The Bower Manuscript 21

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21.1

[…] with greens; with vīrā, liquorice, madder, vetasa, and lotus stamens // 610
With jīvanīya [drugs], palāśa, […], ground with ghee, water, and milk, an application or sprinkling is commended // 611
Trivṛt, the three myrobalans, neem, […] / pīlu, and dried ginger: this decoction boiled down, taken with jaggery, destroys erysipelas and fever // 612
One should drink Mahātikta clarified butter, and also the Tiktaka powder; ghee prepared with these very [drugs] cures irregular fever // 613
Treatment of erysipelas: five ślokas, one quarter-verse.
One afflicted with fever should drink the decoction starting with kāmalā-pāṇḍu-[…]; or turmeric with cow's urine, or pomegranate rind in either case // 614
One should boil a prastha measure each of long pepper and grapes with a droṇa of emblic myrobalan juice; [add] fifty [palas] of sugar, liquorice, dry ginger, bark, kṣīrī, and kaṭphala // 615
When cooled, combined with a prastha measure of honey, one should drink half a pala measure thereof. One with jaundice or anemia may also employ long pepper // 616
Or a milk enema beginning with mustā, a diet of barley and game meat, honey, iron dust [compounds], and whatever procedure is [prescribed] for bile-fever should be observed // 617
In the Nāvanītaka, the fourth chapter, on miscellaneous recipes. / Hereafter I shall declare [a remedy] promoting strength and complexion, by which the flesh increases and strength is generated // 618
Twenty-five pala measures of the roots of aśvagandhā, having cut them into small pieces and placed them in a pot, one should boil // 619
Knowing that one-fourth part remains, one should take it down; and having strained that liquid, one should pour it into a sturdy vessel // 620
In that decoction, the intelligent [physician] should mix the medicinal herbs: all the jīvanīya drugs and powdered sugar // 621
A prasṛta measure each of honey and clarified butter, powdered long pepper, and having made it slightly salted, the physician should stir it with a churning-stick // 622

21.2

Pouring it into a leak-free enema bladder, he should administer the enema therapy: with one, two, or even three measures according to standard // 623
When this non-unctuous enema has returned, sprinkling with lukewarm water [is done]; then cooked red rice with honey and clarified butter // 624
He should eat with milk or with the meat-broth of wild animals. / The Aśvins' aśvagandhā enema: seven ślokas, one quarter-verse. / And one should give an unctuous enema with clarified butter prepared with liquorice // 625
Or clarified butter boiled with jīvanīya [drugs] should serve as an unctuous enema; by this the muscles increase and wasting is allayed // 626
The aśvagandhā enema: one śloka, one quarter-verse. / Rāsnā, agnimantha, and pāṭalī, syonāka, kāśmarya, and nidigdhikā, together with rājavṛkṣa, / together with sālaparṇī, pṛśniparṇī, and bṛhatī one should provide // 627
All these roots should be present, and likewise root of castor; two pala measures of each should be the quantity here, and one should boil a decoction in a droṇa measure of water // 628
When this decoction is reduced to one-fourth, he should throw in finely ground pastes of kuṣṭha, of liquorice, and likewise of yellow mustard // 629
[…] one should add a paste of liquorice; it gives health, lustre, digestive fire, youth, strength, and life, and even in the aged gives virility // 630
In wind [humour] […], pleasing to the heart, in loss of appetite, in sterile women, in severe chronic [conditions] // 631
In urinary disorder, itching, lesions, disorders of the female genital organs, in anemia, hemorrhoids, and disorders of the duodenum // 632a
The rāsnā-etc. enema: five ślokas and a quarter-verse. […] the self-possessed royal seer,

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Suprabha, here in āryā metres: / Learn from me that habuṣā enema, most pleasant to take // 633
A prasṛta, a prasṛta, a prastha, a prastha, half a pala, and in measure a prastha: of habuṣā, vakṣaṇā, yavakṣāra, water, and rock salt combined // 634
This should be prepared until the water is completely reduced, having removed the salt; when cooked and strained, [re-]salted, one should churn it with clarified butter // 635
For delicate men of advanced age and those with hardened feces, this pleasantly warm enema should be administered all at once // 636
To be taken at the proper time like food, easily borne with no [strict] regimen required here; it also increases lustre, digestive fire, semen, strength, virility, and life. / The habuṣā enema: five ślokas. / Equal parts of honey and sesame oil, and equal to them warm water; a karṣa measure of dill and half a karṣa of rock salt // 638
This exceptional enema is an appetizer, a rejuvenator, / nourishing and strengthening; it is known as the Yavana [enema] // 639
Women, feasting, riding, exercise, cold water: after this enema has been administered, one may indulge in these as one pleases. // 640
The honey, oil, and water enema: three ślokas. / In place of oil one should give ghee; in place of water there should be milk; the rest is the same as before; that enema accomplishes all // 641
Equal amounts of honey and sesame oil, and rāsnā should be equal to them; there should be a karṣa measure of dill, and likewise of long pepper // 642
And a paste of liquorice, and half a karṣa of the best salt; this rejuvenating enema gives strength, nourishes, and kindles the digestive fire // 643
It is harmless, rejuvenating, aphrodisiac, bringing virility and strength;

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It cures hard stool, dysuria, abdominal tumours, urinary disorders, hemorrhoids, and intestinal obstructions // 644
The oil-etc. enema: four ślokas. / Having wrapped fresh stalks of silk-cotton with fresh kuśa grass, and coated them with black clay, one should steam them over a cow-dung fire // 645
Knowing the clay to be dried, taking the silk-cotton stalks, putting them in a mortar, one should crush them in boiled milk // 646
Making a lump the size of a fist, unctuous with measured amounts of sesame oil and clarified butter, combined with paste of liquorice // 647
One should administer it as an enema to one whose body is anointed; and when it has returned // 648a

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