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The Bower Manuscript 33.6

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33.6

one should boil darbha root, uśīra, and sorrel in clear water;
combined with sugar and honey, it is an excellent alleviator of morbid thirst. // 1111
Blue water-lilies, emblic myrobalan, priyaṅgu, and śārivā:
with these ground, for children […] // 1112
Seeds of pomegranate, sandalwood, filaments of lotus,
long pepper, sugar, and honey: this electuary destroys morbid thirst. // 1113
Having gathered bark and young shoots of the latex-bearing trees,
[…] one should place them in a new pot in an open space. // 1114
With śārivā, uśīra, nāgapuṣpa,
with sandalwood, mixed with padmaka and kālā,
having stirred it with petals of blue water-lily […] and // 1115
Having had his limbs sprinkled with these astringent decoctions, he should drink it combined with quail broth,
properly cooled with sugar, for the child, always avoiding salt and sour tastes. // 1116
Cool poultices, […], and cool rooms,
wet-nurses wearing cool and damp upper cloths, and cool meat-broths soothe morbid thirst. // 1117
And this regimen is prescribed to remove morbid thirst, and likewise it destroys bile fever and burning sensation.
Mūrvā […] should be applied here. // 1118
Asafoetida, karkaṭaśṛṅgī, red ochre, black pepper, dry ginger, cardamom:
this, combined with honey, in cough and hiccup […] // 1119

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