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292 TJ'E SUSHRUTA SAMIllTA. [Chap. IV.
numbed, painful or contracted and the affected part
should be firmly ban daged thereafter with a piece of
Kshauma* linen ( r woollen cloth. As an alternative,
the affected part should be plastered (and well rubbed)
with the ingredients of the Sdlvana-Upanaha and inserted
into a bag made of cat or mungoosc skin or that of a
camel or deer hide. i6.
The aggravated Vayu, if located in the shoulders, the
chest, the sacrum i^Trika) or the Manya, should be subdued
by emetics and errhincs judiciously employed. Siro-Vasti
should be applied to the head of the patient as long as it
would take one to utter a thousand Matras (a short vowel
sound), more or less, as the case may require, where the
aggravated Vayu would be found to have located itsellf
in the head, (if necessary) blood-letting should be
resorted to. As a mountain is capable of obstructing the
passage of the wind, so the Sneha-Vasti (oily enema) is
alone capable of resisting the action of the aggravated
Vtiyu whether it extends throughout the whole system
or is confined to a single part. 17-19
Measures beneficial to Vata-Vyadhl:
—An application of Sneha, fomentations, anointment of
the body, Vasti, oily purgatives, Siro-vasti, the rubbing of
oils on the head, oily fumigation, gargling with tepid oil,
oily errhines, the use of meat-soup, milk, meat, clarified
butter, oil and other lardaceous articles (of food), all
kinds of acid fruits, salt, lukewarm washes, gentle
massage, the use of saffron, Agttra^ Patra, Kushtha, Eld^
Tagara, the wearing of woollen, silken, cotton or any
other thick kind of garments, living in a warm room or
in one not exposed to the wind or in an inner chamber,
the use of a soft bed, basking in the glare of fire, entire
sexual abstinence, these and such like other things
* Some lead it as Valka, i.e., made up bark.