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CHAPTER XIX.
Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment of
hernia, hydrocele, scrotal tumour, etc. (Vriddhi),
diseases of the genital organ (UpadamS'a) and
elephantiasis (^lipada). i.
In the six types of Vriddhi other than the one
known as the Antra-Vriddhi (Hernia), riding on horse
back, etc., excessive physical labour, fastings, sitting in an
unnatural position, constant walking, voluntary restraint
of any natural urging (for stool and urine, etc.), sexual
intercourse and eating of food difficult of digestion
should be avoided. 2.
Treatment of Vataja Vriddhi :— In
the Vataja type of Vriddhi, the patient should be first
soothed (Snigdha) with the application of Traivrita
Ghrita (vide, Chap. V. Chikitsita Sthana). He should then
be duly fomented and subjected to a proper course of
purgatives. As an alternative, he should be made to
drink the expressed oil of the Kos'dnira, Tilvaka, or
Eranda (castor) oil (as a purgative) with milk for a month.
A decoction of the Vayu subduing drugs mixed with
the powders of the same drugs should then be employed
by an experienced physician at a proper time * in
the manner of a Niruha Vasti. The patient should
then be made to take a meal (of boiled rice along with
meat soup ; and oil cooked with Yashti mad/ni should be
applied (in the manner of an Anuvasana measure).
* After a period of one week from the time of the application of
purgatives and in case the patient is strong enough to undergo the
Niruha Vasti measure.