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CHAPTER XVI.
Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment
of Abscesses and Tumours (Vidradhi). i.
Of the six types of Vidradhis, the one of the Sanni-
pdtika type should be regarded as incurable In all
other types curative measures* should be speedily
resorted to in their unsuppurated stage, as in the treat-
ment of a case of Sopha (inflammatory swelling or
boil). 2.
Treatment of Vataja-Vidradhi :— in
a case of Vataja Vidradhi, a compact or thick plaster
(Alcpa) composed of pasted Murangi-rooti,-\ mixed
with clarified butter, oil and lard (Vasa), should be
applied lukewarm. The flesh of the animals which
frequent swamps and marshes as well as of aquatic ani-
mals boiled with the drugs of the Kdkolyddi group,
Kanjika, salt, barley powder and Sneha (clarified
butter, &c.), should be applied as a poultice (Upandha\.
and the affected part should be constantly fomented
with (warm) Ves'avAra, Kris'ara, milk and Payasa.
Blood-letting should also be resorted to. 3.
If, in spite of the use of the preceding remedies,
suppuration should begin to set in, suppurating measures
should be resorted to and the abscess (finally) lanced
* Commencing with Apatarpana up to purgative measures (Chikitsa,
chapter.— 1).
\ Both Dallana and Chakrapani Datta read "Vafcighna" in place of
"Murangi"of the text. Dallana explains the term "Vat aghna" as the
•'Bhadra-darvadi group" and S'iva-dasa, the commentator of Chakrapani,
explains it as the "Das'a-mula". Both of them, however, say that he
different reading is "Surangi" meaning "S'obhanjana." "Murangi" also
means "S'obhdnjana."— Ep.