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Chap. XXXVIII.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 637
strong acid ones (Kanjika, etc.). It should then be
injected well cooled in the manner of an Asthapana-
Vasti. It would undoubtedly prove curative in cases of
Gulma, menorrhcegia (Asrig-dara), heart diseases,
Jaundice, Vishama-jvara, Haemorrhage (Rakta-pitta),
dysentery, and other Pittaja ailments. 16.
A compound of Vald, Madana fruit, Sarshapa^
Saindhava, Deva-ddru, Kushtha, Eld, Pippali, Vilva and
S'unthi (weighing three Palas in all) pounded together
and mixed with the decoction of Bhadrd, Niniha,
Kulattha pulse, Arka, Kos'dtaki, Amrita, (Guduchi),
Diva-ddru, Sdrwd, Vrihati, Pdthd, Murvd, Aragvadha
and /iTw/^'a-seeds (weighing sixteen Palas in all) cooked
with water (one hundred and twenty-eight Palas) should
be injected in the manner of an Asthdpana-Vasti, with
the addition of an adequate quantity of mustard oil,
honey, alkali, cow's urine, sesamum oil and water (three
Palas). This would speedily conquer an attack of
Chlorosis (Kdmald), Jaundice, Meha, obesity, impaired
digestion, aversion to food, goitre, slow poisoning,
(Gara visha), elephantiasis, Udara, or of any disorders
due to the deranged Kapha. 17.
Musta, Sahtdhava, Deva-ddru, Pdthd, Pippali and
Indra-yava, pounded together, and made into
a paste with the admixture of the decoction
prepared with such drugs as Das'a-mula, Haridrd,
Vilva, Patola, TriphalA, and Deva-ddru, should be
stirred and saturated with oil, Yava-kshdra and honey
and reduced to a soluble fluidity by adding (an adequate
quantity of) cow's urine, Madana-phala and Kdnjika.
The solution thus prepared should be injected (into the
rectum of the patient) in the manner of an Asthapana
enema-injection and this would prove curative in cases
of Jaundice, deranged Kapha, alcoholism, lassitude,