Splenic Enlargement
The patient here becomes very weak. He cannot tolerate even the least amount of work and even walking about leads to a difficulty in breathing. He loses interest in eating or drinking and there is constant pain in the region of the spleen.
For treating this, take one ser of cow’s milk and boil. After two or three simmers of this boiling, add 4 tolas of kahnishor and remove the milk from fire immediately. Milk will break down. The water of it should be strained out and given for drinking. The patient should then lie down on the left side. The diet should consist of mung dial khltchadi or a gravy of harhar dal mixed with ghee. But he should take this only at afternoon after taking the medicine in the early morning without anything in the interval. Relief is expected within 3 days. If not, the treatment may be continued for a week. This will be quite adequate for full relief. Ghee should be given in plenty.
Constant fomentation with milk for a few days would also give relief.
Piles
A simple and an effective remedy advised is as follows : Take buffalo’s milk and keep it on fire. Take a few sticks of tanghi plant (Abutilon indicum and A. hirtum or Country Mallow) and go on stiring the milk with it. The whole milk soon turns into a soft maida like flour. Take this flour, mix with it an equal quantity of country sugar and store in a bottle. One palmful [hathelH of this powder is to be given daily along with water. This will be a beneficial treatment.
Skin Diseases
Itchings and eczema : Wash the region of itching three to four times a day with cow’s milk. There will be a quick relief specially for the dry eczema -a very simple but effective remedy.
If itching has spread almost all over the body, add water in milk, dip a piece of cloth in it and massage all over, an hour daily. Within three to four days the good effect will become visible.
Ring worm (cladru): Give a fomentation with milk twice a day. Itching will stop the next day-itself. But to get the full relief this is to be continued for a few days.
Weeping eczema : Give a fomentation with raw milk twice or thrice a day. Itching will mostly stop the next day. But continue for quite a few days to secure full relief.
Boils and ulcers : Wash them well with linseed oil first. Then give a fomentation with milk two times a day. Continue doing so for two or three weeks. Full relief will ensue. Painful boils can be split open and given a fomentation with milk. This will offer a quick relief.
For chronic ulcers, keeping wicks of fine cloth dampened in milk will give some relief.
Internal lesions : Drinking milk is a good measure to treat internal lesions. The violence of the latter will lessen and quite often they will heal up also.
Freckles and Warts on the face : Soak mustard seeds in goat’s milk overnight, crush them the next morning, rub the paste on the face and after some time wash with warm water and soap. Doing so for a few times will take care of the affection.
Prepare a khova out of human milk and the ass’s milk. Apply this at bedtime on the face. Wash them in the morning with warm water. A treatment of this nature for a few days will destroy all freckles of the face, warts and black spots. The face will also secure a new lustre.
Bathing in milk specially of the ass and sometimes of goat has been recorded to be a normal practice specially among the aristocratic Roman ladies. This bears out the fact emphatically that milk will remove black spots, freckles and blemishes of the skin and render it soft, clean and lustrous.
Fever : Milk is no use for fever. But when there is a great violence of fever, fomentation with milk on the head, as well as to the chest and the knees will definitely reduce its severity quite soon.
Tuberculosis and Milk
This is a very grave disease. It is said that for tuberculosis and also cancer, ass’s milk will have a beneficial effect through gradually. Texts speak much of beneficial results of bathing in a milk tub by a patient of tuberculosis, rubbing himself well at the chest and the navel for about fifteen minutes.
The great Charaka writes extensively in his Samhita on the inestimable value of bathing in milk for many types of complaints. A few of these benefits are: gradual lessening down of the Increased heat of the body, expulsion of unwanted foreign materials from the body accompanied by an increased vigour and lightness all over, gradual reduction in the violence of the bouts of cough and fever, removal of fatigue and a feeling of tiredness and lassitude all over, easy occurence of good and sound sleep, gracefulness of mind, increased digestive power and relief from all complaints.
Diseases of the Children
Swellings below the ear. This is often accompanied with fever and is in itself very painful. The child cannot usually tolerate an application of strong drugs for this purpose. It is under such circumstances, fomentation with raw milk comes in very handy. The distress will disappear with not much of a trouble. Relief is definite. Quite often the swelling will subside and the fever will also decline. One can also give some drugs for bringing down the fever.
Black cough : This is called black cough (kali khas) because when the child coughs, the face will assume a black colour. For this, take 10 tolas of cow’s milk, 6 rnashas of ghee and 10 tolas of water. Mix them and cook together to such an extent that the water content evaporates out fully and only ghee remains. And now 2 tolas of sugar candy and administer this as a drink in small sips. This is an extremely effective medication.
Gripings at the stomach : Gripings and contortions in the bowels that follow indigestion make the child highly restless. In such cases it is not advisible to give medicine only to stop the gripings [petchish or murod in Hindi) : the dry faeces that are mostly responsible here should first be removed out—otherwise it will be deleterious. Some purgative should first be given. 3-6 mashas of castor oil may be mixed with warm milk, sweetened with an addition of little country sugar. This will result in 2-3 purges and the gripings would also stop on its own now. Or. take fresh goat’s milk and give a hot drink of about 5 tolas of this milk to the suffering child. Without the use of any purgatives, this itself will purge out the dry faeces and offer relief. The child becomes healthy and normal.
To fatten the child : Giving goat’s milk to the developing child for quite some time will make it well grown and fattened without any complaints of constipation and the like. Regularly consuming goat’s raw milk as such or after adding water with it is a good procedure to Increase fatness of the body even for the adults.