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Fol. 14: Bower manuscript r1 bṛṃhaṇaṃ madhuraṃ śītaṃ snigdhaṃ pānānnam iṣyate / pittopadiṣṭaśāṃtiṃ ca kurryāt kāse kṣatātmake // 431 // madhukaṃ pīppalī drākṣā lākṣā śṛṃgī śatāvarī / caturguṇā tugākṣīrī 2 sarvaiś ca dviguṇā sitā // 432 // lihyāt tan madhusarpirbhyāṃ kṣatakāsanivṛttaye / saśarkarāṃ vā payasā pibel lākṣāṃ samāṃśikām\* // 433 // kṣayakāsaṃ yathādoṣaṃ māṃsakṣīraghṛtāśanaiḥ / 3 śamayed bṛṃhaṇaprāyair āhāraiḥ sraṃsayen na ca // 434 // pippalī padmakaṃ drākṣā saṃpakvaṃ bṛhatīphalam\* / ghṛtakṣaudrayuto lehaḥ kṣayakāsanibarhaṇaḥ // 435 // daśamūlātmaguptailāpippalīmūlacitrakān\* / 4 gajapippalyapāmārgaśaṃkhapuṣpiṣaḍībalām\* // 436 // pauṣkaraṃ ca dvipalikān yavāḍhakayutān pacet\* / droṇe 'pāṃ tad yavaiḥ svinnaiḥ kaṣāyam abhayaśatam\* // 437 // 5 tulāṃ guḍasya tu pacet kuḍavaṃ ghṛtatailasya / kuḍavaṃ pippalīnāñ ca datvā lehe ca śītale // 438 // madhunaḥ kuḍavaṃ datvā sthāpayed ghṛtabhājane / lihyād yathābalaṃ lehaṃ 6 khāded dve cābhaye tataḥ // 439 // sarvakāsān nudaty eṣa kṣayajaṃ tu viśeṣataḥ / śvāsahikkāvatāṃ svedaṃ svabhyaktānāṃ prayojayet\* // 440 // kulatthatilamāṣāmblaghṛtatailāmiṣodanaiḥ / 7 barhitittiridakṣāṇāṃ rasaiḥ savyoṣadāḍimaiḥ // 441 // sahiṃguviḍamṛdvīkāmātuluṃgarasārdrakaiḥ / kulatthadāḍimājājīśuṣkamūlakasaṃyutaiḥ // 442 // 8 yavagodhūmaśālyannaṃ snigdham uṣṇaṃ ca bhojayet\* / kulatthayavakolāmbū daśamūlabalājalaiḥ // 443 // pānārthaṃ kalpayet kāsaśvāsahikkānivṛttaye // 9 ṣaḍīpuṣkarajīvantīmustanāgaracorakaiḥ // 444 // pippalyā tāmalakyā ca surasailāgurutvacam\* / samāṃśabālakaṃ datvā śarkarāṣṭaguṇā bhavet\* // 445 // 10 lihyāt tu madhusarpibhyāṃ hikkāśvāsanivṛttaye // karjūraṃ pippalī drākṣā śarkarā ceti tatsamam\* // 446 // madhusarpiryuto lehaḥ śvāsahikkānivāraṇaḥ // v1 x x x x ^ \_ \_ x śāligodhūmavaikṛtam\* // 447 // jāṃgalānāṃ rasaiḥ śītair mṛdvīkāśarkarāyutaiḥ / śritaśītaiḥ payobhir vā saghṛtaiḥ sasitopalaiḥ // 448 // pibed drākṣārasaṃ śītaṃ śarkarāmalakodakam\* / mṛdvīkāṃ 2 puṣkarāhvadārvīkṣūn vāpi prakāmataḥ // 449 // drākṣāmalakakarjūrapippalīmaricānvitam\* / pittakāsaharaṃ hy etal lihyān mākṣikasarpiṣā // 450 // karjūraṃ pippalī drākṣā sitā lājāḥ samāṃśikā / madhusarpiryuto lehaḥ 3 pittakāsaharaḥ param\* // 451 // vāśākaṣāyakalkābhyāṃ ghṛtaṃ samadhuśarkaram\* / siddhaṃ tat pittakāsaghnaṃ sarvapittavikāranut\* // 452 // āpothya kṣīriṇāṃ śuṃgān pacet kṣīre caturguṇe / drākṣākalkaṃ ghṛtaṃ 4 siddhaṃ lehyaṃ tat pittakāsanut\* // 453 // ṣoḍaśabhir jalapātrair mṛdvīkāyāḥ palāni daśa ṣaṭ ca / aṣṭau madhukapalāni ca chāgān māṃsāt tulārdhaṃ syāt\* // 454 // pādāvaśiṣṭatoyaṃ śītaṃ 5 pūtaṃ kaṣāyam avatārya / datvā kaṣāyatulyaṃ payo 'tha navasarpiṣaḥ prastham\* // 455 // ṛṣabhakajīvakamedāṃ vidārivīkātmaguptānām\* / bhavyākṣoḍanikocakaśṛṃgāṭakapadmabījānām\* // 456 // 6 bhāgān akṣasamāṃśān avāpya saṃsādhayeta mṛdvagnau / samyaksiddhe tasmiṃ dadyāt sitaśarkarāpalāny aṣṭau // 457 // madhunaś ca palāny aṣṭau catuṣpalaṃ pipallīcūrṇāt\* / samasaktukam ity abhidhīyate 7 ghṛtam idaṃ janakeśvarapūjitam\* // 458 // kṣīṇe kṣate 'lpaśukre 'py atha sarucirapaittikeṣu rogeṣu / strīkāmeṣu ca deyaṃ vṛṣyaṃ balyaṃ ca ghṛtam etat\* // 459 // drākṣā madhukakharjūravidārī saśatāvarī / 8 parūṣakāṇi triphalāṃ sādhayet palasaṃmitān\* // 460 // jalāḍhake pādaśeṣe rasam āmalakasya ca / ghṛtam ikṣurasaṃ kṣīram abhayākalkapādikam\* // 461 // sādhayet tat ghṛtaṃ siddhaṃ śarkarākṣaudrapādikam\* / prayogāt pittakāsaghnaṃ 9 sarvapittavikāranut\* // 462 // kaphaje chardanaṃ pūrvaṃ kāse laṃghanam eva ca / śastā yavānnavikṛtiyūṣāś ca kaṭutiktakāḥ // 463 // pibed gharmāṃbu madyaṃ vā purāṇaṃ kṣaudrasaṃyutam\* / vyāyāmadhūmau seveta rūkṣoṣṇāny aśanāni 10 ca // 464 // pāyayet sārṣapaṃ tailaṃ kausuṃbham athavā bhiṣak\* / paṃcakolakasiddhaṃ vā pibet kāse kaphātmake // 465 // vyoṣapuṣkaramṛdvīkātriphalāṣaḍicitrakaiḥ / madhutailayuto lehaḥ kaphakāsanibarhaṇaḥ // 466 // 11 tryūṣaṇaṃ triphalā dāru viḍaṃgā padmako balā / rāsnā ca sarve tulyāḥ syuḥ śarkarā madhusarpiṣī // 467 // lehayet tat kṛtaṃ cūrṇaṃ kaphakāsanibarhaṇam\* / tryūṣaṇatriphale \_ x x x x x ^ \_ ^ \_ // 468 // > Nourishing, sweet, cool, and unctuous food and drink are recommended; / and in cough caused by chest injury, one should apply the remedies prescribed for bile humour. // 431 > Liquorice, long pepper, grape, lac, karkaṭaśṛṅgī, śatāvarī, / four times as much bamboo manna, / and twice the total amount of white sugar // 432 > — one should lick this with honey and clarified butter to relieve cough caused by chest injury. / Or one should drink lac mixed with equal parts of sugar in milk. // 433 > One should relieve cough born of consumption, according to the humour, by eating meat, milk, and ghee, / with diets consisting mostly of nourishing foods, and one must not administer purges. // 434 > Long pepper, padmaka, grape, \[and\] ripe bṛhatī fruit: / an electuary combined with ghee and honey destroys cough born of consumption. // 435 > The ten roots, ātmaguptā, cardamom, long pepper root, leadwort, / gajapippalī, apāmārga, śaṅkhapuṣpī, ṣaḍī, balā, // 436 > and pauṣkara, two pala measures of each, one should cook with an āḍhaka of barley / in a droṇa of water; when the barley is steamed, \[strain\] that decoction, \[and add\] a hundred chebulic myrobalans, // 437 > one tulā of jaggery, one kuḍava measure of ghee and sesame oil, / and one kuḍava measure of long peppers; and when the electuary has cooled down, // 438 > one adds a kuḍava measure of honey and keeps it in a ghee vessel. / One should lick this electuary according to one's strength, / and then eat two chebulic myrobalans. // 439 > This removes all coughs, especially that born of consumption. / For those suffering from asthma and hiccup, one should apply sweating after they are well anointed, // 440 > with horse-gram, sesame, black gram, sour gruel, ghee, sesame oil, meat, and rice, / with juices of peacock, francolin, and fowl, accompanied by the three pungents and pomegranate, // 441 > with asafoetida, black salt, raisins, citron juice, and fresh ginger, / combined with horse-gram, pomegranate, cumin, and dried radish. // 442 > One should feed unctuous and warm foods of barley, wheat, and rice. / A decoction of horse-gram, barley, jujube fruit, water, / and water prepared with the ten roots and balā, // 443 > one should prepare for drinking, to dispel cough, asthma, and hiccup. / With ṣaḍī, puṣkara, jīvantī, mustā, dry ginger, and coraka, // 444 > with long pepper, tāmalakī, holy basil, cardamom, and aguru bark, / adding an equal part of bālaka, and eight times as much sugar: // 445 > one should lick \[this\] with honey and clarified butter to relieve hiccup and asthma. / Dates, long pepper, grapes, and an equal part of sugar // 446 > — an electuary combined with honey and clarified butter dispels asthma and hiccup. / \[…\] preparations of rice and wheat, // 447 > with cool meat juices of wilderness animals mixed with raisins and sugar, / or with boiled and cooled milk, accompanied by ghee and sugar candy. // 448 > One should drink cold grape juice, or water of sugar and emblic myrobalans, / or raisins, puṣkaramūla, tree turmeric, and sugar-cane according to one's desire. // 449 > Combined with