Let us journey through the sacred teachings of the Garuda Purana, where the divine wisdom of Hari is revealed regarding the healing powers of nature and the care of the body. First, the text describes a variety of potent substances—kaṣṭha, black gram, long pepper, tagara, honey, pippalī, apāmārga, ashwagandha, bṛhatī, and white mustard. These are employed in special preparations. Barley, sesame, and rock salt are highly recommended for massage, and when applied to the penis, arms, and breasts, they help increase their size. Pungent oil, bhallātaka, bṛhatī, and pomegranate are also included in these treatments. It is taught that when oil prepared with these barks is anointed on the penis, it leads to an increase in its size. Hari then speaks of remedies for the eyes. By applying the juice of sobhāñjana leaves mixed with honey, diseases of the eyes are removed without doubt. The preparation continues with eighty sesame flowers, the blossoms of jati, uṣa, nimba, amalaki, dry ginger, long pepper, and rice. These are ground together with rice water and dried in the shade to form a tablet. When this tablet is applied to the eyes with honey, it dispels darkness and similar disorders. For further healing, the marrow from the bibhītaka fruit, conch powder, manaḥśilā, neem leaves, and black pepper are ground together with goat’s urine. This mixture is especially effective against night-blindness and the dense veil of darkness over the eyes. The correct proportions are four parts conch and half that amount of manaḥśilā. To this, half as much saindhava salt is added, and all are ground with water to make a pill, which is dried in the shade and applied as collyrium to the eyes. This treatment destroys darkness and sticky eye disease. Trikaṭu, triphalā, and the fruits of karanja are also praised as excellent medicines. Saindhava salt, turmeric, and the juice of bhṛṅgarāja, when ground and used as collyrium, remove darkness and similar disorders. The root of āṭarūṣaka, ground with sour gruel and applied as a paste to the eyelids, alleviates eye pain. Satakra and the root of badarī, when taken, relieve eye discomfort, and saindhava salt, pungent oil, and the root of apāmārga are also effective. When these are rubbed with milk and sour gruel in a copper vessel and used as collyrium, sticky eye disease is destroyed. A sacred mantra is revealed: “Oṃ dadru sara kroṃ hrīṃ ṭhaḥ ṭhaḥ dadru sara hrīṃ hrīṃ oṃ uṃ ū sara krīṃ krīṃ ṭhaḥ ṭhaḥ.” When applied as collyrium, it subdues the first disorders. The root of bilva and kanīlika, when ground and applied, cause darkness in the eyes to vanish with just a single application. Pippalī, tagara, turmeric, amalaki, vacā, and khadira, when ground and used as collyrium, cure eye diseases. Washing the mouth with water and applying collyrium in large measure to both eyes every morning frees one from all eye diseases. The root and leaf of white castor, when prepared and applied, relieve burning and heat in the eyes caused by wind. Sandalwood, saindhava salt, old pālāśa, harītakī, kusuma, and nīlī, when used as collyrium, remove the veil and spots in the eyes. The root of guñjā, rubbed with goat’s urine and applied with a rod made of silver, copper, or gold, is effective against darkness. When this ointment is rubbed, it destroys jaundice, and the fruit of ghoṣā, when smelled, cures yellow jaundice. For nasal piles and bleeding caused by wind, the juice of dūrvā, pomegranate flower, alaktaka, and harītakī is used. The root of jāṅgalī, when ground and its juice applied as nasal medication, destroys blue and red nasal piles. To heal wounds of the lips that are cracked or torn, cow’s ghee, resin of the sal tree, coriander, rock salt, datura, and red ochre are prepared as a medicinal paste and applied with oil. Chewing the leaf of jasmine and holding it cures diseases of the mouth. Eating the seeds of saffron stabilizes loose teeth, and nutgrass, kushta, cardamom, licorice, and honey are also beneficial. Consuming coriander removes foul odor from the mouth, as does eating astringent, pungent, or bitter leafy vegetables. Regular use of oil eliminates foul mouth odor and cures all wounds of the teeth. Holding sour gruel mixed with oil in the mouth, or applying powder of betel leaf burned, destroys diseases of the mouth. Chewing ginger expels phlegm, and citron leaves, cardamom, licorice, honey, and long pepper are also helpful. Powder of jasmine leaf and these ingredients, along with chewing the root of nightshade, cure dryness of the throat. If the nose, head, or tongue is affected by blood disorders, the juice of silk tree seeds with four times the amount of turmeric is cooked and administered nasally to cure diseases of the head and throat instantly. Chewing the root of the rosary pea destroys tooth worms, and black nightshade, milk hedge, indigo, and honey mixed together also destroy worms born in and invading the teeth. A paste prepared with crab’s foot and milk, when applied, prevents the teeth from making a grinding sound; coating with crab’s foot alone is also effective. For twenty-one days, the fruits of jyotishmati ground into a paste and applied with white mustard and raw rice remove stains from the teeth. Lodhra, saffron, madder, iron, and other powders, barley and rice, licorice, and honey mixed together create a paste which, when applied to the face, brings beauty to women’s faces. Prepared with two parts goat’s milk and a measure of oil, this paste enhances one’s radiance. Thus, through the wisdom of Hari, the Garuda Purana reveals the sacred ways in which the gifts of nature may be used to care for the body, restore health, and cultivate beauty, all in reverence to the divine.