Garudapurana 1.170

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 170
Dhanvantari said: / Fever is stated to be of eight kinds: from each [doṣa] separately, combinations of two, all three combined, and exogenous. / One should administer water boiled and cooled with mustā, parpaṭaka, uśīra, candana, udīcya, and nāgara to pacify thirst and fever.

First, one should give a digestive preparation of nāgara, devakāṣṭha, dhānyāka, and the two bṛhatīs to a fevered patient to remove fever.

A decoction prepared from āragvadha, abhayā, mustā, tiktā, and granthika / is digestive, beneficial in fever with āma and accompanied by pain.

Having ground madhūka pith, rock salt, vacā, uṣaṇa, and kaṇā in equal parts / finely with water, one should administer it as an errhine to restore consciousness.

A purgative decoction prepared from trivṛt, viśālā, triphalā, kaṭukā, and āragvadha / with alkali should be drunk to remove all fevers.

A decoction of mahauṣadha, amṛtā, mustā, candana, uśīra, and dhānyaka, / combined with sugar and honey, cures tertian fever.

Binding the root of apāmārga around the waist with seven red threads / on a Sunday certainly destroys tertian fever.

An ascetic who has died sonless on the northern bank of the Gaṅgā: / one should offer water with sesame to him, and quotidian fever departs.

Unctuous substances prepared with the decoction and paste of guḍūcī, / triphalā, vāsaka, mṛdvīkā, and balā destroy fever.

A decoction of dhātrī, śivā, kaṇā, and vahni puts an end to all fevers. / I shall now declare medicine that cures fever accompanied by diarrhoea.

A decoction made of pṛśniparṇī, balā, bilva, nāgara, utpala, and dhānyaka, / with pāṭhā, indrayava, bhūnimba, mustā, parpaṭaka, and mahauṣadha, / conquers diarrhoea with āma and fever.

A decoction of nāgara, ativiṣā, mustā, bhūnimba, amṛtā, and vatsaka / removes all fevers and destroys all types of diarrhoea.

Milk boiled with mustā, parpaṭaka, and ginger; / [or gruel prepared with] śālaparṇī, pṛśniparṇī, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārī,

balā, śvadaṃṣṭrā, bilva and the rest, pāṭhā, nāgara, and coriander: / this, combined with diet, is beneficial for all who suffer from diarrhoea.

A decoction of bilva and mango seed with sugar candy and honey removes diarrhoea; / similarly, kuṭaja bark combined with kaṇā is beneficial in diarrhoea.

A decoction of vatsaka, ativiṣā, viśvā, kaṇā, and tuberous root, / when administered, cures diarrhoea rich in āma and colic, accompanied by blood.

Now the treatment of grahaṇī: grahaṇī destroys the digestive fire. / Ghee prepared with the decoction and paste of citraka cures grahaṇī, / destroys abdominal tumours, swelling, dropsy, spleen disease, colic, and piles, and enkindles the digestive fire.

Sauvarcala, rock salt, viḍa, and udbhid salt, / in equal proportion with sea salt: one should employ the five salts here.

The cure for piles is threefold: medicine, the knife, and alkali or fire; / and know that freshly churned buttermilk is destructive of piles.

To destroy piles, one should consume guḍūcī combined with pippalī, / abhayā fried in ghee, trivṛt, and amlarulikā.

A combination of sesame seeds and sugarcane juice destroys piles and skin diseases. / Pañcakola combined with black pepper and tryūṣaṇa enkindles the digestive fire.

Harītakī eaten with nāgara or jaggery, / or accompanied by rock salt, continuously stimulates the digestive fire.

A decoction prepared from the three fruits, amṛtā, tiktā, bhūnimba, and nimba, / mixed with honey, destroys jaundice along with chlorosis.

A modaka made of trivṛt, triphalā, śyāmā, pippalī, sugar, and honey / puts an end to sannipāta and cures haemorrhagic disease and fever.

While vāsā is present and there is hope for life, / why should a patient suffering from haemorrhagic disease, consumption, or cough waste away?

