Garudapurana 1.177

The Holy Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 177 / Hari said: / The juice of śobhāñjana leaves mixed with honey, indeed, by applying to the eyes, / removes disease; there is no doubt about this.

Eighty sesame flowers, and jasmine flowers, / uśīra, nimba, āmalaka, dry ginger, pippalī, and taṇḍulīyaka;

having ground [these] with rice water, one should make pills dried in the shade. / With honey, anointing the eyes immediately cures cataract and other diseases.

The marrow of the bibhītaka stone, conch columella, realgar, / nimba leaves, and black pepper should be ground with goat's urine.

It cures corneal opacity, night-blindness, cataract, and ocular veil. / Four parts of conch shell, half of that of realgar,

and half of that of rock salt; having ground these with water / and made a pill dried in the shade, one should apply it to the eyes as a collyrium.

This potent medicinal herb dispels cataract, ocular veil, and eye secretions. / Trikaṭu, triphalā, and the fruits of karañja,

rock salt, and the two turmerics, ground with the juice of bhṛṅgarāja: / simply by applying that collyrium, cataract and other diseases are destroyed.

Root of āṭarūṣaka ground with sour gruel: / by smearing that on the region of the eyes, eye-ache is destroyed.

Root of badarī drunk with buttermilk removes eye affliction. / Rock salt, mustard oil, and root of apāmārga,

rubbed with milk and sour gruel in a copper vessel: / by applying that as a collyrium, O Śaṅkara, eye secretions are destroyed.

‘Oṃ dadru sara kroṃ hrīṃ ṭhaḥ ṭhaḥ dadru sara hrīṃ hrīṃ oṃ uṃ ū sara krīṃ krīṃ ṭhaḥ ṭhaḥ.’ / Even foremost people are brought under one's control by this mantra and application of collyrium.

Bilvaka and root of nīlikā ground and used as an eye ointment: / by merely applying this as a collyrium, cataracts are indeed destroyed.

Katuka, long pepper, and tagara, turmeric, āmalaka, and vacā,
and khadira pounded with water, applied as a collyrium, cure eye diseases.

Whoever washes both eyes with a large measure of water with the mouth full of water
in the morning, is perpetually freed from all eye diseases.

Prepared with the root and leaf of white castor,
irrigation with goat's milk through warmth cures disorders of the eyes caused by vāta.

Sandalwood, rock salt, mature pālāśa, and harītakī,
[applied as] a collyrium, removes the film, flower-like cataract, blue darkness, and squint.

Guñjā root rubbed in goat's urine cures cataract;
applied with an applicator rubbed by hand made of silver, copper, or gold.

Rubbed on as an unguent, O Rudra, it destroys jaundice disease.
The ghoṣā fruit smelled destroys yellow jaundice.

Dūrvā grass, pomegranate flower, lac, and harītakī;
by their fresh juice indeed administered as nasal drops, nasal polyps and gout are cured.

Having crushed the jāṅgalī root, by its juice, O Bull-bannered One,
administered as nasal drops, nasal polyp is quickly destroyed, O Nīlalohita.

Cow's ghee, sal-tree resin, O Rudra, coriander, rock salt,
dhatura, and red ochre; beeswax prepared with these,

along with oil, relieves wounds and cracked or chapped lips.
And chewing and holding jasmine leaf in the mouth cures diseases of the mouth.

From eating the seed of kesara, loose teeth become firm.
Musta, kuṣṭha, cardamom, licorice, madhuvālaka,

and coriander—from eating these, bad breath is cured, O Hara.
By eating an astringent, pungent, or bitter vegetable

mixed with sesame oil, bad breath is perpetually destroyed;
and all ulcers of the teeth perish by this.

Holding a mouth-rinse and gargle of sour rice-gruel mixed with oil
cures the ailment of a mouth burned by betel lime, O Śiva!

As by chewing dry ginger after expelling phlegm,
[so] leaves of citron, cardamom, licorice, honey, and long pepper,

and jasmine leaf: licking a powder prepared of these [relieves it];
and chewing the root of sephālikā cures uvulitis.

