then coated with a warm collyrium made with the lamp-black collected from a burning lamp flame. 4.
Krimi-granthi:—in a case of Krimi-granthi, the affected part should be duly fomented after it has been incised and it should then be treated with the Rasa-kriyá solution prepared with (the decoction of) Triphalá (with the addition of) Tuttha,*[1] Ká-sisa and Saindhava. In a case of Upanáha (in the eye) due to the action of the deranged Kapha, the affected part should be opened and rubbed with powdered Pippali and Saindhava mixed with honey. It should then be scraped with a Mandalágra instrument. The surrounding parts should also be gently scratched all around. 5.
In the foregoing five cases of incisable eye-disease, until the setting in of suppuration therein, the affected eye should first be treated with Sneha and then with light fomentation with (the help of) tender leaves (as a cover over the eye). In all the remedies to be adopted in the treatment of these (incisable eye) diseases, the application of a Sneha should be first adopted. In cases, however, where suppuration had already set in, the remedies for the healing up of the ulcer, should be carefully adopted. 6.
Thus ends the fourteenth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra of the Sus'ruta Samhitá which deals with the curative treatment of (eye-) diseases requiring incisions.
- ↑ * Both Vrinda and Chakrapáni read Mutra (cow's urine) in place of Tuttha. Both of them also recommend the addition of Rasánjana in the compound.
