![]() In Agni Purana Dhanvantari has said a physician, attending a patient up with fever and fasting in consequence, should prescribe for him such innocuous diet, as Manda of fried paddy and boiled mixture, so as to keep up his strength. Boiled water alone is also sufficient in many cases. It has been said that at the subsidence of symptoms which the peculiar deranged humour which had brought the paroxysm, the physician should cause the proper application of oil to be rubbed over the body of the patient. In a case of internal haemorrhage (such as Haemoptysis or Hasmatemesis) emetics should be prescribed, where the seat of the complaint would be situated above the region of the waist; whereas purgatives should be prescribed where the seat of the disease would be anywhere below that line. A potion composed of the drugs known as the Sadangas with the exception of Shunti, may be given for internal use as well, and the patient should live on a diet composed of powdered barley, wheat, fried paddy, barley, Shali rice, Masura pulse, Muga, and Chanaka treated with the drug Kustha. The adhyaya in Agni Purana narrates that small grapes dressed in milk and clarified butter, as well as Vrishorasa mixed with honey, are safe cures for cases' of chronic dysentry, in which grains of old and matured Shali rice, should form the staple food of the patient. A man, suffering from any of the intestinal Rumours, should carefully avoid wet, though boiled rice, as well as articles that vitiate the vital wind. ![]() Purgatives should be given to patients suffering from diseases of the heart, while preparations of Pipul should be administered to those who are afflicted with hiccough, through the medicine of cold water and washings of whey. In diseases which are the outcome of an excess of wine, wine mixed with Souvarcha salt, should be given in small, but repeated, doses. A man, suffering from an ulcer, should take milk containing honey and washings of shellac. A man suffering from any sort of wasting diseases, should take special care to improve his appetite, and take essence of meat every day, whereby he would get rid of his malady. The diet in such a case should consist of Shali rice, seeds of Nivara and such like light-food at the beginning. Dhanvantari in Agni Purana has said that a similar diet should be observed by a patient suffering from piles, and washings of whey should be substituted for his ordinary drink. The patient should take decoction of Musta every day, and plaster the polypus over with a paste of Haridra (turmeric) and Chitraka, while the diet should largely consist of preparations of barley, Shali rice, and Souvarcha salt. Thickened milk mixed with clarified butter and juice of Sugarcane and Esvaru, should be given in the case of a renal stricture, while Mandas containing mild wines may be given as drink. Fried paddy, powdered barley, honey, meat roasted on a stick, brinjal, gourd, Shikhi, and wine are anti-phlegmatic in their effect, and are good medicines for an attack of simple cold. Boiled rice made of Shali paddy, or a mixture of milk and water made lukewarm, or boiled, should be deemed as the best allayer of thirst, while a pill made of treacle and pasted Musta kept in the mouth, would produce the same effect. ![]() Cakes made of barley, together with dried radishes, pot-herbs, and seeds of common canes, should form the diet of a man afflicted with an abscess on his femoral region. A man suffering from Erysipelus, should live on a diet composed of Mudga, Adaka; Masura, prepared from the juice of lemon juice, Saindhava salt, clarified butter, juice grapes, Shunthi, Amalaka, Kolaja, old wheat, barley, refined sugar, small grapes, and pomegranates. According to the medicinal remedies of Dhanvantari a man seeking a long life, should take a mixture of honey and clarified butter every night. Similarly thickened milk and clarified butter, boiled with the juice of Shatavari, are known to act as a strong elixir of vitality. Similarly Kalamvikas and Masas taken with thickened milk and clarified butter; act as a potent nerve-tonic. The same drugs used with the juice of Madhuka, bring vigour to an used up frame and arrest premature old age, and vouchsafe a complete cure of all senile decay. Oil prepared with Rasna and Sahachara is beneficial to persons suffering from a fever, due to deranged condition of the vital wind. Cold food should be carefully avoided by a person suffering from an abscess, while his diet should consist of articles that do not give rise to excessive phlegm by their chemical reaction. It has also been said that powdered roots of Tanduleya, administered through the medium of clarified butter, should be deemed as an effective remedy for bites of spiders and poisonous insects. Even cases of snake bites had been successfully treated with the above said potion, and the most virulent snake-poison had been known to have been entirely eliminated from the system, by means thereof. A paste composed of Sandal,' Padmaka, Kustha, Satamvu, Ushira, Patola, Nirgunthi, and Shuriva, is a potent remedy for all sorts of insect-bites. |
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