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Chap.XLIV.] The same powder mixed with modifications of sugar- cane juice (such as treacle, sugar etc.), or with decoctions of drugs belonging to the Madhuradi group (Kakolyadi-gana), or with milk, should be prescribed for a patient laid up with Pittaja distemper. In diseases due to the deranged action of the Kapham the same powder should be administered with a decoction of Guduchi, Arishta or Triphala, or with the addition of pulverised Vyosha and cow's urine.

One part of the same powder (Trivrit), mixed with one part of old treacle and the drugs known as Trivarnaka, and Tryushana, should be administered for purgative purposes in a disease (due to the concerted action of the deranged Viyu and Kapham). As an alternative, a Prastha mea sure (four seers) cf the decoction of the Trivrit roots, mixed with a Kudava measure (half a seer) of their paste, and a Karsha (two tolas) weight of Saindhava salt and Nagara, and boiled together, and then formed into a condensed compound should be used; or one part of the paste of the same roots, mixed with half a part each of rock-salt and powdered Nagara, should be administered through the vehicle of cow's urine. A compound consisting of one part of each of the following drugs viz., powdered Trivrita roots, Nagara and Haritaki, and a half part of each of such drugs as powdered Maricha, Devadaru, Vidanga and ripe Puga nuts, mixed with rock-salt, and administered through