Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. X.] CHIKITSA STHANAM: 369
the Khadira tree would naturally settle down into the
pitcher (through the principal root). When the pitcher
is filled up, the juice should be collected and
filtered and then kept in another vessel with its lid
carefully closed and sealed. The extract so pre-
served should be taken in proper doses with honey, clari-
fied butter and the expressed juice of Amalaka. The
patient should be made to take such diet and observe
such regimen of conduct, as has been prescribed in
connection with the use of Bhallattaka compounds, after
the digestion of the medicine. A Prastha measure of
this remedy gradually taken by a man enables him to
live a hundred summers. 15.
Khadira-Ssira-Kalpa :—A decoction made
by boiling a Tula weight of the essential part (Sara) of the
Khadira tree with a Drona measure of water and boiled
down to a sixteenth part of its original quantity should
be kept in a vessel with its mouth tightly closed.
An adequate quantity of this decoction should be taken
every day with honey, clarified butter and the expressed
juice of Amalaka. The present method should be
adopted with the extract from the essential parts (Sara)
of all other medicinal trees. 16.
Every morning the patient should be made to take
an adequate dose of the powders of Khadira-sara,
or its decoction, until a Tula weight is consumed, or
he should be made to take a potion of the clarified
butter churned from the milk of a ewe and cooked in
a decoction of Khadira-sara. As an alternative
the expressed juice or a decoction oi Amrita-valli, or
clarified butter cooked, with that juice or decoction,
should be taken every morning. The patient should
every afternoon take a meal of boiled rice with clari-
fied butter and Ainalaka-so\x^. A constant use of this
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