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470 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXII.
Ingudi, Apdmdr^a, Danti, Sarald and Deva-ddru
should be pasted together and made into Vartis (sticks),
well flavoured by the addition of perfuming drugs.
Twice every day (once in the morning and again in the
evening), should the patient be made to inhale the
fumes of these burning Vartis (sticks) which have the
property of subduing the (deranged) Kapha, and
should be made to take the soup of Mudga boiled in
alkaline water.* In cases of Tundikeri, Adhrusha,
Kurma, Mamsa samgh^ta and Tailu pupputa, the pre-
ceding measures should be adopted, but the surgical
operation should vary with the nature of the particular
disease under treatment. 33-34.
Treatment of Talu-paka, etc. :—
Remedies which destroy the deranged Pitta should be
employed in Taklu-paika (suppuration of the palate)
while applications of Sneha (oil, etc.) and Sveda
(fomentations),as wellas V^yu-subduing measures should
be the remedies in a case of a Talu-Sopha (swelling
of the palate). The remedies to be employed in the
diseases affecting the palate have been thus described
above. Now hear me discourse on the remedial
measures in Kantha-Roga (diseases of the throat).
35-36.
Treatment of Throat-diseases :- In
a curable type of Rohini, blood letting and the
applications of emetics, gurgles, inhalations (of medi-
cated fumes) and errhines (Nasya) are efficacious.
In cases of Vj^taja Rohini, blood letting should
be first effected, and the affected part should then be
* The alkaline water to be used in the Mudga-soup should be pre-
pared from Yava-kshdra according to Dallana. But according to S iva-
dasa, alkaline water prepared from the ashes of Mushkaka, Apamarga,
etc., should be used.
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