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Chap. XL] in a case marked by watery and copious motions. Powdered Haritaki and Pippali with tepid water should be administered for purgative purposes in a case marked by scanty emissions of stool at times attended with pain and colic (Śula). Fasting is the first remedy to be prescribed in cases of Áma (acute) Atisára, or in the alternative, digestive remedies should be prescribed. The recipes of digestive medicinal compounds which are curative in the disease under discussion (Ámátisára) are described below. 18 — 19.

Twenty different Recipes for Ámátisára: — (1) Deva-dáru, Vacha, Musta, Nágara, Ativishá and Abhayá; or of (2) Kalinga (Indra-yava), Ativishá, Hingu, Sauvarchala-salt, Vachá and Ahhayá, or of (3) Abhayá (D. R.-Nágara), Dhanyáka, Musta, Válaka and Vilva; or of (4) Musta, Parpataka, Śunthi, Vacha, Ativishá and Abhayá; or of (5) Abhayá, Ativishá, Hingu, Vachá, and Sauvarchala-salt; or of (6) Chitraka, Pippalimula, Vacha, Katuka-rohini, or of (7) Páthá, Vatsaka-seeds(Indra-yava), Haritaki and Mahaushadha (Śunthi), or of (8) Murvá, Nirdahani, (Chitraka), Páthá, Tryushana (Tri-katu) and Gaja-pippali; or of (9) Siddhárthaka, Bhadra-dáru, Śatáhvá and Katu-rohini; or of (10) Elá, Sávaraka (Lodhra), Kushtha, the two sorts of Haridrá, Kutaja-seeds (Indra-yava); or of (11) Mesha-śringi, Tvak, Elá, Krimighna (Vidanga) and Vrikshaka (Indra-yava); or of (12) Brikshádani, Virataru, the two kinds of Vrihati and the two kinds of Sahá (Mudga-parni and Másha-parni); or of (13) barks of Eranda, Tinduka, Dádima, Kutaja and of Śami; or of (14) Páthá, Tejovati, Musta, Pippali and Indra-yava; or of (15) Patola, Dipyaka (Yamáni), Vilva, the two kinds of Haridrá and Deva-dáru; or of (16) Vidanga, Abhayá, Páthá, Śringavera, Ghana (Musta) and Vacha; or of (17) Vacha,