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Chap. XXXIX.] body with clarified butter as well as fomentation (Sveda) and plaster should also be prescribed under certain conditions in the present disease. 75 — 81. Samśamana decoctions for Pittaja Jwara: — A decoction of Śriparni, red sandal wood, Uśira, Parushaka and Madhuka (Moul) flowers duly boiled and mixed with a proportionate quantity of sugar (when cold), or a decoction of the drugs of the Sárivádi group duly mixed with sugar, or a decoction of the drugs of the Utpaládi group and Yashti-madhu, * or a cold infusion of the drugs of the same group mixed with sugar would cure a case of Pittaja fever. A similar preparation of Guduchi, Padmaka, Rodhra, Sárivá and Utpala taken, when cold, with sugar would prove beneficial in cases of Pittaja fever. 82-84.

A decoction of Drákshá and Áragvadha, or of Káśmarya, or of the drugs of sweet, bitter or astringent groups mixed with sugar and used, when cold, would alleviate thirst and the severe burning sensation of the body (in a case of Pittaja fever). The contents of the stomach should be vomited out by large draughts of cold water saturated with honey whereby thirst (in a case of Pittaja fever) would be alleviated. Milk duly cooked with the decoction (of barks or twigs) of the Kshiri-Vriksha (milk-exuding trees), or with Chandana or with any other cooling drugs should be used cold (both internally and externally) as a relief for an internal sensation of burning in a case of Pittaja fever. 85 — 87.

Draughts of water with Padmaka, Yashti-madhu,