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Chap. IX.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 349
The clarified butter cooked with (a Kalka and a decoc-
tion of) Bhalldtaka, Ahhayd and Vidanga, or (the medicinal
oils known as) the Tuvaraka Taila and the Bhallataka
Taila should be used in all types of Kushtha. 7-8.
The IVIaha-tikta Ghrita:— A paste or
Kalka should be made by pounding equal parts of
Saptapai'Tia^ AragvadJia^ AtivisJid^ Pdthd, Katu-rohini,
Amritd, Triphald, Patola, PicJm-marda, Parpataka^
Durdlabhd, Trdyamdyid^ Mustd, Chatidana, Padmaka,
Haridrd, Upakulyd, Vis'dld, Murvd, S'atdvari, S'drivd,
Indra-yava, Atarushaka, Shad^rantJid [z'acha), Madhuka,
Bhu-nbnha and Grishtikd*. This paste (Kalka) should be
cooked with four times its own weight of clarified butter,
with the juice oi Afnalaka, weighing twice as much as the
clarified butter and with water weighing four times the
quantity of the Amalaka juice. It should be constantly
stirred (with a ladle), while being cooked. This medi-
cated Ghrita is called the Maha-tikta Ghrita, which
proves curative in Kushtha, chronic fevers, haemorrhage,
heart-disease, insanity, Apasmara, Gulma, postular
eruptions, menorrhagia, goitre, scrofula, elephantiasis,
jaundice, erysipelas, impotency, itches and Pama, etc. 9.
The Tikta-Sarpih :—Two Pala weight of
each of the following drugs, viz., Triphald, Patola, Pichumarda,
Atarushaka, Katu-rohini, Durdlabhd^ Trdyamdnd
and Parpataka\ should be taken and boiled together in
a Drona measure of water. The boiling should be
continued till it is reduced to one fourth of its original
quantity. Then half a Pala weight of each of the
following drugs, viz., Trdyamdnd, Musta, Indra-yava, (red)
* Chakradatta does not read "Grishtika" but read "Ub'ira" instead.
He also lakes both the kinds of "Haridra," of ''Upakulya" (Pippali) and
of "Sariva".
t Chakradatta reads •'Nis'a" in addition to the above drugs.