would be found to be highly beneficial in cases of night-blindness. Similarly a single application of an Anjana made of a goat's liver stuffed with Pippali *[1] and roasted in fire as in the preceding case would speedily and certainly cure an attack of night-blindness. As an alternative, both the spleen and the liver (of a goat or of a lizard) would be cut into pieces, mixed with oil and clarified butter, and roasted on a spit. Used internally or used as an Anjana with mustard oil, it would speedily cure an attack of night-blindness. 15-17.
An Anjana or a pill composed of Nadija (Saindhava), S'imbi (D. R. — Śamkha — conch-shell), Kataka, Anjana (Rasánjana), Manah-śilá, the two kinds of Niśá, pasted together with the juice of the liver †[2] (of a cow) and mixed with red-sandal paste is recommended in a case of day-blindness. 18.
Treatment of palliative types:— Bleeding by opening the (local) veins should be resorted to in the six kinds of ocular affections in which the palliative treatment is all that is open to us. The patient should be as well kept constantly purged with draughts of matured clarified butter duly cooked with the admixture of suitable purgative drugs. In a Vátaja
- ↑ * Both Vágbhata and Dallana plainly say that the roasted Pippali only should be used with honey as an Anjana in cases of night-blindness.
- ↑ † There is a confusion in the reading of this couplet. In place of " " i.e. pasted with the juice of the liver (of a cow or any other animal), Chakradatta reads " " i.e. to say— the liver of a cow (and of no other animal) should be taken. Vrinda, however, reads and his commentator accepts the reading " " (the liver of an animal other than a cow); but this reading is objectionable on the ground of a faulty construction. " " i.e., pasted in the watery secretions of cow-dung, is yet another variant noticed by both the commentators of Vrinda and of Chakradatta.
