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# The Bower Manuscript 20.584

Bower Manuscript 20.584

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [20.584](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.20.584)

3 sidhmayogāḥ ślo 6 {O} guḍena śrapayet kṣīraṃ kaduṣṇaṃ kāmataḥ pibet\* / mūtragrahasya bheṣajyaṃ sadyastaṃ matam aśvinoḥ // 575 // mṛdvīkāṃ śarkaraṃ caiva dadhimaṇḍena pāyayet\* /  
4 mūtragrahasya bhaiṣajyaṃ sadyaṣkaṃ samudāhṛtam\* // 576 // ervārukasya bījānām akṣamātraṃ prapīṣayet\* / yuktāmblalavaṇaṃ pītvā mūtragrāhāt pramucyate // 577 // dviḥ kuṃkumasyākṣamātraṃ mṛdvīkarasapīṣimam\* /  
5 ekarātrasthitaṃ pītvā mūtragrāhāt pramucyate // 578 // ayorajaḥ sūkṣmapiṣṭaṃ madhunā saha pāyayet\* / mūtragrahasya bheṣajyaṃ sadyaṣkaṃ matam aśvinoḥ // 579 // kharāśvā hiṃgusurasaṃ  
6 hiriveraṃ rasāṃjanam\* / citrakasya ca mūlāni trāyamānāṃ ca saṃharet\* // 580 // etāni samabhāgāni madhunā saha pāyayet\* / pārśvaśūlaṃ mūtrakṛcchraṃ sarvam etena śāmyati // 581 // {O} mūtrakṛcchraghnāḥ  
7 sapta yogāḥ // {X} // mūtrakṛcchreṣu toyārthaḥ kāryaḥ kvāthyena sarvadā / mūlānāṃ śarakāśekṣudarbhagokṣuravīraṇaiḥ // 582 // pibet kusuṃbhapuṣpaṃ vā  
8 taṇḍulāṃbu madhudravam\* / kṣīravastiṃ yathoktaṃ vā dadyāt svedāṃś ca kārayet\* // 583 // {O} mūtrakṛcchraghna nava yogāḥ // {O} nāsāgame tu raktasya avapīḍaḥ praśasyate / drākṣekṣudūrvāsvarasaśaṃkhagairikacandanaiḥ // 584 //

> Formulations for sidhma leprosy, 6 verses.  
> One should boil milk with jaggery and drink it lukewarm according to inclination; / this was considered by the Aśvins to be an immediate remedy for urinary retention. // 575  
> One should also have \[the patient\] drink raisins and sugar with whey; / it is declared to be an immediate remedy for urinary retention. // 576  
> One should grind an akṣa measure of seeds of cucumber; / having drunk it mixed with sour \[gruel\] and salt, one is freed from urinary retention. // 577  
> An akṣa measure of twice-ground saffron, ground with raisin juice / and left to stand for one night, having drunk it, one is freed from urinary retention. // 578  
> One should administer finely ground iron dust along with honey; / this was considered by the Aśvins to be an immediate remedy for urinary retention. // 579  
> One should take caraway, asafoetida, holy basil, / fragrant swamp mallow, rasāñjana, / roots of plumbago, and trāyamāṇā; // 580  
> one should administer equal parts of these along with honey: / flank pain and dysuria—all are pacified by this. // 581  
> Seven formulations destroying dysuria.  
> In cases of dysuria, the need for water should always be met by a decoction / of the roots of śara, kāśa, sugar-cane, darbha grass, gokṣura, and vīraṇa; // 582  
> or one should drink safflower blossoms, / or rice-water liquid with honey, / or one should give a milk enema as prescribed, and apply fomentations. // 583  
> Nine formulations destroying dysuria.  
> When blood comes from the nose, an avapīḍa nasal errhine is praised, / made with the fresh juices of grapes, sugar-cane, and dūrvā grass, along with conch shell, red ochre, and sandalwood. // 584  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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