Garudapurana 1.172

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 172. / Dhanvantari said: / I shall declare the treatment of women's diseases and others; hear it, Suśruta. / In gynaecological disorders, treatment that pacifies vāta is mostly recommended.

Vacā, upakuñcikā, jātī, kṛṣṇā, vāsaka, rock salt, / ajamodā, barley-alkali, and citraka combined with sugar:

having ground and stirred [these] with water and the like, one should consume them fried in clarified butter; / this turns away vaginal pain, flank pain, heart disease, abdominal lumps, and haemorrhoids.

By applying a paste of jujube leaves, a ruptured vagina heals; / and by applying lodhra and bottle gourd fruit, firmness of the vagina is produced.

Clarified butter [cooked] with jasmine flowers and the ground "five shoots", / cured in the sun, stops the flow of blood and destroys foul odour of the vagina.

A hibiscus flower with fermented rice-gruel, a leaf of jyotiṣmatī, / and ground dūrvā having been consumed, [or] citraka combined with sugar,

powder of dhātrī, añjana, and abhayā drunk with water checks the menses; / lakṣmaṇā drunk with milk, or as nasal drops during the fertile season, bestows a son.

Half an āḍhaka of milk and clarified butter with aśvagandhā gives a son; / a barren woman, having drunk vyopa and saffron with clarified butter, obtains a son.

Milk boiled with roots of kuśa, kāśa, and urubūka, / and of gokṣura, combined with sugar, is the supreme reliever of pain in a pregnant woman.

By applying a paste of pāṭhā, lāṅgalī, siṃhāsya, mayūra, and kūṭaja separately / to the navel, bladder, and vulva, a woman gives birth easily.

For pain of the heart, head, and bladder in a woman who has delivered, known as makkalla, / one should drink barley-alkali there with curd-whey or lukewarm water.

A decoction made of daśamūla with clarified butter dispels the pains of childbirth. / Powder of śāli rice with milk promotes breast milk.

For the purification of breast milk, a wet nurse should take the fresh juice of vidārī tuber / and root born of the cotton plant, eating mung bean soup and broths.

One should administer to an infant an electuary producing complexion, lifespan, and luster: / kuṣṭha, vacā, abhayā, brāhmī, and madhurā with honey and clarified butter.

In the absence of breast milk, [the child] should drink goat's milk or cow's milk with similar qualities. / For one afflicted by fire-swelling, there should be fomentation with fire-heated clay, but not by direct fire.

In vomiting, cough, and fever, [the child] should drink an electuary cooked with mustā; / with mustā, dried ginger, viṣā, bilva, and kūṭaja, diarrhea is cured.

Honey, vyoṣa, and citron avert hiccups and vomiting; / kuṣṭha, indrayava, mustard, turmeric, and dūrvā conquer skin diseases.

Bathing with decoctions of mahāmuñji and uśīra dispels seizing spirits, / as does anointing with saptacchada, āmaya, turmeric, and sandalwood.

Wearing a conch shell, lotus seeds, rudrākṣa, vacā, iron, and the like [protects]. / “Oṃ kaṃ ṭaṃ yaṃ gaṃ, homage to the son of Vinatā. / Oṃ hoṃ hāṃ haḥ”—with this mantra, pacification for children comes about through cleansing and offering oblations: / “Oṃ hrīṃ! Grasp the oblation from the child-seizer, release the child, svāhā!”

A pala of śirīṣa drunk with rice water removes poison; / and [taken] with rice water, white varṣābhū removes snakebite.

Curd, ghee, taṇḍulīya, chimney-soot, and turmeric, / ground and drunk with honey and rock salt, destroys poison.

A decoction of aṅkoṭa root, drunk with ghee, destroys poison. / A medicine that destroys old age and disease is a rasāyana.

With rock salt, sugar, dry ginger, pippalī, honey, and jaggery, respectively, / abhayā should be taken in the rainy season and the other [seasons] by one desiring the virtues of a rasāyana.

At the end of a fever, one who eats one abhayā and two vibhītakas, / and then takes a group of four dhātrī [fruits] with honey and ghee, lives for a hundred years.

Aśvagandhā drunk with milk or ghee removes all diseases. / The fresh juice of maṇḍūkaparṇī and vidārī is like nectar.

Having eaten sesame, dhātrī, and bhṛṅgarāja, one lives for a hundred years. / Trikaṭu, triphalā, citraka, guḍūcī, śatāvarī,

and powder of viḍaṅga and iron [taken] with honey cures disease. / Triphalā, pippalī, dry ginger, guḍūcī, and śatāvarī,

[and] viḍaṅga, impregnated with bhṛṅgarāja and the like, cures all diseases. / Having licked the powder of vidārī with honey and ghee, a man may approach ten women.

One should cook ghee with pastes of śatāvarī and tenfold milk; / combined with sugar, pippalī, and honey, they know it as a digestive [and rejuvenator].

Pratimarśa, avapīḍa, nasya, pravapana, / and head-purgation are called the fivefold procedure [of nasya].

By pairs of months beginning with Māgha, the six seasons are traditionally enumerated in order. / One should enjoy resort to fire and products of honey and milk;

in the cold season, [one should be] united with a woman. Likewise in spring, one should not sleep by day; / in the rainy season, one should give up sleeping [by day] and the like; and in autumn [enjoy] the rays of the moon.

Wholesome foods are śāli rice, mudga beans, rainwater, and boiled milk. / The oils of nīm, linseed, safflower, / śigru, and mustard,

and of jyotiṣmatī and radish indeed remove / worms, skin diseases, urinary disorders, and head ailments caused by vāta and śleṣman.

Pomegranate, āmalakī, kola, karamarda, priyāla, / jambīra, orange, āmrātaka, kapittha—

these increase pitta, destroy wind, and agitate kapha. / Jala, jīmūtaka, ikṣvāku, kuṭaja, kṛtabandhana,

and dhāmārgava are to be employed in emesis in every way. / For emesis in the forenoon, these [are used]: madana, indrayava, and vacā.

The bowel is soft through pitta, hard due to the influence of vāta and kapha, / and medium when the doshas are balanced. Trivṛt is a purgative for it.

Combined with sugar and honey, rock salt, dry ginger, trivṛt, / harītakī, and viḍaṅga with cow's urine are a purgative.

Castor oil and twice the amount of triphalā decoction [act similarly]. / When the doshas are aggravated by vāta, one should feed [the patient] and then induce vomiting.

One should make an enema nozzle out of bamboo or the like, six, eight, or twelve finger-breadths long, / with a hole like a jujube fruit; [administer] the enema to one lying on his back.

This rule is also declared in the administration of a non-unctuous enema. / The dose is half a pala, three palas, and six palas, respectively, for small, medium, and large.

One, two, and four parts of pathyā, akṣa, and dhātrī destroy diseases / when impregnated with śatāvarī, amṛtā, bhṛṅgarāja, sindhuvāra, and the like.

Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the first section called the Pūrvakhaṇḍa, in the Ācārakāṇḍa, the one hundred and seventy-second chapter, entitled “The Treatment of Women's Diseases and Other Conditions.”