given Yavágu prepared with appetising and Váyu-subduing drugs. 72-78.
Treacle (Phánita) mixed with powdered Śunthi, curd, oil, milk and clarified butter should be given in a case marked by good appetite but by frothy motions devoid of all fœcal matter. Badara-fruits boiled with oil and treacle, or cakes prepared from them and dried unripe Vilva-fruits, should be prescribed. Cakes prepared with boiled Másha-pulse should be prescribed to be taken with curd followed by a draught of Śvetá (cake- made) wine in the case marked by the absence of fecal matter in the stool. The blood-stained flesh of a hare cooked with Samangá, curd and clarified butter should be taken with well boiled rice. 79.
A decoction of Másha-pulse, Kola and barley duly cooked in equal parts of the oil and clarified butter and mjxed with curd and the expressed juice of Dádima should be prescribed as diet in the case. The absence of any fecal matter in the stool (Purisha-Kshaya) would yield to the use of Bit (black halt), dried unripe Vilva fruit and Śunthi pasted with any acid juice and mixed with curd-cream and cooked in equal parts of oil and clarified butter. Clarified butter duly cooked with as- tringent and appetising drugs should be given in a case of Atisára attended with Śula where the patient feels a good appetite after the loss of fecal matter. 80—81.
Symptoms of Praváhiká:— The Váyu in the organism of a person addicted to the use of unwholesome food, is deranged and aggravated. It carries down the accumulations of Valása (mucus) into the lower part of the body, whence, mixed with stools, they are constantly passed off with tenesmus. The disease is called Praváhiká(mucous diarrhœa). The
