Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

560 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXXII,
the trunk of an elephant.* The use of a pipe made of
the materials (such as Kus'a, Kds'a, etc.) used in the
making of a Kilinji (basket) and resembling the trunk of
an elephant in shape is only recommended for the
purposes of Sveda heat-application). 5.
A plot of ground commensurate with the length
of the patient's body should be dug and heated
with fire of Khadira wood and then sprinkled over
with milk, water and Dhanyamla. The heated ground
should b2 then covered with a layer of leaves (of
the Vayu-subduing plants) and the patient should be
made to lie down full stretched upon the (bed of)
leaves and thereby fomented.i* As an alternative, a
stone slab should be heated and the fomentation
(Sveda) should be applied similarly to the patient by
making him lie down upon it after the ashes and
cinders have been removed \. As an alternative, the
patient should be seated inside a chamber with four
doors (one on each side) and fomented by lighting
up a good blazing fire (of Khadira wood) at all the
doors (simultaneously §.
Another alternative is that the
patient should be laid on a mattress (made of Kus'a,
Kds'a^ etc.) or on a similar bed as before and fomented
with the fumes of duly boiled paddy (and Masha-
pulse, etc.) kept under the same mattress. In the
same manner, Sveda (fomentation) might be applied
with the help of heated co.v-dung, ashes, husks of
paddy, weeds, etc. 7.
Upanaha-Sveda (Poulticing) :— The roots
of the Vayu-subduing drugs should be pasted together
* This is called the " Naidi-Sveda ".
t This is called the " Karshu-sveda ".
X This is called the " As'ma-ghana-sveda ".
§ This is called the " Kuti-Sveda".