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6. On Useful Medicines

Warning: The recipes given in this topic, and elsewhere in this book, could potentially be very harmful and it is strongly recommended that they not be tried.

The following are the most useful drugs and simples, the receipts and prescriptions which have been handed down by learned men for the comfort of the married, and for the benefit of the world. Also the ignorant, whose coarse understandings cannot enter into the delicacies and intricacies of classes and temperaments, of Chandrakalás, and other excitants, are many, and they will do well to put themselves under the guidance of the wise. This history is intended for their pleasure and profit. It is for instance, clearly evident that unless by some act of artifice the venereal orgasm of the female, who is colder in blood and less easily excited, distinctly precede that of the male, the congress has been vain, the labor of the latter has done no good, and the former has enjoyed no satisfaction. Hence it results that one of man?s chief duties in this life is to learn to withhold himself as much as possible, and, at the same time, to hasten the enjoyment of his partner. First Prayoga (External Application).? Take Shopa, or aniseed (in Hindustani, ?Sanv,? Anethum sowa or Pimpinella anisium), reduced to impalpable powder; strain and make it into an electuary with honey. This being so applied to the Linga before congress that it may reach as far inside as possible, will induce venereal paroxysm in the woman, and subject her to the power of man.
Second Prayoga
Take cleansed seed of the Rui? (gigantic swallow-wort, Asclepias or Callotropis gigantea), pound and rub in mortar with leaves of the Jai tree (Jasminum auriculatum, large flowered double jasmine), till the juice is expressed; strain, and apply as before.
Third Prayoga
Take fruit of the Tamarind (Tamarinda indica), pound in a mortar, together with honey and Sindura (red lead, minium, cinnabar, or red sulfurate of mercury), and apply as before.
Fourth Prayoga
Take equal parts (Sama-bhága) of camphor, Tankan (Tincal, or brute borax, vulgarly called Tankan-khár), and purified quicksilver,? pound them with honey, and apply them as before.
Fifth Prayoga
Take equal parts of honey, Ghee (melted or clarified butter), brute borax, as above, and juice of the leaves of the Agastá-tree (Æschynomene grandiflora); pound, and apply as before.
Sixth Prayoga
Take equal parts of old Gur (also called Jagri, molasses, or sugar juice, inspissated by boiling), the bean of the Tamarind-pod, and powder of aniseed; levigate with honey and apply as before.
Seventh Prayoga
Take black pepper-corns, the seed of the thorn-apple (Dhatura or Dhotará, Datura stramonium), the pod of the long pepper plant (Pinpallí, the Piper longum, also applied to the pod of the betel pepper), and bark of Lodhora (the Sympolocos racemosa (?), the Morinda citrifolia, used in dyeing?) pound in white honey, and use as before. This medicine is of sovereign virtue.
Here end the prescriptions for hastening the paroxysm of the woman, and begin those which delay the orgasm of the man. In cases where this comes on too fast, the desire of congress remains unsatisfied; therefore, pitying the frailty of human nature, the following recipes have been recommended by the wise:
First Prayoga
Take root of the Lajjálû or sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica), and levigate with milk of the cow, or if none be found, with the thick juice of the Panja-dhari-nivarung, the fine-edged milk-plant (Euphorbia pentagonia). If this be applied before congress to the soles of the man?s feet, his embraces will be greatly prolonged by the retention of the water of life.?
Second Prayoga
Take powdered root of Rúí (gigantic swallow root), levigate it in oil of safflower-seed (Kardai, Carthamus tinctorius), and apply as above.
Third Prayoga
Take root of Káng or white panic (P. italicum), and the filaments (pollen?) of lotus flowers, levigate in honey, and apply as above.
Fourth Prayoga
Take equal parts of Sishu bark (the blackwood tree, Dalbergia sissoo), camphor, and purified quicksilver; levigate as above, and apply to the (man?s) navel.
