The Compendium of Bheḷa 7.7
Bheḷasaṃhitā 7.7
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7.7.1
tridhā vibhajya matimān svanuguptaṃ nidhāpayet | rasenāmalakasyāpi dvau bhāgauścyotayed bhiṣak ||
Dividing it into three parts, the wise physician should store it well-concealed. / With juice of āmalaka also, the physician should trickle two parts.
7.7.2
cyutaṃ kaṣāyaṃ vimalaṃ pariyogamadhiśrayet | tasmiṃs tathā pacyamāne taccūrṇamabhisaṃsṛjet ||
The clear decoction that has trickled through, he should place in a cooking vessel. / While it is cooking in that manner, he should mix in that powder.
7.7.3
tanmātraṃ triphalācūrṇamāvapenmadhusaṃyutam | lehabhūtaṃ viditvainamathainamavatārayet ||
He should add an equal amount of triphalā powder combined with honey. / Recognizing that it has become an electuary, he should then take it down.
7.7.4
tasya pāṇitalaṃ cūrṇaṃlehyaṃ tena viricyate | eteṣāṃ caiva mūlānāṃ kṛtvā cūrṇāni sūkṣmaśaḥ ||
A palmful of its powder is to be licked; by it one is purged. / And having made fine powders of these roots,
7.7.5
śyāmākaṣāyeṇāloḍyaghṛtaṃ siddhaṃ vipācayet | jānīyāt tad yadā siddham athainam avatārayet ||
stirring them with a decoction of śyāmā, he should cook the prepared ghee. / When he knows it is prepared, he should then take it down.
7.7.6
tad dṛḍhe madhulipte tu nave kumbhe samāvapet | mṛtsnābhiḥ svanulipte tu svanuguptaṃ nidhāpayet ||
He should put it into a firm, new pot smeared with honey; / smeared well with clay, he should store it well-concealed.
7.7.7
prasṛtaṃ pāyayet tatra tena sādhu viricyate | eteṣāṃ caiva mūlānāṃ kṛtvā cūrṇāni sarvaśaḥ ||
He should have him drink a handful of it; thereby he is purged well. / And having made powders of all these roots,
7.7.8
bṛhatīrasasammiśraiḥ gulikāṃ kārayet tu taiḥ | gulikāṃ kārayitvā tu karkandhubadaropamām ||
he should make a pill with them mixed with the juice of bṛhatī. / Having made a pill resembling a karkandhu or badara fruit,
7.7.9
śyāmākaṣāyeṇāloḍya dve vā tisro ' pi vā tataḥ | pāyayet tu yathotsāhaṃ taṃ snigdhasveditaṃ naram ||
and then stirring two or three [pills] with a decoction of śyāmā, / he should make that man, unctuated and sweated, drink according to his capacity.
7.7.10
viricyatetena sādhu nāyogo nātiyogitā | snehādi snehamūlaṃ tu pracchardanavirecanam | nāparisnigdhakoṣṭhasyaprasidhyati viśodhanam || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele kalpasthāne saptamo ' dhyāyaḥ || || aṣṭhamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athātaḥ śaṅkhinīkalpaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |
He is purged well thereby, with neither deficit nor excess. / For unction is the beginning, unction the root of vomiting and purging; / the cleansing of one whose alimentary tract is not properly unctuated does not succeed. / Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. // Thus ends the seventh chapter in the Section on Pharmaceutics in Bheḷa. // Eighth Chapter // Now we shall explain the pharmaceutics of śaṅkhinī: so spoke the venerable Ātreya.
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