Note 60 — Chapter III · DISEASE DEITIES.

Ghi is sometimes used as a medicine in the case of small-pox. In the case of shakario or kālo vā, the animal is branded in the affected limbs. To one suffering from a stye in the eye an ointment prepared from the horn of a deer is applied, while a mixture of whey and salt is said to be useful in most eye maladies. The treatment for the swelling of the belly is a mixture of molasses, ajamo (ligusticum ajwaen) and sanchal (a kind of salt). To cure an animal of khāpari (a disease which affects milch-cattle), the milk of the affected animal is poured on rāfdā (a kind of jujube tree). If after delivery, some part of the embryo remains inside an animal, milk and molasses are given to expedite its removal.60