182 - Diseases 

Hari said: 

1. In the seasons of Vasanta (spring) Grişhma (summer) and Sarad (Autumn) use of curd is not recommended. It is very good in Hemanta, Sisira and the rainy season. 

2. Sugár taken with butter makes the intellect keen. Daily intake of old jaggery, about a pala per dose, makes the man so strong that he can satisfy a thousand women, O Hara. 

3. Kuşhtha powdered well and ground into paste with ghee and honey must be taken at bed-time. It dispels wrinkles and greying hair. 

4. O Shankara, Atasi, Måşha and Godhūma ground into paste with ghi and powdered Pippali when applied over the body make it shine with lustre like that of Kandarpa (Cupid). 

5. Yava, Tila, Ašhvagandha, Mushali and Saralá¹ ground into paste with jaggery and taken in regularly make the man young and strong. 

            1. A synonym of trivrut. 

6. A decoction of Hingu, Sauvarcala, and Shunthi when drunk dispels Pariņāma Shúla (a type of Gastralgia) and impaired digestion. 

7. Dhätaki and Somaráji ground and cooked with milk and taken regularly, make the weakest man the stoutest. There is no doubt. 

8. Sugar taken with honey and butter makes one strong. A consumptive patient taking to a diet of milk can nourish himself and become intelligent. 

9-10. Powdered Kulira¹ drunk with milk dispels tuberculosis Bhallataka, Vidanga, Yavakşhāra, Saindhava, Manahshila and Shankhachurna powdered and cooked with oil is a great depilatory. There is no doubt about it. 

            1. A synonym of karkanasrungi. 

11. Leech ground into paste with the juice of Mālūra and applied to the palm gives it the power to hold fire. 

12. The juice of Shalmali mixed with urine of a mule and thrown into fire extinguishes it immediately. 

13. Take the abdomen of the she crows and paste it with the suet of a frog. Pills made of this compound cast into fire can extinguish fire immediately. 

14. Munditvak, Vacha, Musta, Marica and Tagara chewed well give the power to lick even fire immediately. 

15. Gorocana and Bhrungaraja powdered and pasted with ghi act as a protection against rain with this mantra

Om Aganistambhanam Kuru Kuru.

16. Om Namo Bhagavate Jalam Stambhaya Sam Sam Sam Keka Keka Chara Chara O Shiva. This is the mantra to numbify water. It benumbs water. 

17. If a person buries the bones of a vulture and a cow along with Pujā garlands at the threshold of the enemy's house he is sure to die. 

18-19. If a man or woman squeezes red flowers of five different species of plants and mixes the juice of the same with Kumkuma, his or her own blood and a pala of Rochană and marks his forehead he or she can captivate anyone. 

20-21. Brahmadandi administered in food or drink on a day when moon enters the Puşhya star is a captivating charm, A pala of Yaşhțimadhu cooked in water, O Maheśhvara, and drunk dispels suppression of faeces and urine and cardiac colic. The mantra Om Hrum Jah removes the poison of a scorpion, O Rudra. 

22. Pippali, Shrungavera, Saindhava, Marica and Kuşhtha ground into paste with butter and curd is an antitoxic remedy whether used as an errhine or a beverage. 

23. O Shiva, Triphala, Ardraka, Kushtha and Chandana cooked with ghi and drunk or applied as a plaster removes poison. 

24. A compound of the eyes of dove, Haritala and Manahshilā removes poison as Garuda kills serpents. 

25. O Vruşhabhadhvaja, Saindhava, Tryüşhaņa powder, curdand ghi pasted together when applied over the body remove the poison of scorpion. 

26. A decoction of Brahmadandi and Tila drunk with Traikațuka removes Gulmas, O Rudra, and obstructed blood. 

27. Milk taken with honey prevents haemorrhage. The navel and the Vaginal canal must be smeared with the root of Ațarūşhaka. A woman in labour easily delivers of her child. 

28. O Vruşhadhvaja, sugar, honey and rice washings drunk quells Raktátisāra (blood dysentery).