[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Formularies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga) › [The Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower) › 1.6 # The Bower Manuscript 1.6 Bower Manuscript 1.6 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.6) 2 āhārapaktidhātūnāṃ sāmyam ārogyam eva ca / puṣṭis tejas tathotsaham āyuś caivāgnisaṃbhavāḥ // 44 // agnir āhāramūlas tu paktimūlāś ca dhātavaḥ / dhātusāmyāt tathārogyam ārogyāt puṣṭir 3 uttamā // 45 // puṣṭyā tejas tathotsāhaḥ sarvair etaiś ca jīvitam\* / prāṇināṃ vardhate tasmād agnim ādau parikṣayet\* // 46 // dhātusāmyāt samaḥ proktaḥ sa vai śreṣṭhaḥ prakīrtitaḥ / viṣame dādhikaṃ sarpiḥ pibed vā havuṣādikam\* // 47 // 4 snigdhoṣṇā vartayaś ceṣṭas tathā pānāśanāni ca / mande tu laṃghanaṃ pūrvaṃ paścāt pācanadīpanam\* // 48 // cūrṇāriṣṭaprayogāś ca hitāḥ pittakaphāpahāḥ / yathāsātmyaṃ prayoktavyaṃ same 'gnau bhiṣajām iti // 49 // bhavati 5 cātra // mande tīkṣṇe ca mṛyate vinopakaraṇair naraḥ / viṣame rogabāhulyaṃ same jīvec ciraṃ sukhī // 50 // tasmād rogeṣu sarveṣu sarvakāleṣu buddhimān\* / agnimūlā kriyā 6 kāryā paścād āmayaśāntaye // 51 // svarasena śaṃkhapuṣpyā brāhmīmaṇḍūkaparṇimadhukānām\* / medhārogyabalārthī jīvitukāmaḥ prayuṃjīta // 52 // māsena tu medhāvī ṣaṇmāsāc chrutadharo bhavaty ajaraḥ / 7 jīvati varṣasahasraṃ samā prayogāc catadvayaṃ vidhivat\* // 53 // evaṃ parataḥ parataḥ prayuṃjamāno bhavaty ajaraḥ // - - - - // {O} \[Rest der Zeile frei\] 8 yavāgūkhaḍayūṣeṣu lehacūrṇāgadeṣu ca / guḍikāṃjanavartyāsudhūmapradhamaneṣu ca // 55 // puṭapākatarpaṇasvedenāvamanāścyotaneṣu ca // 56 // 9 anyeṣu cāpy anukteṣu yatra bhāgo na kīrtitaḥ / dravyāṇāṃ samabhāgaḥ syād dviguṇe madhusarpiṣī // 57 // triguṇaṃ tu guḍaṃ dadyāt sitā cūrṇaṃ caturguṇaṃ / peṣyeṣu yatra > Digestion of food, equilibrium of the bodily elements, and health, / nourishment, splendour, and energy, and long life are produced from the digestive fire. // 44 > For the digestive fire has food as its root, and the bodily elements have digestion as their root; / from equilibrium of the bodily elements comes health, and from health, supreme nourishment. // 45 > From nourishment come splendour and energy, and from all these the life / of living beings increases; therefore, one should examine the digestive fire first of all. // 46 > From equilibrium of the bodily elements it is said to be balanced; that indeed is declared to be the best. / When it is irregular, one should drink curd-clarified butter or \[a ghee\] prepared with havuṣā and other \[drugs\]. // 47 > Unctuous and warm suppositories are desirable, as well as drinks and food; / but when it is sluggish, fasting comes first, followed by digestive and fire-kindling remedies. // 48 > And the administrations of powders and fermented liquors that remove bile and phlegm are beneficial; / thus, when the digestive fire is balanced, \[the physician\] should apply what is agreeable, according to physicians. // 49 > And on this point there is \[a verse\]: / When it is sluggish and when it is sharp, a man dies without remedies; / when it is irregular, there is an abundance of disease; when it is balanced, he will live long and happily. // 50 > Therefore, in all diseases at all times, a wise man / should carry out treatment rooted in the digestive fire first, for the pacification of the disease. // 51 > With the fresh juice of śaṅkhapuṣpī, brāhmī, maṇḍūkaparṇī, and liquorice, / one desiring intellect, health, and strength, and wishing to live, should make use of it. // 52 > In a month he becomes intelligent; after six months, able to retain what is heard and free from old age; / by using it according to rule for a year, he lives for a thousand years, \[or\] for two hundred. // 53 > Using it thus continuously, he becomes free from old age. \[…\] // 54 > In gruels, khaḍa soups, and pulses, and in electuaries, powders, and antivenoms, / and in pills, collyria, suppositories, and in medicinal inhalations and nasal blowing powders, // 55 > and in closed-pot baking, saturating drinks, fomentations, sternutatories, and eye-drops, // 56 > and in others not mentioned, wherever the proportion is not stated, / the ingredients should be in equal parts, and honey and clarified butter in double \[amount\]; // 57 > but one should add threefold jaggery, and fourfold sugar-powder, where among ingredients to be ground > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.5) - [Next: 1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.7) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.1.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.6) · Pramāṇa