Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

628 TlIK SUSIIRUTA SAMIilTA
[Chap. XXXVIII.
face of the pipe, nor to admit of even a bubble of air into
the bladder (of the enema), nor to produce its over-con-
traction nor dilatation during the process (of pouring the
medicine). The bladder filled with the proper quan-
tity of medicinal solution should then be held in the
left hand, and washed with the right hand. It should
then be firmly tied (at the neck) just over the (surface
of the) medicinal solution with ligatures of two or three
rounds of thread. 2- A.
The mode of applying a Vasti :—The
Vasti should then be held up on the palm of the right
hand, its pipe gripped with the middle and index fingers
of the left hand, and the orifice closed with the thumb of
the same hand. The neck of the pipe should be previous-
ly lubricated with clarified butter, and gently introduced
into the rectum of the patient up to its Kar?nkd
(protuberance) along the line of spinal column and
with its mouth upturned. The patient should be asked
to take the same with care. 2.
IVIetrical Text :—The physician should then
hold the enema (Vasti) with his left hand and press
its bladder with his right. The injection (of the medicinal
solution contained in the enema) should be made
at once, neither too slowly nor too hurriedly, 3.
The pipe should then be withdrawn and removed,
and the patient should be asked to remain in the same
position for a period sufficient to utter thirty Matras*
* According to Agnives'a the lime necessary for the tips of the fitigers
to fall down upon the right thighs, i.e., the time required for a twinkling
of the eye (Nimesha) is called a MatrsC- Paras'ara says that the time
necessary to close and open the eye-lids (Nimesha and Unmesha) once,
while throwing the arm around the right thigh is called a Malra. He
has prescribed one hundred such Matras in respect of a patient of
constipiled bo.vels, and thirty-seven in respect of a patient of lax