The Bower Manuscript 21.2

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,