Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. II.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 269
with a piece of skin 01* hide in the Gophana or such
other form as would seem proper and beneficial and oil
should be poured over it. In the case of a wound on
the back the patient should be laid on his back, while in
the case of its occurring on the chest the patient should
be laid on his face.* 25-27.
In the case of a hand or a leg being carried away or
completely severed the wound should be cauterised with
the application of hot oil and bandaged in the manner
of a Kosha bandage and proper healing medicines
should be applied. An oil cooked with the eight drugs
Chandana, Padmaka, Rodhra, Utpala, Priyangu, Haridrd,
Madhuka, (Vasthimadhu) and milk, forms one of the
most efficacious healing (Ropana) agents A Kalka of
the thirteen drugs — Chandana, Karkatdkhya, the two
kinds of Sahd (Mugani and Mashani), Mdnsi, (D.R.
Mashahva, Somahva), Aniritd, Harenu, Mrindla
Triphald, Padmaka and Utpala should be cooked in
oil mixed with milk (four times that of oil) and the three
other kinds of oily matter (lard, marrow and clarified
butter) and this medicated oil should be used for
sprinkling over a wound of this type for the purpose of
healing (Ropana). 28.
Medical Treatment of Bhinna : —
Henceforth we shall deal with the medical treatment
of Bhinna (excised) wounds. A case of an excised eye
(Bhinna) should be given up as incurable. But in
the case where an eye (ball) instead of being completely
separated would be found to be dangling out (of its
* For the complete elimination of ihe deranged Doiha i.e., pus, elc ,
of the wound invloved in the case— Jejjata.
He who has got a wound on his back should be laid on his face and
he who has got an ulcer on his breast should be laid on his back
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