A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c26.s9.4

v1.c26.s9.4

A few new prescriptions found in both works are: a phāṇṭa or hima of drākṣā, perfumed by jātī flowers (A.s.Ci.1.84cd = A.h.Ci.1.57ab); 596 the expressed juice (svarasa) or decoction (śṛta) of vāsā, also called vṛṣa, with sugar and honey against raktapitta (A.s.Ci.3.31; A.h.Ci.2.26); 597 the kalpas of nāgabalā, maṇḍūkaparṇī, (madhu)yaṣṭi and vittauṣadha (= ginger) (A.s.Ci.5.66–67 = A.h.Ci.3.118cd–120ab); powdered coral (pravālacūrṇa) with taṇḍulodaka against mūtrāghāta due to kapha (A.s.Ci.13.5; A.h.Ci.11.13ab); 598 haridrā together with honey and āmalaka juice, or the expressed juice of either guḍūcī or āmalaka, against all types of prameha (A.s.Ci.14.5; A.h.Ci.12.5cd–7ab); 599 eraṇḍataila with milk against gulma due to pitta (A.s.Ci.16.15; A.h.Ci.14.43); 600 an electuary with kampillaka against the same disorder (A.s.Ci.16.19; A.h.Ci.14.61cd); 601 the rasāyanaprayogas with tuvaraka keruels, bhallātaka, avalguja (= bākucikā), and citraka (= vahni), described in the chapter on the treatment of haemorrhoids (A.s.Ci.21.24; A.h.Ci.19.53); 602 the māṇibhadravaṭaka against kuṣṭha (A.s.Ci.21.32–33; A.ḥ.Ci.19.31–32); 603 purification in cases of kuṣṭha may be carried out by the administration of emetics once in six weeks, purgatives each month, evacuatives for the head every three days, and by bloodletting once in six months (A.s.Ci.21.133 = A.h.Ci.19.96); 604 garlic against all cases of āvaraṇa of vāta, with the exception of āvaraṇa by pitta and blood (A.s.Ci.24.50 = A.h.Ci.22.70cd–71ab); 605 a decoction of saptacchada- and arkakṣīra in kṛmidantaka (A.s.U.26.16; A.h.U.22.20); 606 hingu and kaṭphala in toothache (A.s.U.26.17; A.h.U.22.21); 607 triphalā with honey against mukhapāka (A.s.U.26.51; A.h.U.22.73cd–74); 608 eraṇḍataila, together with cow’s urine, to be drunk for a month in ślīpada due to vāta (A.s.U.35.19; A.h.U.30.8cd–9); 609 vardhamānaharītakī in ślīpada due to kapha (A.s.U. 35.21; A.h.U.30.11cd–12); 610 purgation by means of arkakṣīra in alarkaviṣa (A.s.U. 46.67 = A.h.U.38.36ab). 611