The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.4: sūtrasthānanam || caturtho ' dhyāyaḥ ||

Long peppers, bishop's weed, and also mūṣikakarṇikā, / white shoots of bilva, turmeric, and likewise madhuka—

these destroy skin disease when applied as drinks and plasters. / Ox bile, dog's bile, and bitter gourd,

neem, nata, and sugar: one should likewise apply [these] as a plaster. / […] and roots of eḍagaja,

surādanī, and sugandhā: one should likewise apply [these] as a plaster. / Suvarṇapuṣpī, kaṭukā, śyāmā, and tejovatī,

and trivṛt […] they know as a purification in skin disease. / Āragvadha, bhārgī, aśvagandhā, and gavādanī,

śvetā, and jyotiṣmatī: one should have [these] made into fine powders. / That powder, thoroughly macerated seven times with ox bile,

is to be properly combined with mustard oil and rock salt. / Indeed, this is prescribed as a thin plaster for one whose morbific entities have been expelled,

who eats a measured diet of curds and rice, destroying parasitic worms and skin disease. / Both gavedhuka and moth bean, cooked in a decoction of khadira—

one should administer both of these to those afflicted with skin disease, for the alleviation of skin disease. / Now, the juices of itch-destroying trees are wholesome for those afflicted with skin disease;

in plasters and affusions, however, khadira is praised. / He should drink khadira water, and take meals with khadira water;

and for the purpose of water, he should mostly use the interior of khadira. / The two large trees possessing heartwood, dhavā and rohitaka,

śiṃśupā, aśvakarṇa, khadira growing upon a bilva tree, / plantain, muṣkaka, hiṃsrā, and the fruit of bhadrodumbarikā—

cow's urine steeped with these is an affusion in skin disease. / The resin of sāla, aśvakarṇa, and the resin of kuliśa—

these are suppressors of ulcers caused by skin disease. / I shall explain the treatment for puṇḍarīka that destroys the disease:

Āvartā, root of śālmalī, malayūkā, sudhā, varī, / root of bhadrodumbarikā, and the fruits of avalgujā,

having pressed [these] at night with a press, and also dantī, citraka, / pāṭhā, and the two turmerics: one should combine [them] with cow's urine.

Cooked down until one-eighth remains, well refined, / one afflicted with leucoderma, having risen at dawn, should drink [it]; he should drink cold water.

One should protect him from every side, yet place him in the sun. / The morbific entities, tormented by the medicament, having settled in his skin,

produce a blister upon the patches through the rays of the sun. / When the blisters have arisen, however, one should seat him in the shade;

having washed [him] with cold waters, one should feed him a meal with meat broth. / Then they become agitated, like clouds filled with water.

One should then pierce [them] with the sharp point of a needle or with a thorn. / And whatever is the heartwood of sandalwood, of badara, and of khadira,

with these ground with water and combined with ghee and honey, / while the person is lying upon lotus leaves,

the physician should then plaster the blisters flooded with cold water. / And the physician should crush the barks of lactiferous trees;

with their decoctions and pastes he should sprinkle and plaster him. / And one should apply seeds of kharjūra and conch columella,

collyrium, tagara, patra, red ochre, and blue water lily: / with a fine powder of these he should dust the discharging [sore].

Dung mixed with grape and honey should be given for peeling. / The physician should have diet, unction, and inunction carried out according to the previous rule

for those afflicted with skin disease; thus he becomes happy. / A wise man should not neglect a disease that has fallen upon the body; / he should hasten to pacify it, as [he would] a burning house.

For just as a tree steadily grows slowly and at ease, / so indeed does a disease grow once it has reached the body.

Therefore, guarding the person who is not yet emaciated against its great force, / a discerning physician should destroy diseases before their proliferation.

Every three days an avapīḍa errhine [is given]; one should vomit at a fortnight or a month; / one should purge at the turning of the sun, and bloodletting is prescribed.

Wild rice, moth beans, and chickpeas are wholesome for those afflicted with skin disease. / For those who conduct themselves thus, skin disease indeed reaches pacification. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus the fourth chapter in Bheḷa. / / Fifth Chapter / / Now we shall expound the chapter on eating to excess; thus said the venerable Ātreya.