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300 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. V.
parts and pounded separately ; and the paste of the
following drugs, viz., Kdkoli, Kshira-kdkoli, /ivaka,
Rishabhaka^ Vald, Ati-vald, Visa-mrindla (lotus stem),
Pris'niparni, Mesha-s'ringi, Piydla, S'arkard (sugar),
Kas'eruka, Surabhi, and Vachd should be mixed with
each of the preceding powders and each of these
compounds (so formed) should be boiled with milk,
oil, lard, marrow and clarified butter. The fiv'c
compounds, thus prepared, arc called Payasas, which
should be applied as a hot poultice (Upandha) to
the affected part ; or an Utkarika, made of the pulp
of oily fruit (seeds) * (prepared by cooking them with
milk) should be applied ; or powders of wheat, barley,
sesamum, Mudga pulse, or Masha pulse, and Vcsavdra,
made of various kinds of fish and flesh, should be used
as a plaster. Vilvapes'ikd, Tagara, Deva-ddni, Sarald,
Rdsnd, Haremi, Ktishtha, S'ata-pushpd, Eld, Surd and
cream of milk-curd pasted together, should be applied
to the affected part as a plaster (Upanaha'. As an
alternative, the expressed juice of Matulunga, mixed with
Kanjika, Saindhava salt and clarified butter, pasted to-
gether with the root of the Madhii-s'igru and with sesa-
mum,-f should be used in a similar way. The preceding
remedies should be administered in a case of Vata-Rakta
maikedbya preponderance of the aggravated Vdyu. 8.
Vsita-Rakta with a preponderance
of Pitta : —In cases of Vata-Rakta where the Pitta
preponderates, the patient should be made to drink a
potion consisting of a decoction of Drdkshd, Aragvadha,
Katphala, Kshira-viddri, Yashti-madhii, Chandana and
Kds ;«(^?2)'« sweetened with a quantity of sugar and honey.
* Such as sesamum, castor«seed, linseed, Vibhitaka-seeds, etc.
t Some say that a paste of sesamum only should be used as ^
\ separate plaster.