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drink a decoction of chinnodbhavā, ambudhara, dhanvayavāsa, and viśvā, or of duḥsparśā, parpaṭaka, megha, and kirātatikta, / or of mustā, aṭarūṣaka, mahauṣadha, and dhanvayāsa, in fevers caused by wind, bile, and phlegm \[respectively\]. ### [4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.4) A decoction made of kṣudrā, amṛtā, nāgara, and that called puṣkara is praised when phlegm and wind predominate, / in fever causing dyspnoea, cough, aversion to food, and pain in the flanks, even when born of the three humours. ### [5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.5) A decoction boiled with āragvadha, granthika, mustā, tiktā, and harītakī / is beneficial in fever attended by uncooked chyme, accompanied by colic, and joined with phlegm and wind, and it is an appetiser and digestant. ### [6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.6) One should administer a decoction of drākṣā, abhayā, parpaṭaka, abda, and tiktā together with śamyāka fruit / in fever born of bile that is accompanied by delirium, fainting, giddiness, burning sensation, stupor, and thirst. ### [7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.7) One should drink a decoction of nidigdhikā, nāgaraka, and amṛtā mixed with pippalī / in chronic fever, anorexia, cough, colic, dyspnoea, weakened digestive fire, and distress from chronic catarrh. ### [8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.8) One suffering from thirst, bleeding disorder, fever, and burning sensation should drink a decoction / of durālabhā, parpaṭaka, priyaṅgu, bhūnimba, vāsā, and kaṭurohiṇī steeped with sugar. ### [9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.9) Having boiled the three fruits, dāruniśā, viśālā, and musta, one should drink the decoction / combined with honey and a paste of an equal portion of niśā in all arising urinary disorders. ### [10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.10) A decoction prepared with vatsaka, ativiṣā, bilva, udīcya, and mustā / is beneficial in diarrhoea accompanied by uncooked chyme, with colic, with blood, even when long-standing. ### [11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.11) One should drink śuṇṭhī together with mustā, ativiṣā, and guḍūcī boiled in equal parts with water / when the digestive fire is dull, in continuous afflictions, when uncooked chyme persists, and in grahaṇī disease. ### [12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.12) One should drink punarnavā, dārvī, abhayā, and guḍūcī mixed with buffalo-eye \[guggulu\] along with cow's urine / in skin disorders, swelling, abdominal enlargement, anaemia, obesity, excessive salivation, and afflictions of phlegm in the upper body. ### [13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.13) A decoction of mustā, ākhuparṇī, the \[three\] fruits, dāru, and śigru, with a paste of kṛṣṇā and kṛmiśatru, / destroys parasites expelled from both pathways for a long time, as well as diseases caused by parasites. ### [14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.14) One should drink a decoction boiled of elā, upakulyā, madhuka, aśmabhedaka, kauntī, śvadaṃṣṭrā, vṛṣaka, and urubūka, / with bitumen as the principal ingredient, along with sugar, in dysuria with urinary calculus. ### [15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.15) Having drunk the powders of elā, aśmabheda, bitumen, and pippalī stirred in rice-water, / or licking them combined with jaggery, even one suffering from dysuria who is near death survives. ### [16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.16) One should drink a decoction of harītakī, gokṣura, rājavṛkṣa, pāṣāṇabhid, and dhanvayavāsaka / combined with honey in dysuria accompanied by burning sensation, pain, and constipation. ### [17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.17) One should drink a decoction of vāsā, guḍūcī, and caturaṅgula with castor oil; / gradually, it overcomes entirely any disorder born of blood-wind, even when affecting all the limbs. ### [18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.18) Rasāñjana and the root of taṇḍulaka combined with honey and drunk with rice-water / destroys all types of menorrhagia; and bhārgī together with nāgara destroys dyspnoea. ### [19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.19) A decoction made of eraṇḍa, bilva, the two bṛhatīs, mātuluṅga, pāṣāṇabhid, and trikaṭu, / mixed with alkali, asafoetida, salt, and sesame oil, is to be drunk for pains in the hips, shoulders, penis, heart, and breasts. ### [20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.20) Asafoetida, ugragandhā, viḍa salt, śuṇṭhī, ajājī, harītakī, puṣkaramūla, and kuṣṭha, / powdered in progressively increasing parts—this is desired in