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252 A Gulma of the Sánnipátika type (due to the concerted action of all the three fundamental Doshas of the body) should be treated according to the predominance of any specific deranged bodily Dosha involved therein. The patient should be made to take at the proper time (i.e., as soon as the disease sets in) the pulverised compound known as the Hingvádi-churna or the medicated Ghrita known as Tilvaka-Sarpih or the one (viz. Shatpalaka Ghrita) which has been described as curative of the enlargement of the spleen, as these would prove curative in a case of Gulma. 23 — 24.

Internal use of Kshára:— Alkaline preparation should be duly made with the following drugs, viz., the ashes of (dried stems of) Tila, Ikshuraka, Sarshapa and Yava and of (the barks of) Paláśa and of Mulaka with the urines (weighing four times as much) of a cow, she-goat, ewe, she-ass and she-buffalo. This alkaline preparation should then be cooked in an iron vessel and on a slow fire with one Pala weight of each of the following pulverised drugs, viz, Kushtha, Saindhava, Yashti-madhu, Nágara, Vidanga and Ajamodá and with ten Pala weight of Sámudra-salt thereto added and, should be taken in the form of a lambative with one or the other of clarified butter, curd, wine, fermented rice-boilings (Dhányámla), warm water or the soup of Kulattha. The alkaline compound, thus prepared, undoubtedly proves curative in cases of Gulma and in the derangements of the bodily Váyu. Compounds consisting of Sarjiká-Kshára, Kushtha and the ashes of Ketaki taken with oil*, or of Sarjiká-Kshára, Kushtha