Fifth Prayoga
If the seeds of the White Tál-makháná (Barleria longifolia, a medicinal herb), be gathered upon the Pushya-nakshatra, or eighth lunar mansion? (corresponding with part of December and January, and be bound round the waist with a twist of red thread, it will have the desired effect.
Sixth Prayoga
Having invited (addressed with prayer), on Saturday, the Saptaparna (Echides scholaris, or the seven-leaved Scholaris), let it be taken on Sunday, and placed in the mouth; it will have the desired effect.
Seventh Prayoga
Let a person gather the seeds of the white Anvalli (Emblic myrobalan) in the Pushya-nakshatra, when it happens to fall on a Sunday, and tie them round the waist with a thread spun by a virgin; it will have the desired effect.
Eighth Prayoga
Take the seeds of the white Tál-makháná that have been levigated in the sap of the Banyan tree (Ficus indica), and, mixing them with the seeds of the Karanj (Galedupa arborea), place them in the mouth, when the wished for effect will be observed. Here end the prescriptions for delaying the orgasm of the man, and begin the Vájíkarana ? (aphrodisiacs), which the wise of old have discovered, with a view of restoring physical strength and vigor. It is evident that the recipes given above are of no use to an impotent or to a very weak person: it is, therefore, necessary also to know the remedies which comfort the heart and excite desire, at the same time giving a power of satisfying them.?
First Vájíkarana
Having exposed the juice of the Bhúya-Kohali (the Solanum jacquini, a prickly plant), to the sun till dried, mix it with clarified butter, sugar-candy, and honey. This prescription gives the strength of ten men, and enables the patient to conquer ten women.
Second Vájíkarana
Take the bark of the Anvallí (the emblic myrobalm, an astringent nut; Phyllanthus emblica), extract the sap, expose to the sun till dried, mix with powder of the same tree, and before congress eat this powder with clarified butter, sugar-candy, and honey; a wonderful development will be the result; even an old man will become a young man.
Third Vájíkarana
Take powder of the Kuili (Cow-itch, or Dolichos pruriens), of the Kanta-gokhru (Caltrops, the Tribulus lanuginosus), of the Kákri, or cucumber, of the Chikaná Hedysarum lagopodioides, of the Lechí, and of the Laghushatávarí (Asparagus racemosus), and mix them in equal parts with milk; the patient will at once recover flesh and vigor.
Fourth Vájíkarana
Steep the grains of Uríd (the well-known pulse Mung, or Phaseolus radiata or P. mungo) in milk and sugar, and expose for three days to the sun; grind it to powder, knead into a cake, fry in clarified butter, and eat every morning; the patient, though smitten with years, will gain enormous vigor, and enjoy a hundred women.
Fifth Vájíkarana
Take ten máshás (150 grains) of inner bark of the Moh tree (Bassia latifolia, whose flowers yield a well-known spirituous liquor), rub down in a mortar, eat, and drink cow?s milk upon it; the effect will be that of the preceding.
Sixth Vájíkarana
Take seeds of the White Tál-makháná and of Devabhat (wild rice, growing near tanks and swamps), of each ten máshás, mix with equal weight of honey, and eat at night; the effect will be the same as above.
Seventh Vájíkarana
Mix equal parts of the juice of the Kante-shevatí (Rosa glandulifera) expressed from the leaves, and clarified butter, boil with ten parts of milk, sugar and honey, drink habitually, and great strength of back will be the result.
Eighth Vájíkarana
Take Loha-bhasma (a preparation from oxide of iron) powder of Triphalá (literally ?the three myrobalans,? i.e., the yellow or chebulic myrobalan, Terminalia chébula, the beleric myrobalan, or Terminalia belerica, and the emblic myrobalan or Phyllanthus emblica) and juice of licorice (Jyestha-madh, Glycorrhiza glabra): mix with clarified butter and honey, and take every day at sunset; the result will be the salacity of a sparrow, a bird which enjoys the females some ten or twenty times in succession. Here end the remedies which comfort the heart and which excite desire. But when the Linga is soft or small, it is quite incapable of satisfying the wife, and of inducing her to love and to be subject to the husband. Hence it is necessary to offer recipes for thickening and enlarging that member, making it sound and strong, hard and lusty.