A decoction of āṭarūpaka, mṛdvīkā, and pathyā with sugar / and rich in honey destroys cough, dyspnoea, and haemorrhagic disease.

The juice of vāsā drunk with sugar candy and honey conquers bleeding; / milk boiled with śallakī, badarī, jambū, priyāla, āmra, arjuna, and dhava, / drunk with plenty of honey, severally stops haemorrhage.

Having drunk ghee prepared with the fresh juice of nirguṇḍī together with its roots, fruits, and leaves, / one emaciated by consumption becomes free of disease and shines like a god.

Harītakī, kaṇā, dry ginger, and black pepper combined with jaggery: / this is declared to be a modaka that cures cough and destroys thirst and loss of appetite.

One prastha of ghee prepared in thirty palas of the juice of each of kaṇṭakārī and guḍūcī / removes cough and enkindles the digestive fire.

Pippalī, dhātrī, sugar, and dry ginger mixed with honey cure hiccup; / one afflicted with hiccup and asthma should drink bhārṅgī with dry ginger in hot water.

In hoarseness of voice, one should hold in the mouth catechu smeared with oil, / or pathyā combined with pippalī, or combined with nāgara.

Powder of viḍaṅga and triphalā taken with honey stops vomiting; / or one should drink a decoction of mango and jambū mixed with honey.

It expels all vomiting and relieves thirst; / triphalā, drunk or taken with honey, cures vertigo and fainting.

Pañcagavya taken as a drink is beneficial, curing epilepsy, demonic seizures, and the like; / ash-gourd juice, or ghee prepared with licorice, produces that same effect.

And aged ghee processed with brāhmī juice, vacā, kuṣṭha, and śaṅkhapuṣpī / should be consumed, dispelling insanity, demonic possession, and epilepsy.

Ghee cooked in a decoction and paste of aśvagandhā along with four times as much milk / pacifies vāta, is aphrodisiac, promotes muscle, and produces male offspring.

Drinking powder of nīlī and muṇḍīrikā combined with honey and ghee, / or a decoction of guḍūcī, cures gout, which is exceedingly difficult to overcome.

Five chebulic myrobalan fruits with jaggery destroy skin disease, hemorrhoids, and vāta disorders; / or the fresh juice, paste, powder, or decoction of guḍūcī,

cooked ghee prepared with black guḍūcī decoction and paste together with milk, / is the destroyer of gout and pacifies skin diseases, ulcers, and other conditions.

Guggulu with triphalā removes gout and fainting; / and guggulu taken with cow's urine is for the destruction of stiffness of the thighs.

A decoction of dry ginger and gokṣura cures the pain and colic of rheumatoid arthritis; / [a decoction] prepared with the ten roots, guḍūcī, castor, rāsnā, dry ginger, and devadāru,

combined with black pepper and jaggery, dispels great swelling; / a modaka sweet is prescribed to cure cough and destroy thirst and loss of appetite.

In thirty palas of juice each from kaṇṭakārī and guḍūcī, / a prastha of ghee is prepared; it cures cough and kindles the digestive fire in the heart.

Accompanied by long pepper, āmalakī, sugar, dry ginger, black pepper, and rock salt, / a decoction taken with castor oil destroys severe, clogged vāta.

Balā, punarnavā, castor, the two bṛhatīs, and gokṣura, / drunk with asafoetida and rock salt, crushes colic caused by vāta.

One should administer a boiled preparation of triphalā, neem, licorice, kaṭukā, and āragvadha / mixed with honey to pacify burning sensation and colic.

Triphalā water with licorice destroys duodenal colic; / licking maṇḍūra purified with cow's urine combined with triphalā powder, / along with honey and ghee, destroys colic born of all three doshas.

Trivṛt, long pepper, and harītakī in two, four, and five parts, / made into pills with an equal amount of jaggery, dispel the affliction of constipation.

Harītakī, barley alkali, pippalī, and likewise trivṛt— / this powder should be drunk with ghee to destroy upward movement of wind.

Trivṛt, harītakī, and śyāmā impregnated with the milky sap of snuhī / and taken as pills with cow's urine are supreme in relieving abdominal distension.

