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Chap. XLIII. ]
UTTARA-TANTRA.
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decoction of Śri-pari-fruit, Yashti-madhu and Utpala(D. R. — treacle) mixed with honey and sugar. Clarified butter duly cooked with the drugs of the Madhura group, as well as the decoction efficacious in Pittaja-fever, should be internally administered. The food of the patient should be prescribed with the soup of the flesh of the principal animals of the Jángala group cooked with clarified butter, and he should then be treated with a Vasti, charged with honey and oil duly cooked with Yashti-madhu. 10.

Treatment of Kaphaja type:— In the Kaphaja type of the disease, vomiting should be induced with the decoction of Vachá or of Nimba and the pulverised medicinal compound prescribed for the Vátaja type, should be adminstered. The patient should also be advised to take clarified butter with his food. A decoction of Tri-phalá or of the drugs of the Phaládi (Madana-phaládi— Sutra, Ch. XXXIX) or the Mustádi (Sutra, Ch. XXXVIII) group, should be prescribed for internal use, or the patient should be purged with clarified butter mixed with powdered Śyámá (Vriddha-dáraka) and Trivrit. A physician skilled in the art of applying Vasti should prescribe a Vasti charged with Valá-oil under the circumstances, 11.

Treatment of Krimija type:— In the type (Krimija) characterised by the persence of worms, the patient should be first treated with a Sneha. A meat-diet with curd or (fried and) powdered sesamun should then be given to the patient for three days in succession after which he should be purged with the compound of Ajáji and sugar mixed with the salt-predominating*[1] purgative preparation (see — Sutra,

  1. * Some read "Su-pala-lair-jogaih" in place of 'Salava-nair-jogaih'. It would mean that the compound should be mixed with fried and powdered sesamum.