The Bower Manuscript 17.1

17.1

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,