ficial in all the three cases (due to the aggravation of the Doshas). A potion composed of powdered Átma-guptá-seeds and Yashti-madhu mixed with a copious quantity of rice-washing and with honey as well as gruels prepared with the admixture of Karanja-leaves should be administered. Kustumburu pasted and mixed with salt and acid would also be benificial. Kapittha should also be taken with Tri-kutu and rice-washing. 18 — A.
The excreta of flies should be licked with sugar, honey and sandal paste. A lizard should be immersed in hot milk and this milk, when cooled, should be given to the patient to drink. Powdered fried paddy mixed with honey and clarified butter should be given to drink or pulverised Pippali mixed with honey, sugar and clarified butter should be licked. Sandal-paste *[1] with the expressed juice of Ámalaka or the decoction of the leaves of Mudga †[2] as well as a lambative composed of the marrow of Kola and Amalaka spiced with the Tri-sugandhi drugs {viz., Elá, Patra and Tvak) powdered together should be prescribed. Gruels of fried Śáli paddy mixed with honey should also be prescribed. The use of perfumes which are agreeable both to the mind and to the organ of smell, is also recomended. 18-B.
Diet: — The meat of any Jángala animal and palatable cordials and victuals of various plates should be likewise taken with care in all cases. 18.
Thus ends the forty-ninth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Sus'tuta Samhitá which deals with the (symptoms and) treatment of Vomiting.
