Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

550 THE SUSIIRIJTA SAMTTITA. [Chhp. IX.
Chandana, Kirdta and Pippali should be pasted together.
This pasted Kalka and the decoction should be cooked
with aPrastha measure of clarified butter. The medicated
Ghrita thus prepared is called the Tikta-Sarpih. Dis-
eases such as Kushtha, chronic fever, Gulma, Haemor-
rhoids, Grahani, edema, jaundice, erysipelas and impo-
tency readily yield to the curative efficacy of this
Ghrita. lo.
lYIedicinal Plasters for Kushtha :—
Having first soothed the patient with any of the pre-
ceding medicated clarified butters and having his body
fomented, the surgeon should have recourse to the veni-
section. One, two, three, four, or five s'irds (veins) of the
patient may be opened (according to the circumtances).
The raised or elevated patches on the skin should be
scraped off, or should be kept constantly covered with a
medicinal plaster. As an alternative, the characteristic
patches of the disease should be first rubbed with
the substance known as the Samudra-plmia or with the
leaves of S'dka, Goj'i, or Kdkodmnhara and a plaster
(Lepa) composed of Ldkshd, Sarja-rasa, Rasdjij'atta,
Prapicnndda, Avalguja, Tejovati and the roots of.
As'va-mdraka , Arka, Kutaja, and Arevata, pasted with
the urine or bile of a cow, should be applied to them; or
Svarjikd, sulphate of copper, sulphate of iron, Vidanga,
Agara-dhuma, Chitraka, Katuka, Sud/id, turmeric and
Saindhava pounded together with the urine or bile of a
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cow should be applied to the diseased localities.
As an alternative, the alkali, prepared from the ashes
of Palds'a wood in the prescribed manner, should
be boiled with the powders of the preceding drugs ;^ it
should be removed from the oven after reducing it to
the thickness or consistency of a Phanita and usedm
plastering (the diseased patches) ; or a plaster composed