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Chap. II] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 2'J\
medicinally with Yashti maddu, Ldkshd and Gokshura,
mixed with (a proper quantity of) sugar and castor oil
(as Prakshepa)* is equally commendable for the alle-
viation of the pain and the burning sensation, (in the
wound or ulcer). The fat-lump (pariental fat) afore-
said causes a rumbling sound with pain in the abdomen
and may prove even fatal in the event of its being left
uncut. The medicated oil to be mentioned hereafter
in connection with Medaja-Granthi should be applied
in such cases. 30-32
Foreign bodies (^Salya) piercing into any of the
Koshthas after having run through the (seven layers ofj
skin, whether passing through the veins, etc , (muscles,
nerves, bones or joints or not, produces the distressing
symptoms described before (^Ch. III.— Sutra). The blood
(of the affected chamber or receptacle) in such case lies
incarcerated therein in the event of its failing to find an
outlet and causes a paUor of the face and a coldness of the
extremities and of the face in the patient. Respiration
becomes cold, the eyes red-coloured, the bowels consti-
pated and the abdomen distended. The manifestation
of these symptt)ms indicates the incurable character of
the disease. 33-34.
• This explanation is given on the authority of old Vagabhata.
Dallana, however, explains the verse in a different way. He explains it
to mean two different preparations of milk— one with Yashti-madhu and
mixed with sugar and castor oil as a Prakshepa and the other with
Gokshura and mixed with Laksha and castor oil as a Prakshepa.
A thiid in'erprjtation would make three preparations of milk prepared
separately with Yashli-madhu, Laksha and Gokshura—sugar and castor
oil being mixed in the first (as Prak.hepa) and castor oil alone in the
second and third.
A fourth preparation would be to prepare the milk separately wiih
Yasblimadhu, Laksha and Gokshura as in the preceding case— without the
addition of castor oil (as Prakshepa).