The Compendium of Bheḷa 7.9

The physician should dig up the roots of śyāmā and trivṛt / growing in an auspicious region, adorned with kuśa and rohiṣa grasses,

or in black clay, or in golden soil. / Having gathered these roots, he should make them into a fine powder.

Having mixed it with a decoction of sthirā, he should administer it according to strength; / thereby one is purged well, without deficit and without excess.

He should administer it with just the juice of triphalā, or with the juice of drākṣā and pīlu, / or stirred into milk, or into ghee.

He should give the broth of a deer, of a nyaṅku, and of a buffalo, / of a rhinoceros, of a sparrow, of a partridge, and of a quail,

administered with trivṛt and śyāmā in any one of these broths; / he should give it to drink according to strength to a person well-oleated and fomented.

Having ground śyāmā and trivṛt into fine powder, / dividing it into three parts, he should deposit one part secretly for himself.

With the juice of priyaṅgu, the physician should strain the two parts; / straining it into a vessel, very clear and free from turbidity,

placing it on a cooking vessel, he should cook it over a gentle fire. / As it is being cooked in that way, he should add these powders:

priyaṅgu and tagara, tālīsa and nalada, / hībera, mustā, balā, kālānusāribā,

powders of aśoka flowers, padma, saugandhika, / nalina, puṇḍarīka, and pippalī root.

Mixed with honey, he should lick a palmful-measured quantity, / being well-oleated, having digested his food, according to the treatise and according to strength.

Thereby one is purged well, without deficit and without excess. / Candana, padmaka, nīpa, sāla, and saptacchada,

punarnavā, sesamum paste, kirāta, or tikta, / and whatever other bitter and sweet tastes were mentioned before,

with decoctions of those, purgation should be prepared for those with pitta disorders. / Pigeons, doves, krauñca-cranes, peacocks, roosters,

kuraṅga deer, antelopes, blackbucks, green pigeons, black-tailed deer, / quails, partridges, rabbits, and francolins—

with those meat broths, he should employ purgation for one suffering from pitta. / The heartwoods, fruits, powders, leaves, and milks,

which were mentioned previously among plant sources, and likewise deer and birds, / drinks, decoctions of fruits, decoctions, and other liquid preparations,

lambatives, snacks, and food dishes—from these he should properly prepare. / The juice of parūṣaka and of grape, with honey and sugar,

combined with an akṣa of trivṛt—having drunk this, one is purged well. / The physician should cook it with sugar together with honey.

When that has cooled, he should throw in trivṛt powder according to the bowels. / Then powder of kampillaka, and two of tinduka,

and the middle parts from the fruit of āragvadha, equal to an akṣa; / a dharaṇa of trivṛt powder, sugar, madhuka, honey,

marica, nāgapuṣpa, cinnamon, and leaf, well powdered; / combining all this, the physician should make a modaka.

Or else he should make a lambative; thereby one is purged well. / A kuḍava of grape juice and of parūṣaka juice,

half a kuḍava of honey, and a pala of sugar; / a lambative made with trivṛt powder—thereby one is purged well.

This is a purgative for lords whose doṣas are aggravated; / or a sugar modaka, a pill, or a cake stuffed with māṣa.

By this method he should perform purgation for those with pitta disorders. / Powders of trivṛt, of pippalī, and fruits of āragvadha—

the steadfast person should drink these pastes equal to an akṣa for purgation. / A dharaṇa of trivṛt powder, sugar, madhuka, honey—

having drunk this combined with an akṣa [of paste], one is purged well. / Powders of trivṛt, pippalī, barley ash, and mahauṣadha,

for the sake of pacifying the aggravation of phlegm, he should lick; thereby one is purged. / Sheep urine, goat urine, and [urine] of camel and buffalo,

urine of deer, cow urine, of donkey, and of elephant: / he should employ these eight separately or else together.

Mixed with trivṛt powder, he should lick them, or with honey; / or sharp wines, fresh and prepared overnight,

having drunk them mixed with trivṛt powder, one is purged well. / One with a phlegm constitution should drink trivṛt powder according to his bowels,

with a decoction of trivṛt, with honey, and with amlavetasa; / or with the scum of curds, or with the juice of kolaka,

or with broths of kulattha and mudga, of satīna and ciribilva; / he should drink it with a broth of barley and kolaka, or simply of kulattha,

or combined with tamarind, amlavetasa, and pomegranate, / with a broth of śigru and jujube, or with the juice of radishes,

or with the juice of āmalakas, or of bījapūra and arjaka, / with the cream of kapittha juice, or with juice of karamarda,

or whatever other fruit is remembered as sour: / he should drink it with their fresh juices, or with juice of pañcamūla,

or mixed with a paste of pungents, combined with barley ash; / he should prepare it for a lambative with paste of grape fruits.

Of each of the previously mentioned fruits, / well-grown and well-ripened, the physician should take the fresh juice.

When it has become sour and salty with rock salt, […] / into this lambative he should throw trivṛt powder according to the bowels.

With honey, or with jaggery, he should lick it, and likewise with pungents. / By this method he should prepare modakas, ṣāḍavas, and juices,

drinks, fruit-sours, and prepared foods both to chew and to eat. / This purgative is declared for kings and lords.

The physician should employ this procedure, and also this other one: / a śāṇa of āmalakas and vibhītaka fruits,

tilvaka, saptalā, dantī, śaṅkhinī, caturaṅgula, / and one of harītakīs, barley ash, and vacā,

and there should be a śāṇa of pippalīs, and a śāṇa from viḍaṅga, / and three śāṇas of trivṛt powder: he should crush all that into powder.

Those powders with honey, ghee, or jaggery, / or as a lambative according to rule […] || Section on Successful Treatments || First Chapter || […]