CHAPTER XXXVI.
Now we shall discourse on the Chapter, which treats of miscellaneous remedies for swellings, etc. (Mishraka-madhyayam). *[1]
Metrical Texts:—A medicinal plaster, composed of Matulanga, Agnimantha, Devadaru, Mahaushdham, Ahinsra, and Rasna pasted together and applied to the seat of the affection, leads to the resolution of a swelling, due to the action of the deranged Vayu.
A plaster composed of Durva, Nalamulam, Madhukam, and Chandanam, as well as plasters composed of drugs of cooling properties,†[2] brings about the resolution of an inflammatory swelling of the Pittaja type, and proves similarly beneficial to a traumatic swelling, or to one which has its origin in the vitiated condition of the blood.
Measures, laid down in connection with a swelling resulting from the effects of poison, would lead to the resolution of a Pittaja swelling as well.
- ↑ *The nomenclature of the chapter is based, according to certain authorities, on the fact of its jointly treating of eight principal processes of absorption, suppuration, spontaneous bursting, etc. of a swelling; while some there are who hold that the name of the chapter is derived from the fact of its containing remedial measures commonly (Mishrakam) beneficial to swellings and ulcers.
- ↑ †Belonging to the groups (Gana) of medicinal herbs, which go by the names of their first components, such as the Kakalyadi group (Gana), the Utpalidi group etc.
