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326 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. VI.
A ripe and fresh Bhallataka should be cut into two,
three or four pieces and a decoction should be made of
them in the usual way. The patient should be made
to drink four Tola weight of this cold every morning
after lubricating or anointing his tongue, palate and
lips with clarified butter, and should take his chief
meal with milk and clarified butter in the afternoon.
The number of BhallAtakas in preparing the decoction
should be increased by one every day till the fifth
day, (and the quantity of the decoction to be drunk
by the patient should be similarly increased). After
that, the number of Bhallatakas (and consequently
the quantity of the decoction to be taken) should be
increased by five every day. This method should be
followed till the number of the Bhallatakas reaches
seventy, after which it should be decreased every
day by five until it is reduced to j&VB Bhallatakas
only (and five Sukti measures of the decoction).
Subsequently the number of Bhallataka (and the dose)
should be diminished by one (and one Sukti measure
respectively) every day,until it is reduced to the original
one (and one Sukti measure). By taking a thousand
Bhallatakas in this manner, one may get rid of an attack
of any kind of Kushtha and Ars'as, and, having
become strong and healthy, may live for one hundred
years. i6.
Other forms of Bhallataka-yoga : —
The oil extracted from or pressed out of Bhallatakas,
in the manner laid down in the chapter on Dvi-vrana,
should be taken in a dose of one Sukti (four Tolas) every
morning. The patient, as in the preceding case, should
take his meal [ of boiled rice, milk and clarified
butter) after the digestion of the oil with a similar good
effect. As an alternative, oil should be extracted frorn