Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

506 THE SUSIIRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXV.
S'ydmd and Arka pasted together (with cow's urine\
or with the pastes of Karanja-sQzd, Ingudi seed, Kutaja
and Aragvadha (pasted with cow's urine). Mustard oil
cooked* with the admixture of all the foregoing drugs
and with Markka, Nhnba-\ca,\Q.s and wax, proves effi-
cacious as unguents (in such cases). 14-15-
In cases where the ear-lobes are affected and have
become either thin, or hard, an ointment should be
applied to them in order respectively to increase their
growth, or to soften them. 16.
The marrow of a jackal and of an animal frequenting
and living in swampy grounds (Anupa, such as a buffalo,
etc.), together with lard^ oil and fresh clarified butter,
should be cooked with a quantity of milk weighing ten
times their combined weight and with the drugs of the
Madhura (Kakolyadi) group, As'va-gandhd and Apdmdrga
and LdkshdRasa (decoction or infusion of
Ldksha). The oil thus prepared should be filtered
and preserved carefully in an earthen pitcher. The
affected ear-lobes should be constantly fomented and
well-lubricated with it. The use of this medicated oil
helps the growth of the ear-lobes and makes them
healthy, soft, smooth, painless, evenly developed and
capable of bearing the weight of ear-pendants. 17.
Treatment of Palita :— The expressed
juice of the Bhringa-rdja and (the decoction of) Triphald,
powders of indigo leaves, Arj'una-hark, Bhringa-rdja,
Pirtditaka, black-iron, flowers of the Vija and of Saha-
chara, Haritaki, Vibhitaka and Amalaka mixed together
and pasted with a quantity of mud found adher.:nt
to lotus-bulbs weighing as much as the combined
* Dallana says that this oil should be cooked with cow's urine
weighing four times as much as the oil.