to subdue the deranged Pitta especially in a case of fever. Such distressing symptoms as vomiting, epileptic fits, thirst, etc, should be remedied with such therapeutic agents as are not hostile or aggravating to the principal disease (fever) but are antidotal to the exciting factors. 138.
Specific treatment of the complications: — Now hear me tell you other specific remedies for the complications. A plaster composed of Yashti-madhu, Rajani, Musta, Dádima, Amla-vetasa, Rasánjana, Tintidika (tamarind), Nalada (Mánsi), Patra, Utpala, Tvak (cinnamon), Vyághra-nakha, the expressed juice of Mátulunga, honey and Madhu-śukta, *[1] if applied to the head, would alleviate heat in the head, delirium, vomiting, hic-cough, and shivering — concomitants in cases of fever. Vomiting would yield to the use of a compound consisting of Madhuka flower, Hrivera, Utpala and Madlmliká mixed with honey and clarified butter and used to be licked up with the tongue as a lambative. It is equally efficacious in water-brash, hic-cough, Rakta-pitta (hemoptisis) and asthma. Fits of cough and asthma in cases of fever readily yield to the use of the electuary prepared with Tri-phalá, Pippali and Mákshika †[2] and mixed with honey and clarified butter. 139—141.
A plaster of Vidári, Dádima, Lodhra, Dadhittha and
- ↑ * Madhu-śukta is prepared by preserving the expressed juice of Jambira-lemon, Pippali and honey in an earthen pot formerly used in keeping honey. It should be laid for a month under the heap of paddy before use. (Dallana) For an alternative mode of preparation see 'शाडृधर' Chapter X— 'म६य खड'.
- ↑ † Dallana takes Mákshika in the sense of honey and comments largely on the seperate use of honey (मधु) in the compound. But we are inclined to take "Mákshika" as the mineral of the same name.
