medicinal remedies consisting of cold applications and unguents of clarified butter.*[1]
A plaster composed of Tugákshiri, Plaksha, Chandana, Gairika, and Amritam (Guduchi), pasted together with clarified butter, should be applied over a bum of the Samyag-Dagdha type, or the flesh of domestic or aquatic or amphibious animals should be pasted and plastered over the affected part. A burn of the present type, marked by excessive burning, should be medicinally treated in the same manner as a case of bilious abscess (Pitta-vidradhi).
In the case of a burn of the Ati-Dagdha (over-burnt) type, the loose or the dangling integuments (skin) and flesh should be removed, and cold applications should be made over the ulcer. Then the affected part should be dusted over with pulverised Shali rice, or a plaster composed of the pulverised skin of Tinduki and clarified butter pasted together, should be applied over its surface.†[2] The affected part should be covered over with the leaves of Guduchi, or of lotus, or other aquatic plants, and all measures and remedial
- ↑ * Cold applications and cooling measures should be resorted to in the case of a deep and excessive burn, while the contrary should be held as the correct remedy in the case of a slight and superficial one.
- ↑ † Several authorities prescribe Tinduki bark and human cranium powdered together and mixed with clarified butter, while others prescribe a decoction of Tinduki bark.
