Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

352 THE SUSIIRUTA SAMIIITA. [Chap. IX.
roots of Bhadrd (Udumbara) and Malapu, The use
of this potion would produce blisters on the patches.
These blisters should be treated, after their bursting, with
a plaster (Pralepa) composed of the ashes of the burnt
skin of leopards and elephants and made into a thin
paste with (mustard) oil. A plaster composed of the
insect known as the Tuti and the Kshara (alkalij of
Aragvadha should be found to be the best remedy for
Svitra. 13
All kinds of Svitra arc found to readily yield to the
application of a medicinal plaster made of the black
ashes of a well-burnt cobra (Krishna-Sarpa) pasted with
the oil of Vibhitaka. The white ashes of the said cobra
mixed with one and a half time of its own weight of water
should be filtered seven times in the manner of preparing
an alkali. Mustard oil* should be cooked with this
alkaline water weighing four times as much. An appli-
cation of this oil proves curative in cases of Svitra. 14.
The Praptinndda seeds, KusJitha and Yashti-madhu
should be pasted together with clarified butter. The
plaster thus prepared should be given to a domestic
white cock, purposely kept without food for a day and
a half when it would evince any sign of hunger after the
period. The dung of the said cock should then be
collected after a full digestion of the said medicated
drugs and applied as plasters on the affected patches for
a month. It would bring about the cure (even) of
internali* Svitras. 15.
Well burnt ashes of the dung of an elephant^, mixed
* This is the best medicine for curing S'vitra.
t The internal S'vitras are those under the blisters produced by the
application of the remedy mentioned first in the list.
X S'ivadasa, the commentator of Chakradatta, says that some read
gj^jj^g^ in place of Tj^i^nil^ >n which case it would mean "S'amatha,"