abdominal lumps, abdominal enlargement, indigestion, and choleraic diarrhoea. ### [21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.21) Equal powder of rucaka salt, asafoetida, and ginger is to be drunk with ginger water / in pains of the heart, flanks, back, and abdomen, and in choleraic diarrhoea arising from phlegm and wind; likewise with barley decoction in constipation of stool. ### [22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.22) Leaves of pūtīka, gajacirbhiṭa, cavya, agni, and the three pungents, laid out in layers with salt placed between, / burned and powdered, should be administered with curd whey in abdominal lumps, abdominal enlargement, swelling, anaemia, and diseases of the anus. ### [23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.23) Asafoetida, vacā with kuṣṭha, suvarcikā, and viḍa salt, doubled in successive parts—this powder, / \[taken\] with warm water, destroys abdominal distension, the pain of choleraic diarrhoea, heart disease, abdominal lumps, and upward-moving wind. ### [24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.24) Śṛṅgī, the three pungents, the three fruits, kaṇṭakārī, bhārgī with root of puṣkara, and the five salts— / one should drink this powder with warm water in hiccup, dyspnoea, upward-moving wind, cough, aversion to food, and chronic catarrh. ### [25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.25) Roots of nādeyī, kuṭaja, arka, śigru, bṛhatī, snuh, bilva, bhallātaka, / vyāghrī, kiṃśuka, pāribhadraka, apāmārga, nīpa, and agnika, / along with vāsā, muṣkaka, pāṭalā, and salts, burned, and the extracted liquid boiled down / with an added powder of asafoetida and the rest—this is appropriate in abdominal lumps, abdominal enlargement, and disorders of the spleen. ### [26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.26) With equal parts of cavya, amlavetasa, the three pungents, tittiḍīka, tālīsa, jīraka, tugā, and agni, / the powder kneaded with jaggery and combined with the three aromatics is praised in hoarseness, chronic catarrh, phlegm, and aversion to food. ### [27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.27) Taking equal parts of tālīsa, cavya, and black pepper, two parts of \[pippalī\] root, tugā, and pippalī, and three parts of śuṇṭhī, / and making an aromatic pill with three times the quantity of jaggery, one should give it in cough, weakened digestive fire, haemorrhoids, and fever pains. ### [28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.28) Śuṇṭhī, kaṇā, black pepper, nāgadala, cinnamon bark, and cardamom powdered in increasing order from the last, / one should eat this with an equal amount of sugar in haemorrhoids, weakened digestive fire, abdominal lumps, aversion to food, dyspnoea, and diseases of the throat and heart. ### [29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.29) One should make a pill of rock salt, asafoetida, the three fruits, yavānī, and the three pungents, with an equal part of jaggery; / when these are eaten, even one with a dull digestive fire, never reaching satiation, eats plenty. ### [30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.30) With equal parts of iron, sesame, the three pungents, and kola, and powder of chalcopyrite equal to all combined, / a bolus made with honey and followed by buttermilk is praised in anaemia, even when far advanced. ### [31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.31) One should regularly eat śuṇṭhī with jaggery, or else upakulyā, or pathyā as a third, or pomegranate, / in states of uncooked chyme, indigestion, afflictions of the anus, and constipation of feces. ### [32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.32) A powder of harītakī, nāgara, and mustā along with jaggery should be made into a pill; / held in the mouth, this checks advanced dyspnoea and severe cough. ### [33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.33) One should prepare a pill from banyan aerial roots, honey, kuṣṭha, utpala, and parched grain powder; / properly prepared and held in the mouth, it swiftly destroys even advanced thirst. ### [34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.34) A powder of realgar, long pepper, and black pepper, combined with the sour juice of wood-apple and equal parts of parched grain, licked with honey, repeatedly destroys persistent vomiting. ### [35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.35) Juice of dūrvā grass or that born of pomegranate blossoms is declared a nasal errhine when blood starts from the nose; or with breast-milk or lacquer-tree juice, and the droppings of flies, it destroys hiccups. ### [36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.36) Emblic myrobalan juice, sal tree resin along with salt, ground with sour gruel and fermented therein: it