285 - The accomplished recipes that would revive the dead

 Dhanvnantari said: 

1.    Ishall describe to you the infallible recipes that would revive the dead. They were expounded to me by (the sage) Atreya. They are divine and are capable of curing all diseases.

 Atreya said : 

2. A decoction of the five roots, such as those of bilva, (is an excellent remedy) for fever due to (deranged) wind. Otherwise (a decoction of) the root of long pepper, gudüchi and dry ginger is purifying. 

3-4. (A decoction of the herbs) emblic myrobalan, mustard, black pepper and vahni would cure all fevers. Bilva, agnimantha, syonāka, Kašmari, pāțalā, sthira, trikanțaka, prśniparņi, bruhati and kantakārikā are remedies for fever, indigestion, pain on the sides (of the body) and cough. The root of kuśha (grass) (should also be added to this). 

5. Guduchi, parpați, musta, kiráta and dry gingershould be given in fever due to (deranged) wind and bile. This is known as pañchabhadra (the five beneficial things). 

6. A decoction made of trivrt, visāla, katuka, the three myrobalans and dragvadha is a purifier, loosens the bowels and has to be drunk to get relief from all fevers: 

7. Devadāru, bala, vása, the three myrobalans, vyosha, padmaka, and vidanga with an equal proportion of candied sugar made into a powder would conquer five kinds of cough. 

8-9. Dasamuli, sati, räsna, long pepper, bilva, paushkara, srungita, emblic myrobalan, bharungi gudūchi, någavalli and barley compounded well and a decoction prepared from thatshould be drunk. It would remedy cough, diarrhoea, (pain) on the sides, hiccough and difficult breathing. 

10. The three kinds of salts (as well as) madhuka together with honey, long pepper together with sugar, and någara together with treacle would remove hiccough. 

11. Käravya, jaji, pepper, grapes, hog-plum, pomegranate, natrum, treacle and honey would remedy all kinds of loss of appetite. 

12. Oneshould be made to drink the juice of srungavera (ginger) together with honey. It would remedy loss of appetite, difficult breathing and cough. It would also remedy catarrh and excess of phlegm. 

13. (The root of) banyan, śrungi, red earth, (the bark of) lodhra, pomegranate, madhuka and honeyshould be taken with the scum. It would remove thirst and arrest vomitting. 

14. Gudūchi, vasaka, lodhra and long pepper together with honey would remedy fever accompanied by thirst, cough and expectoration of phlegm together with blood. 

15. Likewise the juice of vāsaka, the juice of tâmraja mixed with honey, and pepper infused in the juice of the sirisha flower would also be beneficial. 

16. (The pulse called) masūra removes all kinds of pain. (The washings) of rice would remove excess of bile. Nirgundi, säriva, selu and ankola would remove poisons. 

17. Dry ginger, amrutā, kshudra, pushkara and granthika made into powdershould be taken with decoction of long pepper when one suffers unconsciousness and intoxication. 

18. Asafoetida, natrum and vyosha (dry ginger) and pepper (each weighing) two palas, an adhaka (a measure) of ghee soaked in four parts of cow's urine would remedy’insanity. 

19.shankha flower, vacha and kushtha soaked in the juice of brahmi destroys long-standing epilepsy and insanity. It is also excellent for improving memory. 

20-25a. The ghee made up of the five products got from a cow has also similar effects. The same with mustard is a remedy for leprosy. Snake-gourd, the three myrobalans, neem, gudüchi, dhāvani, vrusha and karanja boiled with ghee destroys leprosy and is known as vajraka (potent remedy). Neem, snake gourd, vyāghri, guduchi and vasakashould be taken ten palas each and pounded well. (The mixture)should then be heated in water vessel (with water) till it is reduced to one fourth (of its original volume). Itshould then be soaked in one prastha (a measure) ghee and boiled with the three myrobalans. This ghee is known as pañchatiktaka (five bitter things). This ghee is capable of curing leprosy. This excellent recipe would cure eighty varieties of diseases due to (deranged) wind, forty (diseases) due to (deranged) bile, twenty (diseases) due to (deranged) phlegm as well as cough, catarrh, piles, wounds and other diseases just as the sun (would remove) darkness. 

