172 - Diseases 

Dhanvantari said: 

1. O Suśhruta, I shall explain the mode of treatment for the peculiar disorders of women, please listen. In all Yonivyåpat (Vaginitis, etc.) types of disorders, measures to quell Váyu are recommended. 

2-3. Vachă, Upakunchika1, Jāti, Väsaka, Rocksalt, Ajāji, Yavākşhara, and Chitraka shall be fried in ghi and then dissolved in water. Sugar shall be added. If this is taken the pain around the vagina, palpitation of the heart, piles and enlarged spleen get subdued. 

            1. Nigella saliva. 

4. By applying the paste of the leaves of Badari the rupture of the Vagina can be cured. An application of the paste of Lodhra and Tumbiphala gives firmness to the muscles round the vagina. 

5. Ghi medicated with Pañchapallavas (five sprouts), Yaşhti, Arka and Malati flowers and cooked in sunshine is a sure remedy in leucorrhea. It removes foul smell from the vaginal passage. 

6-7. Japă flowers with Kanjika and a prastha of Jyotishmatidala1 pasted with Dürvå shall be taken. Chitraka with sugar and powdered Dhatri, Anjana and Abhaya, shall be drunk with water. This arrests excess of menstrual flow. Errhines or potions of Lakşhmaņå with milk taken in enables conception.

            1. Celastrus paniculatus. 

8. Ašhvagandhå taken with ghee and half an Adhaka of milk enables conception. Even a sterile woman taking ghee medicated with Vyoşha and Kesara is sure to conceive. 

9. Milk well boiled with the roots of Kusha, Kasha, Urubuka and Gokşhuraka taken with sugar by a pregnant woman removes her pain in the womb, uterus, etc. 

10. Application of the pastes of Pathả, Längali, Apåmärgå or kutaja separately to the navel, lower abdomen and vagina of a woman in her labour ensures easy delivery. 

11. The pain that a woman experiences after delivery, in the heart, head, urinary bladder, etc. is called Arkanda. Then she must take sour cream with Yavakşhåra dissolved in lukewarm water. 

12. A decoction of Dashamūla drugs taken with ghee quells all post-parturient pains. Powdered Shali rice taken with milk will increase her breast milk. 

13. The juice of Vidări flowers and the root of Kärpäsa also has the same property. A soup of Mudga is rejuvinating. It purifies the breast milk of a wet nurse. 

14. A lambative (Avaleha) made of Kuşhtha, Vacha, Abhaya, Brahmi, Madhūka honey and ghee shall be given to the infant as it heightens the colour of the complexion, splendour and longevity. 

15. If the breasts of the mother are deficient in milk, the child can be fed on goar's milk or cow's milk of the same quality. The swelling on the navel of the child subsides by means of fomentation with heated clay. 

16. If the child has vomiting, cough and fever, a compound of Lauha, Mustaka and Ativisa shall be taken. If the child has dysentery Musta, Shunthi, Vişhă, Aruņa and kutaja shall be taken. 

17. A compound of Vyoșha, Honey and Matulunga removes hiccough and vomiting. Kuşhtha, Indrayava, Siddhartha, Nishă, and Dürvá remove Kuşhtha. 

18. Bathing (the infant) with a decoction of Mahāmunditika1 and Udichya wards off the malignant influences of planets. It may be smeared with a paste of Saptacchada, Abhaya, Nishă and chandana. 

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19. Amulets with Shankha, Abjabīja, Rudråkşha, Vacha, Lauha, etc. shall be worn. Om kam lam gam gam obeisance to Vainaeya. Om Hom Ham Hah. With this mantra Shanti (ceremonies for peace) shall be made for the sake of children. Marjana and Balidäna also for the same purpose. 

Om Hrim take Ye Your Bali from the Balagraha (the planet afflicting the child) but spare the child--Sváha. 

20. The root of Shirişha drunk with the water with which rice is washed removes poison. The root of white Varşhabhū drunk with rice washings cures snake bite. 

21. Tanduliya, chamber soot, Nishā rock salt, curd, ghee and honey pasted together and drunk remove poison. 

22. A decoction of the root of Ankoța drunk with ghee removes poison. That which dispels old age and sickness is a rejuvinating medicine. 

23. Abhaya should be taken in the six seasons) beginning with the rainy season along with rock salt, sugar, Shunthi, Kaná, honey and jaggery respectively by a person wishing for the benefits of the rejuvinating medicines. 

24. At the end of fever (convalescing after fever) onc shall take a single Abhaya or two Vibhitakas or four Dhátris in honey and ghi, one shall recover soon and live for a hundred years. 

25-28. Ašhvagandhá decoction drunk with milk and ghee dispels all body ailments. Juice of Mandūkaparņi, the nectar like juice of Vidāri, Tila, Dhatri and Bhrungaraja taken in enables one to live for a hundred years. A compound of Trikațu, Triphala, Vahni, Gudüchi, Shatåvari, Vidanga and oxide of iron taken with honey quells a number of diseases. Triphala, Kaņå, Shunthi, Gudüchi, Shatavari, Vidanga, Bhrunga räja etc purified and regularly taken dispel all illness. Powdered Vidări taken with honey and ghee increases sexual virility enabling one to conquer ten women. 

29. Ghi should be cooked with Shatåvari residue with ten times milk and taken in with honey, sugar and Pippali, It is a good digestant. 

30. Massage, application oil, errhine, emetics and purgatives are mentioned as Panchakarma (five activities). 

31. There are six seasons in the year beginning with Mågha (Dec-Jan.) and each consists of two months. In them one shall rseort to warning oneself with fire, or take honey, milk or milk products (as ordained). 

32-34. In Shishira and vasanta the company of women is recommended. But one shall not sleep during the day. In the rainy season too day sleep must be avoided. Moon beams in Sharat, Shăli, Mudga, Rainwater, boiled water-all these are wholesome. Oil extracted from Nimba, Atasi, Kusumbha Shigru, Sarşhapa, Jyotişhmati, Mülaka, etc dispels worms, Kuşhtha, diabetes, and headache due to deranged Väyu and Kapha. 

35-38. The drugs Dadima, Amalaki, Kola, Karamarda, Priyalaka, Jambira, Någaranga, Amråtaka and Kapitthaka generate Pitta, subdue Vayu and bring about derangement of Kapha. Jala, Jimütaka, Ikşhväku, Kutaja, Krutabandhana and Dhämärgava shall be used in all sorts of emetics. In the morning Madana, Indrayava and Vack can be used as an emetic. A person has loose bowels due to Pitta, constipation due to Vayu and Kapha and normal state when all the doshas are in equilibrium. When Pitta is deranged Trivrut is a good purgative. 

39. Någara, Trivrut and rocksalt taken with sugar and honey is a purgative. Haritaki and Vidanga with cow's urine is also a purgative. 

40_ Oil extracted from Eranda and decoction of Triphala twice in quantity can be used as purgative. In disorders due to excessive action of Väyu the patient must be fed before applying emetics. 

41. For the application of enemate hollow bamboo sticks six, eight or twelve angulas in length with the cavity as large as a Karkandhu fruit shall be used. The patient lies in a supine position. 

42. In Nirūha (enema without oil) also this is the process. The dosage of clysters in the small one is half a pala, that in the middle is three palas and that in the full one is six palas. 

43. One part of Pathya, two parts of Akşha and four parts of Dhåtri purified with the juice of Shatavari, Amrutä, Bhrunga, Sindhuvära, etc., cures all sorts of pains.