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Chap. XXII.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 467
We shall now proceed to describe the medicinal remedies
to be employed in the diseases which confine them-
selves exclusively to the teeth 18-21.
Treatment of the diseases of Tooth
proper : —A case of Danta-harsha yields to the
use of any lukewarm Sneha * or the Traivrita-ghrita
(mentioned in Chapter V), or of the decoction of the
Vayu-subduing drugs as gurgles (Kavala). An applica-
tion of Snaihika Dhuma (emulsive fumes) and the use
of snuff (Nasya), emuhive articles of food, meat soups,
gruel prepared with meat (Rasa-Yavagu), milk, milk-
cream, clarified butter, Siro-vasti and the other Vayu-
subduing measures generally prove efficacious. 22.
In a case of Dauta Sarkara (Tartar-calcareous
deposits on the teeth), the deposit should be removed
in such a way as not to hurt the roots of the tooth, after
which the part should be dusted (Prati-sarana) with
powdered Ldkshd with honey. All the remedies men-
tioned in connection with the treatment of Danta-
harsha may as well be employed in this disease. 23
Treatment of Kapalika, etc. : -These
remedies are also efficacious in a case of KapJllikai
(caries of the tooth) which is extremely hard to cure.
In a case of Krimi-Danta (worm-eaten tooth) found to
be firm and unloosed (in its socket), the affected tooth
should be fomented, and the accumulation [i. e., the pus,
blood, etc.) should be removed. It should then be treated
with some Vayu-subduing errhines of the Ava-pida
form and with emollient gurgles (Gandusha), as well as
with plasters, prepared with VarsJidbhu and the drugs
of the Bhadra-Ddrvddi group and with a diet of
emulsive articles of food. In the case, however, where
* All the four kinds of Sneha should be used separately or
combinedly.