The Bower Manuscript 18

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II. Fol. 16: Bower manuscript
[... in a] mortar; / this, kept overnight, one should give with sugar. // 504
This decoction [destroys] wind [...]
[...] 10 verses. / Chebulic myrobalan, asafoetida, long pepper, ajowan, and sour lemon // 505
— taking these in parts equal to an akṣa, one should drink [...] // 506
[...] is considered pre-eminently digestive; / it is praised in heart disease, pain in the side, and wind abdominal lump, // 507
and when the wind [humours] are situated in the bowels [...] // 508
This nasal medication is recommended as destroying head diseases. // 509a
For headache, an application of kuṣṭha with ghee and with sandalwood, or also nata and blue lotus,
or liquorice, cardamom, red lotus and blue lotus, prapauṇḍarīka, deodar, and kuṣṭha // 510
— making these along with padmaka and coraka in equal parts — with ghee is an application for headache. [...] // 511
Or an excellent ghee prepared with jujube one should administer as nasal drops at the end of hemicrania, / and afterwards ghee as an after-drink [...] // 512
[...] and having eaten food with jaggery, he obtains [relief]. // 513a
Bilva-root and fruit indeed [should be used] in nasal therapy [...] // 514
[...] taking [...], the physician should cook that sesame oil; / then he should give it to him as nasal drops, destroying head diseases. // 515
[...] / he should administer as nasal drops again and again. // 516
A part of old sesame oil, and there should be the same amount of pāṭala, / [...] // 517
This forehead-plaster is recommended and celebrated as relieving headache. / [...] salt and ginger, and [...] // 518
[...] citraka and tinduka, / combining them with goat's urine, this plaster removes headache. // 519
[...] / and kaṇḍīra, root of arka, three myrobalans, and pungent mustard // 520
with cow's urine [...] / [...] with sky-water [rainwater]. // 521
Five recipes removing head diseases; 16 verses. / [...] / [...] and the fruits of kaṇṭakārī. // 522
Making this a fine powder, one should prepare the principal medicine. / Arising from eggplant, patola, the three pungents, horse gram, pigeon pea, and mung bean, // 523
a man, having drunk this soup, is freed from chronic catarrh. / Having well prepared groats with ghee in a pair of earthenware cups [...] // 524
[...] / Having burnt kaṇḍīra with fire, the wise man, taking that ash, / [applying it to] the edge of the teeth [...] // 525
[...] by part, toothache is pacified. / Cumin, ginger, and false black pepper [...] // 526
[...] / Daśamūla well ground, however, one should give with clarified butter. // 527
[...] in an iron vessel, fire [...] / [...] // 528
Nicula, white mustard, long pepper, and dry ginger, / alkali and salt: a gargle removing toothache. // 529
Somarājī [...] / [...] // 530
[...] ginger ground with fermented gruel by one who knows / makes an excellent gargle that removes toothache. // 531
[Recipes] that remove toothache [...] / [...] / [...] and one should cook clarified butter with these. // 532
An ear-filling must be performed with this for those suffering from earache. / In whistling in the ear and ringing in the ear, one should fill [the ear] with pungent oil. // 533
In ringing in the ear and deafness, one should apply the remedy stated for earache. / Long pepper, bilva-root, kuṣṭha, and liquorice, // 534
Indian spikenard, vyāghranakha, rodhra, small cardamom, and deodar / — with this paste one should cook one prastha measure of sesame oil over a gentle fire. // 535