respect of Pittaja-Śula. A person afflicted with an attack of the present type of the disease, should be made to vomit without any violent effort by drinking (a stomachful of) cold water. He should have recourse to cooling measures and avoid all heat-making ones. Vessels of copper, silver, or precious stones and cooling gems and filled up to the brim with water, should be placed upon the seat of affection (Śula) in his body. Treacle, barley, Śáli rice, milk, (draughts of clarified butter, purgatives, the flesh of any Jángala animals — these should be prescribed in cases of Pittaja Śula. All Pitta-generating articles should be avoided and those which soothe the Pitta should be used. The soup of the meat of Jángala animals may be taken with sugar as an alternative. Parushaka. grapes, dates and aquatic fruits such as Śringátaka, etc., should also be taken with sugar as they tend to relieve Pittaja Śula. 56.
Treatment of Kaphaja Śula:— A fit of Śula due to the action of the deranged Kapha is aggravated just after eating. Vomiting should be induced in such a case with draughts of the decoction of Pippali*[1]. Dry fomentations and other heating measures should be likewise resorted to and the patient should be made to take Pippali and Śunthi (in any shape) in cases of Kaphaja Śula. Páthá, Vachá, Tri-katu. and Katuka-rohini should be used with the decoction of Chitraka, or the soup (of any Śula-subduing article) should be taken with an equal part of Arjaka. 57-58.
Seeds and roots of Eranda, Gokshura-roots, śála-parni, Priśni-parni, Brihati, Kantakári, śrigála-vinnâ (a kind of Priśni-parni), Sahadevá, Mahásahá (Máshaparni),
- ↑ * Some commentators, according to Dallana, take Pippali to mean seeds of Madana-phala.
