Garudapurana 1.181
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1.181.1
Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — [Chapter] 181
Hari said:
Betel leaf, ghee, honey, and salt combined with milk
in a copper vessel is supreme for curing eye-pain.
1.181.2
Harītakī, vacā, kuṣṭha, vyoṣa, hiṅgu, and realgar,
flooded with honey and ghee, one should lick for cough, asthma, and hiccup.
1.181.3
A man should lick pippalī and triphalā powder with honey;
chronic rhinitis, cough, and even very severe asthma are destroyed.
1.181.4
One should lick the ash of citraka with its roots and pippalī powder,
mixed with honey, O Bull-bannered One, against asthma, cough, and hiccup.
1.181.5
Blue water lily, sugar, liquorice, and padmaka in equal parts,
mixed with rice-water, pacifies blood-disorders.
1.181.6
Dry ginger and sugar combined with honey;
from merely consuming such a pill, one obtains the voice of a cuckoo.
1.181.7
Yellow orpiment, conch powder, with ash of plantain leaves;
rubbing with this substance is an excellent depilatory.
1.181.8
Salt, yellow orpiment, fruits of the bottle gourd,
combined with lac resin, is an excellent depilatory.
1.181.9
Spurge, yellow orpiment, conch ash, and realgar,
one should grind together with rock salt in goat's urine.
1.181.10
From the rubbing itself, it is immediately an excellent depilatory.
Conch, āmalaka, leaves, and flowers of dhātakī,
1.181.11
having ground these with milk, one should hold [the paste] in the mouth for a week;
the teeth become smooth, white, and shining with spotless lustre.
1.181.11.p1
Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-first chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, belonging to the first portion of the first section, in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit