{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17021.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17021.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17021.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of various kinds of gum as-medicine. They told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of gums as medicine--hi\u1e45gu 1, hi\u1e45gu lac, sip\u00e2tik\u00e2 2, taka 3, taka-patti 3, taka-panni 3, saggulasa 4, and whatsoever other gums are used for medicine, and impart (&c., as in chap. 4, down to:) is guilty of a dukkata offence.'\n47:1 Ferula assa foetida: B\u00f6htlingk-Roth (sub voce) say it comes from Persia. It is much used in Hindu medicine. See Wise, 'Hindu System of Medicine,' pp. 152-154.\n47:2 The correct spelling is probably siv\u00e2tik\u00e2. B\u00f6htlingk-Roth under Siv\u00e2tik\u00e2 and Hi\u1e45gu-siv\u00e2tik\u00e2 say it is the same as Vamsa-pattr\u00ee.\n47:3 Buddhaghosa merely says these are kinds of lac. According to Wise, p. 152, l\u00e2ksh\u00e2 is used as errhine.\n47:4 Resin.","title":"SBE 17: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 7","type":"page"}