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# The Bower Manuscript 17.3

Bower Manuscript 17.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.3)

5 'yaṃ kaphapittamehān kṣipraṃ nihanyād dvipalaprayogāt\* / pāṇḍvāmayārśāṃsy arucigrahaṇyaḥ doṣān kilāsaṃ vividhāṃś ca kuṣṭhān iti // 493 // {X} madhvāsavayogo nāma {X} madhukaṃ mustamṛdvīkākārṣmaryāṇi  
6 parūṣakam\* / trāyamāṇam uśīrāṇi triphalāṃ kaṭurohiṇīm\* // 494 // pītvā niśi sthitaṃ jantur jvarāc chīghraṃ vimucyate // pippalīśarkarākṣaudraṃ  
7 ghṛtamiśraṃ payaḥśritam\* // 495 // tat paṃcasāraṃ pātavyaṃ jvarakāsakṣayāpaham\* / {X} kaliṃgakā paṭolasya patraṃ kaṭukarohiṇī // 496 // paṭolaṃ śārivā mustaṃ  
8 pāṭhāṃ kaṭukarohiṇīm\* // nimbaṃ paṭolaṃ triphalāṃ mṛdvīkā mustavatsakau // 497 // kirātatiktam amṛtāṃ candanaṃ viśvabheṣajam\* / guḍūcy āmalakaṃ mustām ardhaślokasamāpanāḥ // 498 // kaṣāyāḥ śamayanty  
9 āśu paṃca paṃcavidhaṃ jvaram\* // 499a // ariṣṭapatraṃ sapaṭolacandanaṃ sabhadramustāmalakaṃ harītakī / jalena siddhā saghṛtāḥ saśarkarāḥ sameti tristhūṇagataṃ  
10 jvaraṃ nṛṇām\* // 500 // madhutrikaṃ dve triphale sapāṭhe bhāgau ca maṃjiṣṭhikaśārivāyāḥ / jalonmito nirmalapaṭṭapūtaḥ sarvajvarāṇāṃ śamanaḥ kaṣāyaḥ // 501 // candanaṃ padma  
11 x x x mustā kaṭukarohiṇī / vatsakaṃ trāyamāṇāñ ca drākṣā vanaparūṣakam\* // 502 // madhukaṃ śītapākaṃ ca yaṣṭīmadhukaśarkarām\* / jīvakarṣabhakau cobhau tathaivāmalakāny api // 503 //

> destroys phlegm-bile urinary disorders quickly from the administration of two palas;  
> paleness of the body, piles, loss of appetite, malabsorption disorders, the humours, vitiligo, and diverse skin diseases. // 493 // {X}  
> The formula named madhvāsava. {X}  
> Liquorice, mustā, raisins, kāṣmarya,  
> parūṣaka, trāyamāṇā, vetiver, the three myrobalans, and Picrorhiza kurroa: // 494  
> having drunk this after standing overnight, a person is freed quickly from fever.  
> Long pepper, sugar, and honey,  
> mixed with ghee and cooked with milk: // 495  
> that 'five-essence' is to be drunk, dispelling fever, cough, and consumption. // {X}  
> Seeds of holarrhena, leaves of trichosanthes, Picrorhiza kurroa; // 496  
> trichosanthes, Indian sarsaparilla, mustā,  
> pāṭhā, and Picrorhiza kurroa;  
> neem, trichosanthes, the three myrobalans, raisins, mustā, and holarrhena; // 497  
> chiretta, guḍūcī, sandalwood, and dried ginger;  
> guḍūcī, emblic myrobalan, mustā: these ending in each half-verse // 498  
> five decoctions quickly calm five kinds of fever. // 499a  
> Neem leaf with trichosanthes and sandalwood, with nut grass, emblic myrobalan, and chebulic myrobalan,  
> prepared with water, with ghee and with sugar, calms fever gone to the three humours in men. // 500  
> The triad of sweets, two parts of the three myrobalans with pāṭhā, and parts of Indian madder and Indian sarsaparilla,  
> boiled in water, strained through a clean cloth, is a decoction calming all fevers. // 501  
> Sandalwood, lotus, \[…\] mustā, Picrorhiza kurroa,  
> holarrhena and trāyamāṇā, raisins, wild parūṣaka, // 502  
> liquorice, śītapāka, liquorice-root and sugar,  
> and both jīvaka and ṛṣabhaka, as well as emblic myrobalans: // 503  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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