CHAPITRE III - The Aphrodisiac.

Here is how we prepare them.

In some sweet milk, we put many pepper Ghaba, and we add to it this afternoon: 1 ° A decoction of the root of the uchala, either the seeds of the sanseviera, roxbourgiana, and, 2 ° of the hédysarum gangeticum, or the juice of this plant with her, 3 ° some juice of Kuiti and Kshirika, 4 ° Either a dough consisted with the asparagus rower and plants schvadaustra and goudachi, with addition of honey and mistletoe ( boom ? ) (we know that this last one played a role in a magic preparation at the Druids). 5 ° Either a decoction of the last two plants, with fruits of premna spinosa. 6 ° Milk sweetened in which we boil testicles of billy goat or ram. 7 ° Mixture of honey, sugar and spirit, all three in equal quantities. The juice of fennel in the milk is aphrodisiac one holy, which prolongs the life and drinks as the nectar. 8 ° A multiple decoction, similar to five first ones indicated above, whipped with eggs of sparrow (as very loving bird) returns a man capable of satisfying many women.

Another very complicated composition, containing only vegetables, gives to the man the power to serve an unlimited number of women.

The aphorism following (in verse) gives the main rule onto the material ( subject ? ):

The means to produce the vigour and the love sexual must be borrowed ( taken ? ) from the medicine, from the védas, from the magic, and from the discreet relatives ( parents ? ).

We have to try none of the effect doubtful or harmful to the health or requiring or the death of some animal, or a contact which causes a stain.

We have to use ( wear out ? ) only those who are _saints _, dedicated by _l'expérience experience ( experiment ? ) and approved by brahmanes _ [34].

[ Note 34: the words in italic show well the religious, that is compulsory character that Kama Soutra sticks to the advices and to the rules which it formulates.]