(and then dried in the sun, this process should be
repeated for seven days consecutively), after which they
should be kept (a week) immersed in a pitcher full of
milk. After that the seeds should be cut into two and
placed in an iron pitcher. Another pitcher should be
buried in the ground with a thin and perforated lid
placed over its mouth, and the pitcher containing the
seeds should be placed upon it with its mouth downward
(so that the mouths of the two pitchers might meet), and
then the meeting place should be firmly joined (with
clay). This being done a cow-dung fire should be lit
around the upper pitcher. The oily matter (melted by
the heat) and dribbling down from the Bhallataka seeds
into the underground pitcher should be slowly and care-
fully collected. The hoofs of village animals (such as
horses, etc.) and those which live in swamps (An upas —
such as buffaloes, etc.) should be burnt and pounded
together into extremely fine powder. The oil (of the
Bhallataka seeds collected as above) should then be
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