The Bower Manuscript 1.12

1.12

3 Therefore, the heat of bile and blood being calm in women, their scalp is preserved; / consequently, their hair does not fall out, and for that reason women do not become bald. // 115 // In men, due to the contrary, bile and blood become vitiated; / […] the hair roots, and makes the head bald. // 116 // Baldness that is hairless, with copper-coloured hair, and of long standing, / that does not heal; but one should properly treat that which is curable and recent. // 117 // In baldness and premature greying, one should first pierce the veins repeatedly; / when he is cleansed of corrupt blood, procedures beginning with vomiting are beneficial. // 118 // Afterwards, having cleansed the belly, one should administer […] / and various oil formulations, and likewise hair dyes, // 119 // and also those that produce hair, as well as those that make it grow, / and hair-washes that are beneficial according to the removal of the humours. // 120 // The wise man should treat one who coughs from the wind humour with ghees endowed with sweet, sour, and salty tastes, / combined with food or alone, according to strength. // 121 // Wheat and rice should be eaten with the broths of domestic, swamp, and aquatic animals, with jaggery and onions, / and with sour, unctuous, hot, and sweet substances. // 122 // One should drink surā liquor with its scum, warm water, or meat-broths at will; / in wind-cough, one should drink copious unctuous substances or milk with jaggery. // 123 // With ginger, ṣaḍī, grapes, śṛṅgī, long pepper, and bhārgī, / an electuary combined with jaggery and sesame oil is beneficial to those coughing from the wind humour. // 124 // With long pepper, māruta, cumin, ṣaḍī, puṣkara, and citraka, / this powder along with rock salt is beneficial to those coughing from the wind humour. // 125 // One should boil thirty palas of kaṇṭakārī in an āḍhaka measure of water; / when it remains reduced to a fourth part, having strained it, one should add thirty palas of jaggery to it, // 126 // with powders of dried ginger, bhārgī, cardamom, long pepper, ṣaḍī, and citraka, / and also with palas of ghee and sesame oil.