First Prayoga
Take equal quantities of Chikaná (Hedysarum lagopodioides), of Lechí, of Kosht (Costus specicosus or arabicus) of Vekhand (orris root), of Gajapimpalí (Pothos officinalis), of Askhand (Physalis flexuosa) in sticks, and of Kanher-root (oleander, Nerium odorum), pound and levigate with butter, apply the result to the part, and after two ghari (48 minutes) it will assume an equine magnitude.?
Second Prayoga
Take equal parts of powdered Rakta-bol (myrrh, so called because it increases the blood),? of Manashíl (red sulfurate of arsenic), of Costus arabicus, of aniseed? and of borax; levigate in oil of Sesamum orientale, anoint the member, and the desired erethrism will follow.
Third Prayoga
Take equal parts of Saindhava (rock salt), of pepper, of costus, of the Ringani-root (prickly nightshade), of Aghárá-filaments (Achyranthes aspera) of Askhand (physalisflexuosa), of barley, of Urid (Phaselus mungo), of the long pepper, of white Shiras (a kind of mustard), and of Til (Jingilee or sesamum), pound them, rub them with honey, and apply to the outer border of the ear. This medicament produces enormous growth, and, if done to a woman, it will cause the breasts to swell.
Fourth Prayoga
Take Bibvá or marking nuts (Semicarpus anacardium), black salt,? and leaves of the lotus-flower, reduce to ashes, and wet these with the juice of the prickly nightshade (Solanum jacquini), then anoint the Linga with the egesta of the Mahishi or she-buffalo, and apply the ashes. It will immediately become larger, and strong as the wooden pestle used for pounding rice. This is considered the most efficacious prescription.
Fifth Prayoga
Mix Lodra-bark (Sympolocos racemose? Morinda citrifolia?), Hirákas (copperas, green vitriol or sulfate of iron); Gajapimpilí (Pothos officinalis), and Chikaná (Hedysarum lagopodioides) with Til or sesamum oil, and apply to the Linga, when it will wax great. If done to a woman it will cause the labiæ to swell.
Sixth Prayoga
Mix Dorlí fruit (Solanum macrorhizon), marking-nuts, and rind of the pomegranate (fruit) with bitter oil (of the mustard, Sinapis dichotoma, used chiefly for burning), and apply to the part, which will be greatly enlarged.
Here end the recipes for increasing the length and breadth of the Linga, and they are followed by the inverse process of narrowing and closing the Yoní. As women advance in years, and especially after childbirth, a certain enlargement takes place, followed by softness and flaccidity of the part. Hence it is necessary to give prescriptions for rendering it small and hard, thereby increasing the enjoyment of the husband, especially when he is in the flower of life.
First Prescription
Take the lotus, stalk as well as blossom, pound in milk, knead into small balls, and place inside the Yoní, when even a woman of fifty will become like a virgin.
Second Prescription
Take a bit of fir bark (Pinus deodaru), and pound it with turmeric, with (Dáru-halad) (zedoary), and with the filaments (pollen?) of the lotus flower; apply internally, the result will be great constriction of the tissues.
Third Prescription
Take the pounded seed of Tál-makháná, with the juice of the same seed, and apply inside and outside the Yoní. The effect will be instant induration.
Fourth Prescription
Pound together equal quantities of the Triphala (the three myrobalans specified above), of the Dháváti-flower (Grislea tomentosa), and of the inner body of the Jámbhulí (rose-apple tree), and the Sánvarí-tree (silk cotton-tree, Bombax heptaphyllum) with honey; apply it inside the Yoní, and the effect will be a resemblance to that of an unmarried woman.