Bleeding from the nasal veins relieves the uvula, O Peace-maker.
The juice of sirīṣa seeds with four times as much turmeric—

boiled with this, O Lord of Spirits, nasal drops cure diseases of the head.
Diseases of the throat are destroyed immediately simply by nasal drops.

Destruction of tooth-worms occurs from chewing guñjā root.
A decoction of kākajaṅghā, snuhī, and nīlī, mixed with honey,

destroys the worms that afflict teeth and those born in the teeth, O Śiva.
Ghee cooked with crab-foot [herb] mixed with milk:

anointing teeth with that, they will not chatter;
or by anointing simply with crab-foot [herb], O Śiva.

Fruits of jyotiṣmatī ground with water for three weeks,
or an ointment made of the marrow of white abhayā, removes blemishes on the tooth.

Lodhra, saffron, mañjiṣṭhā, aloeswood, and kāleyaka,
barley and rice, along with licorice and honey—

a face pack ground with water makes women's faces radiant.
One prastha of oil prepared with two parts of goat's milk,

or with one karṣa each of red sandalwood, mañjiṣṭhā, and lac,
and licorice and saffron, produces facial beauty in seven days.

Powder of dry ginger and long pepper, guḍūcī, and kaṇṭakārī—
water boiled with these, when drunk, kindles the digestive fire,

and relieves colic and wasting caused by vāta, O First Lord.
Karañja, parpaṭa, uśīra, bṛhatī, and kaṭurohiṇī,

and gokṣura boiled with water: drunk, it removes exhaustion;
it relieves burning sensation, pitta, fever, wasting, and fainting.

Powder of long pepper with honey and ghee, boiled and mixed with milk,
when drunk, cures heart disease, cough, and intermittent fever.

For a decoction, half a karṣa of each of all the herbs should be taken;
a modification is to be understood according to age, O Bull-bannered One.

Milk drunk mixed with the juice of cow dung
cures intermittent fever; and so does the juice of kākajaṅghā.

Dry ginger boiled in goat's milk relieves fever.
Licorice, musta, rock salt, and bṛhatī fruit—

by administering nasal drops with these, sleep comes to a person;
from nasal drops of black pepper and dog saliva, sleep comes, O Śiva.

The root of kākajaṅghā placed on the head induces sleep.
Oil prepared with sour rice-gruel and sal-tree resin,

combined with cold water, destroys burning sensation by application;
likewise it relieves burning sensation arising from blood-fever and burning.

Water-chestnut, moss, mantha, dry ginger, and pāṣāṇabheda,
saubhāñjana, gokṣura, or covered with varuṇa—

and the root of saubhāñjana; water boiled with these,
given with asafoetida and barley alkali, when drunk, destroys vāta.

Long pepper, long pepper root, and bhallātaka, O Śiva;
water boiled with these, when drunk, relieves severe colic.

Termite-mound clay prepared with aśvagandhā and radish;
by rubbing with this, O Rudra, stiffness of the thighs is alleviated.

The root of bṛhatī finely ground with water,
when drunk, breaks up aggregated vāta.

The root of fresh tagara drunk with buttermilk
removes tingling vāta, as Indra's thunderbolt strikes a tree.

Asthisaṃhāra combined with a single portion of food,
or drunk with meat broth, relieves vāta and cures bone fractures.

Anointed with ghee, dried, and combined with goat's milk,
by application of that, foot pain is destroyed; there is no doubt in this case.

Honey, ghee, rock salt, beeswax, jaggery, red ochre, and guggulu,
with sal-tree resin: cracked [skin] is cleansed and purified by applying [it].

Anointed with mustard oil and warmed over a smokeless fire,
a foot eaten away by soil becomes whole, O Bull-bannered One.

Sal-tree resin, beeswax, cumin, and harītakī—
an unguent boiled with ghee removes the pain of burns caused by fire.

Sesame oil heated over fire, combined with ash of barley—
a burn-wound caused by fire perishes from repeated plastering.

Buffalo butter and burnt, ground sesame seeds
with bhallātaka: wounds perish, and chest pain is relieved by nasal drops and application.

