Garudapurana 1.202

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 202 / Hari said: / A single root of punarnavā or of apāmārga, O Śiva, / placed juicy into the vagina, removes pain of the vulva, / and it relieves the pain of labour in young women.

The root of bhūmikūṣmāṇḍa, or else flour of rice, / drunk with milk for seven days, produces an abundance of milk in women.

O Rudra, by an application of indravāruṇī root, pain in women's breasts / is destroyed; and a pancake certainly should be made cooked in ghee.

When eaten, O Maheśāna, it destroys vaginal colic. / Smeared with the root of bitter gourd, a prolapsed

vagina returns to its place; no doubt should be entertained here. / Roots of nīlī and paṭola, mixed with ghee and sesame water,

ground [together], form an ointment that subdues burning erysipelas. / Root of pāṭhā, O Rudra, drunk when ground with rice-water,

cures sin-diseases; so too does drinking kuṣṭha. / Scented water drunk with honey certainly brings

relief from the torments of an internal sin-disease, O Śiva. / Equal parts of lac and ghee, O Rudra, drunk with milk,

cures the disease of menorrhagia; no doubt should be entertained here. / A powder of dvijayaṣṭī and trikaṭu, drunk, cures, O Śiva,

when mixed with a decoction of sesame, blood-gulma in a woman, O Hara, / and suppressed menses in young women, O Maheśvara.

The bulb of red water-lily mixed with sugar and sesame, / drunk with sugar by women, prevents miscarriage.

The stopping of uterine hemorrhage occurs from the use of cold water. / Sour gruel, O Rudra, boiled with śarapuṅkhā and drunk,

mixed with asafoetida and rock salt, quickly induces labour in women; / the root of citron tied to the waist also induces labour.

When the root of apāmārga is being uprooted whole / in the name of a pregnant woman, there will be a son; otherwise, a daughter.

When the root of apāmārga is placed on the head of women, / pregnancy-pains are destroyed; no doubt should be entertained here.

Filled with camphor, madanaphala, and madhuka, O Śiva, / the vagina of an old woman becomes attractive; how much more so that of a young woman, O Hara!

A child upon whom a forehead mark has been made with the substance called rocanā, / and to whom a drink of sugar and kuṣṭha has been given, becomes free from fear; / [free] from poisons, spirits, evil-planet spirits, and other diseases, O Śiva.

The constant wearing of conch, conch-navel, vacā, kuṣṭha, and iron, / O Rudra, becomes a protector of children against epidemics.

Powder of palāśa with honey, accompanied by cow's ghee and āmalaka, / along with viḍaṅga, as soon as drunk makes a man highly intelligent.

In a single month, O Mahādeva, he is freed from old age and death.

Palāśa seed with ghee, accompanied by equal amounts of sesame and honey, / eaten for seven days, O Rudra, brings old age to an end.

O Rudra, having consumed powder of āmalaka combined with honey, sesame oil, and ghee / for a month, a man becomes young and a master of speech.

Powder of harītakī and āmalaka, eaten at dawn / with honey or water, imparts strength to the nose, O Śiva.

A man who eats kuṣṭha powder with ghee and honey in the morning / attains indeed a fragrant body and lives for a thousand years.

Huskless split grains of black gram, O Maheśvara, / infused with ghee, dried, and cooked with milk,

having eaten them with honey, ghee, and milk, one may make love / to a hundred women, O Mahādeva, instantly; there is no doubt of this.

Mercury with castor oil and sulphur becomes auspicious; / ground with water for three periods of the day, it produces strength when consumed.

Milk cooked with huskless black gram and seeds of cowhage, / drunk with oil of apāmārga, enables desire for a hundred women.

Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the first section entitled Pūrvakhaṇḍa, in the Ācārakāṇḍa, the two hundred and second chapter, entitled 'Exposition of the Applications of Various Kinds of Herbs'.