Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c14.13

c14.13

Ophthalmia (abhiṣyanda) is to be treated with fasting, plaster, hot poultices, blood-letting, purgative, anointing and infusing by drops. In bird's skin (arman) the eye is first to be smeared with lemon juice and salt for the purpose of relaxing, then the flesh-plate in the hanging arman should be seized with a hook, it should be extracted out with the needle and thread and it should be cut off with a rounded knife. An outgrowth (?parvanī) is also to be seized with a hook and to be cut off in the middle, otherwise to be treated like arman. Scarifications come into consideration especially in the case of diseases of eye-lids; the eye is to be moistened with a piece of cloth dipped in warm water and then to be scratched with a knife or leaves (Car 6.26. 221 f.; Su 6.8-19; AS 6.12-20; AHr 6.9-16; Vang; Bhāv l.c.; Vr61).