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Verses 10. {X} > Twenty-five chebulic myrobalans, and as many palas of dantī, > and twenty-five of leadwort: one should boil down in a droṇa of water. // 484 > One should put in strained jaggery equal to the dantī, and those chebulic myrobalans there; // 485 > half a kuḍava of pure sesame oil, and four palas of trivṛt; > that water, reduced to a fourth part, being strained, one should place on the fire again, > and half a pala of powdered long pepper and dried ginger. // 486 > That should be cooked like an electuary; when it has cooled, honey equal to the sesame oil, > and here should be portions of a karṣa of cinnamon, cardamom, patra, and nagkesar. // 487 > Then, having licked a pala of the electuary and eaten one chebulic myrobalan, > being unctuous and healthy, he is purged easily of a prastha measure of the humours. // 488 > Abdominal swelling, edema, piles, jaundice, loss of appetite, > heart disease, malabsorption syndrome, jaundice, intermittent fever, // 489 > skin diseases, splenic disorders, nausea: these \[all\] are calmed when it is used; > and the procedure is safe, followed by boiled rice with meat juice. // 490 // {X} > The purgative named prasthavireka. Verses 5, quarters 1. {X} > Lodhra, ṣaḍī, root of puṣkara, cardamom, mūrvā, viḍaṅga, trivṛt, carom seed, > cavya, priyaṅgu, white water-lily, viśālā, chiretta, and Picrorhiza kurroa; // 491 > having boiled karṣa-equal portions in a droṇa of water, strained when reduced to a fourth part of water, > having added a half-part of honey to the decoction, it should be kept for a fortnight in a ghee-vessel. // 492 // This madhvāsava > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.1) - [Next: 17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.3) - [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.17.2) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.4598) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.5.158) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.29.88) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.2) · Pramāṇa