A blow filled with camphor and cow's ghee, O Hara, / caused by a weapon, and bound with a white cloth, O Śaṅkara, / does not succumb to suppuration or pain, O Bull-bannered One.

A weapon-wound filled with the root-juice of the mango tree, / [or] filled with ghee, approaches [healing] from weapon-blows, becoming free of wounds.

Śarapuṅkhā, lajjālukā, and pāṭhā—the root of these, / ground with water: by applying it as a paste, a weapon-wound is soothed.

The root of kākajaṅghā, dried for three nights, / destroys suppuration, foul smell, and pain in a wound, promoting healing.

Sesame oil with water and the root of apāmārga: / from applying it as an effusion, pain arising from a blow is destroyed.

Abhayā, rock salt, and dry ginger—having ground these with water / and consumed them, there is destruction of indigestion, O Śaṅkara!

Nimbaroot bound to the waist removes eye pain. / Śaṇaroot with betel, charred, removes weakness of the senses.

Steam-cooked turmeric with boiled rice, root of white mustard, / and seeds of citron—an equal unguent of these, / applied for seven nights, makes the body auspicious.

Leaves of white aparājitā with the juice of nimba leaves: / by administering it as snuff, liberation from ḍākinīs, / mothers, and brahmarakṣasas occurs, and [likewise] from snuff with the essence of honey, O Bull-bannered One.

The root of white jayantī gathered under the Puṣya asterism, / the root of white aparājitā, arka, and citraka: / having made a pill, a woman becomes subdued by a forehead mark [made of it].

Pippalī, iron powder, dry ginger, and āmalakī fruits, / one should know as equal, O Rudra, with rock salt, honey, and sugar.

From consuming an equal amount the size of an udumbara fruit for a week, / a man becomes strong and lives for two hundred years. / "Om tha tha tha"—employed in all subjugation rituals, it grants all desires.

Gathering a crow's nest, the wise man should burn it / in the fire of a funeral pyre; that ash placed upon the head of an enemy, O Śaṅkara,

eradicates him, O Rudra; listen to that excellent preparation! / And feces placed inside the skin of a wild mouse,

bound with a thread at the waist, causes obstruction of the bowels. / And having smeared someone's name with the blood of a black crow

in the middle of a fallen leaf, it is thrown down, O Hara! / That woman or man is eaten by flocks of crows.

Sugar, honey, goat's milk, sesame, and gokṣura in equal parts: / this destroys an enemy, O Rudra! This is an eradication rite, O Hara!

A hundred kindling sticks of an owl's or black crow's [nest, or] bilva, / mixed with blood, offered in the name of two people: / great enmity arises between the two; of this there is no doubt.

Flesh of a rohita fish steeped in bear's milk— / oil prepared with it cures disease when used for massage. / And from snuff of sandalwood water, hair grows again.

A lāṅgalikā bulb held in the hand, and smeared by it / over the body—a man by this removes the pride of aging.

By peacock blood alone one destroys the life, O Śiva, / even of burning serpents residing in holes, O Lord.

The body of a python burned in the fire of a funeral pyre— / its ash thrown in front causes the rout of enemies.

Thrown with this mantra, it causes a great rout of the enemy: / "Om tha tha tha cāhīhi cāhīhi svāhā! / Om protect the belly, protect, svāhā!"

The root of sudarśanā gathered under the Puṣya asterism / and placed inside a house—serpents avoid it.

A wick ignited in arka fire on a Sunday with arka root, O Śiva, / combined with white mustard oil, destroys serpents on the path.

Cat flesh and feces, and yellow orpiment, steeped / in goat's urine—a mouse smeared with this carries away [other] mice

when released in a house, O Rudra; no doubt should be entertained here. / Flowerless arjuna blossoms, bhallātaka, and śirīṣa,

lac, resin of the sarja tree, viḍaṅga, and guggulu: / incense made with these destroys flies and mosquitoes.

Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-seventh chapter, entitled "Description of Eye Salves and Other Remedies," in the section on proper conduct, the first division of the first section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.