Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XXVIL] CniKITSA STHANAM. 517
decoction* of Yashti-madhu. The pitcher should be
buried in a heap of ashes inside a closed room
during the rainy season and preserved there during the
four months of rain ;
after that period the pitcher should
be taken out (of the ashes). Its contents should then be
consecrated with (appropriate) Mantras by uttering them
a thousand times and should be taken every morning
in suitable quantities after the system has been thoroughly
cleansed (by appropriate emetics and purgatives, etc.).
The diet should consist of cooked rice and clarified
butter mixed with a copious quantity of the soup of
Mudga pulse 2.\\^ Amalaka cQoVt^ with a small quantity
of Sneha and salt ; and should be taken after the
digestion of the medicine. The patient should lie on
the ground (and not on a bedding). Worms would be
found to have been issuing out of the body after the
regular and continuous use of the medicine for a month,
which should be extracted with the aid of a pair of
bamboo tongs or forceps after the body had been anoint-
ed with the Anu-taila (described before) Ants would
be coming out of the body during the second, and ver-
mins (Yuka) in the third month of the use of the medi-
cine which should also be removed as in the preceding
manner. The hair, nails and teeth begin to fall off and
become dilapidated in the fourth month of its use. In
the fifth month the body beams with a divine glow,
becomes resplendent as the midday sun, and exhibits
features which specifically belong to the etherial being.
The ears become capable of hearing the faintest and
remotest sound (under its use), and the vision extends
far into space and beholds objects at a great range
* Dallana explains the term Madhukodakottara to mean a large
quantity of Madhuka and water, (and by water he means the decoction of
Vidanga),