Bandages:—The fourteen different forms of bandage are named as the Kosha (a sheath or scabbard), the Dama (a cord or chaplet), the Svastika (cross), the Anuvellita (a twist), the Pratoli (a winding street or road), the Mandala (ring), the Sthagika (a betel-box), the Yamaka (double or twin), the Khatta (a bedstead), the China (a streamer), the Vivandha (noose), the Vitana (canopy) the Gophana (cow-horn), the Panchangi (five limbed). Their shapes can be easily inferred from the meanings of their names.
Applications:—Out of these, the Kosha or the sheath-shaped bandage should be tied round the thumb and the phalanges of the fingers; the Dáma or chaplet-shaped bandage, round the narrow or unbent parts of the body; the Svastiká or cross shaped, round the joints, round the articulations or the Marmas known as the Kurchakas (Navicular ligaments) round the eye-brows, round the ears and round the region of the breast. Similarly, the bandage, known as the Anuvellita, should be used when the seat of the affection would be found to be situated at the extremities (hands and legs A bandage of the Protoli class should be tied round the neck or the penis; the Mandalam (ring-
should be arrested by binding the part with milk-cream, while the aflected part in a case of Ardita (facial paralysis) as well as a broken tooth should be bound with strings of iron, gold or silver. Warts, etc. should be bandaged with Ela (cardamom skins), while dried gourd-skins should be used in bandaging ulcers on the head (scalp).
