Garudapurana 1.171

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — [Chapter] 171.
Dhanvantari said:
Listen, Suśruta, to the treatment of sinus ulcers and other diseases.
After slitting the sinus open with a surgical instrument, the procedure for sinuses is like that for an ulcer.

With equal parts of guggulu, triphalā, and tryūṣaṇa mixed with ghee,
one conquers a sinus ulcer, a foul ulcer, colic, and fistula-in-ano.

Oil [prepared] from nirguṇḍī juice cures sinus ulcers and foul ulcers;
moreover, it is beneficial for scabies disorders by means of drink, anointing, and nasal therapy.

Guggulu, triphalā, and pippalī combined in proportions of three, five, and one part,
[made into] pills, is beneficial for those suffering from swelling, abdominal tumors, hemorrhoids, and fistula-in-ano.

Puncture of the vein in the middle of the penis brings purification in venereal sore.
Suppuration must be prevented with effort, for it causes destruction of the penis.

One should drink a decoction of paṭola, neem, triphalā, and guḍūcī
with guggulu and khadira; venereal sore is destroyed.

One should burn triphalā in an iron vessel; [this] soot, mixed with honey,
applied as an ointment on venereal sore, heals the ulcer at once.

Ghee cooked with the pastes and decoctions of triphalā, neem, bhūnimba,
karañja, khadira, and others is the supreme remedy for venereal sore.

Having recognized a fracture at the outset, one should sprinkle it with cold water.
An application of cooked [paste] should be made, and a bandaging equipped with splints.

Black gram, meat, and also clarified butter, milk, soup with wild lentil,
and nourishing food and drink should be given to the fracture patient.

One who consumes garlic paste with honey, ghee, and sugar
will swiftly attain the union of broken, shattered, and displaced bones.

Aśvattha, triphalā, and tryūṣaṇa, along with lodhra made into equal parts,
combined with an equal [amount] of guggulu, causes the healing of fractured joints.

In all skin diseases [there should be] emesis, purgation, and bloodletting.
Of vacā, vāsā, paṭola, neem, and belleric myrobalan bark,

the decoction drunk with honey and combined with madana removes vāta.
Purgation should be administered with trivṛt and the three fruits (triphalā).

An oil [cooked] with realgar and black pepper destroys skin diseases.
This ointment is for all skin diseases; [or] harītakī, five jaggery sweets, and cooked rice.

Through an ointment of karañja, elā, and gaja-pippalī with cow's urine, skin disease [is cured];
and an unction of karavīra upon one smeared with oil removes skin disease.

Turmeric, sandalwood, rāsnā, guḍūcī, along with cakramarda,
āragvadha, and karañja make an excellent ointment that cures skin diseases.

Realgar, viḍaṅga, bākucī, along with mustard seeds,
and karañja ground in urine—this ointment destroys skin disease like the sun [dispels darkness].

Viḍaṅga, cakramarda, vacā, kuṣṭha, turmeric, rock salt, and mustard,
ground in urine and sour gruel—this ointment destroys ringworm and skin disease.

The good seeds of prapunnāṭa, āmalakī, resin of śāla, and snuhī
ground in sour gruel are an excellent unction for ringworm.

One should grind leaves of āragvadha with fermented rice gruel;
it destroys ringworm, kiṭibha skin disease, and sidhma.

Bākucī drunk warm cures skin disease in one who subsists on milk.
Sesame, ghee, triphalā, honey, tryūṣaṇa, bhallātaka, and sugar:
these seven, [taken] in equal parts for a year, are aphrodisiac, promote intellect, cure skin disease, and let one live as one pleases.

Powder of viḍaṅga, triphalā, and pippalī licked with honey
destroys skin disease, worms, urinary disorders, sinus ulcers, and fistula-in-ano.

One who eats harītakī, neem, black pepper, āmalakī, and turmeric
will overcome all skin diseases after a month, without a doubt.

A khadira sprout, placed inside a jar and being burnt, [its extract]
with bibhītaka, juice of āmalakī, and honey, is a rejuvenating tonic that cures skin disease.

Having drunk a decoction of āmalakī and khadira combined with bākucī,
one swiftly destroys leukoderma white as a conch or the moon, without a doubt.

Having drunk bhallātaka oil, a man conquers the disease after a month.
Water infused with khadira, consumed through drink and the like, becomes a curer of skin disease.

Having macerated much bākucī seed with decoctions of malapū,
one should consume a karṣa [of it] without salt, and drink a decoction of bibhītaka and fig.

It destroys even incurable leukoderma; aparājitā is to be used in an ointment.
Pure vāsā, triphalā, paṭola, and karañja,

neem, asana, and kṛṣṇavetra: ghee [cooked] with [their] decoction and paste
becomes the vajraka [ghee]; [taking it, one free of] skin disease lives for a hundred years.

One should cook oil with four times [its measure] of dūrvā juice;
scabies, eczema, and cutaneous eruptions are destroyed simply by anointing [with it].

Bark of trees, arka, kuṣṭha, salts, urine,
along with gambhārī and citraka: oil [cooked] with these removes skin diseases, ulcers, and the like.

(Now the treatment of acid dyspepsia.)
Similarly, āmalakī and neem fruit, and citraka with cow's urine;
a decoction of vāsā, guḍūcī, parpaṭa, neem, bhūnimba, and bhṛṅgarāja,
with triphalā and horse gram, accompanied by honey, cures acid dyspepsia.

The three fruits (triphalā) and paṭola: a bitter decoction mixed with sugar
and drunk along with liquorice conquers fever, vomiting, and acid dyspepsia.

Vāsā-ghee, bitter ghee, and also pippalī-ghee
are to be administered in acid dyspepsia, and likewise gourd prepared with jaggery.

