190 - Diseases 

Hari said: 

1. The root of Aparajită drunk with cow's urine removes goitre. There is no doubt in this. 

2. A decoction of the root of Indra-văruņi taken duly or an errhine with the paste of the juice of Jingini with Shuka Shimbi grains and cold water removes many kinds of pain in arms or neck. 

3. Ašhvagandhå, Pippali and the two drugs Vachả and Kuşhtha ground into paste with butter from buffalo's milk when applied to the penis or chest alleviate the pain in the ducts of penis and the cardiac region. 

4. Powdered Kushtha and Nagabalā pasted with butter and applied over the breasts of young women give them a shapely beauty. 

5. Indravárunikā must be uprooted and cast off far away shouting the name of the patient of splenic enlargement. He is relieved of the ailment. 

6. Root of Punarnavå of the white variety drunk with rice washings removes abscesses. There is no doubt in this. 

7. Ashes of burnt Kadali leaves boiled in water and drunk quell all sorts of dropsy and Ascites. 

8. Roots of Kadali cooked well in butter and jaggery and swallowed destroy the worms in the abdomen. 

9. Daily intake of powdered Nimba leaves and Amalaka early in the morning quells Kushtha and similar cutaneous afflictions. 

10. A compound of Haritaki, Vidanga, Haridra, white mustard, Roots of Somaraja and Karañja, and Saindhava ground into paste in cow's urine removes Kuşhtha. 

11. One part of Triphala and two parts of the seeds of Somaraja taken in along with the observation of strictness in dict cure ring worm, O Śhiva. 

12. Sour butter milk boiled with cow's urine with salt in a vessel of bell metel thickly applied removes Kuşhtha. 

13. A plaster of Haridra, Haritala, Durvå and rock salt pasted with cow's urine removes ring worm Pamå and skin poisons. 

14. Seeds of Somaraja pasted with butter and honey taken in remove white leprosy. O Rudra, butter milk must be taken as Anupāna (subsequent drink). There is no doubt in this. 

15. Root of white Aparajita purified recurrently in its own washings applied for a mouth, O Rudra, quells leucoderma. 

16. Butter from buffalo's milk, Sindura and Marichaka applied over the affected part removes Påmå (scabies) and Piles, O Vruşhabha-Dhvaja (Shiva). 

17. O Išhvara, Dry roots of Gambhari cooked and taken with milk is a remedy for Shuklapitta. 

18. Seeds of Mülaka ground with the juice of Apåmårga and applied over the body, O Rudra, quell Silhika. 

19. Haridra mixed with the ashes of Kadali quells Silhika. Ashes of Rambha¹ and Apåmärga mixed with Eranda if applied over the body, O Mahadeva, remove scabs immediately. 

1. A synonym of kadali 

20-21. Burnt ashes of Kūşhināņda creeper mixed with cow's urine and Haridrā pasted with water must be cooked in a crucible lutoed with buffalo dung over a low fire, O Vrushabhadhvaja. An unguent of this compound, O Ishvara produces shapeliness and beauty of limbs. 

22. A compound of gingelly seeds, mustard, two sorts of Haridra and Kuşhthaka applied over the body as an unguent turns body odour into a sweet fragrance. 

23. Application of Durvă and Kakajangha too similarly increases the beauty day by day. An application of the paste of flowers of Arjuna leaves of Jambū and Lodhra removes the bad odour of the body. 

24. A person who smears his body with a solution of Lodhra water and powdered Kanaka is never affected by the rigours of summer. 

25. Sprinkling profusely with milk relieves the body of the defects of heat. An unguent of Kakajanghå is a good cosmetic. 

26. A decoction of Yaşhțimadhu and juice of Väsaka drunk with sugar and honey is a curative for Raktapitta (Haemoptysis) chlorosis and Jaundice. 

27. Mere juice of Vasaka taken with honey quells Haemo- ptysis. Taking in cold water in the morning quells even acute catarrh. 

28. O Maheśhvara, powdered Vibhitaka, Pippali and Saindhava taken with sour gruel cures the hoarseness of voice (Aphonia). 

29-30. In cases of Asthma the patient takes a decoction of powdered Amalaka, Manahshila, root of Balā, leaves of Kola and Guggulu with cow's milk; and smokes a Varti in Badari fire, prepared with Jātipatra, Kolapatra, and Manaħshilă. Undoubtedly he will be cured. 

31. Powdered Triphala and Pippali taken with honey before the meal relieve thirst and fever. 

32. A decoction of Bilvamūla, and Gudúchi drunk with honey removes three types of vomiting undoubtedly. Dūrvá ground into paste with rice washings removes vomiting.