Garudapurana 1.170

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1.170.78 — 1 part

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The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 170
Dhanvantari said: / Fever is stated to be of eight kinds: from each [doṣa] separately, combinations of two, all three combined, and exogenous. / One should administer water boiled and cooled with mustā, parpaṭaka, uśīra, candana, udīcya, and nāgara to pacify thirst and fever.

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First, one should give a digestive preparation of nāgara, devakāṣṭha, dhānyāka, and the two bṛhatīs to a fevered patient to remove fever.

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A decoction prepared from āragvadha, abhayā, mustā, tiktā, and granthika / is digestive, beneficial in fever with āma and accompanied by pain.

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Having ground madhūka pith, rock salt, vacā, uṣaṇa, and kaṇā in equal parts / finely with water, one should administer it as an errhine to restore consciousness.

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A purgative decoction prepared from trivṛt, viśālā, triphalā, kaṭukā, and āragvadha / with alkali should be drunk to remove all fevers.

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A decoction of mahauṣadha, amṛtā, mustā, candana, uśīra, and dhānyaka, / combined with sugar and honey, cures tertian fever.

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Binding the root of apāmārga around the waist with seven red threads / on a Sunday certainly destroys tertian fever.

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An ascetic who has died sonless on the northern bank of the Gaṅgā: / one should offer water with sesame to him, and quotidian fever departs.

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Unctuous substances prepared with the decoction and paste of guḍūcī, / triphalā, vāsaka, mṛdvīkā, and balā destroy fever.

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A decoction of dhātrī, śivā, kaṇā, and vahni puts an end to all fevers. / I shall now declare medicine that cures fever accompanied by diarrhoea.

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A decoction made of pṛśniparṇī, balā, bilva, nāgara, utpala, and dhānyaka, / with pāṭhā, indrayava, bhūnimba, mustā, parpaṭaka, and mahauṣadha, / conquers diarrhoea with āma and fever.

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A decoction of nāgara, ativiṣā, mustā, bhūnimba, amṛtā, and vatsaka / removes all fevers and destroys all types of diarrhoea.

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Milk boiled with mustā, parpaṭaka, and ginger; / [or gruel prepared with] śālaparṇī, pṛśniparṇī, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārī,

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balā, śvadaṃṣṭrā, bilva and the rest, pāṭhā, nāgara, and coriander: / this, combined with diet, is beneficial for all who suffer from diarrhoea.

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A decoction of bilva and mango seed with sugar candy and honey removes diarrhoea; / similarly, kuṭaja bark combined with kaṇā is beneficial in diarrhoea.

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A decoction of vatsaka, ativiṣā, viśvā, kaṇā, and tuberous root, / when administered, cures diarrhoea rich in āma and colic, accompanied by blood.

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Now the treatment of grahaṇī: grahaṇī destroys the digestive fire. / Ghee prepared with the decoction and paste of citraka cures grahaṇī, / destroys abdominal tumours, swelling, dropsy, spleen disease, colic, and piles, and enkindles the digestive fire.

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Sauvarcala, rock salt, viḍa, and udbhid salt, / in equal proportion with sea salt: one should employ the five salts here.

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The cure for piles is threefold: medicine, the knife, and alkali or fire; / and know that freshly churned buttermilk is destructive of piles.

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To destroy piles, one should consume guḍūcī combined with pippalī, / abhayā fried in ghee, trivṛt, and amlarulikā.

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A combination of sesame seeds and sugarcane juice destroys piles and skin diseases. / Pañcakola combined with black pepper and tryūṣaṇa enkindles the digestive fire.

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Harītakī eaten with nāgara or jaggery, / or accompanied by rock salt, continuously stimulates the digestive fire.

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A decoction prepared from the three fruits, amṛtā, tiktā, bhūnimba, and nimba, / mixed with honey, destroys jaundice along with chlorosis.

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A modaka made of trivṛt, triphalā, śyāmā, pippalī, sugar, and honey / puts an end to sannipāta and cures haemorrhagic disease and fever.

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While vāsā is present and there is hope for life, / why should a patient suffering from haemorrhagic disease, consumption, or cough waste away?

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A decoction of āṭarūpaka, mṛdvīkā, and pathyā with sugar / and rich in honey destroys cough, dyspnoea, and haemorrhagic disease.

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The juice of vāsā drunk with sugar candy and honey conquers bleeding; / milk boiled with śallakī, badarī, jambū, priyāla, āmra, arjuna, and dhava, / drunk with plenty of honey, severally stops haemorrhage.

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Having drunk ghee prepared with the fresh juice of nirguṇḍī together with its roots, fruits, and leaves, / one emaciated by consumption becomes free of disease and shines like a god.

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Harītakī, kaṇā, dry ginger, and black pepper combined with jaggery: / this is declared to be a modaka that cures cough and destroys thirst and loss of appetite.

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One prastha of ghee prepared in thirty palas of the juice of each of kaṇṭakārī and guḍūcī / removes cough and enkindles the digestive fire.

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Pippalī, dhātrī, sugar, and dry ginger mixed with honey cure hiccup; / one afflicted with hiccup and asthma should drink bhārṅgī with dry ginger in hot water.

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In hoarseness of voice, one should hold in the mouth catechu smeared with oil, / or pathyā combined with pippalī, or combined with nāgara.

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Powder of viḍaṅga and triphalā taken with honey stops vomiting; / or one should drink a decoction of mango and jambū mixed with honey.

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It expels all vomiting and relieves thirst; / triphalā, drunk or taken with honey, cures vertigo and fainting.

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Pañcagavya taken as a drink is beneficial, curing epilepsy, demonic seizures, and the like; / ash-gourd juice, or ghee prepared with licorice, produces that same effect.

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And aged ghee processed with brāhmī juice, vacā, kuṣṭha, and śaṅkhapuṣpī / should be consumed, dispelling insanity, demonic possession, and epilepsy.

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Ghee cooked in a decoction and paste of aśvagandhā along with four times as much milk / pacifies vāta, is aphrodisiac, promotes muscle, and produces male offspring.

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Drinking powder of nīlī and muṇḍīrikā combined with honey and ghee, / or a decoction of guḍūcī, cures gout, which is exceedingly difficult to overcome.

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Five chebulic myrobalan fruits with jaggery destroy skin disease, hemorrhoids, and vāta disorders; / or the fresh juice, paste, powder, or decoction of guḍūcī,

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cooked ghee prepared with black guḍūcī decoction and paste together with milk, / is the destroyer of gout and pacifies skin diseases, ulcers, and other conditions.

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Guggulu with triphalā removes gout and fainting; / and guggulu taken with cow's urine is for the destruction of stiffness of the thighs.

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A decoction of dry ginger and gokṣura cures the pain and colic of rheumatoid arthritis; / [a decoction] prepared with the ten roots, guḍūcī, castor, rāsnā, dry ginger, and devadāru,

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combined with black pepper and jaggery, dispels great swelling; / a modaka sweet is prescribed to cure cough and destroy thirst and loss of appetite.

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In thirty palas of juice each from kaṇṭakārī and guḍūcī, / a prastha of ghee is prepared; it cures cough and kindles the digestive fire in the heart.

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Accompanied by long pepper, āmalakī, sugar, dry ginger, black pepper, and rock salt, / a decoction taken with castor oil destroys severe, clogged vāta.

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Balā, punarnavā, castor, the two bṛhatīs, and gokṣura, / drunk with asafoetida and rock salt, crushes colic caused by vāta.

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One should administer a boiled preparation of triphalā, neem, licorice, kaṭukā, and āragvadha / mixed with honey to pacify burning sensation and colic.

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Triphalā water with licorice destroys duodenal colic; / licking maṇḍūra purified with cow's urine combined with triphalā powder, / along with honey and ghee, destroys colic born of all three doshas.

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Trivṛt, long pepper, and harītakī in two, four, and five parts, / made into pills with an equal amount of jaggery, dispel the affliction of constipation.

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Harītakī, barley alkali, pippalī, and likewise trivṛt— / this powder should be drunk with ghee to destroy upward movement of wind.

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Trivṛt, harītakī, and śyāmā impregnated with the milky sap of snuhī / and taken as pills with cow's urine are supreme in relieving abdominal distension.

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With tryūṣaṇa, triphalā, coriander, viḍaṅga, cavya, and citraka / made into a paste, processed ghee, carefully refined, cures abdominal tumors caused by vāta.

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Dried ginger root procured and taken with milk cures heart pain; / and one should drink ghee with half as much sauvarcala salt and harītakī.

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Or with pippalī and pāṣāṇabheda, powdered bitumen, / or with taṇḍulīya and jaggery, one suffering from painful urination survives.

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One afflicted with vāta disorders, experiencing colic and suffering from dysuria, / should drink [a preparation of] guḍūcī, dry ginger, āmalakī, aśvagandhā, and gokṣura.

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Barley alkali equal in measure to sugar cures all forms of dysuria; / or the juice of nidigdhikā along with honey destroys dysuria.

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Salt with triphalā paste is taught to dispel retention of urine; / when urine is obstructed, one should introduce camphor powder into the penis.

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A decoction made from horseradish root, pungent and hot, shatters stones; / āmalakī juice mixed with honey and turmeric cures all urinary disorders; / a decoction of the group of eight beginning with triphalā and dāru, with honey, cures urinary disorders.

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