Chapter CCXV - Various Recipes

Hari said:—A single moist, Punarnava root, or Apamarga root, or the expressed juice of either of these roots, introduced into the vagina, relieves the local plain of young wives or of parturient women. The roots of Bhumi Kushanda taken pasted with rice-washings tend to improve the secretion of milk in parturient women. Plasters of pasted Indravaruni roots, O Shiva, relieve the breast pain in females. O thou supreme deity, ingestions of Palika cooked with clarified butter relieve an aching pain in the female reproductive organs.

Plasters of Karavella roots pasted with water tend to replace a protruded vagina in its natural position. Plasters of Nili, and Patola roots, pasted together with a solultion of Tila and applied with the admixture of clarified butter, prove curative in Jvala-Gardhava. O Rudra, Patha roots taken pasted with rice-washings, as well as Kushtha-roots administered in the same way relieve Papa-rogam.

Solutions of Vasyam taken with honey alleviate the internal burning sensation in cases of Paparogam. O Rudra, clarified butter taken with as much quantity of Laksha through the vehicle of milk cures leucorrhœa. O thou blissful one, powders of Dvijayashti and Trikantakam taken with a decoction of sesame prove curative in Rukta Gulmas of women, and act as a good emanagogue remedy. Bulbs of Raktotpalam, taken with sugar or with cold water, relieve menorrhagia. A decoction of Sharapunkha taken with Kanjikam, Hingu and rocksalt tends to bring about a speedy parturition.

A Matulunga root, if it can be culled out entire, by mentioning the name of an anciente, presages the birth of a male child, if otherwise (pulled out split or served) it predicts the birth of a female one. An Apamarga root inserted into the chignonon of a pregnant woman, O thou blissful one, or Karpura, Madanaphalam and Madhuka pounded together and introduced even into the reproductive organ of an old woman, produces happy results, not to speak of it being used by young maidens.

Potions of solutions of Kushtam sweetened with sugar, and impressment of Tilak mark’s on the foreheads of infants act as a general prophylaxis against the influence of malignant planets, ghosts, and diseases. An infant should be made to wear on its person, O Rudra, Shankanabhi, Vacha, Kushtham and bits of iron for prophylactic purposes. Powders of Palasha seeds, or powdered Amalakam and Vidanga taken with the admixture of honey and melted cow-butter tend to improve the intellect. Its effect is almost instantaneous; by taking this compound for a month, O thou supreme deity, a person is enabled to conquer death and decay. Powders of Palasha seeds and Tilam, taken for a weak, through the vehicle of honey and clarified butter, would undoubtedly remove, O Rudra, the effects of old age. By taking, for a month, O Rudra, powders of Amalakam in combination with honey and oil, a person would verily become a lord of speech.

Water containing powders of Shiva and amalakam, sweetened with honey and drunk through the nostrils, each morning, would act as the best strength-giving medicine. By taking Kushtham-powders, each morning, with the admixture of honey and clarified butter, a man would be able to witness a thousand summers in the full possession of all his faculties in a healthy and fragnant-smelling frame. By regularly consuming huskless Masha pulse, soaked with clarified butter in the manner of a Bhavana, or cooked with milk, in conbination with honey and milk, a man would be able to visit a hundred women, each night. Mercury is purified by rubbing it with sulphar and castor oil. A dose of such purified mercury taken with water, thrice a day, acts as a good tonic medicine. By taking milk, that has been cooked with huskless Masha pulse and Shimvi seeds, in conbination with Apamarga oil, one would be able to visit a hundred women, each day.