A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.52

v1.c23.52

The means for carrying out cautery are: long pepper (pippalī), goat’s dung, the tooth of a cow, an arrow (śara), 117 or a śalākā for skin lesions; a jāmbavauṣṭha 118 or a similar instrument made of a metal for lesions of the muscles; honey, guḍa (treacle) or a fatty substance 119 for lesions of sirās, snāyus, sandhis and bones (12.4). 120