The Bower Manuscript 1.9

1.9

applied as an eye drops mixed with sugar would turn back distress caused by bile and wind humours.
Tagara, gokhru, bṛhatī, cassia bark, and hrīvera—boiled with milk and water of goats, // 81
combined with rock salt, this would be an eye drops dispelling wind and phlegm humours.
[...] tree turmeric and prime licorice boiled in cow's milk or woman's [milk], // 82
administered as an eye drops with sugar by a good physician in [disorders of] wind humour, blood, and bile humour.
Having tied fine powders of the three fruits in a corner of white linen cloth, // 83
steeped in goat's milk, woman's [milk], or water, it would dispel all pain.
Tree turmeric, turmeric, the three myrobalans, with musta, with sugar, combined with honey, // 84
as an eye drops combined with human milk, is declared foremost in dispelling bile humour, blood, and wind humour.
With young castor roots together with leaves, or with pastes of sixty-day rice, // 85
flooded with ghee, applied as a śāvaraka plaster according to the previous rule, it would dispel pain. // 86
Fomentations, puṭapākas, nasal medicines, satiations, ghee-drinks, pastes, and sprinklings—
the physician should prepare these with the substances prescribed for eye drops. // 87
Face pastes are declared beneficial for seasonal disorders, destroying freckles and dark pigmentation,
and also dispelling poison and swelling. // 88
Bamboo manna, sandalwood, and padmaka, gundrā, lotus stalk,
musta and bālaka,
root of kuśa grass, tagara, elavālu, tālīsa leaf, spikenard, and sesame seeds; // 89
lentils, dūrvā grass, māṣa, barley, lotus stalk, and juice of licorice and water lilies,
lichen, musta, agallochum, jhāmaka, sthauṇeyaka, cardamom, tagara, and sesame seeds; // 90
cassia bark, tejapatra, kuṣṭha, agallochum, jhāmaka, spikenard, hareṇu, and paripelava,
licorice, lodh tree, agallochum, sandalwood, punarnavā, black sesame seeds, and latā: // 90
thus with these half-forms