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With equal parts of ṣaḍī, puṣkara, jīvantī, coraka, aguru, and dry ginger, / long pepper, musta, surasā, cinnamon, cardamom, and udīcya, // 27 and powder of tāmalakī; the sugar should be eight times as much as that. / It dispels asthma, cough, and fever, and destroys pain in the sides and heart. // 28 \[Formula\] named Ṣaḍyādika powder. Asafoetida, three pungents, pāṭhā, havuṣā, abhayā, ṣaḍī, / ajamodā, ajagandhā, tintiḍīka, amblavetasa, // 29 pomegranate, puṣkara, coriander, cumin, citraka, sweet flag, / the two alkalis, the two salts, and cavya—these one should powder together. // 30 This powder should be administered with food and drink harmlessly; / or it should be drunk before meals, with food or with hot water, // 31 for pains in the sides, heart, and bladder, in abdominal lump prominent in wind and phlegm humours, / in disorders of the duodenum and piles, in spleen \[disease\], jaundice, \[and\] anorexia, // 32 in abdominal distension, dysuria, and pains in the female genitals and anus, / in chest constriction, cough, hiccup, asthma, and throat obstruction. // 33 Or this powder, macerated many times with the juice of citron, / should be made into pills of one karṣa weight or even more. // 34 \[Formula\] named citron pills. Three pungents, tiktakarohiṇī, barley, chirata, and indrayava— / these should be in equal parts, but citraka should be double, and bark of kuṭaja sixteen parts. // 35 A man should drink half a pala \[of this\], ground very fine, combined with cool water, together with jaggery, / \[for\] fever, urinary disorder, edemas, anorexia, abnormal menses, abdominal lump, and also anemia; // 36 and whatever other diseases arise accompanied by bile and phlegm humours in intensely afflicted men, / this powder, when administered, conquers them all; favoured by Ātreya, this excellent \[powder\] called Laguḍa. // 37 \[Formula\] named Laguḍa powder. Three parts of three myrobalans, three parts of three pungents, / \[one part each\] of citraka, mustā, and viḍaṅga, and there should be nine parts of iron \[powder\]. // 38 This Navāyasa powder dispels anemia and edema. // 39a Rāsnā, along with sauvarcala salt, bhadramustā, soot from the house, three pungents, / barley alkali, and ṣaḍī—equal parts, made into a powder, should be prepared. // 40 Soother of throat diseases. Rasāñjana, dāruharidrā bark, and likewise tejavatī along with long pepper— / a wise person should take equal, weighed parts, grind them with water, and store them as pills. // 41 It pacifies \[disorders of\] blood, inflammation of the mouth, throat obstruction, and throat phlegmon. // 42 Pill that cures mouth diseases. One kuḍava measure of three myrobalans, and one kuḍava measure of long pepper, / and two kuḍava measures composed of viḍaṅga and black pepper combined, // 43 and one pala measure each of dantī and citraka, / one pala measure of granthika, \[that is\] pippalī root, and one pala measure of kuṣṭha, // 44 and two pala measures of dry ginger \[…\]; / and those \[substances\] to be ground, half a pala measure each, understand them: // 45 rāsnā, balā, gokṣuraka, liquorice, and devadāru, / sweet flag, prativiṣā, pāṭhā, musta, kaṭukarohiṇī, // 46 kaṭphala, the two śārivās, the two śyāmās, bhallātaka, / punarnavā, tejavatī, cinnamon, patra, śatāvarī, // 47 nicula, trivṛt, bhārgī, and the fruit and bark of kuṭaja. / One should make this store of medicinal herbs into a fine powder. // 48 Whatever the amount of this powder may be, the iron powder should be twice as much. / Combined together properly, one should make \[the patient\] lick it fluid with honey; // 49 and one should follow with milk, properly taken, subsisting on milk without solid food. / This, known as the Ayorajīya, is a perfected rejuvenator. // 50 By use for a year, one lives a hundred years; / by \[consuming\] the substances for a month, a person would live a hundred autumns. // 51 It slays severe edema as Indra's thunderbolt does a tree, / anemia, also piles, sluggish digestive fire, and worms, // 52 fistula-in-ano, jaundice, skin diseases, abdominal enlargements, / spleen \[disease\], abdominal lumps, epilepsy, pains, and cutting pain in the rectum. // 53 For whichever disorder this Ayorajī is employed, / it indeed slays them at once, as the thunderbolt does the enemies of the gods. // 54 The accompanying intake should be parched grain flour mixed with honey. - [Previous: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.2) - [Next: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.4) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.3) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.3) · Pramāṇa