Fifth Prescription
Pound together the seeds of the Karu-bhonpalí (bitter white pompion, or pumpkin, Curcubita lagenaria), and bark of the Lodhra-tree (Sympolocos racemose? Morinda citrifolia?), apply them inside the Yoní and the hollowness which is felt after child birth will at once be filled up.
Sixth Prescription
Take ?Askhand-shoots, Chikaná, Onvá (or Ajvini, a kind of dill or bishop?s weed), zedoary, blue lotus, costus and Válá, or Khaskhas (the grass whose roots are used as ?Tatties,? Andropogon muricata); mix in equal parts, pound with water, and apply internally every day; the result will be very satisfactory constriction.
Seventh Prescription
Take the salt made by boiling and evaporating the bark of the Moh-tree (Bassia latifolia), mix with honey, and apply it as a suppository to the Yoní, filling the later up to its lips every day; the effect will be that of tanning.? Here end the recipes for contracting and hardening the Yoní; but this part requires further treatment, and it will be necessary to offer a variety of detached recipes. The result will be to remove certain inconveniences, and to supply their place by good qualities. And first of perfuming the member, which will be given in two recipes.?
First Recipe
Take oil of Shiras (a kind of mustard) and the extract from the Jáí, or Jasmine flower; let them be heated together over a slow fire, and be every day applied internally. There will be nothing unpleasant during or after the time of congress.
Second Recipe
Take a piece of pine (Pinus deodaru), sesamum oil, Shegwa, or tree horse-radish (Guilandina moringa), pomegranate bark, bark of the bitter Ním-tree (the Persian lilac, Caloyer tree, Melia azadiracht indica), and flowers of the yellow Champak (Michelia champaca); extract the oil, and apply internally, with the same result. The following three Recipes will be found useful in removing and destroying the body-pile (poil amatoire):?
First Recipe
Place powdered oxide of lead in bitter oil; expose to sun for seven days, and apply to the ?house of Smara,?? when all the hair will fall off.
Second Recipe
Put calcined and powdered conch-shell? in the juice of the banana or plantain tree (Musa paradisiaco, and M. sapientum); keep in the sun for seven days, and mix with a little Haritál (orpiment, yellow arsenic, or sulfurate of arsenic); then apply it to the Yoní, and all the hair will disappear.
Third Recipe
If Hartál and the shades of Palásha wood (Butea frondosa) be levigated in the juice of the plantain-tree, and applied to the part, no hair will ever grow again.? When the monthly ailment is suddenly arrested, either by accident or disease, great evils result; and for their removal the following remedies are offered by the wise:-
First Remedy
The woman who will levigate in water the fallen leaves of the Pingaví, or Karad-kangoní (a scandent shrub, the heart-pea, Celastrus panicolata), and the blossoms of the Jasvad (shoe-flower), and continue to drink it, will presently be restored to her normal state.
Second Remedy
Let a woman take equal parts of Tandul (rice),? Durva (Doob-grass, bent grass, or Agrestis linearis, the well-known gramen sacred to Ganesha), and pine-wood (P. deodaru), reduce to powder, mix with water, and drink. But if, on the other hand, it is judged necessary to abate the immoderate appearance of the menses, the following remedies will be found efficacious:-
First Remedy
Let a woman take equal parts of Hirada-dal (bark of yellow, or chebulic myrobalans, of bitter Ním-bark,? and of Anwal-kathí (dried myrobalans), pound, mix with water, and drink for six successive days; the desired effect will be produced.
Second Remedy
Let a woman take equal parts of the juice of the Kapitya-fruit, (the elephant-apple, wood-apple or feroni), and of the Chivá (small bamboo), and drink it mixed with honey; she will find it equally efficacious. The following prescriptions are invaluable for conceiving and becoming gravid, but first the field (womb) must be duly purified by the following:-
Prescription?
