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# The Bower Manuscript 33.6

Bower Manuscript 33.6

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [33.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.33.6)

7 eva ca // 1110 // darbhamūlośīracukraṃ kvāthayed vimalāmbhasi / śarkarāmadhusaṃyuktas tṛṣṇāśamanam uttamam\* // 1111 // nīlotpalānyāmalakaṃ priyaṃguṃ śārivā tathā / piṣṭair etaiḥ kumārāṇāṃ  
8 x x x x^ \_ ^ \_ // 1112 // daḍimasya ca bījāni candanaṃ padmakesaram\* / pippalyaḥ śarkarā kṣaudraṃ lehas tṛṣṇāvināśanaḥ 1113 // tvacapravāḍāni samānayitvā kṣīradrumānāṃ  
9 ^ ^ \_ ^ \_ x / x \_ ^ \_ \_ .ya nave vidadhyāt kuṃbhe ^ \_ .yābhyavakāśadeśe // 1114 // saśārivośīrasanāgapuṣpaṃ sacandanaṃ padmakakālamiśram\* / āloḍya nīlotpalapatrayukta  
10 x \_ ^ \_ \_ ^ ^ \_ ^ \_ ca // 1115 // etaiḥ kaṣāyaiḥ pariṣiktagātraḥ pibeta lāvena rasena yuktam\* / saśarkaras taṃ vidhivat suśītaṃ bālasya nityaṃ lavaṇāṃblavarjyam\* // 1116 // śītāḥ pradehāḥ  
11 ^ ^ \_ ^ \_ x x \_ ^ śītāni gṛhāṇi caiva / dhātryaś ca śītārdrapaṭottarīyā rasāś ca śītāḥ śamayanti tṛṣṇām\* // 1117 // tṛṇāpahaś caiṣa vidhiḥ pradiṣṭas tathaiva pittajvaradāhahantā / mūrvā ^  
12 \_ \_ ^ ^ \_ ^ \_ x x \_ ^ \_ \_ .r.am iha prayojyaḥ // 1118 // hiṃguḥ karkaṭaśṛṃgī gairikamaricāni nāgarakam elā / eṣa madhusaṃprayuktaḥ kāse hikkā ^ ^ ^ \_ x // 1119 //

> one should boil darbha root, uśīra, and sorrel in clear water;  
> combined with sugar and honey, it is an excellent alleviator of morbid thirst. // 1111  
> Blue water-lilies, emblic myrobalan, priyaṅgu, and śārivā:  
> with these ground, for children \[…\] // 1112  
> Seeds of pomegranate, sandalwood, filaments of lotus,  
> long pepper, sugar, and honey: this electuary destroys morbid thirst. // 1113  
> Having gathered bark and young shoots of the latex-bearing trees,  
> \[…\] one should place them in a new pot in an open space. // 1114  
> With śārivā, uśīra, nāgapuṣpa,  
> with sandalwood, mixed with padmaka and kālā,  
> having stirred it with petals of blue water-lily \[…\] and // 1115  
> Having had his limbs sprinkled with these astringent decoctions, he should drink it combined with quail broth,  
> properly cooled with sugar, for the child, always avoiding salt and sour tastes. // 1116  
> Cool poultices, \[…\], and cool rooms,  
> wet-nurses wearing cool and damp upper cloths, and cool meat-broths soothe morbid thirst. // 1117  
> And this regimen is prescribed to remove morbid thirst, and likewise it destroys bile fever and burning sensation.  
> Mūrvā \[…\] should be applied here. // 1118  
> Asafoetida, karkaṭaśṛṅgī, red ochre, black pepper, dry ginger, cardamom:  
> this, combined with honey, in cough and hiccup \[…\] // 1119  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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