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One should administer this oil in drinks, as nasal drops, and in massage. ### [1.192.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.10) It cures chest pain, flank pain, and scrofula; epilepsy and gout; and a man becomes vigorous. ### [1.192.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.11) A she-mule might attain pregnancy, what to say of a human woman, O Hara! For horses stricken by vāta, for elephants, and likewise for men, this oil is to be employed for all suffering from vāta disorders. ### [1.192.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.12) Mustard oil prepared with asafoetida, tumburu, and dry ginger, this is the supreme ear drop, extremely effective in removing earache. ### [1.192.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.13) The alkali of dried radish and dry ginger, cinnabar, and ginger: one should add four parts buttermilk and cook this oil. ### [1.192.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.14) Deafness, earache, and the discharge of pus from the ears, and worms are destroyed by instilling this oil. ### [1.192.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.15) The alkali of dried radish and dry ginger, cinnabar, ginger, śatapuṣpā, vacā, kuṣṭha, devadāru, śigru, rasāñjana, ### [1.192.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.16) Sauvarcala salt, barley alkali, sea salt, and rock salt, long pepper root, viḍa salt, mustā, and four times as much honey and sour vinegar; ### [1.192.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.17) Citron juice and plantain juice— the oil should be cooked with these; it is supreme in removing earache. ### [1.192.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.18) Deafness, ringing in the ears, severe pus discharge, and worms in the ears, O Hara, ### [1.192.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.19) perish immediately by instilling this oil, O moon-crested god! This alkali-oil is supreme, removing impurities of the mouth and teeth. ### [1.192.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.20) Sandalwood, saffron, māṃsī, camphor, mace, and the fruits of nutmeg, kaṅkola, betel nut, and cloves; ### [1.192.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.21) Aguru, musk, kuṣṭha, tagara, gorocanā, priyaṅgu, balā, and nakhī; ### [1.192.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.22) Sarala, saptaparṇa, lac, and āmalakī, and likewise padmaka—with these one should prepare an oil. ### [1.192.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.23) It is supreme in removing excess sweating, dirt, foul odor, itching, and kuṣṭha skin diseases; \[a man\] approaches a hundred women, O Rudra, and even a barren woman obtains a son. ### [1.192.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.24) Yavānī, citraka, coriander, tryūṣaṇa, cumin, sauvarcala salt, viḍa salt, long pepper root, and black mustard: ### [1.192.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.25) With these one should cook a prastha of ghee together with eight prasthas of water; it cures piles, abdominal lumps, and swelling, and indeed stimulates the digestive fire. ### [1.192.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.26) Black pepper, trivṛt, kuṣṭha, yellow orpiment, realgar, devadāru, the two turmerics, kuṣṭha, māṃsī, and sandalwood; ### [1.192.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.27) Viśālā, karavīra, calotropis latex, cow-dung juice— of these there should be a karsa each, and half a pala of aconite. ### [1.192.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.28) One should cook a prastha of mustard oil in eight times as much cow's urine in an earthen pot or iron pot slowly over a gentle fire. ### [1.192.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.29) Scabies, eczema, ringworm, and boils are destroyed through massage \[with it\], and softness of the skin is produced. ### [1.192.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.30) One should rub even widespread leukoderma with this oil; even long-standing leukoderma becomes destroyed that very instant. ### [1.192.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.31) Trichosanthes leaf, kaṭukā, madder, śārivā, turmeric, jasmine, śamī, neem leaf, and liquorice—ghee boiled \[with these\]: ### [1.192.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.32) By anointing with these, discharging wounds become free of pain, O Śiva. Śaṅkhapuṣpī, vacā, soma, brāhmī, brahmasuvarcalā, ### [1.192.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.33) Abhayā, guḍūcī, āṭarūṣaka, and bākucī— with these in parts equal to an akṣa one should cook a prastha of ghee, ### [1.192.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.34) along with a prastha of kaṇṭakārī juice and a prastha of milk. This is called brāhmī-ghṛta, supreme in producing memory and intellect. ### [1.192.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.35) Agnimantha, vacā, vāsā, pippalī, honey, and rock salt: by use for seven nights, one sings like the Kinnaras. ### [1.192.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.36) Apāmārga, guḍūcī, vacā, kuṣṭha, śatāvarī, śaṅkhapuṣpī, and abhayā, eaten in equal parts with ghee and viḍaṅga, in three days makes a man retain eight hundred treatises. ### [1.192.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.37) Taken for one month with water, milk, or ghee, vacā will make a man wise, endowed with retention of the scriptures. ### [1.192.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.38) One pala of vacā drunk with milk during a lunar or solar eclipse instantly makes a man endowed with great wisdom. ### [1.192.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.39) Water boiled with bhūnimba, neem, triphalā, and parpaṭa, and with paṭolī, mustaka, and vāsaka, destroys ### [1.192.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.40) boils and blood disorders; herein no doubt should be entertained. Kataka fruit, conch, rock salt, tryūṣaṇa, vacā, ### [1.192.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.41) cuttlefish bone, rasāñjana, honey, viḍaṅga, and realgar: a wick \[made\] of these cures cataract, dark-field vision defects, and opacity. ### [1.192.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.42) Two prasthas of māṣa and a decoction from a droṇa of water; with a fourth part remaining, one should cook a prastha of oil. ### [1.192.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.43) Having added an āḍhaka of fermented gruel, one should put in these ground items: punarnavā, gokṣuraka, rock salt, tryūṣaṇa, vacā, ### [1.192.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.44) salt, devadāru, madder, and kaṇṭakārikā. Through nasal administration and drinking, it indeed removes severe earache, ### [1.192.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.45) deafness, and all diseases; and through massage, O Maheśvara! Two palas of rock salt, dry ginger, the group of five beginning with citraka, ### [1.192.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.46) and five prasthas of fermented barley water; then one should cook a prastha of oil. It removes menorrhagia, voice disorders, spleen disorders, and all vāta afflictions. ### [1.192.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.47) Udumbara, vaṭa, plakṣa, both kinds of jambū, then arjuna, pippalī, kadamba, palāśa, lodhra, tinduka, ### [1.192.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.48) madhūka, mango, sarja, jujube, filaments of the lotus, śirīṣa seed, and kataka—an oil prepared with the decoction of these heals even long-standing ulcers by application. ### [1.192.48.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192.48.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and ninety-second chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, designated as the first section, in the Pūrvakhaṇḍa of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.192.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.192) · Pramāṇa