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PUBLISHERS' NOTE

Patent drugs were heavily guarded by trade secrets; and the "Grandmother's• remedies" were denied the wings of publicity. The Common Man, the Poor Man, had access to neither. Therefore, he had to pay a heavy penalty in the form of money (if he purchased the costly patent drugs) or of his own life, often, if he could not afford the expenditure.

From the very early days of his service to humanity, as a doctor, Sri S'.' Swami Sivananda (then Dr. Kuppuswami) had a burning passion to make available to all, the trade secrets of the few. As the Editor of "Ambrosia" in those days, he would publish cheap house-hold remedies, easy, simple and cheap remedies for common ailments; and thus brought healing to all.

After renouncing the world, embracing Sannyasa and rising by the acquisition of Self-knowledge to be a World Teacher, Swami Sivanandaji has revealed the humanitarian trait in all fields of knowledge—all secrets he has revealed, and he has placed within the reach of all the highest truths of Yoga and Vedanta. Never has he neglected to take the human body into account; and his books on health and healing are as popular as his works on Yoga and Vedanta. The present one bringing, as it does, health and healing to the very kitchen of every man, would, we are certain, be welcomed by all.

—THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

PRAYERS

Repeat the following two Slokas before taking any medicine; and the medicine will acquire the healing power of the Lord's Grace.

शरीरे जर्जरीभूते व्याधिग्रस्ते कलेवरे !

औषध जाह्नवी तोयं वैद्यो नारायणो हरिः !!

Sareere Jarjareebhute Vyaadhigraste Kalevare;

Aushadam Jahnavi Toyam Vaidyo Narayano Harih

When the body is in the grip of disease and old age, Ganga-water is the medicine and Lord Narayana, the doctor.

अच्युतानंतागोविन्दानामोच्चारणभेषजात; I

नश्यन्ति सकलारोग: सत्यं सत्यं वदाम्यहम् II

Achyutananta Govinda Namochchaarana Bheshajaat;

Nasyanti Sakalaa Rogaah Satyam Satyam Vadaamyaham.

I declare this as a great truth: by the great remedy of repeating "Achyuta, Ananta and Govinda" all dis-eases perish.

MANTRA FOR GOOD DIGESTION

After taking food, move the palms of the hand on the stomach and repeat the Mantra given below:

अगस्त्यम कुम्भकर्णं च शनिं च बडवनलाम

भोजन पचनार्थाय स्मरेधीमैच्ये पंचमं

Agastyam Kumbhaharnamcha

Sanimcha Badavanalam;

Bhojanam Pachanarthaya

Smaremchadbheema Panchamam.

One should well remember for the purpose of digesting the food the following five persons: Agastya, Kumbhakarna, Shani, Badavanala and Bhima.

VEDANTIC FORMULA FOR HEALTH

Anamayoham Advaitoham

I am diseaseless and non-dual Brahman.

Deho Naham, Jeevo Na-aham

Pratyag-abhinna Brahmaivaaham.

I am not this body; this body is not mine.

I am all-pervading Brahman.

I am Avinasi Brahman

I am indestructible Atman

I am deathless Brahman

I am Anamaya Atman

I am diseaseless Atman

Soham Sivoham

Satchidananda Svarupoham

I am Existence-Knowledge-Bliss

HOME REMEDIES CHEST

(Chief drugs used. Readymade packets to be kept)

(Vide chapter II)

1. AJOWAN

2. AMLA

3. BLACK PEPPER

4. BLACK SUGAR (Purana Gud)

5. BORAX

6. CAMPHOR

7. CARDAMOM

8. COMMON SALT

9. FRESH GINGER

10. COW'S GHEE

11. HING (Asafoetida)

12. HONEY

13. HARAD

14. JIRA (Cumin seeds)

15. LONG PEPPER

16. LEMON

17. COW'S MILK

18. MUSTARD OIL

19. NEEM

20. SUGAR

21. SUGARCANDY

22. SENDHA NIMAK (Rock Salt)

23. SONTH (Dried Ginger)

24. SONF (Anise)

25. TURMERIC

26. TULASI

INTRODUCTION

Everyone should possess an elementary knowledge of the "Bazaar Drugs." Even an elementary knowledge of the "Bazaar. Drugs" will go a long way in alleviating human suffering and saving valuable lives. All cannot afford to pay the doctor's bill and purchase costly patent medicines. The results achieved by "Chamberlains Cough Remedy" or "Venos Lightning Cough Cure" can be very easily obtained by a decoction of the vegetable Ladies Finger at the cost of a few cents, or a lozenge made out of black pepper, sugarcandy, liquorice and honey.

Nothing can equal the 'Bazaar Drugs' in helping the layman to become his own doctor. The recipes given herein are very cheap preparations from the pecuniary viewpoint; but they are the most efficacious ones from the health-point. What one hopes to get by spending very many rupees from the bottled goods available with Chemists and Druggists, one can easily get more than that by mixing a few articles commonly used in the kitchen and that too within a short time.

This book, a portion of which originally appeared in the journal 'Health and Long Life' published by the Divine Life Society, supplies a handy list of over two hundred very useful, practical, potent prescriptions made out of the articles which are commonly used in the kitchen. They are very good prescriptions for any illness—from a slight headache to severe typhoid.

The digestive powders and drinks can be used by all daily. Other recipes can be kept ready in stock for emergency use. Long keeping of these preparations will not spoil them. The appendix to the book will give you a list of more commonly used articles in this book. You can maintain a home ready box containing those precious ones. Even if you don't keep them, they are readily available with your provision stores. A few rupees will give you the best cure if intelligently spent in these recipes.

In places where there are no dispensaries, "Bazaar Drugs" will come to your help, and guide you like an able Family Physician.

Prakriti or Mother Nature has been very, very kind and beneficent. She has placed valuable potent herbs and plants at your backyard, immediate neighbourhood and garden. Make use of these herbs and be healthy and strong.

Equip your household, domestic, medicine chest with preparations like dysentery powder, diarrhoea pow-der, cough lozenges, constipation powder, pills, etc. Your whole family will be immensely benefited.

Rural dispensaries can give you a great deal of medical relief at a very little cost, if "Household Remedies" or Bazaar medicines are intelligently, judiciously and largely used.

In the Medical Schools and Colleges in India, Europe and America, the students should get a knowledge of Indian plants, herbs and drugs during their course of study of Matcria Medica. There is great potency or potentiality in Indian herbs and plants. Many plants have very great therapeutic value.

Many Ayurvedic Pharmacies are already manufacturing a variety of valuable preparations out of Indian herbs and plants. Still big manufacturing and pharmaceutic chemists are needed in India and the whole world at large who can make and standardise preparations and put them on the market.

Free India should start now many Ayurvedic laboratories in different parts of India to manufacture various Ayurvedic preparations and send them to different parts of the world and should have Ayurvedic conquest. Ayurveda will surely have triumph over other systems of medicine as the preparations are very potent, cheap and produce lasting effect and permanent cure.

A doctor should have a very large Vedantic heart and broad tolerance. He should see good in every system of medicine. He should welcome the good from each system and utilise it in the treatment of his patients. Every individual has a peculiar temperament. Allopathic drug that suits one temperament will not be suitable to another person. Homeopathy suits X, Allopathy suits Y and Ayurveda suits Z. And as such a synthetic doctor can do more good to the patients by taking recourse to different systems. Every doctor should have a synthetic knowledge of all systems. Every doctor should have a perfect knowledge of the Indian plants and herbs and the Household Remedies or Indian Bazaar drugs.

In olden times Indian grandmothers had good knowledge of Household Remedies. They were good family physicians.

People have forgotten the intrinsic health value of these remedies. The grandma at the house has proved her-self worthy of veneration by rearing the young ones on a healthy diet and sane health-principles— periodical purgatives with a decoction made of rose petals, ginger (dried), Munakka (grapes), Tippili, etc., twice-a-week oil baths at tended by Svarasams, Omum water for daily drinking with some digestive Choornas for taking just after meals and very good digestive, liver-toning powders for mixing with rice along with our meal. These kept the people from dis-eases and made them ever-active and ever-energetic.

