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356 agents of digestive efficacy. Vartis (suppositories) made by pasting the purgative drugs mentioned in connection with the medical treatment of Visuchiká together with the urine of a she-buffalo, or of a she-goat or of a ewe or of a she-elephant, or of a cow, should be used. The body of the patient should be first fomented and then the powders of the drugs used in preparing the afore-said Vartis should be blown (into his intestines) through a pipe inserted into his rectum. Decoction should be duly prepared by boiling the drugs of emetic and purgative virtue in cow's urine. Nirudha Vasti* should soon be applied with the above decoction mixed with half as much of cow's urine † and with honey and adding also the powders of Trivrit and salt weighing a Prakuncha (Pala). The procedure laid down in respect of the exhibition of purgatives should be adopted here. Oil duly cooked and boiled with the foregoing drugs should also be injected into the rectum, if necessary, after the manner of an Aunvásana Vasti. 15 — 16.

Thus ends the fifty-sixth chapter in the Uttara-Tantra of the Sus'ruta Samhitá which deals with the (symptoms and) treatment of Visuchiká.