The Bower Manuscript 20.584

20.584

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