Today with the onslaught of Mayaic civilisation, conditions have totally changed. The grandma is no more regarded as your well-wisher and home-physician. No one listens to her advice when she says take this for headache or take that for indigestion, so on and so forth. People flock to the modern medical stores under the impression that ginger and pepper are good only to taste but have no medicinal properties. They shun these well-wishers. `Sweet-meats available at the bazaar do taste sweeter than the home-made ones', is a child's fancy. 'The neighbour's property is always tempting', is the law of the world that is deluded by Maya. So too, injection tubes and tablets arc more attractive than the homely drug-foods!

Present-day Indian women also should possess a knowledge of the herbs and plants. Then they can attend well to the health of their families.

It is hoped that this handy book will be of great help to the householders, rural doctors and the general practitioners as well.

Glory to the Ayurvedic Rishis of India like Charaka, Sushruta, Dhanvantri and others!

CONTENTS

Chapter I

DIVINE HEALING

1. THE NAME OF THE LORD

The Name of the Lord is a sovereign specific, a sheet anchor, an infallible panacea and a cure-all for all diseases including Adivyadhi, the disease of birth and death. It is an ideal or supreme 'pick-me-up' in gloom and despair, in depression and sorrow, in the daily battle of life or the struggle for existence.

There is a mysterious power in the Name of the Lord. All the divine potencies are hidden in the Lord's Name. It is a cream or the quintessence of Chyavanaprash, Makaradhvaja, Svarna Bhasma and of all patent medicines and injection tubes available in the market.

You can take this medicine of Nama Japa yourself for curing any disease. Be one rich or poor, high or low, one can always take to Namopathy wherever and in whatever condition one may be. You can administer this medicine to other patients too in your house or else-where. Sit by the side of the patient and sing the Mahamantra, or chant the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra or Om Namah Sivaya or Om Namo Narayanaya. Do this treatment for two hours daily in the morning and evening. You will find the miraculous effect within a short period.

The real doctor is Lord Narayana. Lord Dhanvantari, the Physician of the three worlds (who ex-pounded the Ayurvedic system of medicine), has him-self declared, "By the medicine of the repetition of Achyuta, Ananta, Govinda, all diseases are cured.... this is my definite and honest declaration."

2. MAHAMRITYUNJAYA MANTRA

ॐ त्रयम्बकं यजामहे सुगंधिम पुष्टिवर्धनम

उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात.

Om trayambakam yajaamahe sugandhim pushti vardhanam,

Urvaarukamiva bandhanaan mrityormuksheeya maamritaat.

Meaning

We worship the three-eyed One (Lord Siva), who is fragrant and who nourishes well all beings. May He liberate us from death for the sake of Immortality even as the cucumber is severed from its bondage (of the creeper?)

This Mahamrityunjaya Mantra is a life-giving Mantra. In these days, when life is very complex, accidents are an every-day affair, this Mantra wards off deaths by snakebite, lightning, motor accidents, fire accidents, cycle accidents, water accidents, air accidents and accidents of all descriptions. Besides, it has a great curative effect. Again diseases pronounced incurable by doctors are cured by this Mantra, when chanted with sincerity, faith and devotion. It is a weapon against all diseases. It is a Mantra to conquer death.

It is also a Moksha Mantra. It is Lord Siva's Mantra. It bestows long life (Dirgha Ayush), peace (Santi), wealth (Aisvarya), prosperity (Pushti), satisfaction (Tushti) and immortality (Moksha).

On your birthday, repeat one lakh or at least 50,000 of this Mantra, perform Havan and feed Sadhus, the poor and the sick. This will bestow on you life, peace and prosperity.

3. MAHAMANTRA

हरे राम हरे राम, राम राम हरे हरे;

हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण, कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे।

Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare;

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare."

The Glory of Mahamantra in which the Name of the Lord is repeated sixteen times is beyond all human conception. In the Kali-Santarana-Upanishad, to a question put by Sage Narada, Brahma, the Creator, replies: "Hearken that which the Srutis keep as a hidden secret, by which one may cross the Samsara in Kali Yuga, the Iron Age. One can shake of evil effects of Kali through the mere uttering of the Name of Lord Narayana.... The sixteen names destroy, doubtless, the evil effects of Kali, removes the veil of ignorance that covers the Jiva and blesses with Sayujya."

Repeating this Mantra 35 million times, shakes off the bondage of birth and death.

4. SURYA MANTRA AND SURYANAMASKARA

The Vedas and Upanishads speak of Surya the pre-siding deity over the sun, as Pushan, the Nourisher. Surya or the sun-god is the source of all cosmic energy. Life is possible in this earth only on account of the energy and nourishment derived from Surya.

Doing Suryanamaskara at sunrise is an excellent tonic for enjoying an all-round good health. My book on `HATHA YOGA' exhaustively deals with this subject. Those who are not in a position to do the Suryanamaskara may repeat the Suryasloka and the twelve names given below in addition to reading Aditya Hridaya and observing a fast on Sundays.

This helps a man to be free from all stomach com-plaint which is the root-cause for very many diseases.

Prayer

I always adore Surya, the sun, the beautiful Lord of the world, the immortal quintessence of Vedanta, the auspicious, the absolute Brahmic knowledge, the Lord of the gods, the ever-pure, the one true Consciousness of the world, the Lord of Indra, of the gods and of men, the Preceptor of the gods, the crest-jewel of the three worlds, the very heart of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, the giver of light.

Dhyana

The shining golden orb dazzles my vision of Thine; 0 Sun! soothen it so that I, who am devoted to the Truth, may behold Thee.

0 Sun! the offspring of Almighty, the lonely Courser of heaven, the controller and the supporter of all, soothen Thy rays, mellow Thy light; through Thy grace, I behold the most blessed form of Thine; I am in-deed He, that Being, who dwells there.

— (1sha. Upa. 15-16)

1. ॐ मित्राए नम : = Prostration to Him who is affectionate to all.

2. ॐ रवये नम: = Prostration to Him who is cause for change.

3. ॐ सूर्याये नम:= Prostration to Him who induces activity.

4. ॐ भानवे नम:= Prostration to Him who diffuses light.

5. ॐ खगाय नम:= Prostration to Him who moves in the sky.

6. ॐ पूष्णे नम:= Prostration to Him who nourishes all.

7. ॐ हिरण्यगर्भाय नम:= Prostration to Him who contains everything.

8. ॐ मरीचये नमः= Prostration to Him who possesses rays.

9. ॐ आदित्याय नमः = Prostration to Him who is God of gods.

10. ॐ सवित्रे नमः = Prostration to Him who produces everything.

11. ॐ अकार्ये नमः = Prostration to Him who is fit to be praised.

12. भास्कराय नमः = Prostration to Him who is the cause for lustre.

5. OM SRI ASVINIKUMAARAABHYAM NAMAH

ॐ श्रीं अश्विनी कुमाराभ्यां नमः !

Repeat this Mantra daily in the early morning at least 108 times. This will bestow good health and longevity.

The Asvins are twins born of Lord Surya to His wife Samjna Devi. They are famous in the Hindu pantheon as the twin physicians who attend upon the Devas and others in the celestial region.

6. OM SRI DHANVANTARAYE NAMAH

ॐ श्रीं धन्वन्तरये नमः !

Lord Dhanvantari, the Grandsire of Ayurveda, is an Avatara of Lord Narayana. He came out of the Milky Ocean when the Devas and Asuras churned it for obtaining Nectar. Repetition of His Name will free us form all ills. Do japa of this Mantra daily 108 times or more, if possible.

Chapter II

DIGESTIVE POWDERS AND DRINKS

1. A.H.H.S DIGESTIVE CHOORNA

1. Re: Ajovan Powder 2 drachms

Asafoetida (Hing) Powder 2 drachms

Chhoti Har (Chebulic Myrobalam) Powder 2 drachms

Sendha Nimak (Rock Salt) Powder 2 drachms

Mix: Keep it in a stoppered bottle. Dose: 30 grains or half a teaspoonful with hot water after food. This is a Pachak and Deepak and carminative. This improves digestion, increases appetite, expels wind from the bowels and augments the digestive fire.

