The Bower Manuscript 20.p4

20.p4

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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