Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XXXI.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 555
aromated soup (of Mudga, etc.) or meat-juice cooked
without the addition of any Sneha (oil or Ghrita)
or with only a small admixture of clarified butter
should be given, or he may take Yavagu (pure and
simple). 19-E.
A Sneha should be taken three, four, five or six
days consecutively ; used (continually) for more than a
week it becomes habituated to the user. A Sneha should
be taken with food (at the time of mid-day meal) by a
weak, or an old man or an infant, or a thirsty person,
or one of a delicate constitution, or one averse to its use
in summer. 19-F.
Sadyah-Snchana :-The administration of
a potion composed of powdered Pippali and (Sain-
dhava) salt mixed with curd-cream and the four kinds
of oleaginous substances (Sneha) constitute what is
known as the Sadyah-Snehana {i.e., it produces the
effects of the Sneha within a very short time). The
use of a Yavdgu well-cooked* with the soup of half-
fried meat (instead of water) and a Sneha (clarified
butter), and mixed with honey acts as a Sadyah-
snehana. A Yavagu prepared with milk-j- and a small
quantity of rice and taken lukewarm with clarified
butter produces the same result. The use of cow's
milk milched into a pot containing clarified butter
and sugar produces an instantaneous emulsive effect
(Sadyah-snehana), if taken by a man with a parch-
ed state of the organism. Clarified butter cooked
with three parts of the decoction of Yava^ Kola and
* In place of "^i:{^rf%?rn" (well-cooked), Chakradatta reads *^^-
ff?ig«Tj' (prepared with a small quantity of rice).
t In place of "iT^l'.f^ff' (prepared with milk), Chakradatta reads
'^fffp^n'
(prepared with an abundance of sesamum which, according
lo S'ivadasa, would constitute three parts with only one part of rice).