remedial to the specific deranged bodily Dosha or Doshas involved in each case. 20.
The affected eye should be fomented before the use of a Puta-páka or a Tarpana measure with a piece of cloth soaked in hot water (and rinsed). Fumigation of the affected organ in the end should be prescribed in a case marked by an aggravation of the deranged Kapha of the locality. 21.
Áśchyotana and Seka:— Properly prepared and applied, the Áśchyotana and Seka measures would respectively subdue cases of slight and violent attacks of the eye. Like the Puta-páka measure these two also are devided into three classes viz., (Lekhana, Snehana and Ropana). Seven or eight drops of the medicinal fluid should be used in Lekhana-Áśchyotana (for the purpose of scraping the affected eye); ten drops in the Snehana (for emulsive purposes) and twelve drops in the RopanaÁśchyotana ( for the purpose of setting up a granulative process in a local sore or wound). The maximum period for which an (affected) eye should be subjected to the Seka measure is twice as long as is enjoined in respect of a Puta-páka measure,* [1]or until the disease is gradually and wholly removed.†[2] Both the Áśchyotana and the Seka applications should be made in the morning or evening or at noon (in accord-
- ↑ * The period for which an affected eye should be subjected to the Áśchyotana measure, is not given in the text, but Dallana says that it should be the same as observed in cases of Puta-páka. Some, however, hold that in cases of both Seka and Áśchyotana the period would be twice as that for Puta-páka.
- ↑ † This rule for subjecting the affected eye to the measure till the disease is gradually and wholly removed is for Seka and Áśchyotana only; but according to some it is a general rule which applies also to cases of Puta-páka and Tarpana, etc.