Pippalī combined with honey destroys acid dyspepsia;
a sweet confection of harītakī, pippalī, and jaggery removes phlegm and sluggish digestion.

Having ground cumin along with coriander, one should cook a prastha of ghee [with them];
it removes kapha, pitta, and anorexia, and relieves sluggish digestive fire and vomiting.

(Thus ends the treatment of acid dyspepsia.)
A decoction of pippalī, guḍūcī, bhūnimba, vāsā, neem, and parpaṭa,
along with khadira and soapberry, removes the pain of eruptive boils and fever.

Clarified butter combined with triphalā juice along with trivṛt and yāsa
should be administered for purgation to relieve erysipelas and fever.

A decoction called the Aṣṭaka, made of khadira, triphalā, neem,
paṭola, guḍūcī, and vāsā, conquers measles and smallpox.

It is a destroyer of skin disease, erysipelas, eruptive boils, itching, and the like.
Rubbing with powder of garlic destroys moles.

Excising warts, birthmarks, moles, and dark freckles
with a surgical instrument, one should burn them completely with caustic alkali and fire.

An ointment of paṭola and indigo cures the jvālagardabha disease.
Oil boiled with guñjā seeds and bhṛṅgarāja juice
is a destroyer of itching, dāruṇa dandruff, skin disease, and vāta disorders.

Arka bone marrow, triphalā, fennel, and bhṛṅgarāja,
when aged and boiled with iron powder and sour fermented rice-water, makes hair black.

Two prasthas of milk, with sugar, [and] a pala of liquorice,
cooked with a kuḍava of oil: that nasal medication removes premature graying.

In disease of the mouth, however, holding a mouth-rinse of triphalā [is prescribed], / as well as soot, barley-alkali, pāṭhā, vyoṣa, and rasāñjana.

Imparting radiance, triphalā, lodhra, and citraka made into powder, / held in the mouth along with honey, removes diseases of the neck, teeth, and oral cavity.

Patola, nimba, tips of jambū, and fresh shoots of mālatī: / this "five-shoot" decoction is best for cleansing the mouth.

The juice of garlic, ginger, and śigru, of pāralī and radish, / and of rudantī, lukewarm, is best for filling the ear.

In an ear with severe pain, accompanied by sound and discharging fluid, / one should drop lukewarm goat's urine powdered over with rock salt.

Oil boiled with jasmine leaf juice overcomes foul-smelling ear discharge; / dried-ginger oil and mustard oil, lukewarm, cure earache.

Milk boiled with pañcamūla, citraka, and harītakī, / clarified butter, jaggery, and ṣaḍaṅga soup are for relieving chronic rhinitis.

Diseases arising in the eyes and abdomen, catarrh, ulcers, and fevers— / these five subside in five nights through fasting.

By instillation, the juice of dhātrī relieves the irritation of the eyes, / or [that of] śigru, dāru, and rasāñjana, with honey or rock salt.

Turmeric, devadāru, rock salt, pathyā, a fresh añjana, and red ochre: / ground and applied as an external paste, they avert eye diseases.

Through an application of roasted abhayā, or triphalā combined with milk, / or ground ginger and nimba leaves, lukewarm with a little rock salt, / held briefly over the eye, swelling, itching, and pain are taken away.

Abhayā, akṣa, and amṛtā, mixed in one, two, and four parts, / licked with honey and clarified butter, or their decoction, destroys all eye diseases.

With sandalwood, triphalā, betel nut, and roots of the palāśa tree / ground with water, this wick removes all types of cataracts.

Black pepper thoroughly rubbed with curd is a collyrium dispelling night blindness. / Clarified butter boiled with a decoction and paste of triphalā, along with milk,

when drunk at nightfall, quickly destroys cataracts. / Pippalī, triphalā, grapes, iron powder, and rock salt,

rubbed with the juice of bhṛṅgarāja, is considered a pill-collyrium; / it cures blindness, cataracts, corneal opacity, and other eye diseases.

Trikaṭu, triphalā, nakta, rock salt, realgar, / rucaka salt, conch navel, jasmine flowers, nimba,

rasāñjana, bhṛṅgarāja, clarified butter, honey, and milk: / having ground these, the pill overcomes all eye diseases.

Burnt castor root ground with gruel, when applied as a paste, / quickly destroys headache; or the flower produced from mucukunda [does so].

Oil boiled with palas of śatamūlī, castor root, cakrā, and vyāghrī, / used as nasal drops, dispels alopecia, phlegm, cataracts, and disorders above the clavicles.

Salt with jaggery and dried ginger, or pippalī with rock salt, [is useful] / in stiffness of the arms and other afflictions, and in all disorders of the head.

In sūryāvarta headache, medical treatment such as nasal drops should be prescribed: / a decoction of daśamūla with clarified butter and rock salt, / as nasal drops, destroys aching of the limbs and relieves the headache of sūryāvarta.

A woman suffering from menorrhagia caused by vāta should drink / black salt, cumin, madhūka, and blue lotus with curd, combined with honey.

In that caused by pitta, [she should drink] the fresh juice of vāsaka, or the juice of guḍūcī, / or powdered amalaki seeds with water, or a paste with sugar and honey.

She should drink the sweet juice of āmalakī, or the root of the cotton plant, / with rice-water, for the pacification of leucorrhoea.

Root of taṇḍulīyaka with honey and rasāñjana, / drunk with rice-water, conquers all menorrhagias; / and kuśa root drunk with rice-water conquers menorrhagia.

Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-first chapter, entitled "The Description of the Treatment of Sinuses and Other Diseases", in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called Pūrvakhaṇḍa in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.