25b-26a. Oneshould sprinkle a wound with the decoction of the three myrobalans and the juice of bhrungarāja for the cure of the venereal disease. 

26b-28a. The powder of the leaves of snake-gourd and the five particles of the skin of pomegranateshould be pounded with gaja (a variety of pepper) and the powder of the three kinds of myrobalans. Oil boiled with the three myrobalans, grains of iron, yashti, mārkava, blue lotus, pepper and rock-salt would remedy vomitting when used for bathing. 

28b-29a. Oil boiled with milk, juice of märkava, two prasthas each of madhuka and utpala made into one gudava (a measure), if used as sternutatory would arrest greying of hair. 

29b-30. The two compounds-neem, snake-gourd, the three kinds of myrobalans, gudūchi, khadira and vrusha as well as bhūnimba, pathā, the three kinds of myrabolans, guduchi and red sandal would remedy fever, leprosy, tumour and the like. 

31. A decoction prepared from snake-gourd, amruta, bhūnimba, vasa, arishtaka, parpața and bark of khadira would appease the fever due to tumour. 

32. The daśhamuli, chinnaruha, mustard, daru, punarnavå, sigru and dry ginger are beneficial for(remedying) fevers, abscess and swelling. 

33-34. Besmearing with (a paste of) madhuka and neem leaves would clean the wounds. A decoction of the three myrobalans and the leaves of khadira, darvi, nyagrodha, atibala, kusha (grass), neem, and mülaka are beneficial in cleaning (wounds). The juice of karañja, arishta and nirgundi would destroy the parasites of wounds. 

35. Besmearing with a paste (made up) of dhataki, sandal, balā, manga, madhuka, blue lotus, dārvi and meda mixed with clarified butter would heal a wound. 

36. Guggulu, the three myrobalans, dry ginger, pepper and long pepper in equal proportions mixed with ghee would heal wounds due to affected arteries and painful fistula. 

37. The yellow myrobalan boiled in cow's urine with oil and saltshould be used every morning. It would remove excess of phlegm and wind. 

38. A decoction of dry ginger, pepper, long pepper and the three myrobalansshould be drunk with alkali and salt as a purgative in (deranged) phlegm and wind. It arrests the increase of phlegm. 

39. The decoction of long pepper, the root of long pepper, vachā, chitraka and dry gingershould be drunk to remedying constipation. 

40. Oneshould drink the great remedy--rásná, gudüchi, root of castor and devadāru in case of rheumatism (that affects) all the limbs, joints, bones and marrow. 

41-43. Otherwise one may drink a decoction of daśhamüla together with dry ginger and water. By the use of a decoction of dry ginger and gokshuraka every morning one would get back digestive power that has been impaired and would get relief from rheumatic pain in the hip. The oil extracted from the roots, leaves and branches of prasäriņi, an extracted juice or paste or powder or decoction of gudúchi would relieve one from acute gout when used for a long time. 

44-45a. Long pepper and castor-oil may þe used. One would conquer quickly acute gout accompanied by burning sensation by drinking snake-gourd, the three varieties of myrobalans, tivrakatuka and amruta boiled with mustard or treacle. 

45b-46. Rheumatic pain would be relieved at once by (drinking) guggulu in warm water or drinking gudüchi with the three myrobalans in water together with bala, punarnava, castor seed, the two kinds of bruhati, gokshura, asafoetida and salt. 

47-50a. A kārshika (a measure of weight) each of the root of long pepper, the five kinds of salts, long pepper, chitraka, dry ginger, the three varieties of myrobalans, trivrt, vacha, two sorts of alkali, šādvala, danti, svarņakshiri and vishānika (should be ground well) and kola (a measure of weight) measure of pillshould be drunk with jujube. (This would remedy) swelling. It is an excellent remedy with trivrut for indigestion and enlargement of the abdomen etc. Milk together with daru, varshábhu and dry ginger would be excellent for removing swelling. Sprinkling with a decoction of arka, varshābhū and bhūnimba would remove swelling. 

50b-51. Piles would go without any doubt if the clarified butter boiled with three parts of ashes of dry ginger, pepper and long pepper mixed with palasha dissolved in water is used. Visvakshena, lotus flower and nirgundi boiled with salt would also have similar results. 

