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Chap. XL.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 665
patients suffering from the effects of poisoning the fine
powder 'of the Siro-Virechana drugs) should (by means
of a pipe) be blown into the nostrils of the patient.
Sugar, the expressed juice of the sugar-cane, milk, clari-
fied butter or an extract of meat should be (similarly)
administered in the case of a weak patient or of one
suffering from an attack of Rakta-Pitta. 30.
lYIetrical Texts :—A Sneha (oil or clarified
butter) cooked with the pasted drugs (of the Siro-Vire-
chana group) would be as beneficial as the powder
(Kalka) of those drugs for the purpose of an errhine in
respect of a weak, emaciated, timid, delicate or female
patient. 31.
Forbidden Cases : -A fasting person, or one
who has just taken his meal, or one suffering from an
acute catarrh or coryza of a virulent type, an enciente
woman, a man found to be still under the influence of an
intoxicating liquor or who has taken a Sneha (oleagin-
ous substance), water or any other liquid, or one suffering
from indigestion or who has been treated with an enema
(Vasti), one in an angry and excited state of mind or
afflicted with thirst or who is suffering from the effects of
any slow chemical poison (Gara) or fatigued or overwhelmed
with grief as well as an infant, an old man, one
who has voluntarily repressed any natural urging of the
body or one about to take a full bath (Sirah-Sndna) should
be regarded unfit for treatment with lany kind of medi-
cinal) snuffs (Nasya). Snuffing and smoke inhalation
should not be resorted to in the event of the sky being
(unseasonably) overcast with clouds at a time when such
phenomena do not usually or ordinarily happen. 32-A,
A deficient or an excessive application of snuffs (at
one time), or its extreme heat or coldness, a sudden or de
layed application of the same (into the nostrils), drooping
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