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# The Bower Manuscript 19

English (machine translation) 19

- **Language:** English

### [19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.19)

II. Fol. 17: Bower manuscript  
One should administer the juice of radish roots combined with unctuous substance. / With that, one should apply a cotton pledget to the ear and perform enema therapy. // 536  
By that, severe earache is quickly pacified. / \[…\] // 537  
Sesame oil prepared with the alkali of long pepper relieves ear disease. / \[…\] // 538  
\[…\] relieves ear disease. / One should cook the fat of a cock and large black gram. // 539  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 540  
Throwing all together \[for\] days \[…\] / \[…\] // 541  
\[…\] / arjuna bark, jasmine oil, varaṇī \[…\] // 542  
\[…\] / the wise person should cook \[…\] // 543  
For seven nights \[…\] / \[…\] // 544  
\[…\] realgar, / kaṭphala, lotus stalk, and \[…\] // 545  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 546  
Turmeric, red ochre, honey, iron sulphate, and rock salt, / \[…\] // 547  
\[…\] / This sesame oil should be cooked: it is an excellent liniment for skin diseases. // 548  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 549  
\[…\] one should grind. / Washing with the scum of salt-soil water, it destroys ringworm and skin diseases. // 550  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 551  
This bael together with turmeric \[…\] / \[…\] // 552  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 553  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 554  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 555  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 556  
\[…\] and nutgrass \[…\] / \[…\] // 557  
\[…\] / one should eat \[…\] // 558  
\[…\] / and likewise \[…\] // 559  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 560  
\[…\] with \[…\] / \[…\] // 561  
\[…\] / \[…\] vatsaka // 562  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 563  
\[…\] / ground, skin disease \[…\] // 564  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 565  
\[…\] / fragrant nutgrass, lodhra, and \[…\] // 566  
\[…\] / \[…\] // 567  
Itching, urticaria, boils, and \[…\] / \[…\] // 568  
\[…\] / it destroys many \[…\] // 569  
\[…\] / \[…\]

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## Linked texts (1)

- [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.19) — Sanskrit

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