[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garudapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › 1.172 # Garudapurana 1.172 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.172 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.172.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.43) — 1 part ### [1.172.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 172 dhanvantariruvāca / strīrogādicikitsāṃ ca vakṣye suśruta tacchṛṇu / yonivyāpatsu bhūyiṣṭaṃ śasyate karma vātajit // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.2) vacopakuñcikājātīkṛṣṇāvāsakasaindhavam / ajamodāyavakṣāraṃ citrakaṃ śarkarānvitam // > Vacā, upakuñcikā, jātī, kṛṣṇā, vāsaka, rock salt, / ajamodā, barley-alkali, and citraka combined with sugar: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.3) piṣṭvāloḍya jalādyaiśca khādayeddhṛtabharjitam / yonipārśvārtihṛdrogagulmārśo vinivartayet // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.4) badarīpatrasaṃlepādyonirbhinnā praśāmyati / lodhratumbīphalālepādyonerdārḍhyaṃ karoti ca // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.5) pañcapallavapiṣṭāhvamālatīkusumairghṛtam / ravipakvamasṛgdhāraṃ yonigandhavināśanam // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.6) sakāñjikaṃ japāpuṣpapuṣpaṃ jyotiṣmatīdalam / dūrvāpiṣṭaṃ ca saṃprāśya citrakaṃ śarkarānvitam // > A hibiscus flower with fermented rice-gruel, a leaf of jyotiṣmatī, / and ground dūrvā having been consumed, \[or\] citraka combined with sugar, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.7) dhātryañjanābhayācūrṇaṃ toyapītaṃ rajo haret / sadugdhā lakṣmaṇā pītā nasyādvā putradā ṛtau // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.8) dugdhasyārdhāḍhakaṃ cājyamaśvagandhā ca putradā / vandhyā putraṃ labhetpītvā ghṛtena vyopakesaram // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.9) kuśakāśorucṛkānāṃ mṛlairgokṣurakasya ca / śṛtaṃ dugdhaṃ sitāyuktaṃ garbhiṇyāḥ śūlanutparam // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.10) pāṭhālāṅgalisiṃhāmyamayūrakūṭajaiḥ pṛthak / nābhibasti bhagālepātsukhaṃ nārī prasūyate // > By applying a paste of pāṭhā, lāṅgalī, siṃhāsya, mayūra, and kūṭaja separately / to the navel, bladder, and vulva, a woman gives birth easily. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.11) sūtāyā hṛcchirobastiśūlamarkanda (kvalla) saṃjñitam / yavakṣāraṃ pibettatra mastu koṣṇodakena vā // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.12) daśamūlīkṛtaḥ ktāthaḥ sājyaḥ mūtirujāpahaḥ / śātilaṇḍulacūrṇaṃ tu sadugdhaṃ dugdhakṛdbhavet // > A decoction made of daśamūla with clarified butter dispels the pains of childbirth. / Powder of śāli rice with milk promotes breast milk. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.13) vidārī kandasvarasaṃ mūlaṃ kārpāsajaṃ tathā / dhātrī stanyaviśuddhyarthaṃ mudgayūparasāśinī // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.14) kuṣṭhā vacābhayā brāhmī madhurā kṣaudrasarpiṣā / varṇāyuḥ kāntijananaṃ lehyaṃ vālamya dāpayet // > One should administer to an infant an electuary producing complexion, lifespan, and luster: / kuṣṭha, vacā, abhayā, brāhmī, and madhurā with honey and clarified butter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.15) stanyābhāve payaśchāgaṃ gavyaṃ vā tadguṇaṃ pivet / svedanaṃ nāgniśophārte mṛdā syādagnitaptayā // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.16) leho mustavipāyāśca vamikāsajvare pibet / sustaśuṇṭhīviṣāvilvakūṭajairatisāranuta // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.17) madhu vyoṣaṃ mātuluṅgaṃ hikkācchardinivāraṇam / kuṣṭhendrayavasiddhārthā niśā dūrvā ca kuṣṭhajit // > Honey, vyoṣa, and citron avert hiccups and vomiting; / kuṣṭha, indrayava, mustard, turmeric, and dūrvā conquer skin diseases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.18) mahāmuṇjitikojīcyakāthaiḥ snānaṃ grahāpaham / saptacchadāmayaniśācandanaiścānulepanam // > Bathing with decoctions of mahāmuñji and uśīra dispels seizing spirits, / as does anointing with saptacchada, āmaya, turmeric, and sandalwood. