Instantly with the perforation the affected organ should be sprinkled over with breast-milk. The Śaláká should be retained in its place and the diseased growth or appearance (cataract), whether fixed or mobile, should be duly fomented from the outside with the help of the tender leaves of Váyu-subduing efficacy, and the region of the Drishti-mandala should be subsequently scraped with the (pointed) end of a Saláká. The mucus or phlegm (Kapha) accumulated in the affected eye should be removed by asking the patient to snuff it off by closing the nostril on the other side of the operated eye-ball. The part should be regarded as properly scraped when it would assume the glossiness of a resplendent cloudless sun and would be free from pain. Then the Śaláká (rod) should be gently withdrawn as soon as it would be able to perceive vision, and then the (affected) eye should be sprinkled over with clarified butter and bandaged with a piece of linen. During this period * [1]the patient should be laid on his back in a comfortable chamber (free from dust and smoke), and be warned against indulging in all those bodily functions such as eructation, coughing, yawning, spitting, sneezing, etc. The regimen of diet and conduct thereafter should be the same as observed by one internally treated with a Sneha (See Chapter XXXI, Chikitsita-sthána). 36-A.
The bandage should be removed on every fourth day, and the organ should be washed with the decoction of the drugs of Váyu-subduing properties and bandaged again with a fresh one. The eye should be (mildly) fomented on every fourth day as before, so that the bodily Váyu might not be aggravated. This rule should be
- ↑ * The period during which these rules should be followed is 'seven days' according to Vágbhata. But according to Dallana it is only the period during which the operation lasts.
