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468 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXlI.
the tooth is found to be loose (in the socket , the
loose tooth should be extracted, and the cavity
cauterised with fire or an alkali (for the purpose
of arresting the bleeding). An oil cooked with the
pastes (Kalka) of Viddri, Yaskti-inadhu, S'ringdtaka,
and Kas'eruka and with ten times its own weight of
milk should be administered as an errhine (in such
cases). The course of treatment in a ca.se of Hanu-
moksha is the same as in one of facial paralysis. 24-27.
A person suffering from any affection of the teeth
should refrain from taking acid fruits, cold water, dry
(Ruksha) food, excessively hard articles of food and
from brushing his teeth (with a twig). The treatment
i'of the curable types of tooth-diseases has be'.n thus
described above, we shall now (proceed to) describe the
treatment of the curable types of tongue-diseases. 28 29.
Treatment of Tongue-diseases ;— In
the Vataja type of JiliV£i-kantaka (.Papilla), the
treatment should be the same as in the case of
Vataja Oshtha-kopa. In the Pittaja type (of Jihva
kantaka), the vitiated blood should be made to secrete
from the affected organ by rubbing it with any article of
rough surface (such as the leaves of S'dkhotaka, etc.), and
the drugs of the Madhira (Kakolyadi) group should be
used for gurgles and errhines, as well as for being rubbed
over (Prati-sarana) the affected organ, In the Kaphaja
type (of Jihva-kantaka), the organ should be bled by
scarifying it (with a Mandala patra and such other
instrument) ; it should then be rubbed with the
powders of the drugs of the Pippalyddi group mixed
with honey. A compound of powdered white mustard-
seed and Saindhava should be administered as
gurgles (Kavala), and the patient should be made
to take his food with the soup of Patola, Nimba,