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Chap. XXXV. J CHIKITSA STHANAM. 595
(Pdndu), giddiness, delirium, epilepsy, vomiting,
Kushtha, Meha, ascites, obe?ity, asthma, cough, dryness
of the throat and oedema as well as in respect of a Kshata-
Kshina patient and a pregnant woman in (and before) the
third or the fourth month of her gestation, in the case of
a person suffering from dulness of appetite, impatient and
incapable of bearing the least pain as well as in respect
of infants, old men and persons emaciated by a bodily
distemper other than one due to Vayu 13.
IVIetrical Text:—The Asthdpana-vasti should
be exclusively applied in cases of ascites, urinary
complaints (Meha), Kushtha and obesity. The appli-
cation of an Anuvasna-vasti is entirely forbidden
in those cases inasmuch as it might make the disease
run into an incurable type, and a great amount of lassi-
tude of the organism would be the consequence. 14.
Medicine duly injected (through the rectum) with the
help of a Vasti remains in the intestines (Pakvds'aya\ in
the region of the pelvis and below the umbilical region.
The potency of the Vasti (medicine) spreads over the
whole organism from the intestines (Pakvds'aya), just as
the potency of the water poured at the root of a tree tends
to permeate the whole tree (through its minutest cells
and fibres). The liquid part of the Vasti is emitted out
through the rectum either by* itself or with the foecal
matter, etc.*, but its potency acts over the whole
organism through the intervention of the Ap^na and
the other V^yus. The potency of the Vasti in the
Pakvds'aya acts on the whole organism from top to toe,
like the sun in the heavens acting on the humidity (Rasa)
* Srikantha Dutta in his commentary quotes this sloka, but he reads
there "^^T^" (with Kapha) in the place of "^r^^" (with the fcecal
matter, etc.). The reading in the text, however, is preferable inasmuch 9s
Kapha is included in Mala.