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Chap. VI.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 323
A medicated Takra should also be prepared with
Pippaliy Pippali-mula, Ckavya, Chitraka, Vidanga,
S'unthi and Haritaki, in the manner described above,
(and given to the patient), who should abstain from
taking any solid food, but live only on (this) Takra for a
period of one full month ; or he should be given milk
boiled with a decoction of S'ringavera, Ptinarnavd and
Chitraka^ or a condensed decoction (Phanita) of the
bark of Kutaja roots mixed with an after-throw of the
powdered drugs of the Pippalyddi group and honey.
The patient should be made to partake of the medicinal
compound known as the Hing'vadi-churna,* described
in the chapter on Maha-Vata-vyadhi, and be made to
live either on milk, or on Takra. As an alternative, he
should take Kuhndsha boiled in Ksharodaka (alkaline
water) prepared from Chitmka- roots, and made saline
with a liberal after-throw of Yava-kshara ; or he should
take milk boiled with the Ksharodaka (alkaline water)
prepared from Chitraka-roots, or Kulmasha boiled with
the alkaline water prepared from the ashes of burnt
Paldsa ;
or he should drink frequent potions of clarified
butter mixed with the alkali made of the ashes of either
Patola, Apdmdrga, Vrihati, or Paldsd wood ; or drink
Takra mixed with the Kalka of the roots of Kutaja and
of Vanddka ; or take the alkaline water of Putika
mixed with a Kalka of Chitraka, Putika and Ndgara ;
or use the clarified butter boiled in an alkaline solution^
with the powdered drugs of the Pippalyddi group,
* In a preponderance of Vayu and Kapha, Takra should be taken as
diet ; whereas milk should be taken in a case of the preponderance of
vitiated blood.
t During the period when the above mentioned alkaline preparations
are used, the diet of the patient should consist of clarified butter, milk
and meat-soup for fear of the loss of the OJo-Dhatu,