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Fol. 12: Bower manuscript \[For those whose minds\] are struck down by malevolent spirits, and afflicted by concurrent \[humours\]; // 360 in irregular fever, blood-gulma, abscesses, and sciatica; in splenic enlargement, in wind-gulma, and likewise \[…\]; // 361 and women whose wombs are impaired, \[…\] women who do not conceive a child when the fertile time arrives; // 362 one whose labor is arrested, likewise a barren woman, and women whose vaginas are afflicted—plainly the barren woman will conceive a child having bathed after her period, there is no doubt. // 363 At the fertile seasons of women, when they have just bathed, he should administer \[it\]. For this produces strength and complexion, and is supreme at generating intelligence; // 364 and it generates memory, is nourishing, and of great virtue; a destroyer of all diseases and a promoter of growth in children. // 365 This medicament, resembling ambrosia, should be applied in four ways. // Aśvagandhā-oil, 15 verses, 1 quarter. // Now I shall declare the oil called Śvadaṃṣṭrā-vātanirjaya; // 366 hear from me according to which procedure and recipe \[it is prepared\] for men. Nabhas and Nabhasya are two months, the best of seasons, // 367 when diverse herbs grow upon the surface of the earth, thriving and rained upon when the rain-cloud showers in season. // 368 When the earth has borne her crops, one should then harvest the medicinal herbs: when devoid of flowers and fruits, free from disease, born in a good field, auspicious. // 369 Having gathered it at an auspicious hour on a good day, taking pure \[substance\] in a pure \[state\], having crushed it in a mortar, // 370 one should then strain the juice through a cloth to the measured amount of an āḍhaka measure; and a prastha measure of sesame oil should be added, and one should add four times as much milk; // 371 and eight pala measures of jaggery, and six pala measures of ginger. When cooked, he should place it in a clean, very pure vessel. // 372 He should drink a dose of it at the proper time, and milk \[…\]; \[…\] he should eat jaggery mixed with ginger. // 373 And when the unctuous substance has been digested, he should eat ṣaṣṭika-rice with boiled milk. Now hear from me as I declare those diseases which it will pacify: // 374 excited \[…\] \[…\]. This oil is highly praised for those afflicted with the wind humour; // 375 named 'Ajita' (the Unconquered), it increases health and strength for mortals. This \[…\] the wind humour pervading the whole body // 376 and \[…\] of those who move about, he should relieve; tremblings and tremors, and likewise sciatica; // 377 in fistula-in-ano, kuṣṭha, gulma, and in epilepsy; and likewise this \[is beneficial\] for the vaginal disorders of young women; // 378 \[…\] gods. // 379a // Śvadaṃṣṭrā-oil, 12 verses. // Cook a kuḍava measure of sesame oil with twice as much juice of emblic myrobalans, \[and with\] equal karṣa parts of \[…\] // 380 liquorice, prapuṇḍarīka, fresh blue water lilies, long pepper, and sandalwood: that oil he should always administer into the nose with his two fingers. // 381 \[…\] cures disease arising in the head; it makes even an old man's head black \[haired\] after one year. // 382 // Nasal oil that cures diseases of the head. // Jīvantī, liquorice, medā, long pepper, madana, sweet flag, // 383 ṛddhi, rāsnā, balā, bael, dill, and śatāvarī—having ground \[these\], cook clarified butter and sesame oil together in milk and water. One should know this unctuous enema as a dispeller of fever. // 384 When the path is cleansed, the humour removed, and the bodily tissues purified, with bodily pain gone and limbs light, he immediately becomes fever-free. // 385 // Fever-dispelling unctuous enema oil, 3 verses. // Long pepper, liquorice, bael, dill, madana, sweet flag, // 386 kuṣṭha, ṣaḍī, puṣkarāhvā, plumbago, and deodar—having ground \[these\], sesame oil should be cooked with twice as much milk. That is the best unctuous enema for piles and baffled wind humour; // 387 prolapse of the rectum, colic, dysuria, dysentery, weakness of the loins, thighs, and back, constipation localized in the groin, // 388 mucous discharge, swelling in the rectum, retention of flatus and feces, and frequent urge \[to stool\]: that unctuous enema cures \[these\]. // 389 Unctuous enema oil, 4 verses. // One should prepare five prastha measures of radish juice and four of curd; there should be three kuḍava measures of fermented gruel and likewise three of sesame oil; // 390 four pala measures of rock salt and eight of fresh ginger; if fresh is unavailable, dry should be used, \[which\] should be sixteen pala measures. // 391 This pacifies sciatica, stiffness of the thighs, and khallī-cramps of the wind humour, and all loin diseases; and those wind disorders \[are conquered\] by drinking it. // 392 Vāta-dispelling oil, 3 verses. // Liquorice, prapauṇḍarīka, bṛhatī, rock salt, sprouted pigeon pea, unripened fruits of bael, hareṇu, the two curcumas, and long pepper should be given as the tenth. // 393 // With these in measures equal to an akṣa \[…\] - [Previous: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.13) - [Next: 15.407](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.15.407) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.14) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.14) · Pramāṇa