This is useful in dyspepsia, indigestion, anorexia or loss of appetite, tendency to vomit, flatulence or wind in the bowels, colic, etc.

2. Re: Coriander seeds, fried and powdered ½ oz.

Cardamom powder ½ oz.

Cumin, fried and powdered ½ oz.

Dose: 1 teaspoonful after food. This is a very good digestive powder. This is useful in dyspepsia or indigestion, biliouness, vomiting, anorexia and flatulence. Coriander seeds (the seeds of Coriandrum Sativum) possess aromatic, carminative and anti-spasmodic properties. They contain a volatile oil.

3. Re: Jira (Caraway) 2 drachms

Sendha Nimak 4 drachms

Sonth (dried ginger) 2 drachms

Sonf (anisee) 2 drachms

Ajovan (carom) 2 drachms

Harad (Myrobalan) 2 drachms

Hing (Asafoetida) 16 grains

Powder and mix. Dose: 1 teaspoonful after food with hot water.

4. Re: Rock salt (Sendha Nimak)

Cumin seeds (Jira)

Ajovan seeds

Black pepper (Kala Mirch)

Long pepper (Pipul)

Dried Ginger (Sonth)

Asafoetida (Hing)

Cardamom (Ilaichi)

Powder equal parts of these separately, strain and mix.

Dose: 10 grains:

5. Re: Black pepper

Long pepper (Pipul)

Rock salt

Dried Ginger

Cumin seeds

Powder equal parts of these separately, strain and mix.

A very good digestive powder.

Dose: ½ to 1 teaspoonful: 30 to 60 grains.

6. Re: Rock salt (Sendha Nimak) one drachm

Ajovan seeds (omum) one drachm

Asafoetida (Hf

Hing) ½ drachm

Dose: 10 grains after food. Useful in dyspepsia or indigestion, intestinal colic.

Make into one powder. Dose: 1 powder after food.

Make into one powder. Dose: 1 powder after food.

Parched. Dose: 1 teaspoonful after meals.

10. DIGESTIVE VATI

Mix well.

Dose: 16 grains before or after food.

It is digestive, increases the digestive fire (agnivardhak), Mukha-sansodhak (purifies the mouth.)

11. JIRA PANI (CARAWAY WATER)

Strains and cool. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls.

A very good digestive, stomachic.

Chapter III

HEALTH-GIVING DRINKS AND TONICS

1. ANETHI WATER

This is useful in increasing the milk in nursing mothers.

2. A COOLING DRINK

Re: Barley water 20 oz.

One lime cut in pieces

Sugar 1 oz.

This is a cooling drink in diarrhoea, dysentery, fever, etc.

3. LAXATIVE

Re: Senna leaves 2 tablespoonfuls

Dried Ginger 30 grains

Cloves 30 grains

Rose petals 1 ounce

Boiling water 10 ounces

Allow to stand for 1 hour, strain and drink.

4. GUDUCHI SVARASAM

Re: Guduchi juice (Svarasam) ¼ tola

Honey 2 teaspoonful

Buddhivardhak, febrifuge (Jvarahari), antiperiodic, alterative, blood purifier, bitter tonic, Tridosha prasamak (keeps the three Doshas is condition), aphrodisiac (veeryavardhak), removes excessive thirst. Useful in debility after fever, secondary syphilis, jaundice, spermatorrhoea, dysuria (burning in the urine), and Hridaya Roga (heart disease); gives strength to the heart. Useful in cough, asthma, worms in the bowels, piles, leprosy, chronic fever, constipation, diabetes and other wasting diseases.

5. BALA DECOCTION

Re: Bala 1 tola (y2 oz.)

Water 8 ozs

Boil. Reduce to one-fourth. Add 5 or 10 grains (one or two pinches) of long pepper or Trikuta Choorna, or you can add milk and sugar. It will be an agreeable, soothing beverage.

It is a nervine tonic. It removes pain in the body. It is useful in flatulence or wind in the bowels. It is a vehicle or Anupana for other medicines, such as pills. It destroys the poison in rheumatism and fevers. It is useful in spermatorrhoea. It is an aphrodisiac (Veerya vardhak; Dhatu pushti).

6. BHENDI DECOCTION

Re: Fresh Lady's finger (Bhendi) 3 ounces

Water 20 ounces

Boil for twenty minutes. Strain and sweeten to taste.

This can be taken as an ordinary drink. It is beneficial in fevers, catarrhal conditions, irritable state of the bladder and kidneys, gonorrhoea, and in all cases attended with scalding pain and difficulty in passing urine. The urine increases in quantity under its use.

7. DECOCTION CORIANDER

Re: Coriander seeds (Dhania) 1 ounce

Water 20 ounces

Boil for 15 minutes. Strain. Dose: 4 ounces, thrice daily. Useful in flatulence or wind in the bowels, indigestion and biliousness.

8. CORIANDER-AMLA INFUSION

Re: Coriander, gently fried 48 grs.

Amla powder 48 grs.

Honey 1 teaspoonful

Soak these in four ounces of water overnight.

Strain this in the morning and take with a spoonful of honey.

Useful in one-sided headache, and giddiness.

9. CORIANDER-TULASI DECOCTION

Re: Coriander ½ oz.

Tulasi 10 leaves

Water 8 ozs.

Boil for two minutes. Strain.

Take a tumbler of hot deocoction during fever.

It relieves thirst, produces perspiration and reduces fever.

10. BRAHMI TEA

Re: Brahmi Leaf, dry 2 teaspoonfuls

Boiling Water 2 cups (8 ozs.)

Make an infusion like tea. Add milk and sugar.

This is a brain tonic. It improves memory. It develops the power of speech. It is useful in epilepsy.

11. DRAKSHA TEA

Soak the Draksha in boiling water. Crush them. Strain. Add honey. Instead of honey, you can add milk and sugar.

It is very cooling, mild laxative, tonic and refrigerant. It removes thirst. It is useful in fevers. It reduces temperature. It is a diuretic. It increases the flow of urine. It is a nutritive. It is beneficial in diabetes, consumption, anaemia or poverty of blood. It is useful in disorders of liver in children and Mutra Krichra (difficulty in passing urine).

12. SARASAPARILLA TEA

Boil for 15 minutes. Strain. Add milk and sugar.

This is a blood tonic for pale people and pale children. It is useful in general debility, skin diseases, consitutional syphilis, indigestion, and loss of appetite.

There are two varieties, black and white. Black is preferable. This is a healthy substitute for tea and coffee.

13. TULASI TEA

Boil the leaves and the powder of pepper and ginger for 5 mts. Strain. Add milk and sugar to taste.

Useful in cold in the head and nose, malarial fever, ordinary fevers, indigestion etc. If you cannot get fresh Tulasi, you can use dried Tulasi leaves.

14. BALA TONIC

In place of sugarcandy you can use honey ½ oz.

Veerya and Balavardhak, Pushtikar; gives energy, strength, Ojas and thickens the semen. It is a tonic, useful in spermatorrhoea and wet-dreams.

15. BLOOD TONIC

Put the bruised root in the water, boil for one hour and strain. Add sugarcandy to taste.

Dose: 2 ounces daily twice.

16. BRAHMI TONIC

In the morning make a paste, dissolve in water and filter.

This is a very good brain tonic, Buddhivardhak, Ojaskar; cools the system. It is useful in loss of memory, epilepsy. It develops the power of speech in those who have a defective speech.

17. HEART TONIC

You can use sugarcandy also instead of honey.

To be taken twice daily on an empty stomach.

It is a cardiac tonic, useful in blood pressure, dis-eases of the heart and palpitation. Strengthens the heart.

18. LIVER TONIC

Useful in congestion of liver, torpidity of liver. This promotes bile.

19. A NUTRITIVE AND NERVINE TONIC

Mix. Take twice daily.

You can take this with milk and sugar also.

It is a nervine tonic in nervous breakdowns after fevers and other diseases. It is beneficial in general debility and weakness. It builds up the tissues. It is useful in epilepsy, hysteria, etc.

