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Chap. XVI.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 413
with a knife. Cleansing measures should then be applied
to the (incidental) ulcer. After incision, the ulcer
should be washed with a decoction of the PancJia-mula ;
and an oil cooked with the drugs of the Bhadra-ddrvddi
group and Fd-i'/z/z'-wrr^^/Z/w, and, mixed with an abundant
quantity of salt, should be used in filling (healing up)
the cavity of the wound. The cleansing of the ulcer
should be effected with the powdered VairecJianika
(purgative) drugs mixed with Traivrita* and the
healing should be effected with Traivrita cooked with
the drugs of the Prithak-parnyddi group. 4-6.
Treatment of Pittaja Vidradhi:— in a
case of Pittaja Vidradhi a plaster (Pradeha) composed
of sugar, fried paddy, Yashti-Madlm and Sdrivd pasted
with milk should be applied. As an alternative, a
plaster composed of Payasyd, Us'ira and (red) sandal
wood pasted with milk should be used. Cold infusions
of Pdkya (Yava-kshara), sugarcane-juice and milk, and
jivaniya-Ghrita mixed with sugar should be used in
affusing the abscess. The patient should be advised to
lick a lambative composed of powdered Haritaki
and Jrivrit saturated with honey ; and leeches should
be applied (to an unsuppurated) abscess for letting out
the blood. An intelligent surgeon should (lance a
suppurated abscess and) wash the incidental ulcer with a
decoction of Kshira- Vriksha or of aquatic bulbs.
Poultices of sesamum and Yashti-Madhu mixed with
honey and clarified butter should then be applied to
it and bandaged with a piece of thin linen. Clarified
butter cooked with Prapazmdarika, Manjishtha,
Yashti-Madhu, Us'ira, Padmaka, Haridrd and milk,
* "Traivrita" is a technical term and means clarified butter mixed
with the three other lardacious substances, viz., oil, lard and marrow.
Vide Chikitsita Sthanam. Chapter—V.