makes an unction such that eczema will not arise again. ### [37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.37) Dūrvā grass, chebulic myrobalan, rock salt, ringworm plant, and sweet basil, ground with sour rice-water and buttermilk, even with three plasters destroy deep-rooted ringworm and itching. ### [38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.38) One should cook a medicated oil with dandelion, plumbago, false daisy, calotropis, costus, bark of the nim tree, and salt, along with \[cow's\] urine; it takes away circular leprosy, ringworm, foul wounds, aches, and kitima-leprosy. ### [39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.39) This mustard oil, fully prepared with equal parts of red lead, bdellium, rasāñjana, beeswax, and blue vitriol, by a single anointing forcibly eradicates scabies, whether oozing with boils or dry. ### [40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.40) With natron, ginger, costus, mūrvā, lac, turmeric, and Indian madder, a medicated oil prepared with six times as much buttermilk in fever, applied by rubbing, will relieve cold and burning sensation. ### [41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.41) This clarified butter, prepared with a decoction and paste of guḍūcī, Malabar nut, and yellow-berried nightshade, is to be drunk in chronic fever, cough, colic, dyspnoea, weakened digestive fire, and diseases of the grahaṇī disorder. ### [42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.42) With the decoctions and pastes of Malabar nut, cutch, pointed gourd leaves, nim bark, guḍūcī, and bhūmyāmalakī, this fresh clarified butter, quickly prepared, overcomes erysipelas, intoxication, bleeding disorders, skin diseases, and abdominal lumps. ### [43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.43) Produced by the excited humours lodged in the skin, flesh, and blood, a special desiccation of the entire body is erysipelas. Intoxication is born of liquor, a disorder caused by drinking wine. ### [44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.44) With paste and water of guḍūcī, pointed gourd, nim, yellow-berried nightshade, the three fruits, pongamia, and Malabar nut, this excellent clarified butter is prepared according to rule; drinking it with diligence, a sick man overcomes skin diseases. ### [45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.45) Then, one should drop pieces of ash gourd—steamed according to the method of cooking, dried, and fried in clarified butter— into melted sugar, together with black pepper, long pepper, ginger, cumin, and the three aromatics. This electuary is commended for children, the elderly, those emaciated by wind and blood, those exhausted by women, and those afflicted with thirst, cough, bleeding disorders, dyspnoea, pain in the rectum, and vomiting. ### [46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.46) Having boiled urine, sour gruel, and honey with danti, emetic nut, long pepper, black salt, chimney soot, and costus, one should fashion a suppository resembling the thumb, smeared with clarified butter, to remove pain and distension in the rectum. ### [47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.47) Saffron with sugar, fried in clarified butter, is to be administered as a nasal errhine for \[pain\] arising from wind and blood, for pain in the brow, ear, temple, eyes, and hemicrania, and for the disease that increases with the day. ### [48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.48) One should prepare a wick with the seeds from inside the fruits of chebulic, beleric, and emblic myrobalans in three, two, and one parts. With it one should apply collyrium: it takes away excessive tearing of the eyes and even terrible irritation. ### [49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.49) With chebulic myrobalan, rock salt, rasāñjana, and red ochre, ground in clear water, one should make an external paste for the eye; this serves to pacify all eye diseases. ### [50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.50) Lodhra tree bark with rock salt, fried in clarified butter, ground with sour gruel and tied in a white cloth: one should use that as eye-drops for the eye; it destroys burning sensation, itching, and pain. ### [51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.51) Cuttlefish bone with sugar destroys arjuna; long pepper with cow dung \[destroys\] night blindness; rasāñjana combined with the three pungents \[destroys\] pilla; and that derived from copper pyrites with honey \[destroys\] corneal opacity. ### [52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.52) With calx of zinc, sugar, cuttlefish bone, conch shell, rock salt, red ochre, realgar, and black pepper in equal parts ground with honey-water, this extract