O gentle listener, hear now the wisdom imparted in these sacred verses, as a stream of healing knowledge flows from the venerable scripture. It is said that if one desires radiance in the face, one should take red sandalwood, madder, lac, or a mixture of these, along with licorice, honey, and saffron. After preparing this for seven days, the face will shine with newfound brilliance. To kindle the digestive fire, a powder made from ginger, long pepper, guduchi, and kantakari is to be boiled in water and drunk. For ailments such as wind-pain and consumption, the foremost Lord prescribes karanja, parpata, usira, bahati, and katu-rohini. When gokshura is boiled and taken with water, it removes fatigue, burning sensations, excessive pitta, fevers, wasting, fainting, and consumption. To relieve heart disease, cough, and irregular fever, one should take a powder of long pepper with honey and ghee, boil it in milk, and drink it. For all these decoctions, half a karsha is the measure to be taken, adjusted according to one’s age, as instructed by the bull-bannered Lord. Milk mixed with cow urine, when drunk, removes irregular fever and the affliction known as kakajandhara. Likewise, dry ginger boiled in milk is a remedy for fever, as are licorice, musta, rock salt, and the fruit of brihati. For those troubled by sleeplessness, these remedies and sleep-inducing substances bring rest; and for disturbed sleep, powdered black pepper with saliva is recommended. The root of kakajangha, placed upon the head, induces sleep, as does oil prepared with sour gruel and sarja resin. When this oil is applied with cold water, it soothes burning sensations and relieves the heat from blood-fever and fevers of burning nature. Shrikashaila, mantha, dry ginger, papana, bhedaka, sauvanjana, gokshura, or the bark of varuna, when their roots are boiled in water with asafoetida and barley-alkali and drunk, destroy disorders of the wind. For severe colic, long pepper, its root, and bhallataka, boiled in water, are most effective. If paralysis of the thigh afflicts, rubbing the roots of ashwagandha prepared with ant-hill earth brings relief. The root of brihati, ground with water and drunk, dispels wind-accumulation, while the fresh root of tagara, taken with buttermilk, removes jhinjhini-vata as forcefully as Indra’s thunderbolt. To promote the union of fractured bones, this should be taken with food or meat juice, for it removes wind disorders and aids bone healing. When smeared with ghee, dried, and mixed with goat’s milk, and then applied, it reduces swelling of the foot beyond doubt. A mixture of honey, ghee, rock salt, beeswax, jaggery, and guggulu, combined with sarja resin and applied, purifies the spleen. If the foot is smeared with pungent oil, heated over a smokeless fire, and covered with earth, it becomes as strong as a bull. For burns, a paste of sarjarasa, sikthaka, cumin, and haritaki with clarified butter soothes the pain, while sesame oil burnt in fire and mixed with barley ash, when repeatedly applied, heals burn wounds. For wounds and headaches, a nasal ointment of fresh buffalo butter, burnt and ground sesame seeds, and bhallataka is effective. In the case of wounds from blows filled with camphor and cow’s ghee, or wounds from weapons that are white in color and bound up, both suppuration and pain are addressed. A wound from a weapon, filled with the root juice of the mango tree and washed with ghee, becomes free of injury. The roots of sharapunkha, lajjaluka, and patha, ground with water and applied as a paste, soothe weapon wounds. The root of kakajangha, dried for three nights, destroys suppuration and pain in wounds, promoting healing. Sesame oil mixed with the root of apamarga and water, when applied, removes the pain caused by blows. For indigestion, a mixture of abhaya, rock salt, and dry ginger, ground and taken with water, is prescribed. The root of neem, tied at the waist, removes eye pain, while the root of shana, burnt with betel, relieves pain of the senses. Cooked turmeric, the root of white mustard, and seeds of matulunga, when used as a powder for seven days, bring about a healthy body. The leaf of white aparajita, with neem leaf juice, given as nasal drops, releases one from possession by dakinis, mothers, and brahmarakshasas; with honey, this is also effective by nasal application. The root of white jayanti, gathered under the Pushya star with the roots of white aparajita and chitraka, made into a pill and used as a tilaka, brings a woman under one’s will. Equal parts of pippali, iron powder, dry ginger, and amalaki, along with rock salt and sugar-candy, are to be known as potent, O Rudra. When this mixture, in the size of a fig, is taken for seven days, a man becomes strong and may live for two hundred years. The chant ‘Om ṭha ṭha ṭha’ fulfills every desire in rituals of subjugation. Now, hear of a supreme method of expulsion: the wise should collect the dwelling of a crow and burn it; the ash, placed on the head under an umbrella, is potent indeed. The excrement, thrown onto the skin of a wild rat, is to be bound with a thread of hemp, smeared with the blood of a black crow, and the name of the intended person written upon it. Then, in the middle of a fallen leaf, it is to be cast away. By this act, both women and men are devoured by flocks of crows. Thus, O seeker, are the sacred remedies and mystical rites laid out, each serving its purpose in the tapestry of Sanātana wisdom.