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396 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. tChap. XIV.
Haritaki should be soaked with the milky juice of the
Snuhi plant (and dried in the sun). Utkdrikd should
now be preapared with this compound and given to the
patient. lo.
The Haritaki Ghrita:—A Prastha mea-
sure of powdered Haritaki should be mixed with an
Adhaka measure of clarified butter and heated over a char-
coal fire by stirring it up quickly with a ladle ; when well
mixed, the compound should be poured into an earthen
pitcher, which should be kept well corked and buried
in a heap of barley for a fortnight. The pitcher should
then be taken out and the compound should be
strained and cooked again with an adequate * quantity
of the decoction of Haritaki^ Kdnjika (fermented
rice-gruel) and curd. The patient should use this medi-
cine for a month or a fortnight in proper doses and
with adequate vehicles, ii.
The IVIahai-vriksha Ghrita:—A quantity
of the milky juice (one fourth of the cow's milk in quanti-
ty) of the Mahd-vriksha (Snuhi plant), should be boiled
with cow's milk. Then it should be removed from the oven,
cooled down and churned (with a churning rod). The
butter thus prepared and cooked again with the milky
exudations of the Mahd-vriksha (and an adequate
quantity of water) should be given to the patient for
a month or a fortnight in adequate doses and with
proper vehicles. 1 2.
The Chavyadi Ghrita :—Half aKarsha (one
Tola) measure of each of the following drugs,w^., Chavya,
Chitraka, Danti, Ativishd, Ha7'idrd, S'amkhini^ Irivrit
and Trikatu, together with an eight Karsha measure of
the inner pulps of the fruit (seeds) of the Rdfa-vriksha,
* Each of the three things (liquids) should be four times as much as
the clarified butter.