Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. X[,] CHIKITSA STHANAM. ITJ
should be prescribed for a rich or royal patient of
injudicious conduct and refusing to take medicines ;
or he should be made to drink frequent potions of
Madhvika liquors (prepared from honey) * with meat
roasted on gridiron over a charcoal fire. Food and drinks
mixed with honey, Kapittha and pepper should be
prescribed for him. 8.
The powdered dung of a camel, a mule, or an ass
should be administered to him in food ; he should take
his meal with soups saturated with a compound of
asafoetida and Saindhava salt or with mu.stard prepara-
tions (Raga). * His food and drink should be fragrant
and well flavoured iwith ingredient not incompatible
with the nature of the disease. 9-10.
The practice of regular physical exercise, wrestling,
active sports, riding on a horse or an elephant, long
walks, pedestrial journeys, practising archery, casting
of javelines, etc., should be resorted to in a case where
the disease has made a decided advance. 11.
A poor and friendless patient should live on alms,
lead a life of perfect continence like an ascetic, forego
the use of shoes and umbrella and walk a hundred
Yojanas-j- or more on foot without staying for more than
one night at a single village. A rich man (suffering
from Prameha) should live on S'ydmaka, Kapittha,
Tinduka and As'mantaka and live among the deer.
He should constantly follow the tracks of cows and take
their dung and urine (for food and drink). A Brahman
patient should live on the grain, spontaneously fallen
from plants, constantly study the Vedas and draw
* Some read "?IT^:" i e. potherb ( of njustard ) in place of
"nr. I"
+ A Yojana is equal to eight miles.
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