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sores with cleane water before apply fresh leaves.
And in few dayes the sores will be dried up.
(jf) Receipt for french pox.
Owlah [? aonla, myrobalan] 2 Tola
Gokeroo [gokhuru, Tribulus terrestris\ 2
Talmachonna [talmakhana^ Hygrophila
spirt os a] 2
Jowacor \jau khar^ alkali from burnt
barley] 2
Sugar candy 8
Bruise all these together and straine them thorow
a cloth, and eat every morning fasting one Tola weight
till be well and find no paine in bones or elswhere,
and continue so [to] eat 3 dayes longer, and will
perfectly cure the French pox, if not of a very long
continuance. But this powder will not keep good
above 2 or 3 months.
9. REMEDIES FOR BUDHUZZUM \bad-hazml} OR
ILDIGESTION
Harl. MS. 4255, fol. 9.
(a) For the Budhuzzum, or ildigestion, which
cometh by drinking too much milk, the only remedie
is to eate a good quantity of Sugar candy. Sugar loaf
or other Sugar.
Harl. MS. 4254, fol. 13.
(£) For Budhuzzum or Ildigestion. Take 20
cloves ; bruise them and put them in water. Make
all this hot and drink it.
Harl. MS. 4254, fol. 13a.
(<:) For Digestion. Take every morning, J houre
before Sunrise, a good draught of cold water, and walke
houre after.