The Bower Manuscript 1.10

1.10

9 To be applied as facial pastes in the appropriate seasons, such as the hot season and others. / Those beneficial to the eyesight of men have been shown; now hear from me those spoken of as removing the humours: // 92 // Those destroying disorders of the wind humour are stated for the arrival of the rains; those destroying disorders of the bile humour / are prescribed in autumn; those destroying blood disorders are taught in summer; those destroying phlegm disorders are stated for the arrival of spring. // 93 // Cotton roots, latā, uśīra, kālīyaka, and the bark of trees with milky sap, / bhadraśriya, […] and barley: they call these complexion-enhancing facial pastes. // 94 // Having dried these with cow's urine, or mixed together with jujube-water and urine, / or combined with the juice of citron together with mustard seeds, having dried them, they should be applied on the face. // 95 // […] when [the skin] is distressed, and when corrupt blood has been released, / and after oleation, purgation, and various types of nasal medication have been performed, facial pastes should be applied. // 96 // Cinnamon bark, patra, māṃsī, nata, sandalwood, red arsenic, tiger's claw, / hareṇu, […], tamarind, kuṣṭha, surasā, and the two turmerics—these facial pastes are destroyers of poison. // 97 // Mūrvā, aśvagandhā, the three myrobalans, and karañja—these facial pastes destroy swelling. / They also say that mūrvā combined with cow's urine is a facial paste that destroys swelling. // 98 // When the face is smeared, one should not laugh, nor weep, nor indulge in sleep, and likewise should not eat; / a man should not warm himself at a fire, nor keep a dried paste on the face. // 99 // Abhīlu, dark spots, kuṣṭha, melasma along with pilpu, and freckles of a person— / these subside immediately from a facial paste, and the eyesight and face become clear. // 100 // When the face is smeared, if one laughs or eats, the phlegm humour along with the wind humour / quickly flares up when sleeping; therefore, purgations of the head, unctuous substances, and fumigations must again be employed. // 101 // And from heat of fire, it melts away, or if a dry facial paste is retained on a person, / they say that the diseases beginning with abhīlu arise; one should provide relief for them as prescribed. // 102