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Fol. 31: Bower manuscript \[The physician\] should frequently administer one pill to the child. / In cases of diarrhea in children, the physician should administer the pill // 1011 combined with rice water along with honey; / or combined with the juice of parūṣaka along with sugar and honey. // 1012 To a child who is vomiting, the physician should administer the pill / combined with the juice of guḍūcī together with sugar and honey; // 1013 or he should administer it with the clear water from a baked clod of earth / combined with sugar and honey; thereby he becomes comfortable. // 1014 In dysentery of children, the physician should administer the pill / with a decoction of the five barks, or with rice-gruel water, // 1015 combined with sugar and honey, or with the blood of a hare, / or with the blood of a blackbuck or deer mixed with honey. // 1016 In upward movement of wind in children, the physician should administer the pill / combined with jaggery water, or with juice of the three myrobalans. // 1017 In mucus diarrhea of children, the physician should administer the pill / combined with whey, or with tamarind juice. // 1018 In gravel, stone, urinary retention, and in one suffering from urinary disorder, / the physician should administer the pill with honey or with the clear supernatant of liquor. // 1019 The physician should administer it to children with well-prepared fermented liquor; / through this he obtains relief, as is the statement of Kāśyapa. // 1020 Thereby a worm residing in the belly is swiftly / expelled; in head diseases it pacifies, and vomiting is also relieved. // 1021 For one whose worm has entered the rectum, he should apply the pill as an ointment; / through this he obtains ease, as is the statement of Kāśyapa. // 1022 In unknown diseases, the physician should administer the pill / combined with warm water; it is a destroyer of all diseases. // 1023 Having carefully examined, the skilled physician should perform various procedures, / having assessed the strength and weakness of children, as well as the season and time. // 1024 The physician should apply the fivefold procedure to wet-nurses: / purgation, vomiting, and likewise unctuous enema. // 1025 In severe griping pain in children, the physician should administer the pill / combined with boar dung and with rice-washings; // 1026 the healer should make them drink it combined with sugar and honey; / having drunk it, he becomes comfortable, as is the statement of Kāśyapa. // 1027 In hiccup, asthma, and coughs, the physician should administer the pill / combined with citron or with fragrant sauvarcala salt. // 1028 To one troubled by worms, the physician should administer the pill / combined with pomegranate water, or with honey, or with the clear supernatant of liquor; // 1029 likewise head evacuations, linctuses, and seasonings; / and let this food be eaten: barley gruel, a light meal. // 1030 In jaundice and anemia, and likewise of swellings, / the physician should administer the pill combined with a decoction of pīlu. // 1031 In diphtheria, or dry palate, in goitre and uvular swelling, / he should give the pill powdered and rub it on the gums; // 1032 teeth erupt with ease and the edema subsides; / through this his diseases are pacified and he attains health. // 1033 In ringworm, skin disease, leukoderma, scabies, and eczema, / and in diseases located in the skin, the physician should administer the pill. // 1034 The powder of kampillaka and the powder of the pill / having ground with mustard oil, he should smear him with that; // 1035 he should be sprinkled with comfortably warm cow's urine, or with cutch-tree extract, / or with a decoction of neem; through this he becomes comfortable. // 1036 Whether it is the Chāyā or Pūtanā seizure, or whatever seizure from above, / having mixed the pill with goat's urine, he should administer it to him; // 1037 or he should smear it on when the pill is ground into a paste; / thus all his very severe seizures subside. // 1038 In flank pain of children, the physician should administer the pill / combined with horsegram soup, or combined with meat broth. // 1039 When the wet-nurse's body is purified, the severe humours subside; / strength and complexion quickly arise for the children. // 1040 Kāśyapa's pill. // If a child starts with fright or cries continually, / he should make him lick the three myrobalans together with long pepper, with honey and clarified butter. // 1041 On whose limbs, however, discolored circular patches are seen, / he should plaster him with the ten roots well ground and mixed with ghee; // 1042 and with pastes of punarnavā and likewise of liquorice, / and he should continually make him take showers with warm water. // 1043 If in a crying child there should be cough or also asthma, / born within ten days: soup of crab, // 1044 salt combined with long pepper, as well as snail shell. - [Previous: 31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.31) - [Next: 33.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.33.1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.32) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.32) · Pramāṇa