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Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — [Chapter] 182
Hari said:
Curds are generally condemned in autumn, summer, and spring;
in early winter, late winter, and the rainy season, curds are praised.

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Sugar taken with fresh butter after eating produces intellect.
One should eat one pala of old jaggery;
a man endowed with strength may then go to a thousand women, O Hara!

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Having powdered kuṣṭha, combined with ghee and honey,
one should consume it at bedtime; it destroys wrinkles and grey hair.

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Having powdered linseed, black gram, wheat, and pippalī,
the wise man should anoint the limbs with ghee and water;
a mortal always becomes like the god of love, O Śaṅkara!

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Barley, sesame, aśvagandhā, muśalī, saralā, and jaggery:
having eaten [a preparation] made from these, one becomes youthful and strong.

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Having drunk hiṅgu, black salt, and dry ginger with boiled water,
digestive colic and indigestion are destroyed.

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One should grind dhātakī and somarājī with milk;
a weak man becomes stout, there is no doubt about this.

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A strong man should lick fresh butter mixed with sugar and honey;
a consumptive patient living on milk attains nourishment and incomparable intellect.

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Crab powder drunk with milk dispels consumption.
Bhallātaka, viḍaṅga, barley-alkali, and rock salt,

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realgar, and conch powder cooked in oil in the same manner
truly sheds hair, there is no doubt about this.

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Taking the juice of bael, one should grind a leech in it;
one should smear both hands with it; it is an excellent fire-immobiliser.

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Taking the sap of the silk-cotton tree and placing it in donkey's urine,
one should throw it onto fire and the like; it is an excellent fire-immobiliser.

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Taking the belly of a crow along with frog's fat,
one should make a pill of it; then the wise man should cast it into fire;
thus by this procedure fire is excellently immobilised.

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Bark of muṇḍī, vacā, musta, black pepper, and tagara:
having chewed this, one may instantly lick a flame with the tongue.

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Gorocanā and bhṛṅgarāja powdered together with equal ghee
causes immobilisation of celestial water, as also by this mantra:
‘Oṃ, cause fire-immobilisation, cause it!’

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‘Oṃ, obeisance to the Blessed One, immobilise water, saṃ saṃ saṃ keka kekaḥ caracara.’
This is the water-immobilising mantra; it immobilises water, O Śiva!

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A vulture's bone, a cow's bone, and flowers offered to a deity:
whoever buries these at the door of an enemy, he meets with death.

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One should take five red flowers, each of a different kind,
accompanied by saffron, combined with one's own blood,

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ground together with a flower and one pala of rocanā:
this forehead-mark made by a woman or a man is subjugating, O Rudra!

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Brahmadaṇḍī [gathered] under the Puṣya constellation is subjugating in food and drink.
One should drink hot water cooked with one pala of liquorice.

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It dispels intestinal sluggishness and heart-pain, O Maheśvara!
‘Oṃ hrūṃ jaḥ’
This mantra, O Rudra, destroys all poison caused by scorpions.

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Pippalī, fresh butter, ginger, rock salt,
black pepper, curds, and kuṣṭha remove poison in nasal drops and drink.

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Triphalā, ginger, kuṣṭha, and sandalwood mixed with ghee:
from drinking this and applying it as a paste, poison is destroyed, O Śiva!

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The eyes of a pigeon, yellow orpiment, and realgar:
from this formulation, one destroys poison as Garuḍa destroys serpents.

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Rock salt, tryūṣaṇa, combined with curd, honey, and ghee:
this paste destroys scorpion poison, O Bull-bannered One!

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Having boiled brahmadaṇḍī and sesame, one should drink [it with] the trikaṭu powder;
it destroys abdominal tumours, O Rudra, and obstructed blood.

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Drinking milk mixed with honey stops blood-flow.
One should smear the vulva and navel with the root of vāsā;
a woman delivers with ease, there is no doubt about this.

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Drinking sugar mixed with honey with rice-water
pacifies bloody diarrhoea, O Bull-bannered One!

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Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-second chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, belonging to the first portion of the first section, in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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