2 SANSKMT MATERIA MEDICI. 



Sometimes the entire plant is used as Kantah'iri (Solatium 



Xanthocarpum. ) 



The skin, hair, wool, nails, horns, hoofs, milk, bile, honey, fat, 

 marrow, blood, flesh, urine, faeces, seiner, bones and nerves of 

 animals are all used in mecieine. 



Sasruta divides remedial agents into two classes, namely, 



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Pdrthiva or material and Kdlakrita or effected by time, such as 

 wind, sun-shine, shade, moon-light, darkness, heat, cold, rain, day 

 and night, changes of the moon, months and seasons of the year, 

 etc. These are all said to affect the humours of the body, and, 

 through them, the diseases caused by their derangement. The 

 influence of these agents, if properly r3gulated or availed of, 

 sometimes cures diseases, without the aid of material remedies. 



Sanskrit writers do not agree in the mode in which they 

 classify medicines when describing their properties. Charaka 

 divides medicines into fifty classes, according to their supposed 

 action on the different organs of the system, or on particular 

 symptoms of diseases. These classes are as follows : 



1. *nte«f)«j Jivaniya — Medicines which prolong life. 



2. softer Vrinhaniya — Medicines which promote nutrition 



and increase corpulency. 



3. ^<g«T|q Lekhaniya — Medicines which thin the tissues, or 



reduce corpulency. 



4. 5^ffcf Bhedaniya — Promote excretions. 



5. ^ERT^fta SandJidmya — Promote the union of fractured or 



divided parts,. [power. 



6. ^faifta Dipaniya— Increase the appetite and digestive 



7. ?*$ Balya — Increase strength. Tonics. 



8. <ro Varnya— Improve the complexion. 



9. ^jgj Kanthya— Improve the voice, or cure hoarseness. 



10. ^q- Hridya— Promote cheerfulness or relish. 



11. <5fw TriptigJina— Remove a supposed phlegm which 



causes a sense of satiety. 



12. ^snrrfa Arsoghna— Cure piles. 



13. ^W¥ Knshthaghna— Cure skin diseases. 



14. WQp Kandughna—Cnve pruritis. 



15. i% Krfnughna — Cure worms. 



16. fare Vishaghna—Act as antidotes to poisons. 



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