The Compendium of Bheḷa 7.6

Whatever caturaṅgula has grown in a pleasant land, / gathering a handful of fruits, he should then make powders.

Having made that powder into three parts, he should set aside one part; / and the pure one, having properly stirred the two parts,

filtering and straining [until it is] very clear and non-turbid, / adding the other part, he should cook [it] over a cow-dung fire.

While it is thus being poured, he should add these finely [powdered]: / harītakī, āmalaka, and the fruits of vibhītaka;

adding a portion of madhūka, he should take that paste; / then a palmful of the powder as a lambative, by that he is purged.

And by this very procedure, with the fruits of kaṇṭakārī as well, / having filtered [it], one should drink the lambative preparation completely with āsava.

Or a well-prepared peyā cooked with caturaṅgula should be administered; / by that he is properly purged; there is neither under-action nor excessive action.

In a droṇa of juice of dhātrī fruit, he should cook half a tulā of sugar; / four palas of ghee, cooked, he should add separately half a pala [each of]:

nata, vella, caturjāta, yaṣṭi, saindhava salt, and cumin, / palāśa, viśvā, and black pepper; and four palas of raisin,

a prastha of long pepper and trivṛt, and of honey. It destroys— / that is named Khaṇḍāmalaka—anemia, swelling, jaundice,

giddiness, insanity, and it cures disorders of acid-dyspepsia.

Here there should be an āḍhaka of bhallātakas struck down by the wind and fallen from the stalk; / having rubbed it with bits of brick powder, washed it, he should leave it in the wind;

and when dried, split in two, he should throw it into four times as much water; / reduced to a quarter, strained, and cooled, he should cook it again with an equal amount of milk;

reduced to a quarter, cooled again, he should cook it again with an equal amount of ghee; / thickened with half that amount of sugar, combined with powders of iron, abhayā, and the three pungents,

Equal to this, with a fourth part of sugar added, then stirred with a churning-stick and set down; / with two prasthas of āmalakī and honey, when cooled, he should then cook it again with grain.

Having acquired potency after seven nights, it surpasses even the elixir of ambrosia. / In the morning, for those whose bodies have been cleansed, he should give a dose suitable for one's own body.

And there is no dietary restriction in food and drink, nor in heat, wind, walking, or sexual intercourse. / A creature becomes entirely like a man-lion; a man becomes pale-bright as a heap of gold.

Fallen teeth grow again, and white hairs become black again; / even one whose ears, fingers, and nose have sloughed off, tormented by worms, with broken voice, a leper—

even he gradually grows fingers and limbs like a tree watered with water. / He surpasses great peacocks in voice, elephants in strength, and horses in speed.

[…] he should macerate with sudhā-latex; / he should drink it according to his capacity: thereby he is purged well.

Dantī, akṣatā, tejohvā, tarkārī, and sudurālabhā: / this decoction of astringent herbs he should mix with sudhā-latex.

He should drink it according to his capacity: thereby he is purged well. / He should combine cow's milk with sudhā-latex together in one place.

He should drink it according to his capacity: thereby he is purged well. / For one who has discharged urine and feces, and when the wind is directed downwards,

first having his alimentary tract unctuated and sweated according to rule, / having passed the twilight hour, when the sun is clear, / at the auspicious moment of Mitra, clearly visible, he should apply these formulations. / Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. // Thus ends the sixth chapter in the Section on Pharmaceutics in Bheḷa. // Seventh Chapter // Now we shall explain the pharmaceutics of croton fruit: so spoke the venerable Ātreya. / […]