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Garudapurana 1.184

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1.184.1

The glorious Hari said: / An ointment of turmeric and banana-plant ash destroys ringworm. / One part of kuṣṭha and two parts of pathyā, / drunk thoroughly with hot water, destroys pain in the hips.

1.184.2

Abhayā, fresh butter, sugar, together with pippalī, / through being drunk cures hemorrhoids; no doubt should be entertained here.

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One should cook ghee with leaves of vāsaka over a gentle fire; / having made a paste, this ointment is supreme in curing the disease of hemorrhoids.

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Drunk with guggulu and triphalā, fistula-in-ano is destroyed. / One should cook cumin and ginger with scum of boiled rice,

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which, combined with salt, destroys painful urination; / barley-ash and sugar also destroy painful urination.

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Funeral-pyre ash, dung of a wagtail, and froth of a horse, / saubhāñjana, and vasā; a man fumigated with these / is invisible to all the gods, what then of human beings, O Śiva?

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Having burned barley in sesame oil, one should make ink and apply it; / with that very oil, one burned by fire becomes comfortable.

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An ointment of lajjālu and śarapuṅkhā with ghee destroys [the effects of] fire: / "Om obeisance to the Blessed One, ṭha ṭha! Cut, cut the blaze! Extinguish, extinguish the kindled one, huṃ phaṭ!"

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The root of nirguṇḍī tied upon the hand quickly removes fever. / Having taken the root of white guñjā and made it into seven pieces,

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and tying it on the hand, one destroys hemorrhoids, of this there is no doubt. / Viṣṇukrāntā with goat's urine gives protection from thieves, tigers, and the like.

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With the roots of brahmadaṇḍī one accomplishes all rituals. / The powder of triphalā with ghee destroys leprosy.

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Ghee prepared with punarnavā, bael, and long pepper, / drunk, removes hiccup, asthma, and cough, and produces pregnancy in women.

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Or a man may consume seeds of śatāvarī cooked with milk and ghee; / combined with ghee and sugar, his semen becomes inexhaustible thereby.

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Viḍaṅga, liquorice, pāṭhā, jaṭāmāṃsī, and sāla resin, / turmeric, triphalā, apāmārga, and red arsenic,

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udumbara, and dhātakī one should grind with sesame oil; / one should smear the vulva and the phallus; mutual affection arises between woman and man.

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"Obeisance to you who grant boons to the Lord! O attracting one, drawing one, bewitching one, svāhā!" / Then from smearing the vulva and phallus with the oil, O Śaṅkara,

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punarnavā, amṛtā, dūrvā grass, kanaka, and indravāruṇī: / with the seeds of these and with juice of jāti, the grinding of mercury [is done].

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Placing the mercury inside a crucible, the killing [of the metal] is declared. / Milk combined with honey and ghee destroys wrinkles and grey hair.

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Honey, ghee, jaggery, copper, and likewise the juice of bitter gourd: / from incineration, silver is produced. Listen to the making of gold:

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a pala of yellow dhattūra flowers and lead is prescribed; / with a branch of lāṅgalikā, from incineration gold is produced.

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From lighting a lamp with oil of dhattūra seeds, O Hara, / one seated in deep meditation is not seen by anyone standing in the sky.

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A frog attached to an earthen bull is grasped, / equipped with Śaṅkara's limbs; smelling the incense, it roars, / and it causes wonder just like a bull, of this there is no doubt.

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At night, mustard oil and the insect named firefly: / from both of them a lamp is kindled, possessing a cluster of bright flames.

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Having burned the powder of a musk-shrew, O Rudra, one should smear it on; / if one smears it thoroughly, the burned one is tormented instantly; / release occurs with sandalwood; from drinking and smearing it, one becomes comfortable.

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One should himself apply [the collyrium] to the eyes of a rutting elephant, O Śiva; / he is victorious in battle and becomes a great warrior.

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Taking a tooth of a ḍuṇḍubha snake, one should place it in one's mouth; / then one can stay inside water without fear, just as on dry land.

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The eyes and fangs of a crocodile, along with its bones and blood, / combined with fat and oil, one should mix together. / Anointing oneself with this, one may stay in water for three days.

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The eyes of a crocodile and the heart of a tortoise, / the fat and bones of a mouse, and the fat of a dolphin— / by anointing oneself with these mixed together, one can stay in water as if at home.

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Iron powder drunk with buttermilk removes anemia. / The root of taṇḍulīyaka and gokṣura drunk with milk,

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drunk, removes jaundice and the like, and also removes diseases of the mouth. / The root of jātī drunk with buttermilk, or the root of kola, removes indigestion.

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Kuśa root with buttermilk, or indeed the root of markaṭī, / or the root of bākucī with sour gruel, cures diseases of the teeth.

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Likewise, the root of indravāruṇī drunk with water removes poison and the like, / or through drinking the root of surabhikā, O Śiva, destruction of that occurs.

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Powder of guñjā with sour gruel applied as a paste cures diseases of the head. / Balā, atibalā, yaṣṭī, sugar combined with honey,

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drunk, makes a barren woman fertile; there is no doubt about this. / The root of white aparājitā combined with pippalī and dried ginger,

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ground and applied as a paste to the head, destroys headaches. / Having drunk the shoot of nirguṇḍī, one destroys scrofula.

1.184.36

One should consume the ash obtained from ketakī leaves together with jaggery, / or having drunk śarapuṅkhā with buttermilk, one destroys diseases of the spleen.

1.184.37

The juice of citron combined with jaggery and ghee / destroys colics born of vāta and pitta through the regimen of drinking. / Dried ginger, sauvarcala salt, and asafoetida, drunk, cure heart disease.

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Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-fourth chapter, on the science of medicine, in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called the Pūrvakhaṇḍa in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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