[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) › 24.3 # The Bower Manuscript 24.3 Bower Manuscript 24.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [24.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.3) 5 triphalāṃ ca samāṃ kuryān nīlīṃ nīlotpalāni ca // 768 // aṃjanaṃ pippalīmūlaṃ patraṃ sahacarasya ca / tvacam arjunavṛkṣasya phalaṃ piṇḍārakasya ca // 769 // jaṃbūmūlakaṣāyaṃ 6 ca jambūmūlāc ca mṛttikām\* / bhṛṃgako lohacūrṇaṃ ca akṣamātrāṇi kārayet\* // 770 // etad vaibhītake taile śanair mṛdvagninā pacet\* / tataḥ saṃśodhanaṃ kṛtvā nastaḥkarma samācaret\* // 771 // 7 tilatailena kṛsarāṃ māsaṃ bhuṃjīta vai naraḥ / tṛṣitena ca pātavyaṃ triphalāsalīlaṃ tathā // 772 // toyakṛtyaṃ yad anyac ca tac ca tenaiva kārayet\* // {X} nāsyatailaṃ rasāyanaṃ {X} 8 tapyamānaṃ tapo 'tyugraṃ viśvamitraṃ mahāmunim\* // 773 // aśvinau devabhiṣajāv ūcatur varadāṃ varau / tapaś caraṇakhinnasya narasyāpyāyanaṃ punaḥ // 774 // rasāyanam idaṃ śreṣṭham ārogyabalavardhanam\* / 9 gaurāmalakacūrṇānāṃ prasthaḥ syāc chiśiroddhṛtaḥ // 775 // ekaviṃsatirātraṃ tu svarasenaiva bhāvayet\* / prasthaḥ pippalicūrṇānāṃ prasthaś cāyorajo bhavet\* // 776 // dvau prasthau madhunaḥ syātāṃ sarpiṣaś 10 cāḍhakaṃ bhavet\* / śarkarāyāś ca dvau prasthāv ardhaprasthaṃ ca citrakāt\* // 777 // etat saṃbhṛtya saṃbhāraṃ prakṣipyaghṛtabhājane / māsam etat sthitaṃ vānye prāśnīyāt tu yathābalam\* // 778 // 11 palaṃ vā dvipalaṃ vātha lihyāt kalyam abhuktavān\* / śataṃ jīvati medhāvī balīpalitavarjitaḥ // 779 // na cātra niyamaḥ kaścit snānabhojanamaithune > One should take equal parts of the three myrobalans, indigo (nīlī), and blue water-lilies, // 768 > antimony (añjana), long pepper root, leaves of sahacara, > bark of the arjuna tree, and fruit of piṇḍāraka, // 769 > a decoction of rose-apple (jambū) root, and clay from the root of a rose-apple tree, > bhṛṅgarāja, and iron filings, in the measure of an akṣa each. // 770 > One should cook this slowly over a gentle fire in belleric myrobalan (vibhītaka) oil. > Then, having performed purification, one should administer nasal therapy (nastas). // 771 > A man should eat kṛsarā \[rice-and-lentil mash\] prepared with sesame oil for a month; > and when thirsty, he should drink water of the three myrobalans. // 772 > Whatever other water-related necessity there is, he should perform that only with it. > Rejuvenating tonic nasal oil. > To the great sage Viśvāmitra, who was performing severe asceticism, // 773 > the two divine physicians, the Aśvins, bestowers of boons, said: > ‘For a man exhausted by the practice of austerities, this supreme invigorating > rejuvenating tonic increases health and strength. // 774 > There should be a prastha measure of powder of pale emblic myrobalans gathered in the cold season; // 775 > he should macerate it for twenty-one nights in its own juice; > there should be a prastha measure of long pepper powder, and a prastha measure of iron dust; // 776 > there should be two prastha measures of honey, and an āḍhaka measure of clarified butter; > and two prastha measures of sugar, and half a prastha measure of plumbago (citraka). // 777 > Having gathered this supply and put it into a vessel of ghee, > left for a month in the forest (or a container), he should eat it according to his strength. // 778 > Or he should lick a pala measure or two pala measures at dawn before eating. > Possessed of intellect, free from wrinkles and grey hair, he lives for a hundred \[years\]. // 779 > And here there is no restriction regarding bathing, eating, or sexual intercourse.’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 24.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.2) - [Next: 25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.25) - [Up: 24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.24.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.3) · Pramāṇa