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306 sugar under the circumstances. A thirst-afflicted patient should likewise drink the water duly boiled with the drugs of the Sárivádi group sufficiently cooled down for the purpose. 20—21. Water duly boiled with Kaśeru, Śringátaka, Padma, Mocha (plantain-flower) and Viśa is efficacious in allaying thirst incidental to hurt (Kshataja). Water containing Nilotpala, Uśira and red Chandana should be kept in an open space during the night and a physician should give this well-scented water mixed with sugar and honey and with a large quantity of Drákshá to the thirst-afflicted patients on the following morning for their benefit. Cold infusions of the drugs of any of the Trina-pancha-mula, Utpaládi and Madhura (D. R. the first group i.e., Vidárigandhádi) groups mixed with the drugs of the Sárivádi group as well as that of the drugs of the Madhuka-pushpádi groups should be prepared in the preceding manner and prescribed. The six kinds of cordials (Pánaka) separately prepared (in the preceding manner) with the (four kinds of) Rájádana, Kshiri or Kapitana are also beneficial in such cases. Fruits of Tundikeri (wild Kárpása) and of Kárpása pasted together (and dissolved in water) and taken internally would prove beneficial. A case of thirst incidental to any ulcer (Kshataja) is allayed with the stoppage or removal of the pain or by taking meat-soup or the blood (of deer, goat, etc.). 22 — 26.

A case of thirst due to the waste (Ksháyaja) of any fundamental organic fluid (Rasa) is removed by taking draughts of clarified butter churned from milk *