With tryūṣaṇa, triphalā, coriander, viḍaṅga, cavya, and citraka / made into a paste, processed ghee, carefully refined, cures abdominal tumors caused by vāta.

Dried ginger root procured and taken with milk cures heart pain; / and one should drink ghee with half as much sauvarcala salt and harītakī.

Or with pippalī and pāṣāṇabheda, powdered bitumen, / or with taṇḍulīya and jaggery, one suffering from painful urination survives.

One afflicted with vāta disorders, experiencing colic and suffering from dysuria, / should drink [a preparation of] guḍūcī, dry ginger, āmalakī, aśvagandhā, and gokṣura.

Barley alkali equal in measure to sugar cures all forms of dysuria; / or the juice of nidigdhikā along with honey destroys dysuria.

Salt with triphalā paste is taught to dispel retention of urine; / when urine is obstructed, one should introduce camphor powder into the penis.

A decoction made from horseradish root, pungent and hot, shatters stones; / āmalakī juice mixed with honey and turmeric cures all urinary disorders; / a decoction of the group of eight beginning with triphalā and dāru, with honey, cures urinary disorders.

Sleeplessness, sexual intercourse, physical exercise, and deep contemplation— / one desiring to abandon obesity should gradually increase these.

One eating barley and barnyard millet with honey-water cures obesity; / drinking hot food or broth, one becomes thin in body.

Tryūṣaṇa along with cavya and cumin, asafoetida, sauvarcala salt, and āmalakī, / roasted and drunk with honey, destroys fat and stimulates all digestive fires.

In four parts of water, two parts of cow's urine, and citraka, / one suffering from abdominal enlargement should drink a prastha of ghee processed with pastes, together with milk.

Increasing by degrees for ten days, ten pippalī fruits a day, / one should increase it with milk, and in the same way gradually reduce it again.

One should eat milk and sixty-day rice; thus taking a thousand pippalī fruits / is nourishing, promoting longevity, and destroys enlargement of the spleen and abdomen.

Ghee prepared with a decoction and paste of punarnavā cures swelling; / one suffering from swelling should take it with cow's urine, or pippalī with milk, / or harītakī with an equal quantity of jaggery, or dry ginger.

Having drunk castor oil prepared with balā and combined with milk, / a man overcomes intestinal hernia accompanied by flatulence and colic.

A paste produced from harītakī fried in castor oil, / combined with pippalī and rock salt, is supreme in curing scrotal enlargement.

Cervical lymphadenitis is destroyed through errhines of nirguṇḍī root; / fomentation with snuhī and gaṇḍīrikā eliminates tumors.

A poultice of hastikarṇapalāśa, however, cures goiter; / with dhattūra, castor, nirguṇḍī, punarnavā, horseradish tree, and mustard,

an external application destroys elephantiasis, even if longstanding and extremely severe; / horseradish tree, rock salt, and asafoetida destroy internal abscesses.

Śarapuṅkhā combined with honey heals all wounds; / or a plaster of neem leaves reduces swelling and heals wounds.

Triphalā, khadira, dāruharidrā, and nyagrodha purify ulcers; / the physician should sprinkle a fresh traumatic wound that is painful

with slightly warm ghee mixed with licorice; / recognizing accidental wounds, the physician should administer cold treatment

accompanied by ghee and honey, pacifying the heat of pitta and blood; / a decoction prepared from bamboo bark, castor, gokṣura, and vāridā,

drunk with asafoetida and rock salt, purges blood lodged in the abdominal cavity; / or one should eat food with fatless soup of barley, jujube, and kulattha,

or drink barley gruel mixed with rock salt; / the juice of karañja, neem, and nirguṇḍī destroys maggots in wounds.

Guggulu made into pills combined with triphalā powder, / requiring no dietary restrictions, eliminates constipation and heals hernia.

Oil prepared with the fresh juice of dūrvā grass, or with kampillaka, / and with a paste of dāruharidrā bark, is foremost in healing wounds.

Thus ends the one hundred and seventieth chapter, entitled “Explanation of the Treatment of Fever and Other Diseases,” in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part named Pūrvakhaṇḍa in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.