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Fol. 4: Bower manuscript \[or\] with curd-whey. // 82 Cough, asthma, long-standing anemia, severe splenic enlargement, colic, severe abdominal swelling, hiccup, heart disease, sluggishness, spitting, diarrhea with undigested matter, and gulma accompanied by pain, // 83 choleraic diarrhea, sluggish digestion, weak digestive fire, dysentery, burning in the rectum, \[and complications\] of hemorrhoids— these it properly alleviates, being the most supreme \[remedy\] here in this world, especially when administered indeed with warm water. // 84 {X} The Aśvin Citron-Pill, 5 verses. {X} Of pāṭhā, kalinga seeds, yavā, mustā, and rohīṇī, shares together with ativiṣā one should make in dharaṇa measures; one should add haridrā equal to the fourth dharaṇa, and then drink this powder with cow's urine. // 85 It destroys the thirty-six types of dermatosis in the body, and eradicates the places of seven severe wasting conditions; and when practiced for a month, it eliminates gulma in a person who consumes all kinds of food and is devoted to ghee and meat. // 86 {X} The Aśvin Powder for Gulma. {X} Pippalī along with viḍa salt and alkali, and likewise natron, ginger together with black pepper, and rock salt, // 87 then yavānī, dantī, trivṛt, and vatsaka, and sauvarcala salt, cumin, and the three myrobalans should be added here. // 88 One should make all equal parts into a fine powder; this powder formulation will be superior when well infused with cow's urine. // 89 To a person whose body has been unctuated and who has had an unctuous meal, one should administer only the measure of a cat's footprint with warm water. // 90 Then, when that has been fully digested, whenever he should become thirsty, with the smell of ghee, free of alkali, with pomegranate juice indeed, // 91 the best physician should give him to drink, and then he becomes comfortable. Then, when that \[juice\] has been fully digested, whenever he should desire food, // 92 then well-steamed, soft boiled red rice he should cause him to eat with the meat juices of arid animals, prepared with distinct sour and salty \[tastes\]. // 93 In choleraic diarrhea, in hemorrhoids, and whatever diverse disorders \[there may be\], and in bad food and indigestion, and likewise in anemia, and likewise in wind-gulma, and in those who suffer from digestive-tract disorders, a person using this formulation attains well-being. // 95 {O} The Māgadha Powder. Both kinds of turmeric, black pepper, lotus, kuṣṭha together with pippalī, cotton-plant root, māṃsī, and svarjikā alkali as the eighth. // 96 These equal parts one should grind on a stone; one should make a pill of the size of a jujube-stone and dry it in the shade. // 97 Then one should administer one pill with warm water; \[…\] are pacified, listen to those varieties of disease: // 98 indigestion, upward movement of wind, dysuria, throat-spasm, abdominal swelling, and wind-gulma, and whatever spider-poison there may be. // 99 It destroys all chronic latent poison, \[…\] scorpion sting, paralyzed wind, epilepsy, barrenness and a man who is impotent, // 100 demonic possession, madness, and women whose fetus is obstructed; as a drink and an ointment for the purposes of fang and root poisons. // 101 {O} The Aśvin Haridrā Powder, 6 verses. {O} Ṣaḍī, vacā, tāmalakī, pippalī, and ginger; having fried jaggery with ghee, the physician should make a pill. // 102 Chest-injury, catarrh, pain in the flanks, heart, and abdomen, and severe dry cough: everything one can cure with this. // 103 Pill with Jaggery, 2 verses. {O} Two hundred \[grains\] of black pepper should be taken, and one hundred of māgadhī pippalī, and a pala measure of sugar, and fine ginger should be the principal \[ingredient\]. // 104 There should be a karṣa measure of tamarind, a clean karṣa measure of pomegranate, and a karṣa measure of jujube; a karṣa measure of cinnamon should be added, and half a karṣa measure of cumin, // 105 a karṣa measure of hog-plum, half a karṣa measure of picked coriander, and with a karṣa measure of sauvarcala salt: the powder-ariṣṭa is supremely proven. // 106 This alleviates hemorrhoids at their roots and enkindles the digestive tract that has waned; it destroys heart disease and anemia, \[and\] cough along with asthma. // 107 {O} The Powder-Ariṣṭa. The powder formulations in the Nāvanītaka are completed. {X} The first chapter is completed. This rasāyana resembling the juice of ambrosia, which increases the strength of men, an excellent ghee named Amṛtaprāśa, I shall proclaim: // 108 A prastha measure of emblic myrobalan juice, and likewise there should be a prastha measure of kṣīravidārī, and indeed a prastha measure of sugarcane juice, and in the same way of the milk of a cow with her first calf. // 109 One should also add a full prastha measure of autumn ghee here; and these medicinal herbs, well ground, should be added in \[prescribed\] measure: // 110 ṛṣabhaka, ṛddhi, licorice, vidārigandhā, and payasyā, sahadevā, anantā, madhūlikā, and viśvadevā, // 111 the two medās, ṛṣyaprokta, śatāvarī, mudgaparṇī and māṣaparṇī, śrāvaṇī, then ātmaguptā, and vīrā, in parts of half a pala measure; // 112 raisins, dates, and also jujubes one should make measured to a kuḍava measure; and of walnuts, tinduka fruits, and nikocaka nuts, half that share. // 113 - [Previous: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.5) - [Next: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.7) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.6) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.6) · Pramāṇa