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340 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. VIII.
A case of the ^itaponaka type occurring in a
person of timid disposition or of delicate constitution, is
extremely difficult to cure. Medicinal fomentations endowed
with the virtue of arresting secretion and alleviat-
ing pain, should be quickly applied (to the seat of the
disease). Fomentations with Kris'ara, or Payasa (por-
ridge), made with the aforesaid Svedaniya (diaphoretic)
drugs with a decoction of the drugs constituting the
Vthddi group, Vriks/iddam and roots of the castor-plant
mixed and boiled together with the flesh of the Lava,
Vishkira (a kind of bird) and that of animals living
in swampy or marshy land or aquatic in their habits
or Gramya animals, and then kept in an oily pitcher and
applied in the way of a Nddi-Sveda (fomentation through
Nadi or pipe), should be at once applied to the seat of
the ulcer. Sesamum, castor-seeds, linseed, Mds/ia-pu\se,
barley, wheat, mustard-seeds, salts and the Amla-Varga
(see Rasa Vijndniya chapter) should be boiled in a
saucer and the affected part or ulcer should be fomented
therewith. After being fomented, the patient should
drink (a potion consisting of) Kiishtha, salts (the five
officinal kinds of salts) Vachd, Hingu and Ajamoda
taken in equal parts and mixed with (an adequate
quantity of) clarified butter, grape-wine (Mdrdvika),
Kanjika (Amla), Sura or Sauviraka.* Subsequent to
that, the ulcer should be wetted with the Madhuka-o'\\
and the rectum should be washed with medicated oils
which would alleviate pain due to the action of the
deranged and aggravated Vdyu. The preceding
medicinal remedies tend to bring about the outflow or
evacuations of stool and urine through their natural
channels or courses, and undoubtedly alleviate all
acute and supervening distresses which specifically mark
* By the use of this potion the digestive power is increased.