Garuda Mahā Purana - Achara Khaṇḍa
187 - Diseases
Hari said:
1. O Shankara, pound the leaves of Hastikarnapalasha. O Shiva, a hundred Palas of this powder is a great cure for all ailments.
2. If the above powder is taken with milk O Vruşhabhadhvaja, for seven days the man gains the power of memory, O Rudra, and becomes as powerful and valorous as a lion.
3. If the powder is taken with milk for sixteen days, O Rudra, the body begins to glow like a ruby, the shape and features become brilliant and he can live even for a thousand years.
4. Taken with honey and butter it is conducive to longevity. Taken with honey it enables one to live even for ten thousand years.
5. Taken daily with curd it builds up the body as strong as adamant and makes the man endowed with keen power of memory and a great favourite of young maidens.
6. Taken with sour gruel it enables a man to live even for a thousand years with thickly grown glossy hair.
7. Taken with Triphala it enables the man to live for a hundred years with a divine body free from wrinkles and grey hair and without any defect in the eyes.
8-9. If the powder is taken with butter even a blind man begins to see. When applied over the head with buffalo's milk it turns grey hair black. O Vrushabhadhvaja, hair begin to grow even on a bald head. The powder used for massage with oil removes wrinkles and grey hair.
10. By using it as an unguent one is freed from all ailments. If it is applied as a collyrium with goat's milk for a month, the lost eyesight can be regained.
11-12. Seeds of Paläsha are to be gathered in the month of Shrāvana and dehusked. Powder them well and take half a Karşha of it daily with butter after due worship of Lord Hari. The diet is to be restricted to old rice of the Şhaşhti variety. Water is to be abjured. The man can live for a thousand years free from wrinkles and grey hair.
13-14. Cull the roots of Bhrungaraja when the moon is in Puşhya star. Powder them well. The powder is to be taken daily with Sauvīra for a month. The man becomes free from wrinkles and grey hair. He will be endowed with the strength of an elephant. He can live even for five hundred years with the power of hearing unimpaired. O Rudra, the course must be started on the day when the moon enters the asterism of Puşhya.
Summary of chapter 187 of the Garuda Mahā Purana - Achara Khaṇḍa is as follows:
Bhagavān Vishṇu details remedies for scorpion stings and venomous insect bites. As it happens, the text specifies topical herbal pastes, warm salt poultices, and local pain-relieving applications to quickly neutralize venom and soothe pain.