The Bower Manuscript 17.2

17.2

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