The Bower Manuscript 21.1

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