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Elixirs or mixtures for cleansing the veins (or “os Rega d 
aliitee. = ). Thus Avtitos chapters are on depuratory medici 
he above m there is no sufficient relief, in ahha sutra 
is taught st ig soft par hard remedies. 
et blood in such distempers, when heat prevails. There 
are counted 77 v alia, of which any may be opened for letting out blood. 
The aes of a caustic for curing diseases, when cold, or 
cold ae preva 
22. The t use of a ve soon te ele 
23. On the use of medical inky for diseased members. 
24. On adhibiting stadicinsl unguents. 
medicines operating downwards. 
26. cha conclusion. Though there be many ways (1, 200) of ex- 
amining the heat and cold prevailing in any disease, they all may be re- 
duced to the following: to look on the tongue and urine, to feel the e, 
and to ask (af r a e circumstances of the beginning and progress of the 
disease in question). 
Thus the peitiodion adhibited against pepine though they be count- 
ed many (1,200), yet they may be reduched to the fo ollowing four classes : 
i 
m ment, manual opera , diet, and wSaeth edi ent is either 
uaging or depur the manual operationis either gentle ough 
food is either useful or noxious ; the exereise is either violent or gentle 
ug. r num a modes of curing 
di ma + Oxi 
(or of the cs cred of the disease). Rules for curing such and such 
pees oa the manner in which the remedy is applied. 
s taught also of preservatives for a esteem to keep him- 
self ate’ ati any malignant infection from ve tient. 
27. Recommendation of this treatise to the care of the audien ce, 
by the teacher (Stara). Pippi and moral piphicniin of the 
ed 404 di 
volume conclude with an account of the mode in which this 
reatise on medicine (sonaketiien of four parts) sroached Tibet, which is 
brie efly incorporated in the introductory remar. 
