[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) › 13 # The Bower Manuscript 13 English (machine translation) 13 - **Language:** English ### [13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.13) and to women who desire offspring. // 324 // Radish sesame oil: six verses. One prastha of radish juice and one prastha of milk should be cooked; when it has turned to curd, it should be combined with a prastha of sesame oil. // 325 Liquorice, rāsnā, pāṭhā, jaggery, and ginger— having ground these with water, each in the measure of half a pala, // 326 and there should be a karṣa of salt; one should cook it slowly over a gentle fire. When this sesame oil is prepared, one should drink two palas before a meal. // 327 And the meal regimen should be followed: here it should be unctuous-free boiled rice with pulse broth. This medicine is prescribed for barren women to bring about the birth of a son. // 328 // Radish sesame oil: four verses. One hundred \[palas\] of sahacara with roots, leaves, and branches one should cook, finely crushed, in four droṇas of water. // 329 When one droṇa remains and it is strained, one should slowly cook an āḍhaka of sesame oil; and there should be a paste of ten palas of sahacara roots. // 330 Having strained it when it is pleasantly warm, one should add sugar to it: eighteen palas; and having stirred it thoroughly, one should set it aside. // 331 It is praised in enemas, in drinking, likewise in massage, and in nasal therapy: for monoplegia, hemiplegia, lockjaw, headache, // 332 facial paralysis, tremor, insanity, generalized stiffness of the limbs, fever, sciatica, internal abdominal swelling caused by wind humour, and for one whose mind is afflicted by spirits, // 333 epilepsy, tetanus, stiffness of the thighs, acute indigestion, goitre, glandular swellings, hydrocele, contraction of the hands and knees, // 334 loosening of the joints and articulations, trembling, and also emaciation. This sesame oil will pacify \[them\], just as the wind disperses clouds. // 335 If sugar is unavailable, one should cook it with milk. It was instituted by the Self-born one to destroy the host of diseases. // 336 // Sahacara sesame oil. One should cook a prastha of sesame oil made from husked sesame seeds; and here one should give a pala of liquorice and four times as much milk. // 337 When it has been cooked to a mild degree of cooking, one should cook it again; in this manner, one should cook a hundred \[palas\] of liquorice thoroughly. // 338 It is to be cooked a hundred times; one should store the hundredfold-cooked oil. It is praised for drinking and massage, and in enemas and nasal medication; // 339 and in food it is like nectar for men suffering from consumption, heart disease, dryness of the palate, abdominal swelling caused by bile humour, chronic prostration, // 340 thirst, mania, erysipelas, dyspnoea, cough, abnormal menstrual flow, \[…\] aggravated and spreading in all directions, moving upward. // 341 It suppresses jaundice, fever, and anaemia through drinking; likewise bile-induced inflammation, burning sensation, eruptions, and eczema. // 342 \[…\] and whatever various diseases there are of the Brahmins, they are calmed by this sesame oil, just as dust is at the arrival of rain. // 343 // Sesame oil called Liquorice. Having weighed out one hundred palas of roots of hayagandhā, in a vessel \[…\] should be cooked in four \[droṇas of water\]; when a fourth of the water remains, it should be strained. // 344 Liquorice, ginger, deodar cedar, asparagus, Indian madder, nalada, costus, the two varieties of karañja, along with varṣabhū, // 345 lotus root, dill, holy basil, rāsnā, payasyā, ṣaḍī, pushkarmool, sthirā, dravantī, and payasyā, // 346 stirring the decoction with all these, well ground, in the measure of a karṣa each, having added four times as much milk, one should cook an āḍhaka of sesame oil over a gentle fire. // 347 When prepared to a mild degree of cooking, it should be placed in a clean vessel. It is to be employed in drinking, massage, enemas, and in the method of saturation. // 348 Those who are dull, mute, lame, stammering, suffering from thigh stiffness or facial paralysis, devoid of memory, injured on one side, crippled, with dislocated or crushed joints and bones, stumbling, // 349 those whose semen is depleted or harmed, those rendered impotent by jealousy, and those seized with lockjaw. // 350a // Aśvagandhā sesame oil. Half a tulā of roots of aśvagandhā, broken into pieces, should be cooked in a droṇa of water until reduced to an eighth part. // 351 Having added an āḍhaka of sesame oil, one should give four times as much milk; it should be cooked in a cauldron, and one should add these pastes: // 352 cardamom, dill, costus, tiger's claw, cinnamon bark, liquorice, ginger, deodar cedar, balā, sthirā, // 353 rāsnā, pushkarmool, bhūtikya, along with punarnavā, Indian madder, nalada, patra, dravantī, holy basil, sweet flag, // 354 gokshura, lotus root, payasyā, and bahuputrikā. Having added these in equal parts of an akṣa measure as the paste, one should cook it. // 355 When it is ready and not separated, one should then take it down \[from the fire\]. In drinking, enemas, massage, nasal treatment, and food, // 356 in whatever diseases it is to be given, listen to them as I declare them: for men who are lame, mute, and in cases of thigh stiffness and facial paralysis, // 357 those deprived of a side, crippled, with dislocated and fractured bones and joints; this is for those broken by wind humour and whose bodily elements are destroyed; // 358 in lockjaw, in crippling, in urinary disorders, and those stricken by wind humour; for those broken by wind humour, the dejected, and likewise those whose senses are impaired; // 359 and men whose semen is lost, and those men who are impotent through jealousy— - [Previous: 12.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.12.p6) - [Next: 14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.14) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.13) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.13) · Pramāṇa