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Chap.XXXIX.]
SUTRASTHANAM.
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from their natural seats or locations. Decoctions (including extracts and cold infusions of medicinal herbs) in doses of four Palas weights, and pastes and powders in doses of two Palas weights, should be prescribed in a disease of ordinary intensity. Corrective medicines (Purgatives and Emetics) may be safely exhibited even in a weak patient with loose or uncon- stipated bowels, if they are found to be stuffed with a spontaneous accumulation of fecal matter (Dosha) etc. inspite of such looseness or easy motion.
Thus ends the thirty-ninth Chapter of the Sutrasthanam in the Sushruta Samhita, which treats of drugs of cleansing (corrective) and soothing properties.
