The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c32.s3.36

v2.c32.s3.36

Diseases are specially often the subjects of exorcism in one form or another: a woman suffering from lung disease must be rubbed by a chaste man with balls of fresh lotus leaves, limb by limb, and thereafter the leaves are thrown to the west.³ He who suffers from an inherited disease is deluged with water and a plough is held, apparently a mixture of washing and contact.⁴ Diarrhœa is dealt with by tying a string round a bunch of Muñja grass, and giving the patient to eat earth from a field and from an ant-heap.⁵ Sick cows are made to drink salt water.⁶