Chapter CCIV - Various other medicinal Recipes (continued)

Hari said:—The expressed juice of betel leaf, clarifìd butter,, honey, salt and milk rubbed in a copper vessel relieve aching pain in the eyes. Vibhitaka seeds, Haritalam, and Manah-Shila pasted together with goat’s milk remove all kinds of occular affections. A collyrium made of Malati flowers applied to the eves instantaneously cures the form of eye-disease known as Pushpanasha. A lambative consisting of Haritaki, Vacha, Kushtham, Hingu and Manahshila pasted together with clarified butter and taken through the medium of honey proves efficacious in cough, hic-cough and asthma. A pulverised compound of Pippali and Triphala taken with honey relieves cough, catarrh and acute bronchitis and asthma. O thou bull-ensigned deity, Pippali powders, and the ashes of Chitrakam burnt with its roots, taken with honey, proves curative in asthma, cough, and hic-cough. The expressed juice of Nilotpalam taken with sugar, or Madhukam and Padma taken in equal parts and administered through the vehicle of rice-washings, arrests hæmorrhage (lit affections of blood). Shunthi powders taken with sugar and honey instantaneously make one’s voice sweet and clear. A compound of Haritalam, and conch-shell powders, and the ashes of the plantain bark pasted together with water acts as a good hair-dilapidator. Rock-salt, Haritalam, and powdered Tumbi-fruit pasted together with the solution of Laksha forms a good hair-dilapidator. Take Sudha, Haritalam, ashes of conch-shells, Manah-shila and rock-salt, pound them together and reduce them to the consistency of a paste with the addition of goat’s urine. The paste thus prepared acts as an instantaneous hair-dilapidator. Paste powders of conch-shells, Amalakam, Patram and Dhataki flowers together with milk. A week’s keeping of this compound in the mouth imparts a pearly lustre and whiteness to one’s teeth.