Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c13.12

c13.12

The treatment consists particularly of powdering and smearing the skin with various pastes and ointments, in many cases e. g. in corn on the foot and the abscess vidārikā, an operation is to be resorted to, or cauterizing and branding of the diseased place. Nourishing and perspiring remedy, nasal remedy, dressing, blood-letting, medicines are also recommended. In the prolapsis of rectum (gudabhraṃsa) one should warm the anus, apply oil to it, then again push back the prolapsed part and perform dressing with a leather perforated in the middle; the anus is then to be fomented very often. A rat whose intestines are taken out serves as a fomenting medium (Su 4.20; AS 6.37; AHr 6.32; Vang 1. c.; Bhāv 1. c.).