grape, emblic myrobalan, date, long pepper, and black pepper, / this indeed cures cough of bile humour; one should lick it with honey and clarified butter. // 450 > Date, long pepper, grape, sugar, \[and\] parched grain in equal parts: / an electuary combined with honey and clarified butter / is supreme in curing cough of bile humour. // 451 > Ghee prepared with the decoction and paste of vāsā, together with honey and sugar, / is efficacious in destroying cough of bile humour and dispels all disorders of bile humour. // 452 > Having crushed the sprouts of milky trees, one cooks them in four times as much milk; / ghee prepared with grape paste is to be licked: that cures cough of bile humour. // 453 > With sixteen water vessels, sixteen pala measures of raisins, / eight pala measures of liquorice, and half a tulā of goat meat, // 454 > boil down until a fourth of the water remains, take down the cooled and strained decoction, / and add milk equal to the decoction, and a prastha measure of fresh clarified butter; // 455 > taking parts equal to an akṣa of ṛṣabhaka, jīvaka, medā, / vidārī, vīkā, ātmaguptā, / bhavya, walnut, nikocaka, śṛṅgāṭaka, and lotus seeds, // 456 > one should cook it over a gentle fire; when it is properly prepared, one should add eight pala measures of white sugar, // 457 > eight pala measures of honey, and four pala measures of long pepper powder, / along with equal parts of barley meal. This is called / the ghee honored by the lord of Janaka. // 458 > In emaciation, chest injury, diminished semen, in delightful conditions, in diseases of bile humour, / and for those desirous of women, this ghee should be given: it is aphrodisiac and strength-giving. // 459 > Grape, liquorice, date, vidārī, together with śatāvarī, / parūṣaka fruits, and the three myrobalans, each measured as one pala, // 460 > one should cook in an āḍhaka of water until a fourth remains; adding emblic myrobalan juice, / ghee, sugar-cane juice, milk, and a fourth part of paste of chebulic myrobalan, // 461 > one should cook that ghee; when prepared, a fourth part of sugar and honey is added. / By its use, it destroys cough of bile humour and dispels all disorders of bile humour. // 462 > In cough born of phlegm humour, emesis \[comes\] first, and also fasting; / dishes made of barley and pungent and bitter vegetable soups are recommended. // 463 > One should drink hot water, or mature liquor mixed with honey; / one should resort to exercise and medicinal smoking, and dry, hot foods. // 464 > The physician should cause the patient to drink mustard oil, or safflower oil, / or one prepared with the five pungents in cough of phlegm humour. // 465 > With the three pungents, puṣkara, raisins, the three myrobalans, ṣaḍī, and leadwort, / an electuary combined with honey and sesame oil destroys cough born of phlegm humour. // 466 > The three pungents, the three myrobalans, deodar, viḍaṅga, padmaka, balā, / and rāsnā, all should be in equal parts, with sugar, honey, and clarified butter: // 467 > one should have him lick that prepared powder which destroys cough of phlegm humour. / The three pungents, the three myrobalans \[…\] // 468 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 15.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.15.p5) - [Next: 17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.16) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.4429) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.5.125) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.29.69) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.16) · Pramāṇa