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# Garudapurana 1.183

English (machine translation) 1.183

- **Language:** English

## Contents

- [1.183.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.19) — 1 part

### [1.183.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.1)

Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 183  
Hari said:  
Black pepper, ginger, and the bark of kuṭaja:  
from drinking this, chronic diarrhoea is destroyed, O Moon-crested One!

### [1.183.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.2)

Pippalī, pippalī root, black pepper, tagara, vacā,  
resin of devadāru, and pāṭhā, one should grind together with milk.

### [1.183.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.3)

By this very preparation diarrhea is destroyed. / Collyrium made of black pepper and sesame flowers removes jaundice.

### [1.183.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.4)

Harītakī combined with an equal amount of jaggery along with honey / acts as a purgative, O Rudra, of this there is no doubt.

### [1.183.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.5)

Triphalā, citraka, citrā, and likewise kaṭukarohiṇī— / this is an excellent purgative that removes stiffness of the thighs.

### [1.183.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.6)

One should boil harītakī, ginger, devadāru, and sandalwood, / \[and\] the root of apāmārga, with goat's milk; / or with jayantī, he cures stiffness of the thighs in seven nights.

### [1.183.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.7)

One should make fine powders of anantā and ginger, / and guggulu mixed with an equal amount of jaggery, and having made pills, / he cures wind that has reached the sinews and loss of digestive fire.

### [1.183.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.8)

Having uprooted śaṅkhapuṣpī together with its flower, leaves, / and root, one should drink it with goat's milk to cure epilepsy.

### [1.183.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.9)

One should drink aśvagandhā and abhayā together with water; / then bleeding disease is destroyed, no doubt should be entertained here.

### [1.183.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.10)

Having made a powder of harītakī and kuṣṭha, one should fill the mouth / and then drink cold water; it cures all vomiting.

### [1.183.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.11)

Guḍūcī, padmaka, ariṣṭa, coriander, and red sandalwood / destroy bile-and-phlegm fever, vomiting, burning sensation, and thirst, and stimulate digestion: / "Om huṃ namaḥ".

### [1.183.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.12)

Having tied śaṅkhapuṣpī to the ear, one should remove fever with the mantra: / "Om crushing one, paralyzing one, delude all my diseases with the vajra, ṭhaḥ ṭhaḥ, all my diseases with the vajra, phaṭ!"

### [1.183.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.13)

Having recited \[the mantra\] a hundred and eight times over a flower, placing it in the hand, one should touch the nail: / quartan fever, O Rudra, and also other fevers \[are cured\].

### [1.183.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.14)

Rose-apple fruit, turmeric, and the slough of a snake: / this fumigation destroys all fevers, and cures quartan \[fever\], O Hara.

### [1.183.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.15)

One should cook oil with karavīra, bhṛṅgarāja leaves, salt, kuṣṭha, and karkaṭaśṛṅgī, / with four times as much urine; it removes / scabies, eczema, leprosy, and ulcers through anointing.

### [1.183.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.16)

From drinking pippalī with honey and also from sweet food, / the spleen disease is destroyed, O Rudra, as also from the use of elephant-foot yam.

### [1.183.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.17)

One should apply pippalī and turmeric combined with cow's urine / to the anal opening; he wards off hemorrhoids.

### [1.183.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.18)

Goat's milk and fresh ginger drunk destroys spleen disease and the like. / Rock salt, viḍaṅga, somarājī, and mustard seeds,

### [1.183.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.19)

the two turmerics, and viṣā one should grind with cow's urine; / and by anointing with that, as also with nīm leaves and the like, leprosy is destroyed.

### [1.183.19.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.183.19.p1)

Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-third chapter in the section on conduct, titled the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa.

## Linked texts (1)

- [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.183.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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