176 - Diseases 

Lord said: 

1. Within seven nights even a bald man will grow his hair if a plaster of burnt ashes of elephant's tusk With Rasäñjana and goat's milk is applied. 

2. Oil cooked with the juice of Bhrungarăja one fourth in volume and mixed with Gunjà powder enables the growth of hair. 

3. Rub the bald head with Ela, Mami, Kuşhtha and Mura and plaster it with Gunjaphala. This will cure Chandralupta (baldness). 

4. By plastering with powdered stones of mango fruit hair become fine. Application of Karañja, Amalaka, Ela and Lākshă cures Aruņa (redness). 

5. Application of plaster of the powdered pulp or mango stones gives the hair a thickness and silky gloss. They grow with firm roots very long and glossy. They never fall off. 

6. Anointment of the head with a medicinal oil cooked with Vidanga, Gandhapăşhana and Manahshila with four times cow's urine destroys lice and dandruff. 

7. O Vrushabhadhvaja, (Shiva whose banner has the emblem of a bull) if fresh burnt conch ashes mixed with filings of lead are applied as a paste, hair turns darkblack and glossy. 

8-9. Equal parts of Bhrungaraja, iron-filings, Triphala, Bijapuraka, Nili and Karavira cooked with an equal quantity of jaggery constitute a powerful hairdye that can turn white hair black. 

10. Pulps of the seeds of mango fruits Triphala, Nili, Bhrungarāja, burnt Lohachūrņa and Káñjika constitute a good hair dye turning it black. 

11. Seeds of Chakramardaka, Kushtha, and roots of Eranda ground into a good paste in hot sour gruel (Kanjika) and applied on the head or forehead cure every sort of headache. 

12-13. Oil is to be cooked with rock salt, Vacha, Hingu, Kushtha, Nägeśhvara, Shatapushpa and Devadaru. In this medicated oil mix the watery portion squeezed out of cowdung, one fourth of it in volume. This compound is very effective as an eardrop for all sorts of earache. 

14. O Śhiva, rock salt dissolved in sheep's urine poured into the ears removes fetid smell, foul discharges and worms in the ears. 

15. Pouring the juice of Málati flowers and leaves into the ears or pouring cow's urine alone into the ears arrests fetid discharges from the ears. 

16-17. A paste prepared from Kuşhtha, Måsa, Marica, Tagara, Pippali, Apämārgå, Ašhvagandhå, Bruhati, white mustard, Yava and Tila with honey and rock salt applied over the penis removes its numbness, over the arms their paralysis and over the ears makes them grow larger. 

18. Mustard oil cooked well with Bhallataka, Bruhati, Dadima and bark can be applied to the penis to make it longer.