191 - Diseases 

Hari said: 

1. Roots of white Punarnavä must be taken out on a day when the moon enters the Puşhya star and should be drunk with water. No serpent will ever come near him nor infest his house. 

2. O Vrushadhvaja, he who wears as an amulet the image of Garuda made of bear's teeth, will never be bitten by a serpent in his life. 

3. O Rudra, Serpents will find their fangs ineffective in him who drinks a decoction of the root of Salmali in water. 

4. If the root Lajjäluka is culled on a day when the moon enters the Puşhya star and tied round the wrist or its paste is smeared over the body he will undoubtedly be able to catch hold of a serpent with impurity. 

5. If the root of white Arka culled under the auspices of the asterism Puşhya is drunk with cold water, the poison due to the bites of insects or the sepsis due to sword cut etc. is quelled. 

6. Smearing with the paste of the root of Mahåkäla in sour gruel quells the poison of Vodras and Dundubhas (different kinds of water snakes). 

7. Roots of Tanduliyaka soaked in rice washings and pasted, taken with clarified butter remove all kinds of poisons. 

8. Roots of either Nili or Lajjaluka, but not both, pasted with rice washings, if drunk, remove the poison due to insect bite. 

9. The expressed juice of Kūşhmånda taken with jaggery or sugar and milk is an antidote for the poison due to insect bite. 

10-12. The expressed juice of Kodrava root taken similarly removes loss of sense. Yaşhțimadhu taken with sugar and milk removes the poison of a rat in three days. If the mouth is burnt due to excess of lime while chewing betel leaves, three mouthfuls of cold water drunk will stop salivation. Ghi taken with sugar arrests intoxication and inebriety. 

13. O Maheśhvara, boiled water drunk with the roots of black Ankoța destroys undigested poison within three days. 

14. O Mahadeva, the cow's fresh butter mixed with Saindhava quells the pain due to scorpion bite. 

15-16. O Shiva, swallowing the compound of Kusumbha, Kumkuma, Haritala, Manaḥshila, Karanja, and ground root of Arka removes human bite poison, O Shankara. Applying the oil from an oil lamp the poison of insects and Kharjūraka (scorpion) is removed. There is no doubt in this. 

17. The place of bite must be smeared with a paste of Shunthi and Tagarapädika. By smearing these the poison of the sting of a honey bee is quelled. 

18-19. In the above case a paste of Shatapushpă, Saindhava and butter does great good. O Mahadeva, an application of a paste of the seed of Shirişha cooked in milk removes the poison of dog bite. Frog bite is to be treated by burning the site of bite and pouring water there, 

20. O Shiva with moon for crest, rat poison is quelled by drinking the juice of Dhattūraka mixed with milk, butter and jaggery. 

21. Gargling with water boiled with the barks of Vața Nimba and Shamī removes the pain due to poison in mouth or teeth. 

22. O Lord of Umå, application of a paste of Devadaru and Gairika or a compound of Någeśhvara, the two varieties of Haridrá, and Majithikā¹ quells the poison of spider.

1. Perhaps the same as Mañjishthika=rubia cordifolia.  

23. There is no doubt in this that a compound of the seeds of Karanja, barks of Varuna, Tila and Sarşhapa quells poison. 

24. The itching sensation of the horse can be removed in ten days, O Hara, by applying the paste of Kumari patra with butter and salt.