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394 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XIV.
seeds and Khtva should be applied (hot) to the ab-
domen. The diet should consist of (boiled rice well-
mixed with) Kulattha soup (Yusha), profusely seasoned
with powdered Trikatu, or of Pdyasa ; and the abdomen
should be frequently fomented. 6.
Treatment of Dushyodara :— in a case
of Dushyodara, the patient should be treated without
giving any hope of a positive cure. Purgatives with
clarified butter, cooked with the expressed juice of
the Saptaid and S'ainkhini, should be first administered
(continuously) for a fortnight or even a month ; or clarified
butter, cooked with the milky juice of the Mahd-
vriksha, and with wine and cow's urine, should be simi-
larly used as a purgative. A Kalka made up of the roots
of the As'vamdraka, Gtmj'd and Kdkddani mixed with
wine (Sura), should be given after the bowels had begun
to move freely. As an alternative, a Krishna- Sarpa (black
lance-hooded cobra) should be enraged to bite a sugarcane
and this piece of sugarcane should be given to the patient
to chew (and suck) ; or the fruits of creepers (Valli-phala)
should be used (in the preceding manner) ; or poisonous*
roots and- bulbs should be prescribed, whereby the
disease may be cured or may take a dififerent turn. 7.
IVIemorable Verse:— A case of abdominal
dropsy (.Udara) of whatsoever type should be presumed
to have its origin in an aggravation of the bodily
Vayu and an accumulation of fsecal matter in the
bowels ; hence frequent use of Anulomana (purgatives,
etc.) is recommended in this disease. 8.
• If this be not done, the patient is sure to die ; but it is not certain
whether he would get any relief from this treatment. It being, however,
possible in some cases to save the life of a patient by the application
of this medicine, it should be used, as the last resort with the permission
of the king.— Dallana.