The Bower Manuscript 20.593

20.593

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