Chapter CCXII - Other Medicinal Recipes

Hari said:—The expressed juice of the white Aparajita flowers dropped into the eyes tend to destroy the eye-disease known as Patola-raga. O thou blue and red bodied one, O thou, the destroyer of the demon of darkness, by chewing Gokshura roots, a man may destroy the parasites lodged in his teeth and may get rid of tooth-ache in consequence. By applying a plaster composed of white Arka roots pasted with cow-milk to her private parts, while observing a fast, during her flow, a woman may get rid of the pain of Gulma. O thou bull-ensigned deity, by wearing a white Arka flower consecrated with the aforesaid Mantra round her waist during an act of sexual congress, after the suppression of her monthly flow, a woman is sure to conceive a male child.

O Hara, Palasha-roots or Apamarga roots, tied round the wrist of a patient, act as good frebrifuge(febrifuge) remedies and tend to ward off the evil influences of malignant ghosts. O thou supreme divinity, Vrishehika (Vrisheshika?) roots pasted with water collected over night and given to a fever-patient instantaneously allay the heat, and burning sensation in his body. The same roots tied with the tuft of hair on the crown of a patient proves curative in daily intermittent fever; taken with Kanjikam they prove efficacacious in fever and in the type of Kushthan, due to the vitiated condition of blood. Taken with Vasvam water they exercise an antitoxic virtue. A bitter animosity is created between him and one, whether male or female, to whom he administers Lajjaluka roots pasted with his own seed. By taking Patha roots pasted with melted cow-butter one is relieved of all effects of a poison. Shirisha roots taken in combination with Vasyam water act as good antitoxic remedies. The expressed juice of the roots of red Chitrakam poured into the ears (of a patient) proves curative in Chorosis. The expressed juice of white Kokilakasha roots taken with goat’s milk for three days in succession tends to cure Pthisis. Cocoanut flowers taken in combination (pasted) with goat’s milk prove remedial to the three types of Vata-Raktam. A garland of Sudarshana roots tied round the neck proves curative in tertian ague and tends to ward off the influences of malignant Ghosts and planets. Roots of white Gunja plants culled under the auspices of the asterism Pushya, and kept in the month, act as a good prophylaxis against a variety of poisons. Tied around the wrist or the neck, the same roots tend to ward off the influences of malignant planets. O thou red and blue bodied one, these roots tied round his waist by a man under the auspices of the fourteenth day of the moon’s wane grant an immunity from attacks by lions and other wild beasts. O thou supreme deity, Vishnukranta roots tied round the ears by a person act as prophylasis against attacks by crocodiles.