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582 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXXIV.
Sneha and Sveda after the lapse of ten days and should
then be again cleansed with a further dose of a purgative*.
Patients in whom purging can be induced only with
the greatest difficulty should be first treated with
Asthapana. Sneha should again be applied and a strong
purgative should then be administered. 8.
Ati-yOga (Over-drugging with purgatives, etc.):
Women, merchants^ persons attending a king and
pious Brdhmanas learned in the Vedas (S'rotriya) are
often subjected to the necessity of repressing their
natural urgings of the body towards micturition, etc.,
out of a sense of delicacy, fear or greed. The V^yu in
their systems remains consequently aggravated and
accordingly purgatives fail to easily produce any effect
in their organism. Hence their system should be clean-
sed with purgatives preceded by Sveda (fomentations)
and a copious application of Sneha. An over-dose of a
purgative or a strong one administered to a person
copiously treated with Sneha and Sveda or to one
whose bowels are easily moved would exhibit the symp-
toms of an over-dosage (Ati-yoga) of purgatives.
Excessive emission of Pitta *,bile), loss of strength
(Bala) and an aggravation and augmentation of the
deranged Vd,yu follow from the over dosage ( Ati-yoga)
of an emetic medicine. In such cases, the body of the
patient should hi anointed with clarified butter and he
should be bathed in cold water and made to take a
lambativef with sugar and honey with a due consider-
ation of the nature and intensity of the Doshas involved.
An over-dose of a purgative may bring on excessive
* Dallana says that the system of the patient, in this case, should be
cleansed with an emetic or a purgative as the case may be.
t A different reading says that the patient should be fomented with
washings of rice mixed with honey.
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