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Just as there are two sides to a coin, so also soma is to be viewed from two angles firstly as a cure against diseases and a cure from disorders arising from excessive drinking of soma all .... All the diseases which are caused by the curse of Varuna or by Yama, or by sin against the gods, or by the violation of the permanent moral laws by means of the eye, mind, speech during the wakeful-state or sleeping these are cured by Soma, the king of plants (VI.96). Thus the disease caused by the wrath of the deities or by one's own sins are also cured by the plants the Soma being one such too. As for the nature and value of plants, quoted by Shende N. J. on p.119 of 'The Foundations' Say.and the Kau.S. (XXXI.22.25), use the hymn (VI.96) as a charm against the curse of a brahmana or against dropsy and for pacificatory rites. The creeper Soma is to be burnt in the fire and the sufferer is to be fomented with it. 296

297 Also a mixture of curds and honey or of milk and butter-milk, or of milk, honey and curds is to be given for drinking. The Kau. S. also employs this hymn against evil planets. So, a dual remedy, both external as well as internal is prescribed against the curse of a brahmana or against dropsy and pacificatory rites. Externally, the patient is to be fomented with the Soma creeper burnt in fire along with a drink of curds and honey, or milk and butter-milk or milk, honey and curds. Milk being the product of the cow and butter-milk and curds being products of milk, along with honey being a natural produce of the bees as well as being sweet, must have acted as a cure. So the fomentation of the burnt Soma creeper along with the drink e prescribed above go hand in hand as a cure. Turning to the hymn (VI.51) which is reckoned by the Kau. S. (IX. 2) to the brhasanti gana and is used (XXV.20) in healing rites against various diseases and (XXV.21) especially against disorders arising from soma-drinking. (XXX.7) has it in the Sautramani ceremony with the preparation of sura for one disordered by soma ...The Vait. S. 1. Purified with Vayu's purifier, Soma (hath) run over opposite, Indra's suitable companion.

2. Let the mother waters further us; let the ghee purifying ones purify us with ghee; since the heavenly ones carry forth all evil, forth from them, indeed, I come clean purified. The hymn describes the purification of soma by means of a strainer: The waters also purify one by means of bath, sipping and sprinkling (VI.41.1-2). It thus seems, that for purification, a Soma sacrifice was performed. Ghee must have been the material offered as referred to. (VI.51.2).12 Although there is no direct reference to soma as a drink as stated above, however, on the one hand, the fomentation of soma is accompanied by a drink of milk, honey, curds, buttermilk to cure dropsy, while, on the other, the prescribed hymn along with a sipping of water purifies one disordered by soma.