उपवनविनोद (आचार्य शार्ङ्गधर - वृक्षायुर्वेद, भू-जल संधान एवं उद्यान-विज्ञान सटीक)

84 UPAVANA VINODA
178. Trees of billious temper cannot bear the rays of the sun, are of
yellow colour, and shed their branches over and over again, and bear prema-
ture fruits.
179. Trees of phlegmatic temper have their branches and leaves very
glossy, flowers and fruits well shaped and of good appearance, trunks sym-
metrical, and all parts covered with creepers.
180. Substances of pungent, bitter or caustic tastes are destructive of the
windy humour of trees; and those having bitter, hot, salty and acid juice are
destructive of the bile, and those with graceful, sweet, acid or salty juice are
destructive of the phlegm.
181. The affectations of windy humour is alleviated through the applica-
tion of the graceful things like clarified butter mixed with flesh juice; the
affectation through the bile is alleviated through the application of things
that are cold and graceful mixed with water, and the affectation through phlegm
is mollified through the application of acid things mixed with hot water, or
through pungent and bitter things.
182. Rudeness of appearance, tubercles (nodules over the body) both
of large and small size are due to windy humour which may be overcome
bp the application of Lodhra flower, cowdung, fats and kuṇapa water.
183. One should do well to realise that worms (kṛmayo) are at roots
of plants affected with tubercles, or of plants for the paleness of buds and
flowers of which no other particular cause can be assigned; and one should
do well to root out these worms with care. If now fresh urine of cows,
clarified butter, viḍaṅga, mustard and sesamum are mixed together and
applied to the trunk, then fumigated and watered with milk and water, they
(these plants) grow.
184. All kinds of worms are destroyed if one applies to the roots of
trees the barks of Karañja, Āragvada, Ariṣṭa, Saptaparṇa,—pasted in the
urine of cows together with viḍaṅga and musta.
185. The bodies of trees burnt with fire when besmeared with lotus
bulb pasted with kuṇapa water and milk, bear leaves as bright as marakata
jewels.
186. One should besmear the branch of a tree broken by wind with
the barks of Plakṣa, Arka and Udumbara trees pasted in ghee, honey and bees-
wax mixed with milk; should set it (the broken parts) as before, and tie it
to a post fixed nearby, and apply finely powdered earth to the fractured part.
And if it be sprinkled with milk over and over again, and (the plant) watered
at the root, the tree gets round and produces abundance of flowers and
fruits.
187-188. The treatment of trees struck by lightning is being given
here: Ghana (musta) uśīra, madhuka, mudga, māṣa, yava and tila pasted