Garudapurana 1.174

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, [chapter] 174. / Dhanvantari said: / I shall describe medicated clarified butters, oils, and other remedies that dispel disease; listen, Suśruta! / Śaṅkhapuṣpī, vacā, somā, brāhmī, brahmasuvarcalā,

abhayā, guḍūcī, aṭarūṣaka, and bākucī— / with equal parts of these, measured by an akṣa, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter,

together with a prastha of juice of kaṇṭakārī and a prastha of milk. / This is called Brāhmīghṛta, supreme in promoting hearing, memory, and intellect.

Triphalā, citraka, balā, nirguṇḍī, neem, vāsaka, / punarnavā, guḍūcī, bṛhatī, and śatāvarī—

clarified butter prepared with these as available crushes all diseases. / In a decoction of a hundred [palas] of balā, one should cook half an āḍhaka of oil / with pastes of madhūka, mañjiṣṭhā, sandalwood, water-lily, and lotus,

small cardamom, pippalī, kuṣṭha, cinnamon bark, larger cardamom, aguru, saffron, / aśvagandhā, and the vitality-promoting herbs, along with an āḍhaka of milk.

Cooked over a gentle fire, this [oil] should be kept in an auspicious silver vessel. / All wind-disorders and all those residing within the tissues,

this oil, named Balyā [or Balā oil], beloved by kings, alleviates. / Take a prastha of the juice of śatāvarī and likewise a prastha of milk;

śatapuṣpā, devadāru, māṃsī, śaileya, balā, / sandalwood, tagara, kuṣṭha, realgar, and jyotiṣmatī—

with pastes of these, each equal to a karṣa, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter [or oil]. / For the hunchbacked, dwarfs, the lame, the deaf, those with facial blemishes, those with skin diseases,

those whose limbs are broken by wind, those who falter in sexual intercourse, / those whose bodies are wasted by old age, and those afflicted with abdominal distention and dryness of the mouth,

wind disorders located in the skin, and those located in the veins and tendons: / this oil, the destroyer of the host of diseases, swiftly removes them all.

This is the Nārāyaṇa oil declared by Viṣṇu, destroying diseases. / One may make the oil and clarified butter separately, with all the herbs individually,

with śatāvarī, or guḍūcī, or citraka combined with gorocanā; / or there may be a decoction with nirguṇḍī, or with juice of kaṇṭakārī and other herbs,

or with varṣābhū and bālā, or with vāsaka and the three fruits, / or with brāhmī and eraṇḍa, with bhṛṅgarāja and kuṣṭha,

with musalī, the daśamūla, khadira, and vaṭa and others. / A pill, sweet bolus, or powder [made from these] will remove all diseases,

taken with clarified butter, honey, water, sugar-candy, jaggery, and the like, / and combined with salts and pungents as available, it cures diseases.

Taking citraka, arka, trivṛt, yavānī, oleander, / snuhī, bālā, gaṇikā, saptaparṇa, and suvarcikā,

and collecting jyotiṣmatī, the wise physician should cook an oil. / One should apply this trickling oil copiously in fistula-in-ano;

it cleanses, heals, and is supreme in restoring natural colour. / This is the Citrakādya Mahātaila, destroyer of all diseases.

Ajamodā, red lead, orpiment, the two turmerics, / the two alkalis, cuttlefish bone, dry ginger, and [substances] produced from marshes,

along with indravāruṇī, apāmārga, kadalī, and syandana in equal measure: / with these, mustard oil combined with goat's urine

should be cooked over a gentle fire together with cow's milk. / This oil, named Ajamodādya, eradicates scrofulous swellings.

It ripens what is inflamed, purifies what is ripe, / and brings about healing and softening through this oil.

Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-fourth chapter, entitled “Description of Brāhmīghṛta and Other Remedies,” in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.