The root is used. It is well cleaned in boiling milk, dried and powdered.

There is a confection of Asvagandhi also.

20. A TONIC

To be taken in the early morning.

Veeryavardhak, Balapradayak.

Gives seminal energy and strength. It increases sperm (Veerya), gives Dhatupushti.

Chapter IV

CHOORNAS AND CONFECTIONS

1. BALAVARDHAK CHOORNA

To be taken twice daily on an empty stomach. Useful in consumption, cough, asthma, chronic fever, leprosy; Veerya and Bala Vardhak, Ojaskar, Saktiprad; gives strength to the heart. It is tonic and tissue builder. It is cooling, relieves thirst, purifies urine.

2. BILVAPATRA CHOORNA

Mix. Take this with butter twice daily. Balavardhak, Veeryavardhak, Shaktiprad, Ojaskar; gives strength, sexual vigour, lustre, nutrition. Useful in wet-dreams, spermotorrhoea, diabetes.

3. CINNAMON CHOORRNA

Mix. Useful in hoarseness of voice, cough and sore throat.

4. ELACHI CHOORNA

Ajovan, black pepper and ginger must be lightly fried. Dose: teaspoonful, twice daily before food with honey or hot water. Carminative, digestive (Pachak), Deepak (brightens the digestive fire), mild laxative and Mala Sodhak. Useful in indigestion, flatulence, colic, cough, cold, vomiting, anorexia.

5. GOKSHURADI CHOORNA

One powder. Take twice daily with hot water. It is a non-irritant, diuretic, urinary antiseptic. It is useful in sperrnatorrhoea, gonorrhoea, difficulty in passing urine, burning sensation in urine.

6. G.P.T. CHOORNA

Powder the drugs separately. Then mix. Keep it in a stoppered bottle. Dose: teaspoonful with hot water, twice daily. Useful in cough, bronchitis, synovitis, rheumatism of joints, lumbago, pain in the hips.

7. HARITAKADI CHOORNA

Dose: 1/4 tola or 24 grains, twice daily, with hot water or honey on an empty stomach. Useful in headache, Vatam or rheumatism, cough and constipation. It is a Deepak (increases digestive fire), Pachak (digestive), and Rakta Sodhak (blood purifier).

8. HINGVADI CHOORNA

All except salt must be gently fried separately and then mixed. Dose: Y2 teaspoonful, twice daily with hot water before food or after food. Useful in flatulence (wind in bowels), intestinal colic, diarrhoea, indigestion, vomiting, distaste for food.

9. INDRAJOW CHOORNA

Useful in chronic dysentery, diarrhoea, vomiting, pain in the stomach, piles, leprosy, erysipelas (visurpa). It is a Jvaranasak, useful in fevers.

10. JVARAHARA CHOORNA

Mix. One powder. To be taken twice daily with hot water.

Useful in malaria, typhoid fever, influenza, pro-motes perspiration (swetaprad), diaphoretic.

11. KRISHNA VASAKA CHOORNA

Mix. One powder. One powder twice daily.

Useful in asthma, cough, consumption.

12. A LAXATIVE POWDER

Dose: With hot water in the early morning. A mild laxative.

13. MYROBALAN LAXATIVE

Grind the powder with water. Strain, add the honey and drink it in the early morning.

This is a very good, mild, harmless laxative.

14. NAGAKESAR CHOORNA

It can be taken with sugarcandy and butter also. To be taken twice daily on an empty stomach. This is cooling. Carminative and aromatic. Useful in difficulty in passing urine (dysuria or Mutra krich); burning sensation (Mutra-agad). It is a mild febrifuge (jvara nasak). It is useful in fever. It is useful in bleeding piles and dysentery with blood. It is beneficial in spermatorrhoea and leucorrhoea. It is useful in itch, vomiting, leprosy, Visarpa (erysipela). It is svetaprad (diaphoretic, causes much sweating). It is an ingredient in Chandraprabha, Chyavanaprash, Brahmacharya Sudha, Dasamularishta.

15. NIM BARK POWDER

Make one powder. Take twice daily.

This is a bitter tonic. It purifies the blood and improves appetite. This is an anti-periodic in fevers, malaria. This is an astringent too. This is beneficial in thread worms, ascaries lumbricoides. The Latin name for this is Azed Dirachtae Indica. There are two official preparations, viz., Infusion, dose: ½ ounce and Tincture, ½ to 1 drachm.

Nim renovates the whole system and rejuvenates. It is a Kalpa.

16. PIPPALI CHOORNA

To be taken twice daily on an empty stomach.

Useful in cough, cold, indigestion, wind in the bowels (flatulence). It can be taken with a teaspoonful of cow's ghee also.

17. PIPPALI VATI

Make pills of 8 grains.

One pill to be taken with water twice daily.

Useful in cough, cold, asthma and chronic fever. It is a deepak and pachak and agnivardhak; promotes the digestive fire and invigorates the appetite.

18. PUNARNAVADI CHOORNA

Fry Nishoth and dried ginger lightly. Mix. Dose: 24 grs. Twice daily with honey or cow's ghee.

Useful in swelling of the body.

19. TRIKATUKA POWDER

Powder separately and mix. Dose: Grains 24, twice daily with honey or milk or cow's ghee.

Deepak, Pachak and Agnivardak. Useful in indigestion, pain in the stomach, bowels, vomiting, asthma and cough.

20. SARPAGARDHA CHOORNA

Mix. One powder. One powder twice daily with cow's milk or water.

Useful in epilepsy, hysteria, blood pressure.

21. SARIBHA CHOORNA

Re: White Saribha Powder (Sarasaparilla) 24 grs.

Honey 2 teaspoonfuls

Useful in burning sensation in the urinary passage, syphilis, gonorrhoea. This is a blood purifier also.

To he taken twice daily in an empty stomach.

22. SATAVARI CHOORNA

Re: Satavari (Tannirvittan Kilangu) 24 grs.

Sugar 1 teaspoonful

Cow's Ghee, fresh 2 teaspoonfuls

It is a nutritive tonic.

Rativardhak, Veeryavardhak, Balapradayak; useful in sexual debility. It is a galactagogue, i.e., increases milk in nursing mothers. It is a tonic in consumption. It is Buddhivardhak, Agnivardhak (i.e., increases the digestive fire). It increases the lustre in the eyes, gives strength to the heart.

23. STHANYAVARDHAK CHOORNA

Re: Pippalimool powder 24 grs.

Sugar 1 teaspoonful

Milk ½ seer

Useful for nursing mothers to increase the milk (galactagogue); Sthanyavardak. It is a deepak and pachak too, increases digestive fire and improves appetite.

24. TALISAPATRI CHOORNA

Re: Talisapatri powder (Cinnamon leaf) 24 grains

Honey 2 teaspoonful

Mix well. One dose. Take twice daily. It is useful in chronic cough, consumption and asthma.

25. VIDARI CHOORNA

Re: Vidari 24 grs.

Sugarcandy 1 teaspoonful

One dose. Take twice daily with water or honey.

Nutritive, aphrodisiac, tonic, galactagogue (in-creases milk in nursing mothers). Useful in spermatorrhoea, burning sensation in urine, difficulty in passing urine, sexual debility, diabetes, consumption and general debility.

26. HARITAKI AVALEHA

Re: Haritaki 24 grs.

Fresh Ginger 24 grs.

Yavakshara 24 grs.

Dharu Haldi 24 grs.

Honey ½ oz.

Make powders of Yavakshara, Dharu Haldi and Haritaki. Grind this with the juice of ginger. Mix with honey. Dose: One teaspoonful, twice daily. Take one tumblerful of milk afterwards. Useful in stone in kidney.

27. LINCTUS LIQUORICE

Mix and take twice daily. It is useful in cough, hoarseness of voice, irritation of the larynx, inflammation of the throat and asthma. You can take it with cow's ghee, one teaspoonful.

28. RASNA LINCTUS

Re: Chittarattai (Rasna) root

Honey

Rub the root with honey. Lick it slowly morning and evening. Useful in sore throat, cough and Asthma.

