Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XXVIII.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. $2^
to take in the evening Yavagu (gruel) without any salt
or with boiled milk in the event of his being habituated
to its use, A continuous use of the medicine for a
week improves the memory, leads to the expansion of
the intellectual faculties and imparts a celestical glow
to the complexion. In the second week of its course it
revives old and forgotten memories in the user and adds
to his proficiency in the writing out of any book to
be written. In the third week it enables a man to repro-
duce from memory as many as one hundred words if
twice heard or read at a single sitting". In the same
manner a (further) use of the drug for twenty-one days
removes all inauspicious features whether of the body
or of the mind, the goddess of learning appears in an
embodied form to the (mind of the) user, and all kinds
of knowledge come rushing into his memory. A single
hearing is enough to make him reproduce {verdattm
from memory a discourse however lengthy, and he is
enabled to live for five hundred years. 5.
Brahmi Ghrita :—Two Prastha measures of
the expressed juice of th : Brahmi and one Prastha
measure of clarified butter should be cooked with one
Kudava measure of Vida?iga seeds, two Pala weight of
each of Vacha and Trivrit, and twelve (in number)
of each of Haritaki, Amalaka and VibJiitaka well
pounded and mixed together. When properly cooked,
the (prepared) Ghrita should be carefully preserved in a
covered pitcher. It should then be taken in adequate
doses as in the preceding manner. The patient should be
advised to take meals of boiled rice, clarified butter and
milk, after the medicine had been fully digested.
Under its use worms and vermin would be expelled
(from their unsuspected seats in the organism) and creep
out of the upper, lower and lateral parts of the body.