Let a woman mix oxide of iron with calcined gold and copper, and make it into an electuary with honey; she must then eat it from the fourth (the time of bathing and purification) to the sixth day after the monthly ailment, and the field will be duly cleansed. When this is done, the following prescriptions will be found efficacious:-
First Prescription
Let a woman take powdered Nága-kesar buds (a small Cassia, Mesua ferrea), mix with clarified butter, and eat for three consecutive days after the fourth day, at the same time, abstaining from any food but ?Dughdánu,? that is to say, eating anything with milk; the result of the first congress will be evident.
Second Prescription
Let a woman make a decoction of ?Askhand (Physalis flexuosa), Gulvel (Menispermum glabrum?, Cocculus cordifolius?), and of the resin called Laghu-Rál, and drink on the fourth day.
Third Prescription
Let a woman take the root of the Játwand (shoe-flower), which has been pulled up by her husband in the Pushya Nakshatra; eat it with honey, and at the same time adhere to the milk diet.
Fourth Prescription
Let a woman rub down in milk the root of the Mahálung (common citron); boil it for a long time, and insert into it clarified butter; it must be drunk three days after the monthly ailment.
Fifth Prescription
Let a woman pound the root of white Chikaná, which has been gathered during the Pushya-Nakshatra, and mix with ten Máshás of the same root pounded, with an equal part of powdered licorice root, and forty Máshás of sugar candy; this must be taken by the woman after the monthly impurity, in the milk of a cow which has brought forth a male calf of one color. Nothing else must be eaten on the day of adhibiting this medicine; and, on the following day after congress with the husband at night, the woman must confine herself to rice and milk.
Sixth Prescription
The woman who will continue to drink in cow?s milk equal parts of dry ginger powdered, of pepper, of the long pepper, of the prickly nightshade (Solanum jacquinia), and of cassia buds, will conceive and bear a son, no matter how long she has been barren. Here end the medicines which result in pregnancy. But it is not enough that the woman become gravid, she must also be protected from miscarriage and other accidents. The following are the recipes to be adopted by the mother that is about to be:-
First Recipe
Let a woman take of fine clay which adheres to the potter?s hand, when he is fashioning his jar, and drink it in goat?s milk. This will defend her from all injury.?
Second Recipe
Take equal parts of powdered liquorice,? Lodhara-bark and dried emblic myrobalans; these must be drunk for seven days with milk in case of the f?tus becoming misplaced, a result of the falling of the womb.
Third Recipe
Let a woman boil in milk, clarified butter, honey, and the root of the red lotus-flower; after long seething, the decoction must be allowed to cool, and it should be drunk for seven days. This medicine will prevent vomiting, irregular longings, and the vitiation of the three humors-bile, blood, and phlegm. Here end the medicines which obviate miscarriage and accidents during pregnancy; the following are the prescriptions that ensure easy labor and easy deliverance:-
First Prescription
Let a woman take equal quantities of powdered citron, and the bark of the Bassia latifolia, mix with clarified butter and honey, and continue to use the electuary; her travail will be light.
Second Prescription
Let a woman collect soot from the hearth or fire-place, and drink it in cold water which has been drawn the day before.
Third Prescription
Invite the Gunj or Chanotí-tree (the Abrus precatorius, whose red and black beads are the original ?carat? of the goldsmith) on Saturday, pull up the root on the following Sunday, and bind it with a black thread to the woman?s hair and waist.
Fourth Prescription
Let a holy man recite over water the following Mantra or charm:? with whose mysteries he is familiar, and give it to the woman to drink. Here end the medicines for ensuring easy labor. On the other hand, it may be held desirable to limit the members of the family, in which case the following prescriptions will be found useful:-?
First Prescription
The woman who will eat every day for a fortnight forty Máshás of molasses (Jagri) which is three years old, will remain barren for the rest of her life.
