[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) › [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt) › 1.4 # The Bower Manuscript 1.4 English (machine translation) 1.4 - **Language:** English ### [1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.1.4) applying \[it\]. And he should constantly fear indigestion, and should not eat for not a few days. // 27 Now, taking clean, smooth bulbs, ground, and clarified butter equal to them, / having stirred this together with a ladle into one in a vessel of ghee, // 28 left overnight, one should consume \[it\] starting after ten days in the quantity of a bael fruit; / and when it is digested, one should observe the dietary regimen taught in the treatise on the elixir. // 29 Both of these procedures have been declared by me as foremost among choices. / If a man should not make an effort with these two, hear from me other procedures: // 30 Bulbs gleaming like conch shells, cleared of dirt, with parched grain flour, gruel, and vinegar; / with clarified butter and sesame oil, preparations of flour, varieties of pulses and meat, / with powders of mung bean mixed with chebulic myrobalan, and enriched with fragrant black salt, / cooked by many other methods, he should eat, or by different ones. // 31 Having cooked its stalk along with meats, he should have him drink that strained, agreeable broth. / Likewise, he should give him boiled milk, or it may be vegetable soup mixed with it. // 32 Then garlic along with oil and vinegar, placed in barley after being smeared with mud / and kept for one year—a man who uses \[it\] leaves behind even long-standing diseases. // 33 When a cow has stayed three nights without eating grass, then one should arrange garlic \[amounting to\] half the grass; \[…\] / having consumed that milk, curd, clarified butter, or even buttermilk, a Brahmin will conquer various diseases and attain happiness. // 34 Thirty-two prastha measures of garlic juice, / half of half of this of ferment, a prastha measure of sesame oil freed from impurities, and six \[prasthas\] of paste should be added; / he should also add a jar of the decoction of meṣaśṛṅgī, / well cooled, and the wise man should again add two prastha measures of paste there. // 35 Thus, after five and twenty days this liquor is endowed with taste, colour, and fragrance, - [Previous: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.1.3) - [Next: 1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.1.5) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.4) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.1.4) · Pramāṇa