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182 boiled Shall rice, not extremely liquefied, and treated with clarified-butter, and taken with the cooked meat of animals of the Jangala species, soon gets rid of his disease. A diet consisting of boiled rice, the pot-herbs known as the Tanduliyakam, Jivanti, Sunishannaka, Vastuka, immature Mulaka, Vartaku, Patola and Karavella, fried with Saindhava (rock-salt) and clarified-butter, and seasoned with the expressed Juice of Dhadima and Amalakam, or of Mudga soup treated as above, should be prescribed for the patient. Barley powder, Vilepi, Kulmasha and boiled water, should be likewise given to the patient for food and drink. Fatigue or physical exercise causes the ulcer to swell, while the keeping of late hours increases the local redness. A sleep during the day under the circumstance would give rise to pain in the affected part, while a coitus may bring on the death of the patient.

An ulcer-patient, not given to sleep in the day, and living in a room protected from gusts of wind, and strictly following the instructions of his physician, (surgeon) is healed in the course of a very short time and will enjoy a long life through the observance of the abovesaid regimen of diet and conduct. This is the dictum of Dhanvantari.

Thus ends the nineteenth Chapter of the Sutrasthanam in the Sushruta Samhita which treats of the nursing or management of an ulcer- patient.