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Chap. XLV.] A solution of milk or water saturated with sugar should be applied into the nostrils in the event of bleeding from the nose. The expressed juice of grapes, clarified butter prepared by churning milk or the expressed juice of sugar-cane should be taken cold (through the nostrils) in combination with sugar *. All cooling measures and sweet-drugs should be employed in the present disease 24 — 25.

Ásthápana and Anuvásna:— The application of an Ásthápana-Vasti charged with milk duly cooked with the drugs of the Vidári-gandhádi group and mixed with honey, clarified butter, sugar and Drákská, proves extremely efficacious in the disease under discussion. The application of an Anuvásna-Vasti charged with clarified butter * would be attended with equal benefit. The drugs known as Priyangu, Lodhra; Souviránjana, Gairika, Utpala, Suvarnagairika, Káliyaka, conch-shell, Chandana, sugar, Aśvagandhá, Ambuda, Yashti-madhu, Mrinála and Sougandhika, taken in equal parts, should be pounded together and mixed with copious quantities of milk, honey and clarified butter. This solution should be injected into the rectum after the manner of Nirudha-Vasti. The patient should be sprinkled with cold water and given his diet with milk after which clarified butter duly cooked with Yashti-madhu should be injected into the rectum of the patient after the manner of Anuvásana-Vasti. This measure proves extremely beneficial in cases of down-coursing Rakta-pitta and violent types of blood-dysentery. In the case of an excessive discharge of