The Bower Manuscript 33.2

33.2

Lac, turmeric, madder, long pepper, and devadāru— // 1059
made into powders with clarified butter, this removes cough. / And for a child afflicted with morbid thirst, with a wretched face, withering away, // 1060
one should administer gavādanī and pomegranate with water. / Having ground a paste of priyaṅgu and bhadramustā, // 1061
one should give it combined with rice-water and mixed with honey. / Rice-grains parched, and bhadramustā [...] // 1062
having crushed the four in a new earthen pot, / he who is afflicted by morbid thirst and vomiting should drink that clear [liquid] mixed with honey. // 1063
And he should drink honey-water or indeed [...] / Aśvagandhā, sarja resin, barley powder, and curd, // 1064
mixed with honey and clarified butter, one should not smear upon the head. / Destroying burning sensation, morbid thirst, and vomiting, and curing all diseases, // 1065
this formulation, ice-cold, is to be applied. / For one on whose body pustules and severe burning sensation are observed, // 1066
one should treat him with bitter, sweet, and cooling decoctions. / Then powder of parpaṭaka, uśīra, and yellow earth— // 1067
having taken equal amounts of all, an ointment made from them ground together is beneficial. / Saugandhika, sugar, and filaments of white water-lily, // 1068
sandalwood, and madder: one should make an ointment for the child. / Sugar-water, oyster-shell, conch, lawn grass, and water-reed— // 1069
one should make this ointment, which destroys pustules. / In stomatitis, one should smear [the mouth] with raisins mixed with honey; // 1070
and one should cleanse his mouth with rasāñjana and honey. / For a child who refuses the mother's breast because of stomatitis, // 1071
one should rub him [in the mouth] with sprouts of jasmine together with honey. / One should prepare a charcoal-ash of śara-reed stalk with this paste; // 1072
knowing the mouth to be purified, one should rub it with clarified butter. / Then flowers of dhātakī, sallakī, and jiṅgiṇī, // 1073