29. VACHAVALEHA

To be taken thrice daily. Useful in hoarseness of voice in songsters and lecturers (Svarapradarana).

30. VACHA LINCTUS

Diurectic, purifier of urine and faeces, anthelmentic (Kriminasak), mild laxative, tonic, aphrodisiac, carminative, aromatic, stimulant. It is bitter. Sharpens the intellect (Buddhivardhak). It is useful in colic, flatulence, epilepsy, acidity, vomiting of children, in all stomach and intestinal diseases of children. It is a deepak and pachak.

It is termed as Pillai Valathi, i.e., that which helps the growth of children. Rubbing of the burnt ash with honey in the tongue of a dumb child makes it to speak. It is useful as an external application in pain in the throat. It is used as a dusting powder in wounds. It kills germs.

There are two varieties. White is preferable.

Chapter V

PILLS

1. COUGH PILL—I

Powder all drugs well and make Dose: 5 grains, three times daily.

2. COUGH PILL—II

Make 10 grain pill. Dose: One, thrice daily.

3. COUGH PILL—III

Pound in the mortar and make pills of the size of a pepper. Dose: 2 pills, twice daily, with hot water on empty stomach. It is useful in cold, cough and malaria.

4. COUGH PILL—IV

Mix. Make one pill. Dose: One pill, thrice daily.

5. CHOLERA PILL

Fiat pill 1.

6. GUGGULU VATI

Make into two pills. Dose: One pill twice daily with milk. Useful in rheumatism of joints and lumbago.

7. HEART TONIC PILL

Make into two pills. Dose: One pill to be taken daily with cow's ghee or cow's milk. Useful in palpitation, blood pressure and all diseases of the heart.

8. PILULA, TULASI CUM PEPPER

Make a paste of fresh Tulasi leaves and black pep-per. Make small pills of the size of Bengal gram.

Take one or two pills in the morning and one or two in the evening along with hot water.

This is useful in malaria and other ordinary fevers.

(One tola is the weight of 10 grams).

9. PEPPER LOZENGES

Powder some black pepper and sugarcandy (Misri). Add equal parts. Mix a little ghee and make it into small balls. Keep one in the mouth and slowly suck the essence. This is very useful in bronchitis or cough.

Chapter VI

GENERAL PRESCRIPTIONS—I

—Drugwise-

1. ALUM WHEY

Re: Purified Alum Powder 3 drachms or teaspoonfuls

Milk 20 ozs. Or 1 pint

Put the powder in the milk and boil for 10 minutes. Strain. Dose: 2 ounces, three times daily.

This checks excessive menstural discharges (Menorrhagia), bleeding from piles, bleeding from lungs, stomach, kidneys and other internal organs.

Put the alum in the iron pan. Heat it till it swells up. Then powder it. Alum is purified now.

2. AM KA PANNA (Raw Mango Juice)

Re: Raw Mangoes 4

Jeera (cumin) powder 30 Grains

Put the mangoes in the fire for a few minutes just as you put Brinjal for making chutney (bharta). Take them out. Remove the skin and extract the juice. Add the cumin powder now and also a little salt. Take 2 oz. of the juice thrice daily. Useful in sunstroke, lu or hot winds, as a preventative and curative.

3. AMLAKA AND HONEY

Re: Amlaka, dried and powdered 15 grains

Honey 2 teaspoonfuls

Dose: Twice daily. This is cooling, digestive, astringent and tonic. It removes biliousness and jaundice. It is useful in diabetes. In combination with Triphala, it keeps the three doshas or humours in the body in equilibrium. Useful in vomiting, biliousness, burning sensation in the eyes, spermatorrhoea; Mutrasansodhak (purifier of urine).

4. BURNT ALUM

This is very useful in ague or malaria. This is well-tried medicine. Burn alum in an iron pan. Mix it with four parts of sugar. Take one teaspoonful of the powder three times in a day. Only three doses will be sufficient to eradicate malaria. You can repeat the medicine if the fever persists. It does not matter whether there is fever or not when the medicine is administered.

5. CARDAMOM AND HONEY

Re: Cardamom 15 grains

Honey 2 teaspoonfuls

Mix. Dose: Twice daily. It is a carminative and aromatic. It is useful in flatulence or wind in the bowels, and anorexia or loss of appetite. It is an appetizer. It checks vomiting sensation. It is cooling. It is a mild expectorant and mild diurectic.

6. CURRY POWDER & RICE

Re: Curry leaf (Kariveppelai) All three to

Black Pepper be fried

White Jeera lightly

Salt

Ghee

Powder the salt, the fried leaf, pepper and Jeera.

Take this powder with cooked rice. Add ghee.

Useful in diarrhoea, dysentery, indigestion, flatulence etc.

7. MILK WITH TURMERIC

Re: Turmeric Powder 48 grs.

Cow's milk 16 ozs.

Boil for two minutes. Then strain. Add three tea-spoonfuls of sugarcandy. It is very beneficial in cough and sore throat.

8. MULATI (LIQUORICE)

Take a masha of powdered Mulati and mix it with two mashas of sugar. Take this in the morning and evening with water. This is very useful in leucorrhoea (whites), and excessive menstruation.

9. OMUM POWDER and RICE

Re: Ajwan (Omura) to be fried in ghee lightly.

Salt Cooked rice and Ghee. Useful in diarrhoea, indigestion, flatulence, ctc.

Chapter VII

GENERAL PRESCRIPTIONS-II

-Diseasewise-

1. FOR ARRESTING SECRETION OF MILK

Re: Betel Leaf. Warm the betel leaf over the fire. Place it in layers over the breast. This is very effective in arresting the secretion of milk. That which arrests the secretion of milk is called an anti-galactagogue.

2. FOR APHTHAE OR THRUSH (Sores in mouth)

Re: Borax (Sohaga) 1 drachm

Honey 1 ounce

Mix well. Apply to the sores in the mouth with clean cotton or finger. Aphthae is also known by the name stomatitis.

3. FOR ASTHMA

Re: Camphor (Kapur) 3 grains

Asafoetida (Hing) 3 grains

Make one pill. Dose: 1 pill every 4 hours.

4. FOR BLOOD PRESSURE

Re: Garlic Juice ½ oz.

Honey ½ oz.

Mix; one dose. To be taken twice daily. Drink one tumblerful of milk afterwards.

5. FOR BRONCHITIS

Re: Liquorice 20 grains

Black Pepper 5 grains

Sugar 1 teaspoonful

Infusion Arusha (Adhatoda) 1 ounce

Mix and strain. Dose: One ounce three times daily.

6. FOR BRONCHITIS AND INFLUENZA

Re: Fresh ginger juice 2 to 4 teaspoonfuls

Tulasi Juice 1 teaspoonful

Adathoda (Vasaka) juice 1 teaspoonful

Black Pepper 10 grs

Long Pepper (Tippili) 10 grs

Honey One dose. May be given twice daily. Useful in excessive phlegm, pneumonia, constipation, influenza and bronchitis. Pound the fresh ginger after removing the skin. Filter the juice through a pure, thin cloth. Allow the juice to stay in a pan for some time. Draw the supernatant fluid and throw away the white deposit.

Take one tumblerful of cow's milk afterwards.

7. FOR CHOLERA

Crush onions and take out their juice. Give a tea-spoonful every five minutes. Let the patient sip it drop by drop.

8. FOR CHILDREN'S FLATULENCE

Re: Dill water 10 oz.

Anise water 10 oz.

Lime water 10 oz.

Syrup Aurantii 10 oz.

Dose: 1 to 2 teaspoonfuls.

9. FOR COLD

Re: Ginger Juice 1 oz.

Honey ½ oz.

Take it with four ounces of hot water. Adults. Eat hot, fried Chana or Bengal gram. Useful.

10. FOR CONJUCTIVITIS

Re: Turmeric Powder 90 grains

In hot water 6 oz.

Strain through a clean cloth. Dip a clean cloth for some time in it and apply it to the eyes.

It is useful in pain in the eyes, etc.

11. COUGH MIXTURE

Re: Juice of Ginger ½ oz.

Juice of Betel Leaves ½ oz.