Second Prescription
Let a woman drink for three days after the fourth (purification day) a decoction of Chitraka (Ceylon leadword, Plumbago zeylonica) boiled with rice water.?
Third Prescription
The woman who will drink for three days after the fourth a decoction of the Kallambha-plant (Nauclea cadamba or parvifolia) and the feet of jungle-flies, will never have children.
Fourth Prescription
Levigate twenty Máshás of marking-nut (Semicarpus anacardium), boil with Dhûn or water in which rice has been washed, and drink for seven days, during which the monthly ailments last; the result will be life-long barrenness. Here end the prescriptions for limiting a family. The following will be useful as cosmetics, and first of thickening and beautifying the hair:-
First Recipe
Take flowers of sesamum (the grain), and the fruit of caltrops (Tribulus lanuginosus), levigate in cow?s milk, and apply to the hair for seven days; however thin it may have been, it will become thick and long.
Second Recipe
Levigate croton seeds (C. tiglium) and Sambhar or elk-horn,? boil in sesamum oil and apply to the hair, which will so change its tawny color for lamp black; and however weak and inclined to drop off it may be, it will lose all its infirmity.
Third Recipe
Rub down finely powdered Gunj-beans (Abrus precatorius) with honey, and apply to the head; this medicament will remove the disease called ?Indra-lupta-roga,? or baldness of the crown.?
Fourth Recipe
Burn ivory, pound it well, and apply it mixed with water to the head; the latter will recover hair. Here end the prescriptions for thickening and beautifying the hair; the following are the recipes for obtaining a good black color:-
First Recipe
Take blossoms of the Mango-tree, the fruits of the three myrobalans, the bark of Arjun-vriksha (Arjuna-tree, or Pentaptera arjuna), and the rind of the penduré shrub; grind them well and boil them in sesamum oil, which now gets the name of Nílá-tel, oil of indigo- i.e., of dark color. This medicament is by far the most potent for dyeing the hair-what need I say more, except that if the wing of the Hansa (wild white goose) be dipped into it, the hue will at once take the color of night?
Second Recipe
Mix the powder of Persian gall-nut, long pepper, indigo leaves, and rock salt (the mordant) with sweet gruel of wheat, and the result will be a brilliant dark dye.?
Third Recipe
Let a man drink every day for a month forty Máshás of Ním (Melim)-tree oil;? his hair will gradually change color and become glaring black as the Bhramara?s wing (the ?bumble-bee? of India.)
Fourth Recipe
Pound together Gorochana (Bezoar stones),? black sesamum seed, Kata-janghá (the heart pea, literally ?crow?s thigh?) and Shatávari (Asparagus racemosus), and apply to the hair: it will soon turn black. For the purpose of whitening and bleaching the hair, wise men propose the following:- Wet the grain of sesamum with the juice of the Nivarung (Euphorbia pentagonia), dry in the sun, and extract the oil; whatever part of the body is touched by this, the hair there growing will be white and bright as crystal. For renewing the hair of the head, there is the following:-
Recipe
Steep dried myrobalans in juice of the euphorbia (E. pentagonia), sun dry, pound, and apply to the hair. It often happens that eruptions break out and leave black spots upon the face, greatly marring its comeliness. The following, therefore, are valuable prescriptions for clearing the skin:-
First Prescription
If Vekhand (orris-root),? elk-horn,? and coriander-seed be pounded together and applied to the face for three days, the exanthemata which break out upon the skin of young people of both sexes, presently disappear.
Second Prescription
Let a man reduce to powder the thorns of the silk-cotton-tree (Bombax heptaphyllum), levigate it in milk, and apply it to the face: the effect will be all that he can desire.
Third Prescription
Take Lodhra, rock salt, white Shiras (mustard), and Vekhand, knead with water, and rub upon the skin. The following two recipes will remove the black color of the epidermis and restore it to its original lighter tint:-
First Recipe
Levigate in milk, sesamum seed, coriander, Sháhá-jire (cumin; others say Nigella indica), and Shiras-seed; if this be applied to the body for seven days it will make the aspect clean and brilliant as the moon.
