The Bower Manuscript 17.3

17.3

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