A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c29.53

v2.c29.53

67 These verses have no parallel in the Suśrutasaṃhitā or the works ascribed to Vāgbhaṭa. Evacuation means emesis (pracchardana) and purgation (virecana; evacuation of the head, called śīrṣavirecana, is included). The plants called mūlinī and phalinī are employed in procedures belonging to pañcakarman, a subject continued in Ca.Sū.2. The urine of an ass (khara) is mentioned, not its milk; human urine is absent, but breastmilk is present in the list. Sheep's urine is said to pittavirodhin, i.e., non-antagonistic to pitta. This neutrality with regard to a doṣa is called udāsīnatva in later treatises (see Keśava's Siddhamantra); see also Cakra ad Ca.Ni.4.4 and Hemādri ad A.h.Sū.6.117cd–118. See on the non-medical use of the term udāsīna: M.B. Emeneau (1968). Compare on the triad ari, mitra, udāsīna (or madhyastha): Mahābhārata, Śāntiparvan 59.43 and 52 (ed. Poona); the Kāmandakīyanītisāra (8.19) employs the terms vijigīṣu, ari, madhyama, and udāsīna.