Garudapurana 1.201

The glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa, Chapter 201. / Dhanvantari said: / I shall explain the veterinary medicine of horses, the horse with the marks of all objects: / one with a crow-like beak, a black tongue, a tree-like mouth, a hot palate,

one with dreadful teeth, deficient teeth, horns, sparse teeth, / one with a single testicle, congenital descended testicle, sloughing skin, cloven hooves, or teats,

one with cat-like feet, tiger-like appearance, resembling leprosy or an abscess, / a twin, a dwarf, or one that is cat-like with brown eyes—

a horse with these defects should be avoided. The best horse is born in Turkestan; / the middling one is five cubits [in height], and the inferior is three cubits.

Horses that are well-knit, short-eared, / dappled in appearance, of good vigor, not dejected, are long-lived.

Through the worship of Revanta, fire sacrifices, and the feeding of brāhmaṇas, they should be protected. / Pine, neem leaves, guggulu, mustard seeds, ghee,

sesame, vacā, and asafetida one should bind around the neck of the steed. / Wounds are stated to be of two kinds: accidental and caused by bodily humors.

The wind-born [wound] takes a long time to suppurate, while the phlegm-born suppurates quickly; / that from bile produces burning in the throat; that from blood causes mild pain.

An accidental wound is caused by weapons and the like; for the cleansing of malignant wounds: / castor root, the two turmerics, plumbago root, dry ginger,

garlic, or rock salt, steeped in buttermilk or sour gruel; / a bolus of sesame and roasted barley meal mixed with curds and rock salt, / combined with neem leaves, is a purifier and healer of wounds.

Paṭola, neem leaves, vacā, and plumbago, / pippalī, and fresh ginger—one should make a powder of these together.

From drinking this, worms, phlegm, and sluggish digestive fire are destroyed. / Neem leaves, paṭola, triphalā, and khadira—

having boiled these, the wise person should then give [the decoction] for three days / to the horse whose blood has been let, for the alleviation of equine skin diseases.

And in skin diseases with ulcers, mustard oil is beneficial; / and a decoction of garlic and the like for drinking and food brings alleviation.

Combined with citron juice or with the juice of spikenard, / one should immediately administer nasal drops there for other disorders well combined with wind.

Two palas on the first day, increasing by one pala each day, / until the days are complete: eighteen palas for the best [horse],

eight palas would be for the inferior, and fourteen for the middling. / One should never give it in autumn or summer, nor cause it to be given.

With oil in a wind disease; accompanied by sugar, ghee, and milk / [or] pungent oils with the three spices in phlegm; and with triphalā water in bile.

A horse that eats śāli rice, ṣaṣṭika rice, and milk is not blameworthy; / a horse resembling a ripe rose-apple or of golden color is not blameworthy.

After half a watch, one should cause the draft horse to consume guggulu; / one should feed it rice milk and milk; the horse quickly becomes well-stabilized.

In a disorder [of digestion], one should give milk and śāli rice as food in wind disorders; / in bile disorders, with a karṣa of meat broth, honey, mung-bean soup, and ghee;

in phlegm disorders, mung beans or horse gram, pungent and bitter remedies for the horse in phlegm; / in deafness, sickness of bite, and in the vitiation of the three humors, guggulu [is prescribed].

In all diseases, with fodder, one should give a pala of dūrvā grass on the first day; / thereafter, one should increase it by a karṣa daily up to five palas.

In drink and in food, eighty palas is the highest [dose]; / in the middling sixty, and in the lowest forty for those receiving it.

In [cases of] ulcer, skin disease, and lameness, [it should be] combined with a decoction of triphalā; / and in sluggish digestion and dropsy, [it should be] combined with cow's urine.

In wind-bile [disorders], ulcer, and disease, cow's milk with ghee / should be given; and for the nourishment of emaciated [horses], food mixed with meat.

Five palas of well-ground guḍūcī / mixed with ghee should be given in the morning to horses in autumn and summer.

It destroys disease, gives nourishment, and increases strength and vigour; / that very [preparation] may also be given to a horse mixed with milk.

In the formulation of guḍūcī, and of śatāvarī and aśvagandhā: / four [palas are given] to the medium [horse], and three palas to the lowest.

Where horses suddenly develop a uniform [illness] / and die rapidly, one should declare that to be an epidemic.

By oblation-rites and the like, by protective amulets, by feeding brāhmaṇas, by offering bali, / and through appeasement rites, the epidemic is quelled; [and also] through formulations of harītakī and the like.

Harītakī with cow's urine, oil, and salt, / beginning with five [fruits] and increasing by five each time up to a full hundred: / one hundred is the highest dose, eighty [the medium], or sixty [the lowest].

I shall expound the medicine of elephants: the formulations described are beneficial for an elephant; / for an elephant the doses are quadrupled; by them diseases of elephants are subdued.

For the pacification of an elephant's epidemic diseases and as an appeasement rite, / having worshipped the gods and the brāhmaṇas, one should give a tawny cow with jewels.

Having fasted, one should bind a garland around the two tusks of the elephant, / as well as vacā and white mustard consecrated with mantras by physicians.

Worship of Sūrya and the other [planets], Śiva, Durgā, Śrī, and Viṣṇu protects the elephant; / and one should offer bali to the spirits and bathe [it] with four jars [of water].

One should give food consecrated with mantras and dust the elephant with sacred ashes; / an auspicious, purifying spirit-warding rite should constantly protect the elephant.

Triphalā, the five pungents, the ten roots, viḍaṅga, / śatāvarī, guḍūcī, nimba, vāsaka, and kiṃśuka—

an unctuous-free decoction [of these] is beneficial for destroying elephant diseases. / What was taught in the two Āyurvedas has thus been stated in condensed essence.

Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the first section entitled Pūrvakhaṇḍa, in the Ācārakāṇḍa, the two hundred and first chapter, entitled 'Exposition of the Medicine of Elephants and Horses'.