Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XXIX ] CHIKITSA STHANAM, 533
milk boiled and cooled should be given him in the
evening. Worm-infested stools follow on the third day
(of its use) which help the system in purging off all filth
and obnoxious matter (accumulated in the organism)
through errors in diet and conduct, etc. The patient
should in that case bathe in the evening and take cold
boiled milk as before and lie down on a piece of
Kshauma cloth stretched over (the aforesaid mattress).
Swellings appear on the body on the fourth day (of its
use) and worms are found to creep out from all parts
of the body. The patient should lie down that day on
a bed strewn over with dust and in the evening, he
should be made to drink a potion of milk as before.
He should pass the fifth and sixth ilay in the same
manner, but milk should be given him in the morning
and in the evening (instead of only in the evening).
The muscles become withered by this time and on the
seventh day the patient is found to be a mere skeleton
covered with a skin only and left with bare animation,
the vital spark being retained by the potency of Soma.
The body should be washed with tepid milk on that
day and plastered with a paste of sesamum, Yashti'
madhu and sandal wood, and milk (only) should be
given him to drink. 7-A.
On the morning of the eighth day, the body should
be washed with milk, and plastered with sandal paste,
and potions of milk should be prescribed for him after
which the patient should be advised to leave his bed
of dust and lie down on one covered with a piece of
Kshauma cloth. From now the muscles of the body
begin to show signs of fresh and vigorous growth,
the skin becomes cracked, and the teeth, nails and
hair begin to fall off. On and from the ninth day the
medicinal oil known as A.nu-Taila should be used to