Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XXVI.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 513
milk should be taken. This compound would make even
an old man of eighty sexually as vigorous as ayouth. 7-8
The testes of a he-goat or of a porpoise mixed with
salt and po^vdered long-pepper, and fried in clarified
butter should be taken for speedy and effective
aphrodisiac purposes. The eggs of a tortoise, of an
alligator, or of a crab,* or the semcn-f of a male
buffalo, of a he-ass, or of a he-goat should be similarly
taken for the same purpose. 9.
Milk boiled and cooked witii the sprouts, bark,
roots and fruit of an As'vattha tree, should be sweeten-
ed with sugar and honey, and taken ; this enables a
man to enjoy sexual pleasures like a sparrow. The
powdered bulbs of Viddri, weighing an Udicmbara (one
Told) in measure, and taken with milk and clarified
butter,^ would make an old man young again A
Pala measure of the pulverised Mdsha pulse, mixed
with honey and clarified butter should be licked and
a potion of milk should then be taken ; this would
make a man sexually as strong as a horse. Wheat and
Atma guptd seeds should be boiled in milk, and taken,
when cold, with clarified butter, and a potion of milk
should then bs taken for the same purpose. 10-13.
Clarified butter should be boiled with eggs or
the testes (as the case might be) of alligators, mice, frogs
and sparrows. By lubricating the soles of the feet
with this Ghrita, a man would be able to visit a woman
with undiminished vigour so long as he would not touch
the ground with his feet. 14.
* Some explain '-^^^1^'' as house-sparrows.
t Here semen would mean the testes, the receptacle of the semen.
+ Some read *'3|%«t" (boiled) in place of •'§?(?{". In that case the
boiled milk only should be taken and no clarified butler should be
added thereto.
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