Second Recipe
Take red Sanders (or sandal) wood, Tetví (the yellow wood of the Bignonia chelonoides), root-bulbs of the sweet-smelling grass (Cyperus juncifolius), licorice, Tandulja (Amaranthus oleraceus), turmeric, and zedoary; levigate with the sap drawn from crushed banana or plantain-stems, and apply to the body for seven days. The two following are useful recipes for enlarging the breasts of women:-
First Recipe
Take shoots of ?Askhand, Vekhand, Kosht, black cumin-seed (bitter fennel?), oleander-root and cloves; pound, levigate in a mortar with water and butter; and, lastly, apply to the breasts, which will rise firm and hard.
Second Recipe
Take equal parts of the kernels of the Badri (Ber, or jujube fruit, zizyphus), oleander-root, snake fat (?), Kankol (Myrtus pimenta), and the heart of Jahád wood (the China cubeb tree?); pound, levigate, and use as the former prescription. The following three recipes are invaluable for raising and hardening pendulous bosoms:- ?
First Recipe
Boil the juice of the Narvel plant (Narwelia zeylonica) in sesamum oil, and apply to the breasts; it will be efficacious, however flaccid they may have been.
Second Recipe
Boil powder of the pomegranate fruit-rind in mustard oil, and apply to the breasts of any woman; even though she be old, they will soon become fat, fair and round.
Third Recipe
Take equal parts of Rui juice (gigantic swallow-wort, asclepias or Callotropis gigantea), levigate with Chikaná Tridhár (leaves of the indigo tree?), Onvá (dry ginger?), sensitive-plant, turmeric, and zedoary; and boil in sesamum oil, or in clarified butter of the cow, with great care, so that the contents of the pot may not remain raw nor be overboiled. If this ointment be placed in a woman?s nostrils, the breasts will at once be drawn up. Moreover, if the same be mixed with water in which rice has been washed, and be drunk by a girl not older than sixteen, her breasts, will be enlarged and drawn up, and will never become pendulous in after-life. It will now be right to describe the Angarág,? or unguents, which applied to the body after ablution, naturally breed love. Let sandal-wood Válá (Andropogon muricatum, vulgarly, ?Cuscus?), Lodhra, and mango-bark be powdered very fine, and mixed with the water of Hardá (yellow, or Chebulic myrobalans). This being rubbed on the skin, will give it a charming fragrance. The following six recipes are useful in removing the evil savor of too much perspiration, caused by the heat of the sun, and in arresting the secretion in warm weather:-
First Recipe
Pound together, and apply leaves of the Nim and the Lodhra, with the rind of the pomegranate fruit, and bark of the Sátvani, mixed with Hardá-water.
Second Recipe
Pound together the seeds of the tamarind and the Karanj (Galedupa arborea, Roxb.; Pomgamia glabra, Grati.; bonducilla, nut-tree, Grey.), and the root of the Bel tree, mixed with Hardá-water. This is sovereign for the axillæ.
Third Recipe
Pound Nága-keshar, aloewood, Válá and sandal-wood, with the sap squeezed out of the inner bark of the Jujube tree.
Fourth Recipe
Pound together parts of the fallen flowers of the walnut tree,? and the fruit of the Janbali (rose apple); this arrests perspiration in warm weather.
Fifth Recipe
Pound together Nim-leaves, Lodhra, lotus-root, and pomegranate-bark; it will have the same effect.
Sixth Recipe
Pound the flower-filaments of the Shiras tree (Mimosa shirisa?), Nágakesar, Válá, and Lodhra; this may either be applied to the body or eaten. The following are sweet-smelling oils and unguents, to be used after bathing:-
First
Place Bél-leaves in sweet oil (sesamum), and expose them to the sun till dry; add successively Bakul (the flowering tree, Mimusopus elengi), Marvá (sweet Marjorum, Origanum marjorana), Ashoka flowers (Jonesia asoca) and the flowers of the Kevadá (Pandanus odoratissimus); moisten with oil, and keep in the shade. This preparation has a surpassing fragrance much affected by the voluptuous.
