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his treatment to the proper regulation of the digestive faculty, after¬ 
wards paying attention to the relief of the sickness. 
(Verse 51—53.) He who desires a good memory, health and 
strength, and wishes for a long life, should make use of the fresh juice ?6 
of the Sankhapushpi ( Ganscora decussata ), Brahmi ( Herpestis Monniera ), 
Mandukaparni ( Hydrocotyle asiatica) and Madhuka (liquorice). (52.) 
Within one month he will obtain a good memory, and within twelve 
months he will be able to reproduce from memory whatever he hears 
once only, without any decay. (53.) With the same treatment, he will 
live for a hundred years or for two hundred years, if administered in 
proportion; and if he goes on continually repeating the treatment, he 
will enjoy undecaying life. 
(Verses 54—58.) In the case of gruels, khada (medicated butter¬ 
milk), and decoctions ; of electuaries, powders ( churna) and antidotes; 
of pills, ointments and suppositories; of fumes and sternutatories; 
(55) of putapdka (roasted drugs), refrigerants, sudorifics, emetics and 
eye-lotions ; and in the case of any other medicaments, not named, 
when the proportion is not mentioned, (56) the portions of the in¬ 
gredients should be equal; of honey and clarified butter, there should 
be a double portion; but of treacle one should take a threefold, and of 
ground white sugar a fourfold portion. (57) In the case of powders 
( pesky a ), when no liquid is prescribed, water should be understood to be 
taken . 37 In the case of curdled milk, urine, milk, clarified butter, 
hair, horn and hoof, (58) one should prescribe all these to be taken 
from the cow, so also in the case of all honeys, to be taken from the 
common bee. S8 
36 On svarasa see Dntt’s Mat. Med., p. 9. 
37 On these medicaments see Dr. Dntt’s Mat. Med., p. 9. For a pHtapuha 
vegetable drugs are made into a paste, and tied up in the form of a ball in leaves of 
the Eugenia jambolana or Ficus Bengalensis, after which the ball is covered with a 
layer of clay and roasted in a cowdung fire. When the clay becomes brick-red, the 
roasting is completed. The roasted drug is now taken out, and given either in the 
form of a pill or powder or its juice is expressed and given with honey or other 
adjuncts.— Khada is said to be butter-milk boiled with acid vegetables and spices. 
33 With this compare Susruta’s directions on honey, and urine in I, 45. He only, 
says, that the honey of the common bee is the best ( pravaram ), but allows seven 
other varieties. He makes a similar remark with reference to cow’s urine, that it 
should be used by preference, as being the most effective ( miitra-praydga-sddhydshu 
gavga-mxitram prayojaySt); but he also permits the use of the urine of other domestic 
animals. The only reference to other animal substances that I can find occurs at 
the end of I, 37, were the following are mentioned : blood, hair, nails, milk, urine 
and foeces; but there is nothing to limit them to products of the cow. 
