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484 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXIV.<br />

Combing" the hair improves its growth, removes<br />

dandriff and dirt, and destroys the parasites of the scalp.<br />

Pouring oil (Karna-purana) into the cavities of the ears<br />

is highly efficacious in pains of the jaws (Hanu and of<br />

the Manyd, and acts as a good cure for head -ache and<br />

ear-ache. Anointing (Abhyanga) the body (with oil,<br />

etc ) imparts a glossy softness to the skin, guards<br />

against the aggravation of the Vayu and the Kapha,<br />

improves the colour and strength and gives a tone to the<br />

root-principles (Dhatus) of the body. * I5-I7-<br />

Parishcka :—Affusing the body (Parisheka)<br />

removes the sense of fatigue, and brings about the<br />

adhesion of broken joints. It alleviates the pain which<br />

usually attends burns, scalds, bruises and lacerations, and<br />

subdues the actions of the deranged Vdyu. Sneha (oil)<br />

affused on the human organism imparts a tone and vigour<br />

to its root-principles (Dhatus), in the same manner as<br />

water furnishes the roots of a tree or a plant with the<br />

necessary nutritive elements, and fosters its growth,<br />

when poured into the soil where it grows. The use of<br />

Sneha (oil, etc.) at a bath causes the Sneha to penetrate<br />

into the system through the mouths of the veins (Siras)<br />

and the ducts (Dhamanis) of the body, as also through<br />

* Rubbed on the body and allowed to stand or kept unwiped, the<br />

Sneha (oil) reaches down the skin, through the hair-follicles in the course<br />

of time necessary to utter four hundred Matras. It reaches the principle<br />

of blood in the course of that necessary to utter five hundred Matrds,<br />

and to the principle of flesh in the course of that necessary to utter six<br />

hundred Matrds. It penetrates further to the principle of fat in the<br />

course of that necessary to utter seven hundred Matras, and to the<br />

principle of bone in the course of that necessary to utter eight hundred<br />

Matrds, and lastly to the principle of marrow in the course of that<br />

necessary to utter nine hundred Matrds. It successively cures the diseases<br />

respectively located in those principles.— Dallana.

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