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CHAPTER IX.

Now we shall discourse on the remedial measures of Abhishyanda (Ophthalmia) due to the action of the deranged vâyu (Vátábhishyanda-Pratish-edha)* 1.

The patient should be treated with old and matured clarified butter, both in a case of (Vátaja) Abhishyanda (Ophthalmia) and (Vátaja) Adhimantha (Conjunctivites). The diseased organ should be then duly*^[1] fomented and local venesection resorted to. Then after having effected full purging with the help of a Sneha-vasti (oleaginous enema), such measures as Tarpana, Puta-pêka, fumigation, sprinklings (Aśchyotana) †^[2], snuffing (Nasya), oily washings, Śiro-vasti (errhines) or washing the organ with Kânjika (Amla) or with any decoction prepared with the drugs of the Váyu-subduing group or with that of the flesh of any aquatic (Jalaja) animal, or of one frequenting the marshy places (Ánupa), should be resorted to. A compound consisting of clarified butter, curd, fat and marrow should be applied lukewarm to the affected organ, which should also be

↑ * It should be noted that the part of the forehead adjoining the eye and not the eye itself— should be fomented, since fomentation should not be applied directly over the eye.
↑ † ÁŚCHYOTANA (Eye-drop) — Consists in dropping into the eye with the two fingers, honey, A'sava, drug-decoction or any oleaginous substance. Its doses are eight drops for scarifying purposes, ten drops for lubricating the part with any oleaginous substance (Snehana), twelve drops for the healing of any local ulcer (Ropana). They should be dropped lukewarm in winter and cold in summer into the eyes. In diseases of Vátaja origin they should be of a bitter taste; oleaginous in diseases due to the Pitta; and bitter, — warm and parching in diseases due to Kapha. VAIDYAKA NIGHANTU as quoted in the Vaidyaka-S'abda-Sindhu. Cf. also Chapter XVIII, Uttara-Tantra.

[1] * It should be noted that the part of the forehead adjoining the eye and not the eye itself— should be fomented, since fomentation should not be applied directly over the eye.

[2] † ÁŚCHYOTANA (Eye-drop) — Consists in dropping into the eye with the two fingers, honey, A'sava, drug-decoction or any oleaginous substance. Its doses are eight drops for scarifying purposes, ten drops for lubricating the part with any oleaginous substance (Snehana), twelve drops for the healing of any local ulcer (Ropana). They should be dropped lukewarm in winter and cold in summer into the eyes. In diseases of Vátaja origin they should be of a bitter taste; oleaginous in diseases due to the Pitta; and bitter, — warm and parching in diseases due to Kapha. VAIDYAKA NIGHANTU as quoted in the Vaidyaka-S'abda-Sindhu. Cf. also Chapter XVIII, Uttara-Tantra.

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