[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) › 17.1 # The Bower Manuscript 17.1 Bower Manuscript 17.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.1) II. Fol. 15: Bower manuscript r1 kāśasya mūlaṃ madhusaṃprayuktam\* / sapippalīkaṃ ca sanāgaraṃ ca līḍhvaiva sadyaḥ śamayanti hikkām\* // 469 // pibec ca govālaviṣāṇadhūmaṃ śreṣṭhasya vā sarjarasasya dhūmam\* / dhūmaṃ kuśānām atisaṃprayuktaṃ 2 ghṛtena hikkāsu sukhaṃ labheta // 470 // cūrṇaṃ kṛtaṃ tiktakarohiṇīnāṃ cūrṇāṇi vā kāñcanagairikasya / madhudvitīyā vinihanti hikkāṃ nityaprasaktām api śīghram eva // 471 // 3 lājāḥ supiṣṭā vadarāsthimajjā syād aṃjanaṃ srotajam uttamaṃ ca / kṣaudreṇa sarvāṇi suyojitāni līhāni sadyaḥ śamayanti hikkām\* // 472 // sūkṣmāṇi cūrṇāni ca 4 saindhavasya palaṃ bhaved dve ca pale ghṛtasya / hikkābhibhūtāya sukhāya deyaṃ tathaiva rakte mukhataḥ pravṛtte // 473 // hikkāyogāḥ paṃca ślo 15 {X} pippalyāmalakaṃ drākṣā tukākṣīrī 5 saśarkarā / lājā ghṛtaṃ mākṣikaṃ ca lehaḥ kāsanivāraṇaḥ // 474 // pippalyaḥ śarkarā drākṣā leho mākṣikasaṃyutaḥ // harītakīṃ pippalīñ ca cūrṇaṃ madhuyutaṃ lihet\* // 475 // tryūṣaṇaṃ triphalāṃ 6 caiva padmakaṃ devadāru ca / rāsnāṃ balāṃ viḍaṃgāni sūkṣmacūrṇāni karayet\* // 476 // cūrṇaiḥ samāṃ śarkarāṃ ca lehayen madhusarpiṣā / eṣa lehaḥ praṇudati paṃca 7 kāsām samutthitān // 477 // yavakṣāro viḍaṃgāni hiṃguṃ bhārgī mahauṣadham\* / saindhavaṃ pippalī rāsnā tulyāny etāni cūrṇayet\* // 478 // sarpiṣā pāyayed etat tac cūrṇaṃ kāsavāraṇam\* / 8 mandāgnitāṃ tamaśvāsaṃ hikkāṃ caivāpakarṣati // 479 // drākṣā pramāṇād dhi śatapramāṇā kṣaudreṇa piṣṭvā saha pippalībhiḥ / etena cūrṇasya sa śarkarāyāḥ kāseṣu > II. Fol. 15: Bower manuscript > Root of kāśa grass combined with honey, / with long pepper and with dried ginger, being licked, calms hiccup immediately. // 469 > And one should inhale the smoke of cow-hair and horns, or the smoke of the best resin of sarja; smoke of kuśa grass thoroughly combined > with ghee, one obtains relief in hiccups. // 470 > Powder made of Picrorhiza kurroa, or powders of yellow ochre, > combined with honey as the second \[ingredient\], destroys hiccup immediately even when continuously persistent. // 471 > Well-ground puffed rice, marrow of jujube stones, and excellent collyrium born of mountain streams; > all these properly combined with honey, being licked, calm hiccup immediately. // 472 > And there should be a pala of fine powder of rock salt, > and two palas of ghee; > it should be given for the relief of one afflicted with hiccup, and likewise when blood issues from the mouth. // 473 > Five remedies for hiccup. Verses 15. {X} > Long pepper, emblic myrobalan, raisins, bamboo manna, > with sugar, puffed rice, ghee, and honey, is an electuary that wards off cough. // 474 > Long pepper, sugar, raisins, with honey is an electuary; > or one should lick powder of chebulic myrobalan and long pepper mixed with honey. // 475 > The three pungents, and also the three myrobalans, > padmaka, and Himalayan cedar, > rāsnā, balā, and viḍaṅga: one should cause them to be made into fine powders. // 476 > And with sugar equal to the powder, one should have it licked with honey and clarified butter. > This electuary repels the five arisen coughs. // 477 > Barley-alkali, viḍaṅga, asafoetida, bhārgī, dried ginger, > rock salt, long pepper, and rāsnā: one should powder equal parts of these. // 478 > One should give this powder to drink with clarified butter; it wards off cough, > and it relieves dullness of digestion, bronchial asthma, and hiccup. // 479 > A measure of raisins, indeed by count one hundred, ground with honey together with long peppers; > with this powder, along with sugar, in cases of cough, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.16) - [Next: 17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.2) - [Up: 17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.17.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Bheḷasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.20.29) — Bheḷa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.1) · Pramāṇa