The Bower Manuscript 1.11

1.11

6 Night-blindness, timira, burning pain in the head, and ocular pain caused by the bile humour accompanied by burning, / as well as other humours situated in the skin of the face, subside immediately from a facial paste. // 103 // In an affection of the eyes caused by phlegm and wind humours, after a nasal application has been performed, and in patients with chronic coryza, / in lockjaw, and in headaches: they say facial pastes should be avoided. // 104 // A facial paste is prescribed to be a quarter of a finger's breadth [thick]; / the middling one should be a third part, while the last should be half a finger's breadth. // 105 // Liquorice, rodhra, the three myrobalans, lotus stalk, sugar candy, and golden ochre, / patra, cinnamon bark, cardamom, aguru, cedar, punarnavā, tiger's claw, and collyrium, // 106 // red arsenic, orpiment, bṛhatī bark, māṃsī, hareṇu, and paripelava, / sauvīraka, red ochre, kaṭphala, and śārivā, mixed with sugar: // 107 // thus, by these half-verses, four [pastes] are prescribed for the alleviation of diseases of the phlegm humour, blood, bile humour, and wind humour. / With these eye-pastes, one should smear around the eye up to the root of the eyelashes or on the outside. // 108 // And rodhra smeared with a little ghee, or chebulic myrobalan rubbed on an iron plate, / with bark of bṛhatī and an equal amount of collyrium, forms an eye-paste that removes all pains. // 109 // Red ochre, rasāñjana, collyrium, red arsenic, and brass flowers in equal parts, / along with a little black pepper, twice as much […] // 110 // and in black pepper flowers, green, one should cook it over a gentle fire together with ghee. / This eye-paste collyrium, four […] we shall explain […] // 111 // […] baldness […] / […] as it is being explained, learn! // 112 // From disturbance of the bodily fluids, from sexual intercourse, and from the vitiation of bile and blood, / premature greying occurs; in an aged person, it occurs through old age. // 113 // Mostly women possess phlegm humour […] / […] engaging in [these], they discharge corrupt menstrual blood. // 114