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166 as absolutely ineffective owing to its virtue having been previously used or soaked in.*

Articles of bandaging:—Now we shall enumerate the names of articles which are required in bandaging ulcers. They are as follows:—

Kshauma (cloth woven with the fibres of Atasi plant), Avika (blankets made of sheeps' wool), Dukulum (loom-silk), Kausheya (silk), the Patrorna (a kind of cloth made of the fibres of Nága trees, which grow in the provinces of Paundra and Magadha), the Chinapatta (Chinese cloth), Antarvalkala (the inner bark or fibres of a tree), Charma (skin), the Alávu Shakala (the skin of a gourd), the Lata-Vidala (half thrashed Shyama creepers), string or cord, the cream of milk, Tula-phalam (cotton seeds) and iron. These accessories should be used in consideration of the exigencies of each case and the time or the season of the year in which it occurs.†