52-53a. Oil (prepared) with vidanga, anala, rock-salt, räsna, agrakshāra and dāru boiled with four times water saturated with a pungent material would remove inflammation of the glands of the neck and would remedy goitre if used as an unguent. 

53b-54a. Decoction of Sați, kunaga and valaya together with the juice of kshira boiled with the paste of payasyä, long pepper and väså would be beneficial for consumption. 

54b-55. (A compound of) vachā, vid, mustard, dry ginger, asafoetida, kushtha, agni dipyaka (mixed in the proportion of) two, three, six, four, one, seven parts and a fiftieth part respectively, if drunk would destroy tumours in the abdomen, (abdominal) colic and coughs. 

56. Pills made of patha, nikumbha, pepper, dry ginger, long pepper, the three kinds of myrobalans and agni boiled with cow's urine would remedy abdominal tumour, spleen and the like. 

57. Vāsā, margosa, snake-gourd and the three myrobalans would destroy (deranged) wind and bile. Powdered vidanga if licked with honey would destroy worms. 

58-59a. The yellow myrobalan together with vidanga, rock salt, kshara (alkaline salt) and cow's urine (will also produce the same effect). The barks of sallaki, jujube, rose apple, piyala, mango and arjuna (trees) soaked in honey and taken with milk separately would arrest haemorrhage. 

59b-60a. Equal proportions of the juice of bilva, mango (bark), dhataki, päthā, dry ginger and mochå when taken with treacle or butter-milk would arrest severe dysentery. 

60b-61a. The drinking of a decoction of angeri, kola, curd water, dry ginger and kshára (an alkaline salt) together with ghee would remove pain due to inflammation of anus. 

61b-62a. Vidanga, ativishā, musta, daru, patha and kalinga (taken) together with black pepper would cure dysentery (accompanied by) swelling (of the limbs). 

62b-63. One would live for a hundred years happily by eating two yellow myrobalans (everyday) together with sugar, rock-salt and dry ginger or long pepper, honey and treacle. The same would be the result of taking the three kinds of myrobalans and long pepper together with honey and clarified butter. 

64. Oneshould lick powdered emblic myrobalan soaked in (the juice of) the same with honey, clarified butter and sugar and drink milk if desirous of enjoying women. 

63-66. Powdered black gram, long pepper,shāli (a variety of rice), barley and wheat in equal proportionshould be fried with long pepper. Oneshould eat them and drink sweet milk with sugar. (Such a person) would gain strength to enjoy women ten times like a sparrow. 

67. Manga, dhätakl flower, lodhra and blue lotusshould be given to women together with milk. It would remedy pradara (a disease) of women. 

68-69a. (A mixture of) bija, kaurantaka, madhuka, white sandal, the roots of lotus and blue lotus, sugar and sesamum is excellent for arresting miscarriage and causing pregnancy. 

69b-70. An unguent of depadāru, nabha, kushtha, nalada and dry ginger mixed with sour gruel and oil would remedy headache. If rock salt mixed with water is poured (into the ear) after gently heating and filtering through a cloth, it would remove ear-ache. 

71. The juice of garlic, ginger, sigru or plantain (may be taken) separately. One may drink them with (the mixture of) bala,shatāvari, räsna and amrua together with sairiyaka (?). 

72-74a. Clarified butter together with the three myrobalans is an excellent remedy against blindness. Oneshould drink ghee boiled with the three myrobalans, dry ginger, pepper, long pepper and rock-salt. It would strengthen eyesight, loosen bowels, strengthen heart, stimulate digestion and remedy cold. The filament of blue lotus together with cowdung and water is (known as) collyrium. It would be beneficial for day or night blindness. 

74b-77. Yashtimadhu, vachā, long pepper and seeds of kutaja made into a paste mixed with a decoction of neem is a good emetic. Glossy and greasy barley watershould be given as a purgative. If it is (used) otherwise it would impair the digestion, make the body heavy and cause loss of appetite. A pulverised (compound of) mustard, rock-salt and long peppershould be drunk with warm water. This is an excellent purgative that would remedy all diseases. This is known as näráca (destructive). The infallible compositions that have been expounded by Atreya to the sages are capable of curing all diseases and are declared by Sušruta as conferring all boons.