Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XV.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 409
Diet and regimen of conduct :—The
mother should always be neat and clean and subjected
to a course of a small quantity of wholesome and
emollient diet and to daily anointments and foment-
ations ; and
she should be advised to renounce all anger.
Milk cooked with the Vayu-subduing drugs should be
used for the first ten days. Meat-soup should then be
prescribed for another such period, after which a diet
should be prescribed according to the patient's health
and nature. This regimen should be observed for a
period of four months, after which, the patient would
be found to have regained her health, strength and
glow of complexion, without any complications, when the
medical treatment, etc ,
should be discontinued. 12-14.
The following Vala-Taila should be used for apply-
ing into the Yoni (Vagina, etc.), for anointing the body
and for drinking and eating purposes (i.e., along with
other food) as well as for Vasti-Karma, as the oil is
highly efficacious in curbing the action of the deranged
and aggravated bodily Vaiyu. 15— A.
The Vala Taila : -* An adequate quantity of
sesamum oil should be cooked with eight times as much
of the decoction of each of the following ; viz., Va/d
roots, Das'a-mtila and the three combined drugs of Yava,
Kola and Kulattha and with eight times as much of
milk and (one-fourth as much of) a paste (Kalka) com-
pound of the drugs included in the Madhura group as
well as with Saindhava-sdXt, Agut-u, Sarfa-rasa, Sarala-
KdsJitha^ Deva-ddru, Manjishthd, Chandana, Kushtha,
* P'our seers of sesamun oil, thirty-two seers of the decoction of the
Vala-roots, thirty-two seers of the decoction of Das'a-niula, thirty-two
seers of the decoction of the drugs Yava, Kola and Kulattha taken
together, thirty-two seers of milk and one seer of the paste compound
(Kalka) should be taken in the preparation of the oil.
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