The Bower Manuscript 24.2

24.2

is prescribed.
This rejuvenating tonic destroys even pulmonary consumption (yakṣman) that has arisen with complications
and has all eleven forms, and life is constantly increased. // 756
This very procedure should also apply to the rejuvenating tonic of liquorice,
and is likewise stated for maṇḍūkaparṇī and for fresh ginger.
This is declared as an unsurpassed rejuvenating tonic bringing strength. // 757–758
Application of nāgabalā: 6 verses.
In the auspicious month of Mārgaśīrṣa, having purified himself with emetics and the like,
[the patient] should make use of black nightshade (kākamācī) possessing fruits and flowers. // 759
Attentively, a physician should slowly cook ten pala measures of cleaned black nightshade
in an iron vessel with half [that measure] of sesame oil. // 760
He should administer a dose of it and feed [him] with ṣaṣṭika grain;
he should eat ṣaṣṭika rice in appropriate measure along with that cooked vegetable. // 761
And here he should drink water infused with emblic myrobalans as an after-drink.
This supreme course lasts for twenty-one nights; // 762
the middling is two seven-night periods (fourteen days), and another lasts seven nights.
He should practice this regimen and avoid sexual intercourse. // 763
He should not take day-sleep, and should avoid physical exercise;
and gradually, at the end of the course, he should reintroduce the tastes (rasa). // 764
He should not eat out of due time, nor anything unwholesome in any way.
This generally brings back youth to the aged; // 765
it destroys wrinkles; it turns away wind that has departed [from balance] in living beings;
and for those whose virility is impaired, it purifies their virility. // 766
Combined with manifold auspicious deeds free from irregularities,
being taken as desired, it will gradually produce success. // 767
It brings fortune, brings fame, brings longevity, and is a supreme blessing and auspiciousness.
Application of kācamācī.