The Bower Manuscript 20

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20.574

II. Fol. 18: Bower manuscript
subsides without doubt. // 570
One should anoint sidhma skin blemishes with sesame oil [cooked with] alkali of plantain. / This […] is observed, and apāmārga also is prescribed by the treatises. // 571
[…] / and with the blood of a hare. // 572
Castor, tagara, costus, leadwort, five urines, / root of āṭarūṣaka, calamus, and likewise liquorice, // 573
prapunnāṭa, viḍaṅga, rock salt, paripelava, / […] milky juice of snuhī: [this is] a great remedy for sidhma skin blemishes. // 574

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Formulations for sidhma leprosy, 6 verses.
One should boil milk with jaggery and drink it lukewarm according to inclination; / this was considered by the Aśvins to be an immediate remedy for urinary retention. // 575
One should also have [the patient] drink raisins and sugar with whey; / it is declared to be an immediate remedy for urinary retention. // 576
One should grind an akṣa measure of seeds of cucumber; / having drunk it mixed with sour [gruel] and salt, one is freed from urinary retention. // 577
An akṣa measure of twice-ground saffron, ground with raisin juice / and left to stand for one night, having drunk it, one is freed from urinary retention. // 578
One should administer finely ground iron dust along with honey; / this was considered by the Aśvins to be an immediate remedy for urinary retention. // 579
One should take caraway, asafoetida, holy basil, / fragrant swamp mallow, rasāñjana, / roots of plumbago, and trāyamāṇā; // 580
one should administer equal parts of these along with honey: / flank pain and dysuria—all are pacified by this. // 581
Seven formulations destroying dysuria.
In cases of dysuria, the need for water should always be met by a decoction / of the roots of śara, kāśa, sugar-cane, darbha grass, gokṣura, and vīraṇa; // 582
or one should drink safflower blossoms, / or rice-water liquid with honey, / or one should give a milk enema as prescribed, and apply fomentations. // 583
Nine formulations destroying dysuria.
When blood comes from the nose, an avapīḍa nasal errhine is praised, / made with the fresh juices of grapes, sugar-cane, and dūrvā grass, along with conch shell, red ochre, and sandalwood. // 584

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For a swollen [patient], one should give boiled radish with water and buttermilk; / or he should eat chebulic myrobalan with equal jaggery, or jaggery and dry ginger. // 585
Punarnavā, deodar, aged dry ginger: / for the purpose of removing edema, one should drink [these] with milk for three days. // 586
Chebulic myrobalans, deodar, fresh ginger, and punarnavā / one should drink with cow's urine; once it is digested, having bathed, one should eat with milk. // 587
Three palas of chebulic myrobalans, three palas of three pungents, / karṣa-measured portions of honey and sesame oil, and half a tulā of jaggery is added: // 588
one should eat these Agastyan sweetmeat-balls after a meal / for the pacification of swelling, hemorrhoids, disorders of the duodenum, cough, and upward movement of wind. // 589
Equal portions of the three myrobalans, mustā, and viḍaṅga, / […] iron dust equal [to the rest]: he should lick it with honey and clarified butter, // 590
and drink milk after it; once it is digested, he should take food only with milk; / or he should drink urine or milk twice [the quantity], measuring a kuḍava. // 591
Or he should drink the three pungents together / with cow's urine, or a purgative. / Barley foods, wild animals, rum, and warm fomentations destroy swelling. // 592
In vomiting, one afflicted by morbid thirst and burning should drink with rice-water: / pomegranate, madhuka, rodhra, banyan shoots, sugar, and honey; // 593

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or in vomiting, he should lick with honey: jujube marrow, añjana, sugar, / grains of long pepper, parched grain, and fly excrement in equal parts; // 594
or mango stone water and powder destroys morbid thirst, vomiting, and diarrhea. / Shoots of wild lemon and jambu, / sugar, and honey: // 595
he should lick [these] in vomiting, or drink the cold water of these crushed. / He should eat parched grain combined with honey, or chebulic myrobalan with honey; // 596
he should eat wood-apple with the three pungents, and drink mung-bean split soup; / or in vomiting he should drink sandalwood paste with the juices of emblic myrobalan. // 597
Formulations for vomiting: 14 verses.
In morbid thirst, he should drink [an infusion] of red rice grains with water lily and añjana, / baked clay lumps, honey, grapes, dates, and parūṣaka, // 598
steeped in water and chilled; and sugar-water and milk. / Sugar, viḍaṅga, madhuka, long peppers, with emblic myrobalan and rock salt; // 599
clarified butter, honey, chebulic myrobalan, and sesame oil: the parts should be equal in measure; / sixteen parts of barley groats: he should drink that refreshing drink with water. // 600
It destroys morbid thirst, phantom tumors, fever, and hemorrhoids, is an aphrodisiac, and kindles the duodenum. / Cold ointments, and cold, / wild, and sweet meat juices [are wholesome]; // 601
he should anoint the head with emblic myrobalan, pomegranate, vṛkṣāmla, and wild lemon. // 602a
Formulations pacifying morbid thirst.
Having boiled a decoction of deodar, the three myrobalans, together with mustā, a patient with urinary disorder should drink it; / or he should drink turmeric combined with honey in the juice of emblic myrobalan fruits. // 603
In all urinary disorders, he should drink turmeric with the juices of emblic myrobalan; / or he should drink a honey-sweetened refreshing drink with barley steeped in cow's urine. // 604
Preparations of barley food, rum, wild meat, the three myrobalans, honey, / astringent, bitter, and pungent applications destroy urinary disorders. // 605
Decoctions made of turmeric, neem, darbha grass, fresh ginger, kīrakākubhī, and cavya; / and of kuṣṭha, śyāmā, ekaiṣikā, pāṭhā, and cardamom are for those with phlegm-induced urinary disorders. // 606
In bile-induced [disorders], sallakī, licorice, emblic myrobalan, gokṣura, and khadira; / urines, kaṭabhī, milk, buttermilk, sesame oil, and asava wines are beneficial. // 607
Or in all urinary disorders, he should lick bitter powder with honey.
Formulations for pacifying urinary disorders, […] verses.
In erysipelas, one should know that bloodletting is beneficial at the very outset; // 608
purgation, vomiting, astringent arrest with cold remedies, reliance on bitters, / and anointing with lentils or chickpeas ground with milk. // 609
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