Garudapurana 1.188
English (machine translation) 1.188
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- 1.188.12 — 1 part
1.188.1
Hari said: / A wound filled with ghee becomes healed and free of pus; / the root of apāmārga crushed with both hands: / from filling the wound with its juice, there is no discharge of blood.
1.188.2
The root of lāṅgalikā, O Rudra, and ikṣudarbha: / when the orifice of the wound is smeared with it, the foreign body comes out from the wound, / even if entered long ago, by that path, O Śaṅkara.
1.188.3
Bāla root or meṣaśṛṅgī root rubbed with water, / smeared with that, a chronic sinus ulcer is healed.
1.188.4
Eaten mixed with buffalo curd, cooked kodrava rice / applied with powder of asafoetida root cures sinus ulcers.
1.188.5
The fruit of brahmayaṣṭi ground with water and applied as a paste / or rubbed [on the skin] destroys disorders of the blood: there is no doubt.
1.188.6
Barley ash, viḍaṅga, sulphur, / and dried ginger: the powder of these steeped in the blood
1.188.7
of a chameleon and smeared on, O Śiva, destroys an abscess. / Seeds of horse-radish tree along with flax and soot,
1.188.8
combined with white mustard seeds, all these, O Śaṅkara, / ground with non-sour buttermilk, truly destroy glandular swellings.
1.188.9
The root of white aparājitā ground with rice-washing water, / administered as nasal drops, causes the flight of host of spirits.
1.188.10
Nasal drops of agastya flowers with black pepper relieve acute pain. / Snake skin, asafoetida, neem leaves, barley, / and white mustard seeds—an ointment of these dispels spirits, O Śiva.
1.188.11
Gorocanā, black pepper, pippalī, rock salt, and honey / made into a collyrium dispels grahas and bhūtas, O Śiva.
1.188.12
Fumigation with guggulu and an owl's tail dispels grahas; / [the patient] wrapped in a black cloth is freed from quartan fevers.
1.188.12.p1
Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-eighth chapter, on the treatment of ulcers, in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called Pūrvakhaṇḍa in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit