Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XL.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 66
afflicted with any distemper of the deranged Vayu
should use them in the afternoon.* 20
Before the application of a S'iro-Virechana (errhine)
the patient should be asked to cleanse his mouth with
a tooth-twig and by smoking. Then the regions of
the neck, cheek and forehead should be fomented and
softened with the application of heated palms, the
patient himself being laid on his back in a dustless
chamber not exposed to the sun and the wind. His
head should be kept a little hung back with his arms
and legs fully stretched out and expanded and a com-
press should be tied over the eyes. Then the phy-
sician should lift up with the fore-fingcr of his left
hand the tip of the nose of the patient and slowly drop
with his right hand a continuous jet of (medicated) Sneha
into the cleansed channels of the (patient's) nostrils.
The oil to be so used should be made lukewarm (D. R.
—made lukewarm in the sun) and kept in a golden,
silver, copper, or earthen receptacle or in an oyster
shell and poured down into the nostrils of the patient
by means of an oyster shell (D. R. —pipe) or (by pressing)
a cotton plug (soaked in that oil). Care should be taken
that the oil does not get into the eyes (while being
poured into the nostrilsV-f- 21.
lYIctrical Texts : -The patient should refrain
from shaking his head or indulging in a fit of anger or
• In respect of healthy patients, the Nasya should be adminis-
tered at noon io winter, in the morning in spring and autumn, and in
the afternoon in summer, while in the rainy season, they should be
administered at a time when the sun would be visible in the sky.
Vriddha- Vdsbhata.
t The commentator of Vrinda adds two more conditions— z/z'c, the
patient should be made to pass stools and urine before the application of
the Nasya and that the Nasya should be applied at a lime when the sky
would be free from clouds.