[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Formularies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga) › [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt) › 17.2 # The Bower Manuscript 17.2 English (machine translation) 17.2 - **Language:** English ### [17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.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 - [Previous: 17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.17.1) - [Next: 17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.17.3) - [Up: 17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.17) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.17.2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.17.2) · Pramāṇa