A charm against dysentery

Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com

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HYMN II

A charm against dysentery

1We know the father of the shaft, Parjanya, liberal nourisher,
  Know well his mother: Prithivī, Earth with her manifold
   designs.
2Do thou, O Bowstring, bend thyself around us: make my body
   stone.
  Firm in thy strength drive far away malignities and hateful
   things.
3When, closely clinging round the wood, the bowstring sings
   triumph to the swift and whizzing arrow,
  Indra, ward off from us the shaft, the missile.
4As in its flight the arrow's point hangs between earth and
   firmament,
  So stand this Munja grass between ailment and dysenteric ill!