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Chap. XXXIX.] of the Utpaládi group mixed with Chandana and Uśira and sweetened with the addition of sugar should be similarly applied cold (as a Nirudha Vasti) in cases of Pittaja fever. A Vasti (in the manner of Nirudha) charged with a compound consisting of Ámra-barks, etc., Śamkha (conch), Chandana, Utpala, Gainka, Rasánjana, Manjishthá, Mrinála and Padma-káshtha pasted together and dissolved in milk saturated with sugar and honey should be passed through a piece of linen and then applied cold in a case of (Pittaja) fever marked by intolerable pain. The characteristic burning sensation due to fever may be relieved by applying Vasti charged with a decoction of the preceding drugs in the manner of an Anuvásana-vasti. A Nirudha Vasti charged with the decoction of the drugs of the Áragvadhádi group mixed with (the powders of) the drugs of the Pippaládi group and with honey, should be applied in cases of Kaphaja fever and the decoction of the Kapha-subduing (Áragvadhádi) drugs, should also be injected into the rectum in the manner of an Anuvásana Vasti. In cases of fever due to the 'aggravation of two or three Doshas, the Vastis (Nirudha and Anuvásana) to be applied should be charged with the decoction of the drugs respectively antidotal to the deranged Doshas involved in each case. 146 — 150. All the medicated lardacious substances with the exception of oil, which have been prescribed as being efficacious (in the use of Vastis) in diseases of the deranged Váyu, are equally applicable (in Anuvásana Vastis) in a case of fever due to the same cause. But all of them (including also oil) are equally applicable to anointing, etc. Lubrication of the body with oil at the close of the acute stage i.e., on the thirteenth or fourteenth day of the attack would be attended with