(Rasánjana, or according to some Camphor), and Sauvira should be soaked in Rasa (meat-juice) *[1] and then pasted together. It should then be soaked again in the bile of a tortoise or of a Rohita fish and dried and reduced to powder. The present compound is called the Churna-anjana (powdered Collyrium) and may be used beneficially for the pacification of Pitta (in cases of Pitta-vidagdha-Drishti). Káśmari flowers, Yashti-madhu, Dárvi, Rodhra and Rasánjana, should be pounded together and mixed with honey. Used as an Anjana it is always efficacious in the affections of the eye. 6-8.
Treatment of nocturnal blindness: — The application of a medicinal Varti (stick) composed of Sauviránjana, Saindhava, Pippali and Renuká pasted together with the urine of a she-goat would prove highly beneficial in cases of nocturnal blindness. Similarly the application of a medicinal Varti (stick) composed of Kálánu-Sárivá, Pippali, S'unthi, Yashti-madhu, Táliśa-patra, the two kinds of Haridrá, and Musta, pasted with the Rasa of cow-dung †[2] and dried in the shade, proves beneficial in such cases. Manah-śilá, Haritaki, Trikatu, Balá, Kálánu-sárivá and (Śamudra-) Phena pasted together with the milk of a she-goat and similarly prepared in the shape of a Varti is also recommended. 9-11.
Rasa- Kriya'njana:— The urine, bile and dung of a cow ‡[3] together with wine, should be boiled (in the manner of Rasa-kriyánjana preparation) in the
- ↑ * Rasa may also, from the context, mean the watery secretions of cow-dung.
- ↑ † Dallana's reading is evidently which he explains as meaning the juice or serum of the liver of a goat, &c.
- ↑ ‡ The text has "" : The term " " which literally means a cow, here stands for any female quadruped, such as a she-goat, etc.