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.19) śaṅkhābjabījarudrākṣavacālauhādidhāraṇam / oṃ kaṃ ṭaṃ yaṃ gaṃ vainateyāya namaḥ / oṃ hoṃ hāṃ haḥ mantreṇa śāntirvālānāṃ mārjanādvalidānataḥ / oṃ hrīṃ bālamrahādvaliṃ gṛhṇīta vālaṃ muñcata svāhā // > 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!” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.20) taṇḍulādbhiḥ śirīpasya palaṃ pītaṃ viṣāpaham / taṇḍulādbhiśca varṣābhvāḥ śuklāyāḥ sarpadaṃśanut // > A pala of śirīṣa drunk with rice water removes poison; / and \[taken\] with rice water, white varṣābhū removes snakebite. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.21) dadhyājyaṃ taṇḍulīyaṃ ca gṛhadhṛmo niśā tathā / piṣṭaṃ pānaṃ tathā kṣaudraṃ sindhṛtthasya vipāntakam // > Curd, ghee, taṇḍulīya, chimney-soot, and turmeric, / ground and drunk with honey and rock salt, destroys poison. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.22) aṅkoṭamūlaniṣkvāthaḥ sājyaḥ pīto viṣāntakaḥ / yajjarāvyādhividhvaṃsi bheṣajaṃ tadrasāyanam // > A decoction of aṅkoṭa root, drunk with ghee, destroys poison. / A medicine that destroys old age and disease is a rasāyana. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.23) sindūtyarārkarāśuṇṭhīkaṇāmadhuguḍaiḥ kramāt / varṣādiṣvabhayā sevyā rasāyanaguṇauṣiṇā // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.24) jvarasyānte 'bhayāṃ caikāṃ prabhuṅkte dve vibhītake / bhuktvā madhvājyadhātrīṇāṃ catuṣkaṃ śatavarṣakṛt // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.25) pītāśvagandhā payasā ghṛtenāśeparoganut / maṇḍūkaparṇyāḥ svaraso vidāryāścāmṛtopamaḥ // > Aśvagandhā drunk with milk or ghee removes all diseases. / The fresh juice of maṇḍūkaparṇī and vidārī is like nectar. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.26) tiladhātrībhṛṅgarājau jagdhvā varṣaśatī bhavet / trikaṭu triphalā vahnirguḍūcī ca śatāvarī // > Having eaten sesame, dhātrī, and bhṛṅgarāja, one lives for a hundred years. / Trikaṭu, triphalā, citraka, guḍūcī, śatāvarī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.27) viḍaṅgalohacūrṇaṃ tu madhunā saha roganut / triphalā ca kaṇā śuṇṭhī guḍūcī ca śatāvarī // > and powder of viḍaṅga and iron \[taken\] with honey cures disease. / Triphalā, pippalī, dry ginger, guḍūcī, and śatāvarī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.28) viḍaṅgabhṛṅgarājādi bhāvitaṃ sarvaroganut / cūrṇaṃ vidāryā madhvājyaṃ līḍhvā daśa striyo vrajet // > \[and\] 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.29) ghṛtaṃ śatāvarīkalkaiḥ kṣīrairdaśaguṇaiḥ pacet / śarkarāpippalīkṣaudrayuktaṃ vā jārakaṃ viduḥ // > One should cook ghee with pastes of śatāvarī and tenfold milk; / combined with sugar, pippalī, and honey, they know it as a digestive \[and rejuvenator\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.30) pratimarṣo 'vapīḍaśca nasyaṃ pravapanaṃ tathā / śirovirecanaṃ ceti pañcakarma ca kathyate // > Pratimarśa, avapīḍa, nasya, pravapana, / and head-purgation are called the fivefold procedure \[of nasya\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.31) māsairdvisaṃkhyairmāghādyaiḥ kramātṣaḍṛtavaḥ smṛtāḥ / agnisevāmadhukṣīravikṛtīḥ paripevayet // > 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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.32) strīyuktaḥ śiśire tadvadvasante na divā svapet / tyajedvarṣāsu svapnādīñcharadindośca raśmayaḥ // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.33) pathyāni śālayo mudrā varṣāmbhaḥ kvathitaṃ payaḥ / nimvātasīkusumbhānāṃ śigrusarṣapayostathā // > Wholesome foods are śāli rice, mudga beans, rainwater, and boiled milk. / The oils of nīm, linseed, safflower, / śigru, and mustard, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.34) jyotiṣmatīmūlakānāṃ tailāni ca haranti hi / kṛmikuṣṭhapramehāṃśca vātaśleṣmaśirorujaḥ // > and of jyotiṣmatī and radish indeed remove / worms, skin diseases, urinary disorders, and head ailments caused by vāta and śleṣman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.35) dāḍimāmalakīkolakaramardpiyālakam / jambīraṃ nāgaggaṃ ca āmrātakakapinthakam // > Pomegranate, āmalakī, kola, karamarda, priyāla, / jambīra, orange, āmrātaka, kapittha— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.36) pittalānyanilaghnāni kaphotkleśakarāṇica / jalaṃ jīmūtakekṣvākukuṭajākṛtabandhanam // > these increase pitta, destroy wind, and agitate kapha. / Jala, jīmūtaka, ikṣvāku, kuṭaja, kṛtabandhana, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.37) dhāmārgavaśca saṃyojyāḥ sarvathā vamaneṣvamī / pūrvāhne vamanāyete madanendrayavī vacā // > and dhāmārgava are to be employed in emesis in every way. / For emesis in the forenoon, these \[are used\]: madana, indrayava, and vacā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.38) mṛdukoṣṭaśca pittena kharo vātakaphāśrayāt / madhyamaḥ samadoṣe syāttrivṛttite virecanam // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.39) śarkarāmadhusaṃyuktaṃ saindhavaṃ nagaraṃ trivṛt / harītakīvihaṅgāni gomūtreṇa virecanam // > Combined with sugar and honey, rock salt, dry ginger, trivṛt, / harītakī, and viḍaṅga with cow's urine are a purgative. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.40) eraṇḍatailaṃ triphalākvāthaśca dviguṇastathā / vātolbaṇeṣu doṣeṣu bhojayitvātha vāmayet // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.41) vaṃśādinetraṃ kurvīta paḍaṣṭadvādaśāṅgulam / karkandhṛphalavacchidraṃ vastiruttānaśāyine // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.42) nirūhadāne 'pi vidhirayamevamudīritaḥ / ardhatripaṭpale mātrā laghumadhyottamaḥ kramāt // > 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.43) pathyākṣavātryokadvicaturbhāga rugardanāḥ / śatavaryasṛtābhṛṅgasindhuvārādibhāvitāḥ // > One, two, and four parts of pathyā, akṣa, and dhātrī destroy diseases / when impregnated with śatāvarī, amṛtā, bhṛṅgarāja, sindhuvāra, and the like. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.172.43.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172.43.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe strīrogacikitsādikayanaṃ nāma dvisaptatyuttaraśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ > 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.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.172.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (9) - [Siddhayoga (Vṛndamādhava)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.siddhayoga.64.1) — Vṛnda, Sanskrit - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.61.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.7299) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.44_4) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.79.28) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit - [Vīrasiṃha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.karmavipaka.virasimha.31.p4) — Bhoja, Sanskrit - [Vīrasiṃhāvaloka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.karmavipaka.virasimhavaloka.32.p1) — Vīrasiṃha, Sanskrit - [Cikitsāsārasaṅgraha (Vaṅgasena)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.vangasena.81.110) — Vaṅgasena, Sanskrit - [Ārogyacintāmaṇi (Dāmodaramiśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.arogyacintamani-damodara.91.6) — Dāmodaramiśra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.172) · Pramāṇa