tends to invigorate his eye-sight. It is the best of all rejuvenating preparations of our pharmacopea and no strict regimen of diet and conduct is required to be followed while it is used. 30.
The medicated clarified butter mentioned under the treatment of Plihodara (dropsy of the abdomen owing to the enlargement of spleen — Chapter XIII, Chikitsita-sthána) as well as the three others mentioned in that connection may be also used with advantage in the disease under discussion. The accompanying symptoms or complications such as hoarseness of voice, etc. should be remedied with appropriate medicines presented for those diseases in the Śástras. The patient should be made to use regularly the milk, butter, urine, blood, meat and the (expressed liquid of the) dung of a goat as his bath or in any other way possible (e.g., in drinking) and to live in a goat-shed (in the company of goats) whereby he would be cured of his Phthisis in a month. A Phthisical patient should likewise be made to take Rasona (garlic) or Nága-valá or Mágadhiká or Śilájatu with milk, in the prescribed manner (laid down in connection with the medical treatment of Mahá-váta-Vyádhi). 31-34.
Rules of conduct:— He should not allow any grief, anger or jealousy to disturb the equilibrium of his mind, should lead a life of strict continence, deal in the discussion of sublime subjects and conform to the injunctions of his medical advisers or physicians. He should pay respects to the gods, superiors and Bráhmanas and listen to the discussions of the spiritual truths from the lips of Bráhmans. 35.
Thus ends the forty-first chapter of the Uttara Tantra in the Sus'ruta Samhitá which deals with the (symptoms and) treatment of Phthisis.
