Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XL] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 655
with a Sneha (clarified butter^ etc). It should then be
attached to one end of the pipe (Nctra) and lighted.
The patient should sit in an easy and comfortable
posture, maintain a cheerful frame of mind and carefully
inhale the medicinal fumes with his eyes cast down
straii^ht towards the ground. 5.
IVIetrical Texts :—The fumes should be first
inhaled through the mouth and then through the nostrils;
whether inhaled through the mouth or the nostrils they
should be invariab'y exhaled through the mouth. In-
haled through the mouth, they should not by any means
be exhaled through the nostrils, as such a course (of
exhaling through the nostrils) would act wrongly and
impair the eye-sight. 6.
The fumes i^Dhumai should be specially inhaled
through the nostrils, in connection with a Prayogika
inhalation, while they may be inhaled both through the
mouth and the nostrils in Snehana-Dhuma. They
should be inhaled through the nostrils alone in an act
of Vairechana inhalation and through the mouth only in
the two remaining cases (Vamaniya and Kaphaghna . 7.
IVIode of inhalation :— in an act of Prayo-
gika inhalation, the stick (Varti 1
should be dried in shady
places protected from the wind. The stem of the S'ara
weed inside the Varti should then be removed. The Varti
should then be lighted with a live charcoal and fixed to
the end of the pipe (^Netra) and then the patient should be
asked to inhale the fumes. The same method should be
followed in respect of Snehana and Vairechana ones. In
the other cases of smoking (Ksksaghna and Va'mauiya)
the fumigating drugs (Varti) should be placed over a bed
of smokeless burning charcoal contained in an earthen
saucer. Another saucer furnished with an aperture at
its top or middle should be fitted over the former saucer