Inflammation:

Inflammation occurs wherever there is swelling with pain and burning and on which pimples may grow.

Treatment: Suppression except in case of syphilitic inflammation where poisons must be allowed to purge out. Inflammation will usually subside if Mahadasamul Taila, Bisnu Taila, or Brihat Guruchyadi Taila is sprinkled on it. Baharer Nani should be warmed and placed on a little piece of cloth which should then be put on the inflammation. Baharer Nani can make a hard inflammation white and suppurative. It has the double power of bursting the inflammation or of suppressing it. It is a wonderful medicine. Saribadi Salsa may be taken orally along with these applications.

Diet : Fine rice (old stock), lentils (musuri, gram, and mugh) cooked in ghee, meat soup, green bananas, trichosanthes dioica, eggplant, memordica charantia, karala, azirdiachta leaves, tender portion of rattan plant, susni leaves, flower of banana, rocksalt, sugar candy, bitter and astringent foods. In fever, feed gruel of parched rice and raisins. Milk can be taken in small quantities.