destroys pterygium, kacha, cataract, arjuna, and eyelid diseases. ### [53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.53) Nutgrass, usheera dust, camel thorn, black pepper, rock salt, box myrtle, barberry, copper sulphate, conch shell, cuttlefish bone, spikenard, tagara, and rasāñjana, powdered in equal parts, placed in an iron vessel and mixed with honey, is commended for itching, pterygium, red streaks, cataract, and pilla coatings. ### [54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.54) With Indian madder, liquorice, blue lotus, cuttlefish bone, cinnamon bark, cuscus grass, ox bile, muskroot, sandalwood, conch shell, tejpat leaves, red clay, talispatra, and rasāñjana, this collyrium with equal parts of all is always commended for the eye, removing itching, exudation, dirt, tears, blood, pain, pilla, pterygium, and corneal opacity. ### [55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.55) A decoction of nutgrass, ativisha, deodar cedar, kurchi seeds, leadwort, and picrorhiza, prepared with cow's urine and mixed with honey, is to be drunk in all throat diseases. ### [56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.56) With pearl barley ash, toothache tree, leadwort, rasāñjana, tree turmeric, and long pepper, one should make a pill with honey; one should hold it in the mouth in all throat afflictions. ### [57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.57) A decoction of tree turmeric, guḍūcī, jasmine buds, grapes, camel thorn, and the three fruits, joined with honey, as a gargle calms severe suppuration of the mouth. ### [58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.58) Costus, tree turmeric, lodhra, nutgrass, sensitive plant, leadwort, picrorhiza, toothache tree, and tree turmeric root: this powder is commended for rubbing the teeth; it checks bleeding, itching, and pain. ### [59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.59) Having boiled mustard oil with sour gruel, vinegar, ginger, and citron juice, together with bdellium and rock salt, one should pour it into the ears for the pacification of earache. ### [60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.60) With Malabar nut, nim, pointed gourd, fumitory, bael fruit, chavyā, tree turmeric, nutgrass, picrorhiza, usheera, camel thorn, the three pungents, trāyantikā, and red sandalwood, clarified butter is prepared; it is sought after in disorders of the supraclavicular region, pain in the nose and eyes, skin diseases, fever, abscesses, wound pain, and corneal opacities. ### [61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.61) Tree turmeric, fumitory, nim, kurchi seeds, long pepper, camel thorn, liquorice, Malabar nut, trāyantī, the three fruits, pointed gourd, picrorhiza, andrographis, and nutgrass: this clarified butter, prepared with their paste and decoction, is commended for the eyes in conditions arising from bile and blood, in corneal opacity, cataract, and in supraclavicular diseases. ### [62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.62) The root of white castor, then sweet flag, dill, the flower produced from Indian nightshade, and tagara: a medicated oil prepared with these along with milk is an errhine that destroys cataract and is supreme in other supraclavicular diseases. ### [63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.63) One should throw a small conch shell burnt by the fire's flame into a decoction of muṣkaka ash; one should boil it again with that same water: that alkali is the rule for medicated oil. One should apply it to foul wounds, wound pains, haemorrhoids, sinus ulcers, skin diseases, fistula-in-ano, and in various stubborn throat afflictions. ### [64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.64) Having cooked medicated oil with turmeric, liquorice, padmaka, blue lotus, / priyaṅgu, kasāvara, lodhra, and sandalwood together with milk, one should apply it to wounds; it promotes healing and eliminates burning sensation. ### [65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.65) With equal parts of jasmine, neem, and patola leaves, kaṭukā, dārvī, turmeric, sārivā, / mañjiṣṭhā, harītakī, beeswax, blue vitriol, liquorice, and seeds of kārañja, / clarified butter prepared with these cleanses and heals wounds / that have narrow openings, are seated in vital spots, discharging, deep, painful, and having sinus tracts. ### [66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.66) Siris flowers soaked a thousand times in their own juice, and black pepper, / should be administered along with sugar by means of collyrium, drink, and nasal errhine, even for those bitten by snakes who are unconscious. ### [67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.67) One should drink plenty of taṇḍulīyaka mixed with kākāṇḍa