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Chap. XII
UTTARA-TANTRAM.
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of Akshi-páka). Saindhava and clarified butter pasted together in a copper vessel with flesh or Maireya or curd or with curd-cream should be used as an Anjana. As an alternative, the rust of bell-metal pasted with clarified butter, or Saindhava pasted with breast-milk, or equal parts of the pith of Madhuka tree and Gairika pasted with honey, or Saindhava and copper pasted with breast-milk and clarified butter should be used as AnJanas. The compounds of Dádimba, Araveta, As'manta, Kola, and Saindhava pasted with any acid juice*[1] should be applied to the affected organ in the manner of a Rasa-kriyá measure for the cure of (the two kinds of) Akshi-páka. 25-26.

Animal flesh and Saindhava salt soaked in clarified butter and mixed with S'unthi and breast-milk should be applied to the affected organ in the manner of an Áśchyotana or as an Anjana. A compound consisting of Játi flower, Saindhava, S'unthi, Pippali and huskless Vidanga pasted together with honey, may as well be used as an Anjana with advantage in a case of Akshi-páka. 27-28.

Treatment of Puyálasa:— Blood-letting (after the application of Sneha and Sveda) and poulticing (Upanáha) of the affected locality are efficacious in the affecticn of the eye, known as Puyálasa. The measures and remedies which prove curative in cases of Akshi-páka should as well be employed with discretion in this case by a physician. An Anjana (eye-salve) composed of Ardraka, Saindhava and Káśisa (Sulphate of iron), or Káśisa Saindhava, Árdraka, iron and copper dust pasted together with honey, should be applied to the affected eye in the manner of an Anjana (in a case of Puyálasa). 29-30.

  1. * Some add honey in the list.