Honey ½ oz.

Mix well. Dose: Half an ounce twice daily. Useful in cough, bronchitis, etc.

12. FOR COUGH AND ASTHMA

Re: Vasa (Vasaka) fresh juice (svarasam) 4 teaspoonfuls

Honey 2 teaspoonfuls

Mix. To be taken twice daily on an empty stomach. Useful in Cough, Asthma and Consumption.

Vasaka is an expectorant (brings out phlegm or sputum). It is antispasmodic, relieves spasm in asthma. It is an alternative, blood purifier and tonic.

13. FOR CONSTIPATION (Punarnava Vegetable)

Re: White Punarnava leaf ½ IB

Prepare a sag (curry). Useful in constipation and rheumatism. Pure turmeric, Jeera and a little salt and Ghee may be added. Do not add spices.

14. FOR DIABETES—I

Re: Green Amalaka Svarasa 1 oz.

Honey 2 teaspoonfuls

To be taken twice daily, on an empty stomach. Highly beneficial in diabetes.

15. FOR DIABETES—II

Re: Bitter Gourd Vegetable (Pavakkai)

Boil and add a little salt, turmeric, Jeera and Ghee. Do not use chillies and spices.

16. FOR DIABETES—Ill

Re: Kulfa Vegetable

Wash and soak in water for two hours. Then cut and boil and add a little salt, turmeric, jeera and ghee.

Do not use chillies and spices.

17. FOR DYSENTERY—I

Re: Butter Milk 1 tumbler

Sugarcandy 2 teaspoonfuls

Useful in bloody motion and motion with mucus.

18. FOR DYSENTERY—II

Re: Bhendi (Lady's Finger)

Make a soup or curry and give. The bland viscid mucilage acts as a demulcent and protective of the mucous membrane like the gum.

19. FOR DYSENTERY—III

Re: Rind of pomegranate 1 ounce

Rind of mangosteen fruit 1 ounce

Kurchi bark 1 ounce

Water 1 pint

Boil for half an hour in slow fire.

Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls thrice daily.

20. FOR DYSENTERY WITH BLOOD

Re: Powder of rind of pomegranates 1 teaspoonful

Raw rice water 2 ounces

One dose. To be taken thrice daily.

20. FOR ACUTE DYSENTERY

Isaphgul (finely powdered) 1 ounce

Anise (finely powdered) 1 ounce

Bael (finely powdered) 1 ounce

Dose: One teaspoonful twice daily.

20. DYSENTERY POWDER—I

Re: Bael fruit powder 1 drachm

Fennel fruit powder 1 drachm

Bari (big) Sonf ½ drachm

Dose: One powder twice daily.

20. DYSENTERY POWDER—II

Re: Bael (powder) 1 teaspoonful

Liquorice (Mulatti) 10 grs.

Cinnamon (dalchini) 5 grs.

Make one powder. Dose: One powder twice daily.

20. DYSENTERY POWDER—III

Re: Isaphgul (powdered) 15 grs.

Kurchi seeds (powdered) 5 grs.

Dose: One powder thrice daily.

20. FOR ENLARGEMENT OF SPLEEN & LIVER

Re: Old Ghood (Jaggery) 24 grs.

Harad (Harithaki) powder 24 grs.

Make one pill. One pill to be taken twice daily with hot water. To be continued for a month.

20. HEART STIMULANT

Re: Musk 2 grains

Betel leaf juice 1 teaspoonful

Honey 1 teaspoonful

It is useful in pneumonia, high fevers, cholera, cold, influenza and to women after confinement. It is an aphrodisiac (Virya Vardhak), anti-spasmodic, digestive and brain tonic. It improves eyesight. It is taken along with betel leaf (Tambula, Pan) as a tonic and aphrodisiac (that which increases the sexual vigour is an aphrodisiac).

For children use ¼ grain of musk. It can be taken with breast milk or milk also.

27. FOR HICCOUGH—I

Re: White Jeera powder (fried) 24 grs. Cardamom powder 4 grs. Honey 1 teaspoonful Mix. To be taken thrice daily.

28. FOR HICCOUGH—II

Re: Cumin Seeds (fried) 15 grains Honey 1 teaspoonful Mix. Four times daily. Instead of honey you can use jaggery also.

29. FOR IMPOTENCY

Re: Musk Powder 2 oz.

Nutmeg Powder 2 oz.

Kesar Powder 2 oz.

Take the powder with pan (betel) at night.

30. FOR INDIGESTION

Re: Dried Ginger Powder 2 oz.

Sugar Candy 1 oz.

Take one teaspoonful with fresh water, either hot or cold, twice daily before food.

31. FOR INHALATION

Re: Lady's finger (Bhindi) 10

Water 20 ounces

Cut the vegetable transversely into pieces. Put the pieces into water and boil for twenty minutes.

Strain and put the decoction in a narrow-mouthed jug and inhale the vapour.

Useful in hoarseness of the throat, irritable state of the throat, cough and bronchitis.

32. FOR LEUCORRHOEA

Re: Kernal of Kama! Guttaa 4 grains

Nag Kesar 4 grains

Seetal Cheeni (Cubeb pepper)

Or Kakkolam (Kabab Cheeni) 4 grains

White Sandal 8 grains

Khas 4 grains

Rose flowers 8 grains

Powder the above and take it with rice-washed water (Chaval dhovan). Take twice daily.

This is very cooling, is a blood purifier and mutra sansodhak (purifies urine). Stops the discharge. It is useful in gonorrohea, dysuria or difficulty in passing urine, and burning in the urine.

33. FOR MALARIA—I

Chutney prepared from `Naayikadugu' (Tamil) or `Kukkavaavanti' (Telugu) leaves taken for a few days cures Malaria and even spleen enlargement. The leaves may also be crushed and applied to the pulse when the fever is on. A patient who takes this chutney for one month will be completely cured of spleen enlargement and Malaria and will never be troubled by this disease after that time.

34. FOR MALARIA—II

`Katukarohine powder pulverised finely and mixed with an equal quantity of jaggery and made into pills the size of a Bengal gram. Keep this in a well corked bottle. This is to be administered to a Malaria patient. Dose is 3 pills in the morning and 3 in the evening. This medicine will cure Malaria and it will not have the bad effects of Quinnine.

35. FOR OBESITY

Re: Honey 4 teaspoonfuls

Water 1 glassful

To be taken twice daily. Honey reduces fat, and makes a thin man fatty also.

36. FOR RHEUMATISM—I

Take 1 tola of the root of the Castor plant. Crush and boil it in Y2 seer (half a seer) of water. Boil it till you bring down the decoction to ½ part. Add to this 2 tea-spoonfuls of honey. Drink this. This medicine may be repeated morning and evening daily until the rheumatism disappears. If the rheumatism is of the type where the joints swell, a poultice made either of the leaves of the castor plant or of its seeds will cure the swelling when applied to the joints.

37. FOR RHEUMATISM—II

Re: Methi seeds fried and powdered (Vendayam) 10 grs.

Honey 2 teaspoonfuls

To be taken thrice daily. One powder to be taken at night with one tumbler of milk.

38. FOR ROUND WORMS

Re: Kernel of Butea seeds 20 grains

Sugar 30 grains

Mix. One dose.

Three times daily for three days, to be followed by a dose of castor oil, after three days. It is useful in tape worm.

Butea seeds are Palasaki beej (Hindi)-seeds of Butea frondosa. This is available in the bazar.

Soak the seed in water, remove the testa and powder the kernel.

39. FOR SCROFULA

Re: Kachnar Bark Powder 48 grs.

Pure Guggulu 24 grs.

Old Ghood 48 grs.

Mix and make pills of 24 grs. Each. Take one pill, twice daily, with cow's milk. Useful in Scrofula or Apchee.

40. FOR SLEEPLESSNESS

Re: Mustard Oil 4 drops

Apply it to the ears. Plug the ears with cotton wool.

40. FOR SORE THROAT

Re: Powder of Amla 24 grs. (1/4 tola)

Liquorice powder 24 grs. (1/4 tola)

Sugar Candy 48 grs. (1/2 tola)

Add one tumblerful of fresh milk of the cow and drink. Take twice daily. ½ a tola is one teaspoonful.

