Garudapurana 1.186

English (machine translation) 1.186

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1.186.15 — 1 part

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Hari said: / The extract of guḍūcī, drunk with honey, removes urinary disorders; / the drunk root of gohālikā, mixed with sesame, curd, and ghee,

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boiled [in water], resolves urinary retention, O Śaṅkara; / likewise, when drunk with sauvarcala salt, it removes hiccups.

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The root of gorakṣakarkaṭī ground with cold water / and drunk for only three days destroys urinary gravel, O Rudra.

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Having carefully ground the root of mālatī in the summer season, / prepared with goat's milk and mixed with sugar, / it drunk removes retention of urine and removes pale gravel.

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The root of dvijayaṣṭī ground with rice water, / applied as an ointment, removes cervical adenitis and incurable goitre.

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By dusting with rasāñjana and powder of harītakī alone, / a man destroys [these] diseases; there is no doubt about this.

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From an ointment of karavīra root and an ointment of areca nut, / male diseases are destroyed, O Rudra; I shall speak of another recipe.

Dantī root, turmeric, and citraka: from an application of that / there is the destruction of fistula-in-ano. I shall tell another recipe: / When blood has been drawn by a leech, O Lord of Umā, in fistula-in-ano,

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a cat's bone rubbed in triphalā-water is smeared [on it]; / then blood does not flow; there is no doubt about this.

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Turmeric steeped multiple times in the latex of snuhī / [is used] as a pill for the destruction of piles; from an application of that, O Bull-bannered One, / and the fruit of ghoṣā and rock salt ground together, is the highest cure for piles.

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Cow's ghee prepared with three parts palāśa alkali-water, / drunk with trikaṭu, destroys piles, O Śiva.

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A burnt bilva fruit completely destroys bleeding piles; / having eaten black sesame seeds along with fresh butter [also destroys them].

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Dry ginger powder mixed with barley alkali and combined with an equal amount of jaggery / definitely stimulates the digestive fire [taken] at dawn, O Bull-bannered One.

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Water boiled with dry ginger and drunk stimulates the fire; / harītakī, rock salt, citraka, O Rudra, and pippalī:

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the powder of these drunk with hot water produces great hunger; / and boar's meat [taken] with ghee drunk produces great hunger.

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Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-sixth chapter in the section on conduct, in the first part called the first section, in the glorious Mahāpurāṇa of Garuḍa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit