The Bower Manuscript 17
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II. Fol. 15: Bower manuscript
Root of kāśa grass combined with honey, / with long pepper and with dried ginger, being licked, calms hiccup immediately. // 469
And one should inhale the smoke of cow-hair and horns, or the smoke of the best resin of sarja; smoke of kuśa grass thoroughly combined
with ghee, one obtains relief in hiccups. // 470
Powder made of Picrorhiza kurroa, or powders of yellow ochre,
combined with honey as the second [ingredient], destroys hiccup immediately even when continuously persistent. // 471
Well-ground puffed rice, marrow of jujube stones, and excellent collyrium born of mountain streams;
all these properly combined with honey, being licked, calm hiccup immediately. // 472
And there should be a pala of fine powder of rock salt,
and two palas of ghee;
it should be given for the relief of one afflicted with hiccup, and likewise when blood issues from the mouth. // 473
Five remedies for hiccup. Verses 15. {X}
Long pepper, emblic myrobalan, raisins, bamboo manna,
with sugar, puffed rice, ghee, and honey, is an electuary that wards off cough. // 474
Long pepper, sugar, raisins, with honey is an electuary;
or one should lick powder of chebulic myrobalan and long pepper mixed with honey. // 475
The three pungents, and also the three myrobalans,
padmaka, and Himalayan cedar,
rāsnā, balā, and viḍaṅga: one should cause them to be made into fine powders. // 476
And with sugar equal to the powder, one should have it licked with honey and clarified butter.
This electuary repels the five arisen coughs. // 477
Barley-alkali, viḍaṅga, asafoetida, bhārgī, dried ginger,
rock salt, long pepper, and rāsnā: one should powder equal parts of these. // 478
One should give this powder to drink with clarified butter; it wards off cough,
and it relieves dullness of digestion, bronchial asthma, and hiccup. // 479
A measure of raisins, indeed by count one hundred, ground with honey together with long peppers;
with this powder, along with sugar, in cases of cough,
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it is a superior, foremost electuary. // 480
Boiled with long pepper, Indian nightshade, and yellow-berried nightshade, cooked with milk,
with sugar, ghee, and honey, it is wholesome and removes consumptive cough. // 481
Bamboo manna, emblic myrobalan, raisins, puffed rice, long pepper, sugar; / raisins, crab's claw,
the three pungents, the three myrobalans, cumin, and leadwort; // 482
the three pungents, cedar, viḍaṅga, the three myrobalans, sugar, balā: / by those suffering from cough, these three half-verse recipes should be licked with ghee and honey. // 483 // {X}
Eight cough-destroying remedies. Verses 10. {X}
Twenty-five chebulic myrobalans, and as many palas of dantī,
and twenty-five of leadwort: one should boil down in a droṇa of water. // 484
One should put in strained jaggery equal to the dantī, and those chebulic myrobalans there; // 485
half a kuḍava of pure sesame oil, and four palas of trivṛt;
that water, reduced to a fourth part, being strained, one should place on the fire again,
and half a pala of powdered long pepper and dried ginger. // 486
That should be cooked like an electuary; when it has cooled, honey equal to the sesame oil,
and here should be portions of a karṣa of cinnamon, cardamom, patra, and nagkesar. // 487
Then, having licked a pala of the electuary and eaten one chebulic myrobalan,
being unctuous and healthy, he is purged easily of a prastha measure of the humours. // 488
Abdominal swelling, edema, piles, jaundice, loss of appetite,
heart disease, malabsorption syndrome, jaundice, intermittent fever, // 489
skin diseases, splenic disorders, nausea: these [all] are calmed when it is used;
and the procedure is safe, followed by boiled rice with meat juice. // 490 // {X}
The purgative named prasthavireka. Verses 5, quarters 1. {X}
Lodhra, ṣaḍī, root of puṣkara, cardamom, mūrvā, viḍaṅga, trivṛt, carom seed,
cavya, priyaṅgu, white water-lily, viśālā, chiretta, and Picrorhiza kurroa; // 491
having boiled karṣa-equal portions in a droṇa of water, strained when reduced to a fourth part of water,
having added a half-part of honey to the decoction, it should be kept for a fortnight in a ghee-vessel. // 492 // This madhvāsava
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destroys phlegm-bile urinary disorders quickly from the administration of two palas;
paleness of the body, piles, loss of appetite, malabsorption disorders, the humours, vitiligo, and diverse skin diseases. // 493 // {X}
The formula named madhvāsava. {X}
Liquorice, mustā, raisins, kāṣmarya,
parūṣaka, trāyamāṇā, vetiver, the three myrobalans, and Picrorhiza kurroa: // 494
having drunk this after standing overnight, a person is freed quickly from fever.
Long pepper, sugar, and honey,
mixed with ghee and cooked with milk: // 495
that 'five-essence' is to be drunk, dispelling fever, cough, and consumption. // {X}
Seeds of holarrhena, leaves of trichosanthes, Picrorhiza kurroa; // 496
trichosanthes, Indian sarsaparilla, mustā,
pāṭhā, and Picrorhiza kurroa;
neem, trichosanthes, the three myrobalans, raisins, mustā, and holarrhena; // 497
chiretta, guḍūcī, sandalwood, and dried ginger;
guḍūcī, emblic myrobalan, mustā: these ending in each half-verse // 498
five decoctions quickly calm five kinds of fever. // 499a
Neem leaf with trichosanthes and sandalwood, with nut grass, emblic myrobalan, and chebulic myrobalan,
prepared with water, with ghee and with sugar, calms fever gone to the three humours in men. // 500
The triad of sweets, two parts of the three myrobalans with pāṭhā, and parts of Indian madder and Indian sarsaparilla,
boiled in water, strained through a clean cloth, is a decoction calming all fevers. // 501
Sandalwood, lotus, […] mustā, Picrorhiza kurroa,
holarrhena and trāyamāṇā, raisins, wild parūṣaka, // 502
liquorice, śītapāka, liquorice-root and sugar,
and both jīvaka and ṛṣabhaka, as well as emblic myrobalans: // 503
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