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312 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. tChap. V.
adequate quantity of water), or clarified butter, thickened
or saturated with pulverised asafoetida and Yava-kshara
(Carbonate of Potass), in cases of Tuni and Prati-tuni.
Applications of Vastis should also be resorted to. 35.
In a case of Adhmana (Tympanites), the remedy
should consist in the applications of powders of the
Dipaniya (appetising) group, of suppositories (^Phala-varti ),
Vastis and digestive drugs (Pachaniya group). The
patient should also be advised to observe a rigid fast
and his abdomen should be fomented with hot palms.
After that he should break his fast with boiled rice pre-
pared with appetising (Dipana) drugs such as, Dhanyaka,
Jiraka, etc. Similarly, a case of Pratyatdhmana should
be treated with fasting, emetics and appetising drugs.
Cases of Ashthilai or Pratyashthila should be treated
as a case of Gulma and internal abscess, to all intents
and purposes. 36-38.
Hingvadi-Vati :— A compound consisting of
asafoetida, Trikatu, Vachd, Ajamodd, Dhanyd, Aja-
ga7idhd, Dddimba, Tiniidi> Patha, Chitraka, Yava-kshara,
Saindhava salt, Vid salt, Sauvarchala salt, Svarjikd-
kshdra, Pippali-mula, Amla-vetasa, S'athi, Pushkara-niula>
Hapushd, Chavyd, Ajdji and Pathyd, powdered together
and treated many times with the expressed juice of Mdtu-
lunga in the manner of Bhavana* saturation, should be
made into boluses, each weighing an Aksha (two TolAs)
in weight. One (such) pill should be taken (in an empty
stomach) every morning in all diseases of the deranged
Vayu. This compound proves curative in cough,
asthma, internal tumour (Gulma), ascites, heart-disease,
* " Bhavana" consists in soaking a powder or a pulverised compound
with the expressed juice or decoction of any drugs or with any liquid and
in getting it dry (generally), This process should be cotinued many limes
(generally seven times) in succesion.