40. FOR SPERMATORRHOEA—I

Re: Giloy's Juice ¼ tola

Honey ½ tola

Mix well. Lick it every day, twice daily. Giloy, Guduchi, Amrita are synonymous terms.

40. FOR SPERMATORRHOEA—II

Re: Small Cardamoms powder 48 grs.

Gokru powder 48 grs.

Sugarcandy powder 48 grs.

Mix. Dose: Grs. 48, twice daily with cow's milk.

Useful in spermatorrhoea, burning sensation in urine, difficulty in passing urine, wet-dreams.

40. FOR SPERMATORRHOEA—III

Re: Gum of Babool 24 grs.

Sugarcandy 24 grs.

Mix. Take one powder with cold water at night. This is very useful in spermatorrhoea; gives Dhatu-pushti, Veerya Vardhak.

40. FOR SUNSTROKE

Re: Onions 2

Cumin seeds powder (Jeera) 1 teaspoonful

Sugar 1 teaspoonful

Cut the onions into small pieces and add jeera and sugar. Give this to the patient once or twice daily. He who goes about in excessive heat in summer will be protected from sunstroke and (hot winds) if he keeps an on-ion in his hand or in the pocket.

40. FOR THREAD WORMS—I

(A scaris Lumbricoides)

Re: Salt 1 teaspoonful or drachm

Warm Water 10 ounces

Dissolve the salt in the hot water and strain. Inject into the rectum slowly with a fine glass syringe. Lubricate the nozzle with Vaseline or any clean oil, olive, sesamum, etc.

40. FOR THREAD WORMS—II

Re: Tepid Water 1 pint

Add Soap, and Lemon Juice 2 teaspoons

Take an enema of the above solution.

40. FOR VOMITING

Dhania 2 grains

Pudeena (mint) 4 grains

White Jeera 2 grains

Anaar daanaa 2 grains

Pitta paapraha 2 grains

Ginger 1 grains

Big jeera (sonf) 2 grains

Amla 2 grains

Crush them. Make into a thick paste juice. Prepare pills of the size of black pepper.

Put it in the mouth and let it dissolve slowly.

40. FOR WET DREAMS—I

Re: Plantain fruits 2

Sugarcandy 2 tablespoons

Eat at night after food.

40. FOR WET DREAMS—II

Re: Sonf (dill seed) powder ½ teaspoonful

Revand Cheenee powder 1 teaspoonful

Flowers of Banafsa powder ½ teaspoonful

Rose flowers powder 1 teaspoonful

White sandal powder ½ teaspoonful

Water 4 ozs.

One Dose. Soak these powders in cold water over night, strain and drink in the morning on an empty stomach. Similarly, soak in cold water in the early morning, allow it to stay soaked throughout the day and strain and drink in the evening. This is a cool beverage. Drink twice daily.

Chapter VIII

PRESCRIPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL USE

Section 1: Drugwise

1. ACETIC ACID

This is vinegar. The strong solution is used to destroy warts. The warts are lightly touched with the acid. The surrounding part is protected by cotton wool. The acid is not allowed to fall on the surrounding skin. This is useful in wasp and bee stings.

2. BATHING POWDER

Re: White Chandanam powder (Sandalwood) 1 oz.

Amlaka 1 oz.

Devadaru Powder (Pinusdeodava) 1 oz.

Mix.

3. BHINDI POULTICE

Re: Fresh Lady's Finger 4

Bruise them well. Warm it. Apply it as a poultice to the affected part. This is an efficient emollient or soothing poultice for abcess, rheumatic troubles and eruptions.

4. BORAX GARGLE

Re: Borax (Sohuga) 4 drachms or teaspoonfuls

Glycerine 4 drachms

Water 10 ounces

Mix well. Gargle the mouth several times daily. Useful in ulcers of the mouth or Stomatitis (Aphthae). This is a soothing and healing medicine.

5. CAMPHOR-TOBACCO

If you suffer from carious tooth, stuff the socket with a little camphor and tobacco. The worms will die. You will be relieved from the pain also.

6. CURD LOAF

Bind curd in a piece of cloth and let its water drop out. Take this curd and mould it in the form of a bread loaf. Place this over the carbuncle and put a bandage. Change this three or four times a day. All sloughs will come out easily. This is a very cooling application too.

7. LIME WATER

Ten to twelve drops in a Iota of water should be drunk four times in a day. A plug of cotton or cloth soaked in lime water should be used externally. This should be changed three or four times a day. This is very useful in excessive menstruation. This is useful in all kinds of bleeding also.

8. MUSTARD OIL AND CAMPHOR

Dissolve some camphor in the mustard oil. Heat this. It is highly useful in lumbago or pain in the hips and back and rheumatism of the joints, and muscular pain in the whole body. If this is applied to the breast, it will stop secretion of milk.

9. MUSTARD FOOT BATH

Re: Mustard powder 2 teaspoonfuls

Boiling water 1 gallon

10. NIM LOTION

Re: Nim leaves 2 handfuls

Water 20 ounces

Boil for fifteen minutes. This is antiseptic lotion for washing ulcers and wounds. This can be used as a gargle in pyorrhoea.

11. NIM OINTMENT

Re: Nim leaves 1 oz.

Gingely oil 1 oz.

Fry a little bit of the Nim leaves in the oil and then make a paste. Useful in itch, and skin diseases.

12. NIM POULTICE

Re: Bruised Nim leaves 2 ozs

Rice flour 2 ozs

Hot water sufficient quantity

Make a poultice. Useful in chronic indolent ulcers, eczema, etc. Nim is an antiseptic. It kills germs.

13. OIL OF BABCHI

This removes the patches in the skin (leucoderma or white leprosy). The pigment reappears on the skin. The oil is rubbed well in the affected area.

14. SATADOUTHA GHRITA

This is cow's ghee that is cleaned with cold water one hundred times in a glass plate.

The water must be changed every two minutes.

It is highly useful in burns, ulcers, wounds, itches, piles, headache, etc.

Section II: Diseasewise

15. FOR BED SORES

Re: Borax 4 drachms

Starch 4 drachms

Mix well. A very good dusting powder.

16. FOR BOILS AND CARBUNCLE

Re: White Sandal Powder (fine) ½ oz.

Curd 1 oz.

Mix. It is a nice antiseptic and antiphlogistic paste for boils and carbuncles. It is cooling. It removes the poison.

17. BRAIN-TONIC HAIR OIL

Re: Bringaraja Oil

It is a cooling applicant to the brain. It prevents the hair from falling and becoming grey. It is useful in loss of memory power, itching and burning sensation in the brain.

18. FOR BURNS AND SCALDS—I

Re: Lime water

Olive Oil or Linseed oil or Coconut oil

Take any one of these oils, and mix in equal parts with lime water. Rub well.

19. FOR BURNS AND SCALDS—II

Re: Ghrit Kumari pulp

Honey Equal parts

Mix and apply.

20. FOR BURNS AND SCALDS—Ill

Old ghee is useful in burns and scalds of the first and second degree. A paste of raw potato is also beneficial. Coconut oil is also useful. Honey also is highly useful.

21. FOR CRACKED NIPPLES

Re: Lime water 3 oz.

Olive Oil 3 oz.

Rub well.

22. FOR EAR-ACHE—I

Re: Tulasi juice A few drops

Warm the juice and instil it in the ear. Plug the ear with cotton.

23. FOR EAR-ACHE—II

Re: Mustard oil 2 teaspoonfuls

Asafoetida 4 grains

Heat gently for one minute. Instil the drops in the ear when it becomes cool and plug the ear with cotton.

24. GARGLE FOR SORE THROAT

Re: Ajovan ½ oz.

Poppy seeds (Khus-khus ka beej) ¼ oz.

Water 20 oz.

Boil for fifteen minutes. Strain. Make a decoction. Gargle several times.

25. FOR GONORRHOEA

Re: Cubebs 25 grs.

Alum 5 grs.

Make one powder. Dose: One powder thrice daily.

