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CHAPTER VII.
Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment
of urinary calculus, etc. (AsiTiari). r.
Metrical Texts : —Asmari (urinary calculus,
etc ) is a dangerous disease and is as fatal as death itself.
A case of recent origin (acute) proves amenable to
medicines, while an enlarged or chronic one requires
surgical operations. The remedial measures, in the
order of anointing, etc, should be employed in the first
or incipient stage of the disease, whereby the entire
defects with their causes [i.e., roots of the disease) would
be radically cured. 2,
Treatment of Vataja Asmari ".—Clarified
butter cooked with a decoction of Pdshdnabheda, Vasiika,
Vas'ira, As'mantaka, S'atdvari, S'vadamstrd, Vrihati,
Kantakdrikd, Kapotavamka, A'rtagala, Kakubha*^ Us'ira,
Kubjaka, Vrikshddani, Bhalluka, Vanina, S' dka-pJiala^
barley, Ktilattha, Kola and Kataka fruits and with the
Kalka of the drugs constituting the group of Ushakddi,
speedily brings about the disintergration of As'mari
(urinary calculi, etc.) due to the action of the deranged
V£bya. Milk, Yavagu (gruel), a decoction, soup, or an
alkali, properly prepared with the above Vayu-subduing
drugs should also be administered as food and drink
in the above cases. 3.
Treatment of Pittaja Asmari :— Simi-
larly a medicated clarified butter cooked with the
Chakradatta reads "Kopotavaktra" in place of "Kapotavamka"
"Kanchana" in place of 'Kakubha" ; and ''Gulmaka" in place of
"Kubjaka." From an examination of Dallana it appears that
"Kachchhaka" is also a reading of ''Kakubha."
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