five officinal kinds of salt added to it by way of an after-throw, relieves both cough and asthma. 14 — 15.
Himsrádi Ghrita:— Clarified butter should be duly cooked with a Kola (D. R. Karsha) weight each of *[1] Himsrá, Vidanga, Putika, Tri-phalá, Vyosha and Chitraka, and with milk twice as much and water four times as much as clarified butter. A draught of this mediated Ghrita relieves both cough and asthma and proves curative in cases of piles, aversion to food, Gulma, diarrhœa and consumption (Kshaya). 16.
A quantity of clarified butter, duly cooked with four times as much of the decoction of all the parts (viz. — leaves, branches, barks, flowers and roots) of Vásaka and with its roots and flowers as Kalka, should be used with honey when cold (in cases of asthma). 17.
Śringyádi- Ghrita:— A Prastha measure of clarified butter duly cooked with Śringi, Madhuriká, Bhárgi, Śunthi, Rasánjana, sugar, Ambuda, Haridrá and Yashti-madhu all taken in equal parts and as Kalka and with four times of water, would cure cases of cough, asthma and hiccough. 18.
Suvahádi Ghrita:— A Prastha measure of clarified butter should be duly cooked with twice as much of water and with a Kola (one Tolá. D. R. — Karsha) weight each of Suvahá, Kaliká, Bhárgi, Śukanásá , fruits of Nichula, Kákádani, Śringavera, Varshábhu and the two kinds of Vrihati. Taken hot after being made pungent (by the addition of some pungent drug e. g., Pippali), it would cure all forms of asthma. 19.
Calrified butter duly cooked with the admixture of Souvarchala, Yava-kshára, Katuka, Vyosha, Chitraka, Vachá, Abhayá, and Vidanga, proves curative in a case
- ↑ * Some prescribe the Kalkas to be taken in the ordinary way and say that the dose would be one Kola weight.
