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The Purging Cassia
1. We shall now expound the chapter entitled “ The Purging Cassia ”
2. Thus declared the worshipful Atreya.
The Fifteen Applications In Dermatosis
3. (1) The Purging cassia with the fetid cassia, Indian beech, vaska, guduch, emetic nut, turmeric, and Indian barberry; (2) pine resin, deodar, catechu, crane tree, neem, embelia, and Indian oleander bark;
4. (3) The nobes of birch tree, garlic siris, green vitriol, gum guggol and drumstick; (4) sweet marajoran, kurchi, dita bark, Indian tooth brush, costus and sprout of Spanish jasmine;
5. (5) Sweet Flag, Fragrant Piper, turpeth, red physic nut, marking nut, red ochre and black antimony; (6) re and yellow arsenic, kitchen soot, cardamom, green vitriol, lodh, arjuna, nut grass and sarja sal;
6. These six groups of drugs are mentioned in each of the six distiches, when socked in ox-bile and pounded again, have proved very efficacious. These powders should be prescribed by the physician to be used as external applications mixed with rape-seed oil.
7. These, when administered, quickly cure persons of obstinate skin diseases, recent leprous lesions, alopecia, keloids, ringworm, fistula-in-apo, piles, scrofula, and papules.
8. Costus, turmeric and Indian barberry, holy basil, wild snake, gourd, neem, winter cherry, deodar, drumstick, rape-seed, Indian tooth-ache, coriander, rush nut and angelica the powders of these should be taken in equal quantity.
9. They should be rubbed into paste which buttermilk and rubbed over the body which has been previously smeared with oil; this gives relief in pruritus, pimples, wheals, dermatosis and edema.
10. Costus, blue vitriol, Indian Barberry, green vitriol, kamala, nut grass lodh, sulphor, yellow resin, embelia, red and yellow arsenics and oleander bark:-
11. These should be pulverized and used as dusting powders over the parts previously anointed with oil. It relieves ringworm, pruritus, keloids, papules and bullous eruption.
12. Red and yellow arsenics, black pepper, til oil and milk of mudar make a good application in dermatosis. Blue vitriol, embelia, black pepper, costus, lodh and red arsenic act similarly.
13. The unguent prepared of extract of Indian barberry and the seeds of fetid cassia with the juice of the wood apple, is another good application; the seeds of Indian beech, fetid cassia and costus pounded in cow’s urine, make an excellent ointment.
14. The unguent of turmeric and Indian Ber-berry, seeds of kurchi, seeds of Indian beech sprouts of Spanish jasmine and bark and pith of oleander, should be used with til alkali.
15. Red arsenic, bark of kurchi, costus, green vitriol, fetid cassia, Indian beech, nodes of birch-tree, Indian oleander root:- the powder of the measure of one tola of each of these drugs should be taken.
16. These should be boiled in 256 tolas of exudation-juice of palas-roots to a semi-solid consistency. This ointment is said to be most beneficial in the eradication of skin diseases.
17. The ointment, prepared of the leaves of purging cassia or black night-shade of Indian oleander and butter milk, should be rubbed over the skin lesions of the person who has been previously anointed with oil.
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