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364 in which the flow is painful and the urine is slimy, thick and white, should be attributed to the action of the deranged Kapha. It is but another variety of the disease described immediately before. 13.

General Treatment:— Medicinal decoctions, Kalkas, (medicated) Ghritas, (various kinds of) foods, lambatives, preparations of milk, alkalis, honey, Ásavas, fomentation and Uttara-vasti should be employed according to their indications in coping with an attack of any of the aforesaid ailments. An intelligent physician shall resort, in these cases, to measures which are efficacious in cases of Aśmari, or shall employ in their entirely the medicinal compounds which have been described as curative under the treatment of urinary Udávarta. 14. A case of Mutra-krichchhra would be relieved by the use of pasted Erváru-seeds and Saindhava weighing an Aksha and taken with the fermented paddy-boilings. A person afflicted with Mutra-krichchhra should take wine (prepared from Pishta or pasted rice) in combination with Souvarchala-salt, or he should take wine prepared from honey by biting meat at intervals, or take any wine made from treacle. In the alternative, a Karsha measure of Kumkuma should be kept saturated with honey and water during the night and this should be taken in the morning, whereby, the patient would be relieved of the trouble (of Mutra-krichchhra). By taking the principal wine (viz., that prepared from Pishta or pasted rice) with salt, powdered Elá, Jiraka and Nágara and saturated with the acid juice of pomegranade one would get rid of Mutra-krichchhra. 15 — 16.

Half a Prastha measure of water with four times as much of milk together with the drugs of the Prithak-Parnyádi (Vidári-gandhádi) group and Gokshura-roots