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Chap. LI.] posed of any of the following five groups of drugs mentioned in a hemistich each, viz., Tiniśa-seeds, Karkata-Śringi and Śuvarchiká (Jatuka-creeper), or Durá-labhá, Pippali, Katuka and Haritaki or porcupine's hair, peocock's feather, Kolá (Chavya) Mágadhiká, and Kaná * or Bhárgi, Tvak, (cardamom), Śringavera, Śarkará (sugar) and Śallaka-bark, or the well-pounded seeds of Tri-kantaka alone, should be licked with honey and clarified butter by a patient suffering from cough and asthma. 25. Powders of sapta-chchhada-flowers and Pippali should be taken with curd-cream (Mastu) or powders of fried barley grains (?) previously soaked for several times in the expressed juice of tender Arka-twigs together with honey should be taken. As an alternative, a patient suffering from asthma would drink the Tarpana (cordial) prepared with the above-mentioned barley-powder (by mixing it with a copious quantity of water and) with honey. 26.

A potion prepared with the flowers of Śirisha, Kadali and of Kunda and with Mágadhiká and dissolved in the washings of rice would completely cure all forms of asthma. The pith or inner pulp of Kola-stone, roots of Tála (palm) tree (D. R. — Tála-muli) and the burnt skin † of a deer of the Rishya species, should be taken with honey; or Bhárgi with honey and clarified butter, or Kadamba-seeds and Nimba in combination, with honey and the washings of rice. 27 — 28.

Drákshá, Haritaki, Krishná, Karkata-śringi and