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70 would be found to be highly beneficial in cases of night-blindness. Similarly a single application of an Anjana made of a goat's liver stuffed with Pippali * and roasted in fire as in the preceding case would speedily and certainly cure an attack of night-blindness. As an alternative, both the spleen and the liver (of a goat or of a lizard) would be cut into pieces, mixed with oil and clarified butter, and roasted on a spit. Used internally or used as an Anjana with mustard oil, it would speedily cure an attack of night-blindness. 15-17.

An Anjana or a pill composed of Nadija (Saindhava), S'imbi (D. R. — Śamkha — conch-shell), Kataka, Anjana (Rasánjana), Manah-śilá, the two kinds of Niśá, pasted together with the juice of the liver † (of a cow) and mixed with red-sandal paste is recommended in a case of day-blindness. 18.

Treatment of palliative types:— Bleeding by opening the (local) veins should be resorted to in the six kinds of ocular affections in which the palliative treatment is all that is open to us. The patient should be as well kept constantly purged with draughts of matured clarified butter duly cooked with the admixture of suitable purgative drugs. In a Vátaja