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Char- v.] CIIIKITSA STHANAM. 307
made. The decoction, thus prepared, should be mixed
with milk and fermented rice-grucl, etc., and then cooked
with an adequate quantity of clarified butter, oil, lard
and marrow by casting Kalka (^paste) of the Madhura
(Kakolyadi group) into it This TraivritaGhrita* (lit.
consisting of clarified butter with three other lardaceous
articles), thus prepared, should be administered to
Apatanaka-patients in potions and diet, in effusions
and immersions, in anointings and errhines, as well as
in Anuvasana measui'es. Diaphoretic measures should
be applied according to the prescribed rules. In a
case marked by an unusually aggravated condition of
the Vayu, the patient should be made to stand neck-deep
in a pit tolerably warmed or heated with burning husks,
and cow-dung. As an alternative, Palas'a leaves should
be strewn over a hot stone-slab or over a hot oven,
after having sprinkled wine over them, and the
patient should be laid full length upon these leaves, or
fomentations should be made with Ves'avdrdy Kris'ara
and Pdyasa. 24—25.
An oil, cooked in combination with the expressed
viz., the Vataghna drugs, Yava, Kola, Kulaltha and flesh. Others, again,
mean by the term "Pancha-varga" the five parts, viz., leaf, fruit, flower,
bark and root, of the Vataghna drugs mentioned in the sentence.
We have, however, the authority of Vagbhata and Chakradatta in our
side to accept the first view that the term "Audaka" is redundant, in-
asmuch as they have not read the word "Audaka" in their compilations.
—Ed.
' According to Dallana, four seers of clarified butter, oil, lard and
marrow (each weighing one seer), sixteen seers of Kanji, etc., sixteen seers
of milk, sixteen seers of the decoction and one seer of the Kalka (paste)
should be taken in its preparation. But Gayadasa is of opinion that
four seers of milk should be taken instead of sixteen seers.
Four seers of Ghrita, etc., four seers of milk, six seers of Kanji, six
seers of the decoction and one seer of the Kalka (paste) are generally
taken byexperienced physicians in its preparation.— Ed.