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316 Treatment: — Practice of Pránáyáma (control of breath-wind), tickling, frightening and producing confusion by pricking with needles may be effectively resorted to in a case of (simple) hiccough. Yashti-madhu mixed with honey, or Pippali mixed with sugar, or a Inkewarm compound of milk, clarified butter and the expressed juice of sugar-cane* should be employed after the manner of an Avapida-Nasya. Vomiting and purging may be induced in a patient not extremely weak. Red sandal-wood made into a paste with the breast-milk, or lukewarm clarified butter mixed with Saindhava salt, or powdered Saindhava dissolved in water is beneficial, if administered as a medicinal snuff. 12.

Gummy exudation of Śála trees, Manah-śilá, or cow's horn, or cow's hairs and skin, charged with clarified butter, should be used in fumigation (Dhupana). As an alternative, the seats of hiccough [viz., umbilical region, etc.) should be duly fomented. The patient should be advised to use a lambative composed of Svarna-Gairika or the ashes of the bones of any domestic animal pasted with honey. Hairs of ŚváAvidh † a sheep, a cow or of Śallaki should be burnt in a covered pot and given to be licked with honey. Plumes of a peacock or the fruit of Udumvara or (the bark of) Lodhra should be similarly burnt and the ashes thus prepared should be licked by the patient in combination with honey and clarified butter. Sarjiká-kshára licked with the expressed juice of Vijapura and with honey