Garudapurana 1.179

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1.179.11 — 1 part

1.179.1

The Holy Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 179 / Hari said: / Yellow orpiment, yavakṣāra, patrāṅga, red sandalwood, / nutmeg, cinnabar, [and] lac: having boiled [them], one should coat the teeth.

1.179.2

Having cleaned the teeth with a decoction of harītakī, one should coat them; / a man's white teeth will become red, O Rudra, without doubt.

1.179.3

Having steamed a radish over a slow fire, one should pour in its juice; / by filling the ears with that, ear-discharge is cured.

1.179.4

Having taken an arka leaf, one should heat it gently over a slow fire; / having squeezed [it], one should fill the ears; earache is cured.

Priyaṅgu, madhuka, and rows of dhātakī and water lilies, / with mañjiṣṭhā, lodhra, lac, and the fresh juice of kapittha: / one should cook an oil [with these]; likewise, from filling [the ears] of women, moist discharge is cured.

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Alkali of dried radish and dry ginger, asafoetida, potent medicinal herbs, / satapuṣpā, vacā, kuṣṭha, deodar, śigru, rasāñjana,

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sauvarcala salt, yavakṣāra, and sarjika salt, rock salt, / likewise pippalīmūla, viḍa salt, mustā, with four times as much honey,

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likewise citron juice and indeed plantain juice: / an oil cooked with these quickly removes discharges and the like, without doubt.

1.179.9

Destruction of worms in the ears occurs from filling [them] with pungent oil. / Turmeric, neem leaves, pippalī, and black pepper,

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viḍaṅga, bhadramustā, and ginger as the seventh: / having ground [them] with cow's urine and made a pill, O Hara, / one pill removes indigestion, and two pills cure cholera.

1.179.11

Paṭola with honey and with cow's urine destroys tumors; / and this Śāṅkarī wick removes all eye diseases.

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Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-ninth chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, designated as the first section of the Pūrvakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit