medical treatment of Plihodara (enlargement of spleen) and known as Shadanga-Ghrita *[1] proves equally curative in cases of Vátaja-Kása. Clarified butter duly-cooked with the drugs of the Vidâri-gandhádi group, or with the expressed juice of Vásaka, would also prove beneficial. Applications of purgatives with any Sneha, as well as those of Ásthápana or Anuvásana-Vasti are recommended. Inhalation of Snaihika (oleaginous) Dhuma as well as potions of lukewarm clarified butter, gruels duly cooked with meat-essence, milk and lambatives saturated with clarified butter, may be taken with advantage in such a case. 20.
Treatment of Kaphaja Kása:— Cases of Kaphaja-Kása readily yield to the use of emetics, purgatives, medicinal head-purgatives, medicinal gargles, hot and pungent lambatives as well as the inhalation of smoke (Dhuma). Any articles of food which are emaciating (i.e., light, percifying and small in quantity and even fasting) should more particularly be beneficial. A case of cough due to the action of the deranged bodily Kapha is relieved by the use of Tri-katu,, †[2] or of clarified butter duly cooked with the expressed juice of Krimighna ‡[3] (Vidanga) or with the expressed juice of the leaves of Nirgundi. 21.
A clarified butter duly cooked in combination with twice as much juice of Nidigdhiká (Kantikári) and with the Kalka of Páthá, Vit-salt, Vyosha, Vidanga, Sain-
- ↑ * For Shadánga-ghrita, see chapler XIV, Para 18. It is better known as Shatpalaka-Ghrita.
- ↑ † According to Vágbhata the clarified butter should be duly cooked with the Kalka of Tri-katu and with the decoction (Rasa) of Vidanga.
- ↑ ‡ Some take 'Krimighna' to mean Vidanga, others take it to mean any antiparasitic drug, viz., the drugs of the Surasádi-gana.— Dallana. The infusion or decoction of Vidanga should be used if its expressed juice be not available. — Ibid.
