286 - Collection of medical recipes

 Dhanvantari said: 

1. Ishall describe the recipes of medicines that would conquer death, confer longevity and cure diseases. The three myrobalans and amrutä together with honey and clarified butter would cure disease and would make one live for three hundred years. 

2. (One who uses) one pala, half a pala or a karsha (a measure of weight) (would enjoy) the full span (of life). One who uses the oil of bilva as sternutatory for a month (would live) for five hundred years and (would become) a poet. 

3-4. (The use of) sesamum and bhallataka would overcome disease, premature death and senility. One would overcome leprosy by (using) a decoction of five parts of powdered vākuchi with the waters of khadira for six months. (Otherwise) powder of nilakurunta may be used (for the same). One who eats khandadugdha together with milk or honey (would live for) a hundred years. 

5. One who uses a pala (weight) of honey, clarified butter and dried ginger in the morning would conquer death. One who drinks milk with the powder of måndaki would overcome old age and live long. 

6. One who drinks milk with a karsha of uccháta and honey would conquer death. One would overcome disease and death (by using) nirgundi together with honey, clarified butter or milk. 

7. Oneshould drink a karshaka of the oil of palasa together with honey for six months. Milk may be drunk afterwards. This would make one live for five hundred or a thousand (years). 

8-9a. Oneshould drink the juice of the leaf of jyotishmati and the three myrobalans together with milk. Similarly a pala (weight) of the pulverised satāvari together with honey and clarified butter or nirgundi with honey, clarified butter and milk would overcome disease and death. 

9b-10. Five parts of pulverised neem boiled with the decoction of khadira (used) with a karsha (weight) of the juice of bhrunga would make one overcome disease and become immortal. One who drinks milk after taking rudanti with clarified butter and honey would conquer death. 

11. Oneshould take a karsha (weight) of the powder of yellow myrobalan boiled with the juice of bhrungarāja together with ghee (or) honey. He would live for three hundred years and conquer disease. 

12-14. (One would live) for five hundred years (by using) a karsha (weight of) värähikā, juice of bhrunga, oxide of iron, Šatavari together with clarified butter. Powdered kārta (gold filings) and Satavari boiled with (the juice of) bhrungarāja (used with) honey and clarified butter would make one live for three hundred years. Mango, amruta, trivrut in equal proportion (and) sulphur purified with the juice of kumärikä (are made into pills). (One who uses) two (such) pills together with clarified butter would live for five hundred years. A pala (weight) of ashvagandhā used with oil, clarified butter and treacle would make one (live for) a hundred years. 

15. Drinking a pala (weight) of pulverised punarnava or ashoka together with honey, clarified butter and milk would remove one's ailment. 

16. One who uses the sesamum oil with honey as sternutatory will live for a hundred years (retaining) the black hue of the hair. One would live for a hundred years by drinking a karsha (weight) of aksha together with honey, clarified butter and milk. 

17. After taking mustard with treacle, ghee and sweet things etc., one who eats rice mixed with milk would have black hair, be free from disease and live for five hundred years. 

18. One who drinks a pala (weight) of pulverised küshmändikā together with honey, clarified butter and milk and eats rice mixed with milk for a month would live for a thousand years without any disease. 

19. The powder of salūka together with the juice of bhrunga, honey and clarified butter would make one live for a hunderd years. A karsha (weight) of the oil of katutumbi (used) as a sternutatory would make one live for two hundred years. 

20. The use of the three myrobalans, long pepper and dried ginger would make one live for three hundred years. If the same is compounded withshatavari it would make one strong and live for one thousand years. 

21-24. Pillsshould be made with chitraka, dried ginger, vidanga, iron oxide, bhrungarāja, valā, the five kinds of neem, khadira, nirgundi, kantakari and vasaka boiled with varshabhu or its juice. This powder together with ghee or honey or treacle or water is an excellent compound. Itshould be consecrated with the formula "Om hrüm sa". It would be a recipe for reviving the dead and overcoming disease and death. The collections of recipes were made use of by the celestials, demons and sages. (Ishall describe) the science of medicine relating to the elephants (that) was narrated by (sage) Palakäpya to the king Anga.