be judiciously taken with Yava-kshára and powdered Tri-katu and with the soup of Mudga, Patola and Kulattha pulse. 8.
Treatment of Tri-doshaja and Kshayaja Śiroroga: — The Measures which are severally remedial to the three deranged Doshas of the body should be employed in a case of Śiroroga marked by the concerted action of the three Doshas (Tri-doshaja)and draughts of old and matured clarified butter are said to be specially efficacious in such instances. Employment of nutritive (Vrimhana) measures and remedies is recommended in cases of the diseases of the head due to any waste or atrophy of the local fat, etc. (Kshayaja Ŝiroroga). Clarified butter duly cooked with the admixture of the drugs of the Vâyu-subduing and the Madhura groups*[1] should be given as drinks and errhines. Any medicated Ghrita which acts as a remedy in cases of consumptive cough would be found most efficacious in the present (Kshayaja) type. 9-10.
Treatment of Krimija Śiroroga:— In a case of head-disease (head-ache ?) due to the germination of parasites (Krimi) in the head, the patient should be made to snuff in a quantity of animal blood. The worms or parasites lured with the smell of the blood, would greedily come down (into the passages of the nostrils) when they should be carefully extracted (by means of tongs, etc). Head-purgatives composed of the pulverised seeds of Hraswa (small) Śigru mixed with Kânsya (dead brass) and Nili (indigo) pounded together should then be used, if necessary, or any vermifuge drug (Vidanga, etc.) pasted with the urine of a cow should be
- ↑ * According to Videha the clarified butter in this case should be cooked with the decoction of the Váyu-subduing drugs and with the Kalka of the Madhura drugs.
