The Bower Manuscript 16

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Nourishing, sweet, cool, and unctuous food and drink are recommended; / and in cough caused by chest injury, one should apply the remedies prescribed for bile humour. // 431
Liquorice, long pepper, grape, lac, karkaṭaśṛṅgī, śatāvarī, / four times as much bamboo manna, / and twice the total amount of white sugar // 432
— one should lick this with honey and clarified butter to relieve cough caused by chest injury. / Or one should drink lac mixed with equal parts of sugar in milk. // 433
One should relieve cough born of consumption, according to the humour, by eating meat, milk, and ghee, / with diets consisting mostly of nourishing foods, and one must not administer purges. // 434
Long pepper, padmaka, grape, [and] ripe bṛhatī fruit: / an electuary combined with ghee and honey destroys cough born of consumption. // 435
The ten roots, ātmaguptā, cardamom, long pepper root, leadwort, / gajapippalī, apāmārga, śaṅkhapuṣpī, ṣaḍī, balā, // 436
and pauṣkara, two pala measures of each, one should cook with an āḍhaka of barley / in a droṇa of water; when the barley is steamed, [strain] that decoction, [and add] a hundred chebulic myrobalans, // 437
one tulā of jaggery, one kuḍava measure of ghee and sesame oil, / and one kuḍava measure of long peppers; and when the electuary has cooled down, // 438
one adds a kuḍava measure of honey and keeps it in a ghee vessel. / One should lick this electuary according to one's strength, / and then eat two chebulic myrobalans. // 439
This removes all coughs, especially that born of consumption. / For those suffering from asthma and hiccup, one should apply sweating after they are well anointed, // 440
with horse-gram, sesame, black gram, sour gruel, ghee, sesame oil, meat, and rice, / with juices of peacock, francolin, and fowl, accompanied by the three pungents and pomegranate, // 441
with asafoetida, black salt, raisins, citron juice, and fresh ginger, / combined with horse-gram, pomegranate, cumin, and dried radish. // 442
One should feed unctuous and warm foods of barley, wheat, and rice. / A decoction of horse-gram, barley, jujube fruit, water, / and water prepared with the ten roots and balā, // 443
one should prepare for drinking, to dispel cough, asthma, and hiccup. / With ṣaḍī, puṣkara, jīvantī, mustā, dry ginger, and coraka, // 444
with long pepper, tāmalakī, holy basil, cardamom, and aguru bark, / adding an equal part of bālaka, and eight times as much sugar: // 445
one should lick [this] with honey and clarified butter to relieve hiccup and asthma. / Dates, long pepper, grapes, and an equal part of sugar // 446
— an electuary combined with honey and clarified butter dispels asthma and hiccup. / […] preparations of rice and wheat, // 447
with cool meat juices of wilderness animals mixed with raisins and sugar, / or with boiled and cooled milk, accompanied by ghee and sugar candy. // 448
One should drink cold grape juice, or water of sugar and emblic myrobalans, / or raisins, puṣkaramūla, tree turmeric, and sugar-cane according to one's desire. // 449
Combined with grape, emblic myrobalan, date, long pepper, and black pepper, / this indeed cures cough of bile humour; one should lick it with honey and clarified butter. // 450
Date, long pepper, grape, sugar, [and] parched grain in equal parts: / an electuary combined with honey and clarified butter / is supreme in curing cough of bile humour. // 451
Ghee prepared with the decoction and paste of vāsā, together with honey and sugar, / is efficacious in destroying cough of bile humour and dispels all disorders of bile humour. // 452
Having crushed the sprouts of milky trees, one cooks them in four times as much milk; / ghee prepared with grape paste is to be licked: that cures cough of bile humour. // 453
With sixteen water vessels, sixteen pala measures of raisins, / eight pala measures of liquorice, and half a tulā of goat meat, // 454
boil down until a fourth of the water remains, take down the cooled and strained decoction, / and add milk equal to the decoction, and a prastha measure of fresh clarified butter; // 455
taking parts equal to an akṣa of ṛṣabhaka, jīvaka, medā, / vidārī, vīkā, ātmaguptā, / bhavya, walnut, nikocaka, śṛṅgāṭaka, and lotus seeds, // 456
one should cook it over a gentle fire; when it is properly prepared, one should add eight pala measures of white sugar, // 457
eight pala measures of honey, and four pala measures of long pepper powder, / along with equal parts of barley meal. This is called / the ghee honored by the lord of Janaka. // 458
In emaciation, chest injury, diminished semen, in delightful conditions, in diseases of bile humour, / and for those desirous of women, this ghee should be given: it is aphrodisiac and strength-giving. // 459
Grape, liquorice, date, vidārī, together with śatāvarī, / parūṣaka fruits, and the three myrobalans, each measured as one pala, // 460
one should cook in an āḍhaka of water until a fourth remains; adding emblic myrobalan juice, / ghee, sugar-cane juice, milk, and a fourth part of paste of chebulic myrobalan, // 461
one should cook that ghee; when prepared, a fourth part of sugar and honey is added. / By its use, it destroys cough of bile humour and dispels all disorders of bile humour. // 462
In cough born of phlegm humour, emesis [comes] first, and also fasting; / dishes made of barley and pungent and bitter vegetable soups are recommended. // 463
One should drink hot water, or mature liquor mixed with honey; / one should resort to exercise and medicinal smoking, and dry, hot foods. // 464
The physician should cause the patient to drink mustard oil, or safflower oil, / or one prepared with the five pungents in cough of phlegm humour. // 465
With the three pungents, puṣkara, raisins, the three myrobalans, ṣaḍī, and leadwort, / an electuary combined with honey and sesame oil destroys cough born of phlegm humour. // 466
The three pungents, the three myrobalans, deodar, viḍaṅga, padmaka, balā, / and rāsnā, all should be in equal parts, with sugar, honey, and clarified butter: // 467
one should have him lick that prepared powder which destroys cough of phlegm humour. / The three pungents, the three myrobalans […] // 468