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 CHAPTER XXXVI.

Now we shall discourse on the Chapter, which treats of miscellaneous remedies for swellings, etc. (Mishraka-madhyayam). *

Metrical Texts:—A medicinal plaster, composed of Matulanga, Agnimantha, Devadaru, Mahaushdham, Ahinsra, and Rasna pasted together and applied to the seat of the affection, leads to the resolution of a swelling, due to the action of the deranged Vayu.

A plaster composed of Durva, Nalamulam, Madhukam, and Chandanam, as well as plasters composed of drugs of cooling properties,† brings about the resolution of an inflammatory swelling of the Pittaja type, and proves similarly beneficial to a traumatic swelling, or to one which has its origin in the vitiated condition of the blood.

Measures, laid down in connection with a swelling resulting from the effects of poison, would lead to the resolution of a Pittaja swelling as well.