Garudapurana 1.193

English (machine translation) 1.193

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1.193.17 — 1 part

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The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 193
Hari said:
Onion, cumin seeds, kuṣṭha, aśvagandhā, ajamodā,
vacā, trikaṭu, and salt [form] an excellent powder.

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And [this powder], infused with the juice of brāhmī, combined with ghee and honey, / eaten for seven days, produces pure and supreme intellect.

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White mustard, vacā, asafoetida, karañja, and devadāru, / mañjiṣṭhā, triphalā, dry ginger, śirīṣa, the two turmerics,

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Priyaṅgu, neem, and tryūṣaṇa, ground with cow urine, / is beneficial as an errhine, as an ointment, and likewise as an unguent.

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It dispels epilepsy, poison, insanity, emaciation, misfortune, and fever; / and it destroys fear of spirits when employed at royal courts.

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Neem, kuṣṭha, the two turmerics, śigru, and mustard seed, / devadāru, paṭola, and coriander ground with buttermilk:

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One should apply this as an unguent to the body, whose limbs have been anointed with oil; / scabies and skin diseases vanish, and it certainly destroys itching.

Sea salt, rock salt, alkali, black mustard, [common] salt, and black salt, / pungent black pepper, iron powder, trivṛt, and elephant foot yam in equal parts, / cooked over a gentle fire with curd, cow urine, and milk:

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One should drink this powder, which increases strength and digestive fire, with hot water; / whether food is digested or undigested, one consumes an excellent ghee prepared with māṃsī and other herbs.

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It relieves pain in the navel, pain in urination, and that arising from abdominal tumours and the spleen; / it is a powder that dispels all colic and kindles the digestive fire, / and is exceedingly beneficial for colic arising during digestion.

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Abhayā, āmalaka, grape, pippalī, kaṇṭakārikā, / karkaṭaśṛṅgī, punarnavā, and dry ginger, when eaten, surely destroy cough.

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Abhayā, āmalaka, grape, pāṭhā, and vibhītaka, / eaten together with an equal amount of sugar, relieves fever.

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Triphalā, jujube, grape, and pippalī cause purging; / and harītakī with warm water and salt also causes purging.

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Of tortoises, fish, horses, buffaloes, cattle, jackals, and monkeys, / cats, peacocks, and crows, boars, owls, and roosters,

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And swans: their dung, urine, flesh, hair, or blood / one should apply as fumigation to those afflicted with fever and the insane, for relief.

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These collections of medicines have been declared, O Lord of Umā; / they strike down those diseases just as Indra’s thunderbolt strikes down a tree.

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The Lord Viṣṇu is the medicine: when remembered, he removes disease; / also when meditated upon, worshipped, or praised—there is no doubt about this.

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Thus ends the one hundred and ninety-third chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part, named the Pūrvakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit