Treatment of wrinkles on the scalp in Vaghbhatt's Ashatng Hridayam

 Treatment of wrinkles on the scalp in Vaghbhatt's Ashatng Hridayam



In khalati, palita, vali (wrinkles on the scalp) and haritaloma (brown hair) prifactory therapies followed by nasal medication, anointing the face and head and application of paste of drugs should be resorted to. 33.

Medicated oil prepared with drugs of brhatyadi (hrisva pancamula) and jivaniya gana (chapter 15 of sutrasthana) should be used for nasal medication; or nimba taila be used as nasal medication, for one month; the patient should drink only milk and lead the life of an ascetic. 34. 

Seeds of selu, vaksa, tila and rama, saoked and macerated in the juice of nili, sirisa, koranta and bhrnga and again with goat’s milk is taken in the quantity equal to kakandaka (egg of a crow) and pasted on an iron plate and exposed to sunlight. The oil that exudes from it used as nasal drops by the person who takes only milk as food; cures palita. 35-36.

Medicated oil prepared with one prastha each of milk, juice of sahacara, bhrngaraja and surasa, one kudava of oil, and one pala of yasti and preserved either in vessel of stone, or horn of a ram, should be used for nasal medication.

Nice paste of dugdhika or karaviraka made with milk, applied to the scalp after plucking the grey hair cures palita.

Paste of priyala, yastyahva, drugs of jivaniya gana (chapter 15 of Sutrasthana) and krisna tila made into a paste with milk and applied on the face cures brown hair and wrinkles. 39b-40a.

Paste made from tila, amalaka, padmakinjalka, madhuka and honey applied on the head nourishes the hair and gives them (black) colour. 40b-41a.

Mamsi, kustha, krsnatila, sariva and nilotpala made into a paste with milk added with honey and applied to the head is best to promote growth of hair. 41b-42a.

Ayoraja (iron filings), powder of bhrngaraja, triphala and krsnamrttika (black mud) kept soaked in sugarcane juice for one month, applied to the head cures palita (imparts black colour to the hair). 42b-43a.

Yavagu (thick gruel) fermented for three days with the addition of masa kodrava and dhanyamla and made pre dominant with loha, suklotkata-imparts colour even to the crane (which is white). 43b-44a.

Medicated oil prepared with prapaundarika, madhuka, pippali, candana and utpala and juice of dhatri, used for nasal medication and anointing daily cures all the diesases of the head and also palita. 44b-45.

Yamaka sneha ( two fats, oil and ghee) are cooked with vari, decoction of jivanti, milk and drugs of jivaniya gana (chapter 15 of Sutrasthana); this used for nasal medication cures all the diseases arising above the shoulders. 46. 

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