The Bower Manuscript 1.8

1.8

licorice, mañjiṣṭhā,
kālīyaka, parpaṭaka, latā, grapes, kārṣmarya, and parūṣaka, // 71
roots of gundrā, reed, and vetasa, sprouts of flowerless grasses,
prapauṇḍarīka with kirātatikta, sandalwood, neem, snake gourd, and vāsā: // 72
two or three of these boiled in goat's milk or woman's milk would be an excellent eye drops;
with sugar and combined with honey, in eye disease caused by bile humour and originating from blood. // 73
The three pungents, three myrobalans, turmeric, iron sulfate, nutmeg, soot, jasmine,
lāc, dantī, holy basil, sweet flag, pāṭhā, aśvagandhā, prime devadāru, // 74
kaṭphala, cardamom, agallochum, kaṇṭakārī,
lodh tree, karañja, bṛhatī, gokhru:
two or three of these boiled in water, made lukewarm with rock salt, // 75
the wise call an eye drops plentiful in honey for eye disease caused by phlegm humour.
With parūṣaka, āmrātaka, tamarind, vṛkṣāmla, rose apple, mango, wood apple, and jujube, // 76
with citron and sour pomegranate, with wine, milks, or whey,
boiled with tree turmeric, blue water lily, and the others, sour, as eye drops combined with rock salt, // 77
[...] forcefully destroys pain of the eyes caused by [blood] arisen from alternating cold and heat.
In a disease born of combination [of two humours] or arisen from all [three], having examined deficiency and excess, // 78
the discerning [physician] removing [...] should prepare [...].
Castor root with sprouting fruits, vijarjana, combined with goat's milk // 79
would be foremost in dispelling vātarakta; good physicians call it an eye drops.
Prapauṇḍarīka, licorice, turmeric, and [...] // 80