[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) › 21.1 # The Bower Manuscript 21.1 Bower Manuscript 21.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [21.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.21.1) II. Fol. 19: Bower manuscript r1 x x x x ^ śādvalaiḥ / vīrāmadhukamaṃjiṣṭhāvetasotpalakesaraiḥ // 610 // jīvanīyapalāśa x x x x x x^ \_ kaiḥ / ghṛtāmbukṣīrapiṣṭais tair lepaḥ sekaś ca śasyate // 611 // trivṛtāṃ triphalāṃ nimbaṃ x x 2 pīlumahauṣadham\* / śritaḥ kaṣāyaḥ saguḍo visarpajvaranāśanaḥ // 612 // mahātiktaṃ pibet sarpiś cūrṇaṃ yac cāpi tiktakam\* / etair eva ghṛtaṃ siddhaṃ viṣamajvaranāśanam\* // 613 // visarpacikitsitaṃ ślo 5 pā 1 ṛ 3 kaṣāyaṃ kāmalāpāṇḍupūrvādyaṃ jvaritaḥ pibet\* / haridrāṃ vā sagomūtrāṃ tayor vā dāḍimatvacam\* // 614 // pippalīdrākṣayoḥ prasthau droṇe dhātrīrasaṃ pacet\* / sitāśatārdhaṃ madhukaṃ śuṇṭhītvakkṣīrakaṭphalaṃ // 615 // 4 śītān madhuprasthayutān tataś cārdhapalaṃ pibet\* // kāmalī pāṇḍurogī ca pippalīṃ vā prayojayet\* // 616 // mustādyaṃ kṣīravastiṃ vā yavānnaṃ jāṃgalaṃ madhu / ayorajīyaṃ sevec ca yā ca pittajvare 5 kriyeti // 617 // {X} nāvanītake miśrako 'dhyāyaś caturthaḥ {X} ataḥparaṃ pravakṣyāmi balavarṇaprasādanam\* / yena māṃsāni vardhante balaṃ caivopajāyate // 618 // mūlānām aśvagandhāyāḥ paṃcaviṃśat 6 palāni tu / kaṇḍaśaś chedayitvā tu sthālyām ādhāya sādhayet\* // 619 // pādabhāgāvaśiṣṭhaṃ ca jñātvā tam avatārayet\* / tad rasaṃ tu parisrāvya dṛḍhapātre 'vasecayet\* // 620 // tasmin kaṣāye matimān 7 auṣadhāni prakalpayet\* / jīvaniyāni sarvāṇi śarkarācūrṇam eva ca // 621 // madhusarpiṣaś ca prasṛtaṃ pippalīcūrṇam eva ca / kiṃcil lavaṇikaṃ kṛtvā khajenāloḍayed > \[…\] with greens; with vīrā, liquorice, madder, vetasa, and lotus stamens // 610 > With jīvanīya \[drugs\], palāśa, \[…\], ground with ghee, water, and milk, an application or sprinkling is commended // 611 > Trivṛt, the three myrobalans, neem, \[…\] / pīlu, and dried ginger: this decoction boiled down, taken with jaggery, destroys erysipelas and fever // 612 > One should drink Mahātikta clarified butter, and also the Tiktaka powder; ghee prepared with these very \[drugs\] cures irregular fever // 613 > Treatment of erysipelas: five ślokas, one quarter-verse. > One afflicted with fever should drink the decoction starting with kāmalā-pāṇḍu-\[…\]; or turmeric with cow's urine, or pomegranate rind in either case // 614 > One should boil a prastha measure each of long pepper and grapes with a droṇa of emblic myrobalan juice; \[add\] fifty \[palas\] of sugar, liquorice, dry ginger, bark, kṣīrī, and kaṭphala // 615 > When cooled, combined with a prastha measure of honey, one should drink half a pala measure thereof. One with jaundice or anemia may also employ long pepper // 616 > Or a milk enema beginning with mustā, a diet of barley and game meat, honey, iron dust \[compounds\], and whatever procedure is \[prescribed\] for bile-fever should be observed // 617 > In the Nāvanītaka, the fourth chapter, on miscellaneous recipes. / Hereafter I shall declare \[a remedy\] promoting strength and complexion, by which the flesh increases and strength is generated // 618 > Twenty-five pala measures of the roots of aśvagandhā, having cut them into small pieces and placed them in a pot, one should boil // 619 > Knowing that one-fourth part remains, one should take it down; and having strained that liquid, one should pour it into a sturdy vessel // 620 > In that decoction, the intelligent \[physician\] should mix the medicinal herbs: all the jīvanīya drugs and powdered sugar // 621 > A prasṛta measure each of honey and clarified butter, powdered long pepper, and having made it slightly salted, the physician should stir it with a churning-stick // 622 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 20.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.20.p4) - [Next: 21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.21.2) - [Up: 21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.21) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.21.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.21.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.21.1) · Pramāṇa