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310 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. V.
butter, cooked in combination with sixteen seers of
milk, two Pala weight of Sauvarchala salt and fifty of
Haritakis should be prescribed for the use of the patient.
All other remedial agents, possessing the virtue of
subduing the deranged Vayu and Kapha should be
likewise employed. 30.
Treatment of Ardita :—A patient suffering
from Ardita (facial Paralysis) should be treated with the
measures and remedies laid down under the head of
Vata-vyadhi in the event of his being found to be suffi-
ciently strong and capable of affording the neces-
sary expenses for his treatment. Errhines, Mastlkya-
S'iro-vasti, inhalation of the smoke (Dhuma-pana) from
medicated drugs, poulticing (Upanaha), unguents and
Nddi-sveda, etc., are the special features of the medical
treatment of this disease. After that, a decoction should
be made of the drugs constituting the groups of- Trina-
Pa7icha-mula, Mahd-Pancha-mula, Kdkolyddizxid. Viddri-
gandJiddi groups, aquatic bulbs, and the flesh of animals
which are aquatic in their habits (Audaka) and those
which frequent swampy places (Anupa), by boiling them
together with a Drona measure of milk and double the
quantity of water. The decoction should be considered
boiled when three quarter parts of its original weight of
the liquid has been evaporated and should then be
strained. The decoction thus prepared should be boiled
with a Prastha measure of oil (four seers) and be removed
from the fire when the oil is well mixed with the milk.
The compound (oil and milk) thus prepared should be
allowed to cool down and then churned. The churned
off cream (Sneha) .should be again boiled with the drugs
of the Madhura (Kdkolyddi) group, Masha-parni and
milk (four times that of the original oil). This
medicated oil is known as the KsMra-Taila and should