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206 ing it with half a Kudava measure of Yava (barley), half a Pala weight of Manjishthá and a hundred Prastha measure of Amla (Kánjika). The oil is called Prahládana (refreshing) Taila and it relieves the burning sensation of the body due to an attack of fever. 136. In the alternative, the body of the patient should be plastered with the pasted drugs of the Nyágrodhádi, Kákolyádi or Utpaládi groups, or anointed with a Sneha duly cooked with the decoction of the drugs of the preceding groups and with Amla, or the patient should be given a bath (Avagáha) in the Śita-kasáya * of these drugs. On the alleviation of the burning sensation, the patient should be raised out of the tub and then washed with the spray of cold water and smeared with soothing sandal pastes, etc. Young, gay, beautiful and lotus-faced damsels with their youthful cooling breasts profusely smeared with sandal pastes, wearing garlands of beautiful lotus flowers as well as necklace of pearls, etc., and clad in fine silken clothes should be asked to hold the depressed patient in their firm embrace and to kiss him. These damsels should be removed as soon as the patient would exhibit symptoms of exhilaration. He should be given wholesome (Pitta-subduing) food which would give him much relief. Purgative and pacifying (soothing) medicines described in connection with the Pittaja fever are likewise beneficial in the present case. 137. General treatment of the Complications: — The deranged Pitta should be crushed and remedied first of all in a case of fever, involving therewith the co-operation of any of the deranged Doshas of the body, in as much as it is extremely hard