If I bring you as sustenance, O herbs, with our blessing, the soul of consumption is not destroyed—like the ancient living-grasper of old.

As soon as I take these plural nts in my hand making (the sick man) strong, the soul of the maladyperishes before (their application) as (life is driven away from the presence) of the seizer of life.

When, bringing back the vanished strength, I hold these herbs within my hand, The spirit of disease departs ere he can seize upon the life.