Second
Pound together the seeds of small cardamoms, Nágar-motha (a sweet-smelling grass), Nakhá (Unguis odoratus, or black Byzantine), Sona-kevadá (yellow Pandanus odoratissimus), Jatámánsí (Indian spikenard), Kachorá (Salvia bengalensis), and Tamál-patra (leaves of Laurus cassia, or of Xanthochymus pictorius); this medicament, applied to the body and hair, at bathing time, produces a delicious perfume.
Third
Pound together Anvalkathí, Sona-kevadá, Nágar-mothá, Válá, Haradá, Jatámánsí. This perfume, once applied, is capable of outlasting the fortnight.
Fourth
Pound together equal parts of sandal-wood, Elá-dáná (cardamom seeds), Kachorá, Tamál-patra, Haradá, and seeds or beans of the Shegva (the horse-radish tree, or Guilandina moringa seed, Hyperanthera moringa), with Nágar-mothá and Válá; the result will be a most odorous unguent.
Fifth
Pound together equal quantities of Kápûrá (camphor), Kunkumágar (a kind of sandal-wood),? Lodhra, Lohbán (frankincense), Válá, Nágar-mothá and Kálá-válá (the dark variety of Andropogon muricatum).
Sixth
Apply to the body a composition of Tamál-patra, Válá, sandal-wood, Kálá-válá, and Krishná-graû (black aloe-wood, Aqualaria agellochum).
Seventh
Reduce to fine powder Kastûrí (musk), Nága-keshar, Shíla-ras (benzoin or olibanum supposed to ooze out of stone), Vishesha-dhûp (a kind of incense, the sap of Boswellia serrata), Ganeri-kápûr (a kind of camphor), nutmegs and Lobhán; mix with the juice of betel leaves, and apply to the body. This perfume is fitted for Rajahs, and consequently for all other men.
Eighth
Take the following drugs in the following proportions-one part of Nágar-mothá, two parts of costus, Lohbán and Kápûr, four parts of Haradá, five parts of Shila-ras, and nine parts of Nakhlá (Unguis odoratus or black Byzantine); this unguent is called Kástûrí-dul (a bit of musk), and is perhaps the best fitted for Rajahs.
Ninth
Pound together one part of Nakhlá, Haradá, Vekhand, Nágar-mothá, Jatimánsí, Shopá (aniseed), and Karanj-seed, two parts of Son-kevadá, and three parts of camphor, black sanders, musk, nutmegs and Jatámánsí; this perfume is called Sugandha-garbha; the materials are difficult to procure, consequently it is the more prized. To the above may be added five prescriptions causing the mouth to exhale a pleasant smell.
First
Pound together Kalmí-dálchiní (a fine kind of cinnamon), mace cardamom-grains, Nakhlá, Sona-kevadá and nutmegs; make into pills, and eat with betel leaf.?
Second
Pound together Kesar (saffron), Kankol (the Myrtus pimenia), Lohbán, nutmegs and coriander-seed, made into pill and use as above.
Third
Take for a fortnight, every morning and evening, a powder composed of Ekangí-mura (marjoram), Nága-kesa and costus.
Fourth
If carats (abrus-beans) and costus, both reduced to powder, be mixed with honey, and be taken for a fortnight, morning and evening, the breath will be as the perfume of the Pandanus odoratissimus.
Fifth
Pound the ashes of the Apámárga-vriksh (Acepranthes aspera), and steep in the juice of mango-leaves; dry in the sun and eat every morning a little of this Kshára (alkali) with areca-nuts and betel-leaf. It is the best of all prescriptions for purifying the breath after food.

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