Changes

siddhaṁ kṣiprataraṁ hanti sūkṣmamārgasthitān gadān||182||  

siddhaṁ kṣiprataraṁ hanti sūkṣmamārgasthitān gadān||182||  

Prepare a decoction by taking 40 ''tolas'' (48 gm) of each of ''rasna, shirisha,'' liquorice, dry ginger, ''sahachara, guduchi, syonaka, devadaru, shampaka, ashvagandha'' and ''gokshura''. Then oil is prepared by taking 64 ''tolas'' (768 ml) of sesame oil and cooking it in the above said decoction along with 64 ''tolas'' (768 ml) each of curds, ''aranala'', decoction of black gram, juices of good quality of radish, and sugar cane, adding one tola (12 gm) of the paste of each of the gandhavarga drugs.  

Prepare a decoction by taking 40 ''tolas'' (48 gm) of each of ''rasna, shirisha,'' liquorice, dry ginger, ''sahachara, guduchi, syonaka, devadaru, shampaka, ashvagandha'' and ''gokshura''. Then oil is prepared by taking 64 ''tolas'' (768 ml) of sesame oil and cooking it in the above said decoction along with 64 ''tolas'' (768 ml) each of curds, ''aranala'', decoction of black gram, juices of good quality of radish, and sugar cane, adding one ''tola'' (12 gm) of the paste of each of the ''gandhavarga'' drugs.  

This mūlaka oil is curative of splenic disorders, retention of urine, dyspnoea, cough and other vāta disorders. It is also promotive of complexion, life and vitality. Thus mūlaka taila is explained. (172-173)

This ''mūlaka'' oil is curative of splenic disorders, retention of urine, dyspnoea, cough and other ''vata'' disorders. It is also promotive of complexion, life and vitality. Thus ''mūlaka taila'' is explained. [172-173]

The agurvādya oil, which has been described in the treatment of śīta jvara, if processed again many hundred times, becomes curative of vāta disorders. And the medicated oils, which will be described in the therapeutics of rheumatic conditions,   may be prescribed for the alleviation of vāta disorders, by the physician desirous of success in treatment. (176-180)

Medicated oil is prepared by taking sesame oil and cooking it in the decoction of barley, ''kola'', horse gram, fish, drumstick, ''bael'', radish, curds and milk. This is curative of all ''vata'' disorders. The medicated oil prepared in the expressed juice of garlic and the drugs mentioned above, is curative of ''vata roga''. These different oils may be given as potion to a woman who has just taken her purificatory bath on the cessation of menses. By taking any of this medicated oil as ''pana'', even a sterile woman will become fertile.

There exists no medication superior to oil as a remedy for vāta, due to its quality of extreme spreadability, hot in potency, heaviness, unctuousness and by virtue of becoming more powerful on being medicated with the vāta curative group of drugs. Being also capable of further intensification of potency, by being processed again for hundreds or thousands of times, taila very quickly cures the diseases which are located into even the minutest part of the body. (181- 182)

 

The ''agurvadya'' oil, which has been described in the treatment of ''shita jwara'', if processed again many hundred times, becomes curative of ''vata'' disorders. And the medicated oils, which will be described in the therapeutics of rheumatic conditions, may be prescribed for the alleviation of vāta disorders, by the physician desirous of success in treatment. [176-180]

 

There exists no medication superior to oil as a remedy for ''vata,'' due to its quality of extreme spreadability, hot in potency, heaviness, unctuousness and by virtue of becoming more powerful on being medicated with the ''vata'' curative group of drugs.  

 

Being also capable of further intensification of potency, by being processed again for hundreds or thousands of times, ''taila'' very quickly cures the diseases which are located into even the minutest part of the body. [181-182]

==== Management of avrita vata conditions ====

==== Management of avrita vata conditions ====