a medicine with food in cases of female, old and infant patients as well as in cases of those averse to taking any medicine. 27-29.
A medicine taken at the beginning and again at the close of a meal is called Sámudga. This form of administration is most beneficial in cases where the deranged bodily Doshas take both the (upward and downward) courses. A medicine taken at intervals, either with or without food, is called Muhurmuhuh. This mode is to be adopted in severe cases of asthma, cough, hiccough and vomiting. A medicine taken with every morsel (Grása) of food is called Grása. In this form the medicine in the shape of a powder is administered for increasing the appetite in cases of weak patients. Vájikara (aphrodisiac) medicines are also better administered in this form. A medicine taken with each alternate morsel of food is called Grásántara. Emetics and Dhumas as well as the well-known and well-experimented lambatives for cases of asthma should be administered in this form. These are the ten proper occasions for administering medicines. 30-33.
Proper time for taking food:— The proper time for giving diet to a patient is when he gets free stool, urine and eructations, and feels his body and sense-organs light and free, when he gets free actions of the heart as well as natural courses of his bodily (Apána) Váyu, when he feels hungry (D. R. feels easy) and has got relish for food and when his Kukshi (belly) becomes light (i. e. when his belly appears to be empty on account of hunger). 34.
Thus ends the sixty-fourth chapter in the Uttara-tantra of the Sus'ruta-Samhitá which deals with the Rules of Hygiene.
