In the ancient teachings, a wealth of remedies and practices are lovingly prescribed for the care of body and mind. Rice cooked with ample water or milk, or simply with hot water, is recommended to quench thirst; alternatively, one may hold a tablet of musta and gur in the mouth for relief. To remove stiffness, preparations of barley, cakes, dried roots, and vegetables such as patola and vetra shoots are used. For nourishment and healing, mudga, arhar, and masura lentils, combined with sesame, wild meat juices, rock salt, ghee, grapes, dry ginger, amalaki, and kola, are suggested. Soups made from old wheat, barley, and rice are beneficial, and for those suffering from erysipelas, a sweet crafted from sesame, honey, grapes, and pomegranate brings comfort. Light foods such as red sugarcane, wheat, barley, and mung beans are praised, along with kakamari, vetra tips, vastuka, and suvarcalā. To destroy disorders of wind and blood, water mixed with honey is advised, while clarified butter prepared with durva grass is recommended for diseases thought incurable. For ailments and those caused by parasites on the scalp, oil made with bhringaraja juice or amla juice is desirable as nasal medicine. Cold water, food, and drink, along with the consumption of sesame seeds, are said to cause sluggishness in the twice-born, yet also bring satisfaction. Gargling with sesame oil greatly induces sluggishness in such persons, while viranga powder and cow urine are effective in destroying intestinal worms. A paste of amla fruit and clarified butter is the best application for the head, and for head diseases, oily and warm food is also beneficial. For ear pain, oil or camel urine is an excellent ear filling, and all kinds of pearls are suitable for relief. Mountain clay, sandalwood, lac, and jasmine buds, when made into a paste, remove wounds caused by seminal disorders. For curing eye diseases, vyosha mixed with triphala, tucchaka, and water is effective, as is rasanjana. Clarified butter roasted and ground on stone, mixed with lodhra, sour rice water, and rock salt, is beneficial for washing and curing eye ailments. A paste of mountain clay and sandalwood is recommended for the eyes, and triphala should always be used to prevent eye diseases. At night, those desiring long life should use honey and clarified butter; shatavari juice prepared with milk and ghee is invigorating. Kalambika and mash beans, when prepared with milk and ghee, are also invigorating, and triphala combined with licorice promotes longevity. Licorice and other juices impart strength and remove gray hair, while clarified butter prepared with vacha destroys defects caused by spirits. Poetry is said to bring intelligence and fulfill all purposes; ointment prepared with valā and kalkakaṣāya is beneficial for massage. Oil made with rasna and sahachara is recommended for wind disorders, and any food that does not cause obstruction is praised for wounds. Shaktu cakes and sour foods aid digestion, and neem powder is beneficial for ulcers and their healing. Proper cleaning and special sacrificial offerings are especially important, and protection for women in childbirth is always beneficial for living beings. Eating neem leaves is a remedy for snakebite, and applying a mixture of palmyra and neem leaves, aged oil, barley, and ghee is also helpful. For scorpion stings, fumigation with peacock feather ghee, or a paste of arka milk with lotus seed and palasha seed, is effective. Black nightshade or the shiva plant with fruit, mixed with arka milk, oil, clay, and jaggery, is beneficial for scorpion affliction. Drinking the root of tandulīya, equal to trivrit, with ghee quickly overcomes the severe poison of rabid dog bite. Even the most potent poisons from snakes and insects are swiftly conquered by sandalwood, padmaka, kuṣṭha, palmyra, usira, and pāṭalā. Nirgundi, shariva, selu, and lūta are remedies for poison, and gur and nāgara are excellent for cleansing the head. For internal oleation and enemas, the best oil and ghee should be used; strong fomentation with fire is recommended, and cold water is the supreme astringent. Trivrit is best for purgation, madana for emesis; enema, purgation, emesis, oil, ghee, and honey are all used as needed. For disorders of vāta, pitta, and kapha, these are the supreme medicines, to be used in proper sequence. Then Dhanvantari spoke, explaining that diseases arise from bodily, mental, external, and congenital origins. Bodily diseases include fever and skin disorders, while those from anger and similar causes are mental. External diseases arise from injury, while congenital ones include hunger and old age. To destroy bodily and external diseases, it is advised to offer ghee and jaggery on Sunday. One should offer salted rice-cake with gold to a Brahmin; on the day of the moon, anoint the Brahmin, and he will be freed from all diseases. On the day of Saturn, give oil; on the day of Ashvini, offer cow’s milk and rice. Bathing the image with ghee and milk brings freedom from disease. Recite the Gāyatrī while offering darbha grass soaked in three sweet substances into the fire, and bathe and make offerings at the place where the disease occurred. For mental pains and afflictions, the praise of Viṣṇu is curative. Dhanvantari then spoke of the humors—vāta, pitta, kapha—and the bodily tissues. The food eaten and digested in the stomach, O Suśruta, divides into two parts: one becomes waste, the other essence. The waste forms excretions—feces, urine, sweat, nasal, ear, and other bodily impurities. From the essence arises rasa, the nutritive fluid, which then becomes blood; from blood comes flesh, from flesh fat, and from fat, bone. Thus, the ancient wisdom lovingly guides the care of body and mind, through food, ritual, and reverence for the sacred cycles of health.