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280 and Sindhuvára (Nirgundi) as well as the tender sprouts of Vata and Atimuktá (Tinduka) as pot-herbs and cooked with clarified butter are recommended as diets. Soup of the meat of pigeons, Śamkha (conch) and tortoise as well as the gruels mentioned before mixed with the expressed juice of Dhátri and pomegranate and with a profuse quantity of clarified butter should be given to the patient as diet. Milk should be duly cooked in combination with the drugs of the Utpaládi group, and the cream therefrom should be likewise prescribed with a copious quantity of honey and sugar. Cold Pradehas, honey, sugar, and clarified butter are said to be beneficial in cases of Rakta-pitta. 12 — 13.

An experienced physician should prescribe any one of the four lambatives composed of the powders of the flowers of Madhuka, Śobhánjana, Kovidára or of Priyangu, mixed with honey to be licked up by a patient suffering from Rakta-pitta. Similarly lambatives of Durbá, or the tender leaves of Vata, or of white Karnika pasted together with the honey should be given to be licked up by the patient*. Dates and other friuts of the same therapeutic virtue, taken with honey, would prove efficacious in the disease. 14 — 15.

Medicinal compounds mentioned in connection with the treatment of Raktátisára (blood-dysentery) may be as well employed with advantage in the present instance. A piece of sugar-cane devoid of its skin and crushed should be kept immersed in cold water contained in a new earthen pitcher. The picther with its lid off should be kept in an open place for a night. Its contents duly strained in the morning should be given with powdered Utpala and honey to a patient suffering from