26. FOR LEPROSY

Re: Chaulmogra oil 1 oz.

Neem oil 1 oz.

Mix well. Rub into lepric areas.

27. FOR NASAL CATTARRH

Re: Borax 20 gr.

Common Salt 20 gr.

Water 8 oz.

Sniff up nose with this solution.

28. FOR PILES

Re: Red Sandal 2 grains

Dry Ginger 2 grains

Dhamaasa 2 grains

Chiriyata 4 grains

Daru Haldi 2 grains

Kamalgatta 1 grain

Nag Kesar 2 grains

Kharetee 1 grain

Powder these above. Take with curd or buttermilk twice daily.

29. APPLICATION FOR PILES

Re: Kanneer leaves

Neem leaves Equal

Aak leaves Parts

Sahjan leaves

Dry. Powder them. Make a paste with butter or ghee and apply to the anus.

30. FOR PIMPLES

Re: Dried Ginger

Cloves

Make a paste and apply it to the pimples.

31. PRICKLY-HEAT POWDER

Re: Starch ½ ounce

Boric acid ½ ounce

Zinc oxide ½ ounce

Camphor 5 grains

32. FOR PRICKLY-HEAT, ECZEMA, ETC.

Re: Boric acid

Zinc oxide

Starch

Mix well: equal parts. This is a useful dusting-powder in eczema, prickly heat, sloughy ulcers, etc.

33. FOR ULCERS IN MOUTH

Re: Borax 10 ozs.

Glycerine 6 ozs

This is useful in sore tongue and ulcers in mouth, also for sore nipples. Borax can be used with honey also.

34. TOOTH POWDER—I

Re: Catechu (Katha) 2 teaspoonfuls

Chalk 4 teaspoonfuls

Myrrh (Bol) 2 teaspoonfuls

Oil of cloves 4 drops

It stops bleeding from the gums and relieves pain. Catechu and Myrrh are astringents.

35. TOOTH-POWDER—II

Re: Salt

Charcoal

Camphor

Chalk

Powder equal parts of these separately and mix. A very good tooth-powder.

36. TOOTH-POWDER—III

Re: Chalk 2 teaspoonfuls

Black pepper 15 grains

Alum 1 teaspoonful

Borax 1 teaspoonful

Powder the ingredients well, strain and mix.

37. TOOTH-POWDER—IV

Re: Areca nut Powder (supari) 1 oz.

Catechu (Katha) 1 oz.

Black pepper 1 drachm

Powder well, strain and mix. A very good tooth-powder.

38. FOR SPONGY GUMS

Re: Frech lime juice 2 ozs.

Water 2 ozs.

For a mouth wash.

39. GUM PASTE

Re: Mustard oil 1 teaspoonful

Salt 10 grains

Mix. Apply it to the gum.

Strengthens the gum and teeth; destroys worms in the teeth and stops bleeding in spongy gums.

Chapter IX

A SADHU’S RECIPES

(The following recipes of a sadhu were had from late Sri Chand Narayan Harkuli of Sitapur Bar, a noble soul who tried all within his means to alleviate the pain of the suffering humanity.-publishers)

1. ARK UL NASA

Har Singhar leaves one tola may be boiled in half a pav of water and after filtering add sugar to taste and take it.

2. BACCHONKI PASLEE

Croton seed rectified to be ground for 3 days in ginger juice and made tablets of the size of bajra seed. One tablet for one year child, two tablets for two years child and 3 tablets for 3 years child, to be administered with breast milk.

3. BAVI GEELA

Re: Pure vineger one bottle

(Elva Aloes 2 tolas

Garlic 2 tolas

Medicines 2 and 3 may be kept in vineger bottle for 15 days. Dose: 2 tolas morning and evening.

4. CARBUNCLE

Kamela one pav may be boiled well in til oil and kept filtered a bottle. Take a cloth folded fourfold.

Dip it in the oil and put on the wound. Plaster of neem coal prepared with Atta flour to be fixed over it.

5. OINTMENT FOR CARBUNCLE

Grind all the medicines well and boil them in water. Use it as poultice thrice a day.

How to diagnose a carbuncle

Tie one pay of curd in a cloth. Allow the water to escape. Place the solid curd left behind on the boil. If it is a carbuncle, the weight of the curd will decrease extraordinarily.

6. CHRONIC ULCER

Grind the neem leaves well and make it into a paste. Pour one chatak of mustard oil in a vessel. Boil it till it becomes red. Put the neem paste into it. Remove the vessel from the fire when the contents become black. Add now half a tola bees' wax. Make a nice paste.

If the wound is too deep, mix the paste with the powder of white Kathira and fill the wound.

Apply the ointment twice daily morning and evening. This is a well-tried and highly useful ointment.

7. DIABETES—I

Make a tablet in honey. Use 2 tablets morning and evening. Avoid seeds, protein and all roots. Maintain strict Brahmacharya.

8. DIABETES—II

Pestle all and powder well. Add 3 mashas of ground Babul. Grind with Guda geekavar for two hours.

If the patient has sugar in urine mix 2Y2 tolas of ground babul. To purify stramonium seeds put the seeds in cow's urine and keep in sun for 1Y2 hours. Wash the seeds in water and dry in sun before use.

For Diarrhoea give one pill with whey with hot water. Other diseases, with fresh water give one pill.

9. DIARRHOEA

Take opium and lime equal weight and prepare tab-lets of size of mustard seed. Give two or three tablets every day.

10. DROPSY

Mix the two and drink daily in the morning.

11. DYSPEPSIA

Pestle in one seer of rose extract (Arq Gulab) and prepare pills of one size. Use it with butter or cream.

12. ECZEMA—I

Keep some curd in a copper vessel for 24 hours. Apply it on the affected part. There will be some pain on application.

13. ECZEMA—II

Pestle the medicine in the juice of eight lemons make tablets as big as a radish seed. Use one pill in morning and evening.

14. ENLARGEMENT OF SPLEEEN

Powder well the alum and boil it in an iron vessel. Add the grape-skin. When the grape-skin mixes up properly with the alum, make pills, each weighing 3 rattis. One pill to be taken in the morning with hot milk daily.

15. GONORRHOEA

Mix buffalo's dung with water. Filter it. Mix jaggery with this. Take this mixture for three alternate days. After some interval you can again repeat this for three alternate days.

16. HICCOUGH

1. Salt powdered 1 masha

2. Gitali aam (old mango seed) 3 mashas to be taken once with fresh water.

3. Kasturi is beneficial.

4. Peacock's feather (mor pankh ka chaand) to be burnt in earthenware pot closed with lid. Take it with a little honey.

17. IMPOTENCY

Re: Asafoetida

Cow's urine

Honey

Take one Masha (X2 tola) of asafoetida (Hing), mix it with one tola of cow's urine and apply it on the organ and massage. Tie it with betel leaf after massage. Wash it with hot water in the early morning every day. Continue this treatment for seven days.

Then take one Masha of asafoetida, mix it with six Mashas of pure honey and apply it on the organ. Mas-sage, tying with betel leaf, washing with hot water, etc., to be done as already stated. Continue this treatment throughout the second week. DIET: Y, pay (10 tolas) of Bengal gram to be cooked in one seer of water. This is to be taken with bread (Roti) and ghee.

18. ITCHES

Take in equal portions of cow's dung, urine and milk. Filter in a cloth. Keep it in a bottle. Massage 2 hours before bath, then take in fresh water.

18. LEPROSY

Four red Khatai may be crushed in rose water and given twice daily.

18. PAIN IN TEETH (CHILDREN'S)

1. Kodikaa bhaama with honey or Suhaga with honey to be rubbed on the affected part.

2. Seed of Saras or Jaibhal may be tied round the neck to make the teeth growing easy.

3. Rub Haldi or Amla juice. Teeth will grow easy.

21. PILES—I

1. Burn a few leaves of the plantain tree. Add lime to it. Apply it on the piles.

2. Badami Khaja (brown pepper) to be burnt. Al-low the smoke to come in contact with the piles. It will be cured.

3. Apply the extract of radish leaves continuously for 7 days. You can cure piles.

22. PILES—II