[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt) › 1.186 # Garudapurana 1.186 English (machine translation) 1.186 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.186.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.15) — 1 part ### [1.186.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.1) Hari said: / The extract of guḍūcī, drunk with honey, removes urinary disorders; / the drunk root of gohālikā, mixed with sesame, curd, and ghee, ### [1.186.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.2) boiled \[in water\], resolves urinary retention, O Śaṅkara; / likewise, when drunk with sauvarcala salt, it removes hiccups. ### [1.186.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.3) The root of gorakṣakarkaṭī ground with cold water / and drunk for only three days destroys urinary gravel, O Rudra. ### [1.186.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.4) 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. ### [1.186.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.5) The root of dvijayaṣṭī ground with rice water, / applied as an ointment, removes cervical adenitis and incurable goitre. ### [1.186.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.6) By dusting with rasāñjana and powder of harītakī alone, / a man destroys \[these\] diseases; there is no doubt about this. ### [1.186.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.7) From an ointment of karavīra root and an ointment of areca nut, / male diseases are destroyed, O Rudra; I shall speak of another recipe. ### [1.186.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.8) 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, ### [1.186.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.9) a cat's bone rubbed in triphalā-water is smeared \[on it\]; / then blood does not flow; there is no doubt about this. ### [1.186.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.10) 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. ### [1.186.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.11) Cow's ghee prepared with three parts palāśa alkali-water, / drunk with trikaṭu, destroys piles, O Śiva. ### [1.186.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.12) A burnt bilva fruit completely destroys bleeding piles; / having eaten black sesame seeds along with fresh butter \[also destroys them\]. ### [1.186.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.13) 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. ### [1.186.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.14) Water boiled with dry ginger and drunk stimulates the fire; / harītakī, rock salt, citraka, O Rudra, and pippalī: ### [1.186.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.15) the powder of these drunk with hot water produces great hunger; / and boar's meat \[taken\] with ghee drunk produces great hunger. ### [1.186.15.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186.15.p1) 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. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.186.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.186) · Pramāṇa