together with peacock's bile; / it quickly destroys animate and inanimate poisons, even with complications. ### [68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.68) Sesame oil, sesame paste, and jaggery, along with milk and calotropis \[latex\] drunk in equal parts, / quickly destroys the fierce poison of a rabid dog just arisen, as the wind destroys a mass of clouds. ### [69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.69) Soot from a house mixed with guggulu, along with aśvagandhā, clarified butter, and taṇḍulīyaka, / ground with cow's urine, is an antidote that destroys animate and inanimate poisons. ### [70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.70) Māṃsī, sevyā, kuṣṭha, kauntī, balā, water, nutgrass, red arsenic, yellow orpiment, padmakeśara, / spṛkkā, caṇḍā, turmeric, aguru, white palita, saffron, priyaṅgu, padmaka, and cardamom, / in equal parts, and eight parts of mustard, with four parts of elephant-tree flowers, made into pills useful for all purposes; / these antidotes, known as the 'Moonrise', destroy sorcery, misfortune, piśāca demons, fever, and poison. ### [71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.71) Mustard, the three fruits, siris, kaṭabhī, śvetā, karañja, amṛtā, / mañjiṣṭhā, the two turmerics, the three pungents, śyāmā, vacā, and asafoetida, / ground with goat's urine, is praised as an antidote that expels all possessing spirits, / and when taken as a drink or the like, removes sorcery, insanity, piśācas, and rākṣasas. ### [72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.72) With cotton seeds, peacock feathers, bṛhatī, faded sacrificial flowers, madana fruit, / bamboo bark, cat feces, chaff, vacā, hair, snake slough, / cow horn, elephant tusk, asafoetida, and black pepper in equal parts, an incense is prepared, / known to destroy Skanda, insanity, piśācas, rākṣasas, demonic possession, and fever. ### [73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.73) With the three pungents, cinnamon leaf, saffron, pepper-root, alkali, siṃhī, turmeric, kuṣṭha, the two mustards, bāla, indrayava, / candy sugar, garlic, triphalā, kośīra, kaṭukā, vacā, blue vitriol, liquorice, balā, red ochre, realgar, and padmaka; / curd, tagara, madhūka-wood, priyaṅgu, aconite, ativiṣā, bitumen, and chavyā and devadhūpa made into paste, / clarified butter that is old, cooked with all kinds of urine and water, is known as 'Bhūtarāva'; taken as a drink, it is supreme in conquering possessing spirits. ### [74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.74) With tagara, liquorice, karañja, lac, paṭolī, samaṅgā, vacā, pāṭalī, asafoetida, mustard, siṃhī, the two turmerics, priyaṅgu, kaṭurohiṇī, / nutgrass, catechu, the three pungents, kākāṇḍa, deodar, vidanga, ajagandhā, devadhūpa, aṅkolla, kośātakī, śigru, neem, nutgrass, indrayava, / kuṣṭha, śukataru flowers and seeds, bāla, liquorice, adrikarṇī, danti, chitraka, and bilva, / in equal parts made into paste, clarified butter cooked with the group of urines, / properly administered, used through all modes, quickly destroys all spirits, insanity, skin diseases, and fevers; it is known as 'Mahābhūtarāva'. ### [75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.75) Dārvī, turmeric, seeds of indrayava, siṃhī, and liquorice in equal parts; / this decoction is for a child in case of disorders caused by mother's milk, and in all types of diarrhoea, including those born of all three humours. ### [76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.76) Bilva, dhātakī flowers, bāla, lodhra, and gajapippalī; / as a decoction or an electuary mixed with honey, should be administered to children suffering from diarrhoea. ### [77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.77) Having powdered śṛṅgī together with pippalī and ativiṣā, one should make an electuary with honey for children / tormented by cough, fever, and vomiting, or with ativiṣā alone with honey. ### [78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.78) A kaṃsa measure of powder of dhātrī, saturated with its own juice, with equal parts of honey and clarified butter, / combined with a mānī measure of pippalī and eight prasṛtas of sugar, is placed in a heap of ashes; / eating it at the end of a year, one becomes free of grey hair, possessing beauty, complexion, and splendour, / free of disease, endowed with intellect, wisdom, memory, eloquence, strength, firmness, and vigour. ### [79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.79) The three fruits taken with liquorice, bamboo manna, rock salt, pippalī, / and sugar, / grants long life, is an excellent aphrodisiac, greatly enhances memory and intellect, and destroys old age and disease. ### [80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.80) One should lick the powder of gokṣura, āmalakī, and amṛtā, mixed with clarified butter and honey; / one becomes virile, firm, relieved of the misery of disorders, and lives for a hundred years with black hair. ### [81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.81) Oil of neem in its natural state, instilled properly as a nasal errhine according to rule, / accompanied by a diet of milk and clarified butter for a month, destroys grey hair caused by old age. ### [82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.82) Gokṣura, kṣuraka, śatamūlī, kapikacchū, nāgabalā, and atibalā; / this powder should be drunk at night with milk by a man who has a hundred women in his house. ### [83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.83) Licking liquorice with honey and clarified butter, one should drink milk afterwards; / he suffers no depletion of the bodily tissues, and goes to a hundred women. ### [84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.84) A decoction of liquorice with the best of salts, mixed with the paste of indrayava and pippalī fruit, / together with honey, is an emetic to be applied in afflictions of the nose, mouth, throat, and ears. ### [85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.85) Fermented barley water boiled with harītakī, combined with powder of danti root, pippalī, and viḍa salt, / together with castor oil, is a safe purgative to be employed, which destroys diseases. ### [86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.86) Combined with a decoction of rāsnā, arāṭha, the three fruits, guḍūcī, the lesser five roots, balā, / and māṃsī; with equal parts of medicated oil, rock salt, honey, clarified butter, and jaggery; / with a paste of puṣpāhvā, mustā, kuṣṭha, bilva, priyaṅgu, pippalī, and vacā; / this enema, accompanied by fermented rice water, milk, and urine, is beneficial for wind afflictions. ### [87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.87) Medicated oil cooked with a decoction and paste of balā along with fragrant aromatics inside, with milk, curd, fermented husk water, whey, and sour gruel; / similarly cooked individually with sahācara, saraṇi, amṛtā, and asparagus, destroys wind when used as an unctuous retention enema. ### [88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.88) One should administer as a nasal errhine either jaggery and dry ginger, or pippalī with rock salt, / in afflictions of the nose, mouth, nape of the neck, jaw, arms, back, head, eyes, throat, and ears. ### [89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.89) Parpaṭaka is prescribed as the best in fevers, the five sours in thirst, / parched grain in vomiting, bitumen in bladder-born afflictions, dhātrī juice in urinary disorders, / rāsnā in wind diseases, cow's urine in abdominal enlargement, pippalī in spleen affliction, / kṛmihā in union of fractures, siris tree in poison, and guggulu in swelling. ### [90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.90) Vāsa is praised in bleeding disorders, kuṭaja in diarrhoea, marking nut in haemorrhoids, gold in artificial poisons, / deodar in corpulence, viḍaṅga in worms, and harītakī in anaemia. ### [91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.91) They prescribe three fruits for eye diseases, and likewise garlic for all colics, / the heartwood of khadira constantly for dermatoses, and nidigdhikā for all coughs. ### [92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.92) They praise śvadaṃṣṭrā in virilification, nāgabalā and balā in chest wounds, / āmalaka among rejuvenators, and bitumen in afflictions involving divine possession. ### [93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.93) Thus these well-known formulas laid down by rule have been declared for the success of excellent physicians. / Seeing these, so that even a non-physician might apply them, something further will be said here on this matter. ### [94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.94) Wind undergoes aggravation from suppression \[of urges\], fasting, waking at night, loud speaking, physical exercise, riding vehicles, pungent, bitter, astringent, and dry \[substances\], / from anxiety, sexual intercourse, fear, fasting therapy, grief, cold, and at the onset of rain. ### [95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.95) Bile undergoes aggravation from pungent, sour, liquor, salt, hot, burning, and sharp \[substances\], from anger, fire, sunshine, fatigue, dry vegetables, / alkali, and so on, from indigestion, irregular eating, and food, and at the end of rain. ### [96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.96) Phlegm undergoes aggravation from sleeping by day, from sweet, cold, fish, meat, heavy, sour, and slimy \[foods\], products of sesame, sugarcane, and milk, / from unctuous, excessively satiating \[foods\], drinking salty water, and edibles, and likewise in spring. ### [97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.97) Thus these humours, increased either individually, in pairs, / or all three together, produce diverse diseases in the body, manifold beyond counting and naming. ### [98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.98) Harshness, contraction, piercing pain, colic, dark discolouration, bodily ache, splitting pains, tremors, / numbness, coldness, roughness, and wasting—those who know them declare these to be the actions of wind. ### [99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.99) Discharge, sweating, burning sensation, redness, foul smell, moistening, suppuration, anger, / delirium, fainting, giddiness, and yellowness—those who know them declare these to be the actions of bile. ### [100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.100) Whiteness, coldness, heaviness, itching, unctuousness, coating, rigidity, stickiness, / nausea, consolidation, and slow functioning—those who know them declare these to be the actions of phlegm. ### [101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.101) And these are the signs of all the diseases produced by them, though bearing diverse names; / there may be a particular manifestation of these by which they acquire a different name. ### [102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.102) By indolence, stupor, impurity of the cardiac region, non-expulsion of the humours, absence of appetite and urine, / heaviness of the abdomen, aversion to food, and numbness, they declare a disease to be accompanied by uncooked chyme. ### [103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.103) By unctuous, hot, stable, virilifying, strengthening, salt, sweet, and sour \[substances\], oil, sunshine, / bath, inunction, enema, meat, wine, massage, and rubbing; / unction, sudation, non-unctuous enema, nasal errhine, pacification, unctuous poultices, and the like— / this remedy consisting of drinks, food, and regimen should lead wind to pacification. ### [104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.104) Bitter, sweet, astringent, and cool breeze, shade, night, fanning, / moonlight, an underground room, mechanical waterworks, clouds, and touching the limbs of women; / clarified butter, milk, purgation, pouring liquids, blood-letting, poultices, and the like— / this remedy consisting of drinks, food, and regimen should lead bile to pacification. ### [105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.105) Dry, alkaline, astringent, bitter, and pungent \[substances\], exercise, spitting, / intercourse with women, travelling on foot, fighting, waking, water sports, and foot-striking; / medicated smoking, very hot \[substances\], head purgation, emesis, sudation, fasting, and the like— / this remedy consisting of drinks, food, and regimen should conquer fierce phlegm. ### [106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.106) One should conquer uncooked chyme by fasting therapy, jujube-gruel, light food, broth-water, and bitter vegetable soups, / and by roughening, sudation, digestants, and purification therapies upward and downward. ### [107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.107) The aggravation of wind is in early winter, rainy season, and late winter; of bile at the end of rains and in summer; / and of phlegm at the arrival of flowers \[in spring\]; they perform what is prescribed for them accordingly. ### [108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.108) In aggravation of phlegm emesis together with nasal errhine \[is used\], purgation in a disorder arising from bile; / in that consisting of wind they declare enema, and in one born of combination a mixture of these. ### [109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.109) Wind goes to pacification through sour, oil, and salt, through sweet food and drink; bile through sweet, bitter, astringent, and cold; / phlegm through bitter, pungent, dry, astringent, and sharp; and uncooked chyme through de-nourishing therapy. ### [110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.110) Having understood this and whatever else has not been said here, grasping it by reasoning oneself as appropriate, / an intelligent person should prescribe the remedy for diseases; for the text provides only a small fraction of instruction. ### [111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt.111) Whatever unsurpassed merit has been acquired by me by composing this Hundred Prescriptions rich in virtues, / by that may the entire world, which has become a nest of various kinds of afflictions, become free from disease. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.yogasataka~en-mt) · Pramāṇa