Hari, the Lord, spoke to Rudra, sharing the wisdom of ancient remedies for health and well-being. He began with secrets for the care of teeth. “Take orpiment, barley salt, patraṅga, red sandalwood, real cinnabar, and lac. Cook these together, and apply the mixture to your teeth. First, rub your teeth with a decoction of harītakī; then apply the prepared blend. Without doubt, your teeth will become beautifully red and white, O Rudra.” Turning to ailments of the ears, Hari continued, “If you sweat radish over a gentle fire and fill its juice into the ears, it will eliminate any discharge. Similarly, take arka leaves, gently heat them, squeeze out their juice, and fill it into the ears; this removes ear pain.” For women, Hari described a remedy to eliminate unwanted moisture: “Take priyaṅgu, licorice, dhātaki, lotus, mañjiṣṭhā, lodhra, lac, and the juice of kapittha. Cook these in oil, and apply the mixture as needed.” He then spoke of a powerful blend for digestive and other disorders: “Combine dried radish and ginger, salt, asafoetida, potent medicinal herbs, satapuṣpā, acorus, kuṣṭha, dāru, horseradish, and antimony. Add black salt, barley salt, sarjaka, rock salt, granthi, viḍaṅga, musta, and four times honey. Prepare the juice of citron and banana in the same way, cook it in oil—this quickly removes discharges and similar ailments.” “For worms in the ears,” Hari advised, “fill the ears with pungent oil made from turmeric, neem leaves, long pepper, and black pepper. To cure indigestion and cholera, grind viḍaṅga, bhadra, musta, and the universal medicine with cow urine and form pills. One pill cures indigestion; two cure cholera.” He continued, “Patola mixed with honey and cow urine cures abdominal disorders, and this Śaṅkarī pill removes all eye diseases.” Hari then revealed ways to influence and attract others. “Take vaca, māṃsī, bilva, tagara, padma-keśara, nāgapuṣpa, and priyaṅgu in equal parts, powder them, and fumigate a person with it; they will roam the earth as they desire. Mix camphor and deodar with honey, and apply it to the liṅga; a man can bring a woman under his control.” He explained the method: “A man should restrain his own senses during intercourse, and with his left hand, anoint the left hand of the woman with the mixture. She will then desire no other man. Recite this mantra ten thousand times—‘Oṃ, O red Cāmuṇḍā, bring so-and-so under my control, bring, Oṃ hrīṃ hraiṃ hraḥ phaṭ’—and mark your forehead with a tilaka made from gorocanā mixed with your own blood; you will gain the power to enchant.” “To achieve the intended effect upon a woman,” Hari said, “apply a mixture of rock salt, black salt, Sauvīra salt, fish bile, honey, ghee, and sugar to her yoni. A man who follows this will not desire another woman. For this, use śaṅkapuṣpī, vacā, māṃsī, soma, rājī, and phalguka.” Hari spoke of restoring youthfulness: “The best physician should take buffalo fat and fresh butter, process them with the roots and leaves of these plants, and grind them with milk and ghee. Prepare and purify a medicinal pill, and insert it into a woman’s yoni; even if she has given birth ten times, she will become like a virgin again.” He described other remedies: “Mustard seeds, vacā, the fruits of madana, cat feces, and dhattūra, combined with women’s hair, are to be used. For fumigation to remove fourth-day fever and the fever caused by ḍākinīs, use the flowers of arjuna, bhallātaka, and viḍaṅga. Fumigation with balā, sarja resin, Sauvīra salt, and mustard seeds destroys snakes, lice, flies, and mosquitoes. By filling the yoni with the powder of bhūtalā, it becomes contracted.” Hari then turned to remedies for eye pain and respiratory disorders. “Betel, ghee, honey, and salt in a copper vessel, together with milk, is an excellent remedy for eye pain. Harītakī, vacā, kuṣṭha, vyoṣa, asafoetida, and manahśilā, licked with honey and ghee, benefit cough, asthma, and hiccup. Lick a mixture of pippalī, triphalā powder, and honey to destroy catarrh and cough, and strengthen the breath. Licking a mixture of citraka root, its ash, and pippalī powder with honey cures asthma, cough, and hiccup.” “For disorders of the blood,” Hari said, “combine blue lotus, sugar, licorice, and padmaka in equal parts, and mix with rice water. Dry ginger and sugar, taken with honey as a pill the size of a meal, will give a voice like a cuckoo.” He described remedies for hair removal: “Orpiment and conch powder, with the ash of banana leaves, rubbed together, remove hair excellently. Salt, orpiment, and the fruits of the tumbini plant combined with lac resin are also effective. Lime, orpiment, conch shell ash, and borax, together with rock salt, should be ground with goat urine; applied as a paste, it removes hair quickly. Conch, Indian gooseberry leaf, and dhataki flowers, ground and mixed with milk, should be kept in the mouth for seven days; then the teeth become smooth, white, and brilliantly clean.” Hari shared guidance on diet. “Generally, curd is to be avoided in autumn, summer, and spring, but in winter, late winter, and the rainy season, curd is recommended. After eating, drink sugar mixed with fresh butter to enhance intelligence. Eat a measure of old jaggery, and a man, endowed with strength, may unite with a thousand women, O Hara.” “To increase strength and destroy gray hair,” Hari said, “eat powdered kushta mixed with ghee and honey at bedtime. Powder of atasi, black gram, and wheat, together with long pepper, should be applied to the body with ghee and water; by doing this regularly, a person becomes like Kama himself, O Shankara.” He concluded, “Barley, sesame, ashwagandha, musali, sarala, and jaggery—by eating a preparation made from these, one becomes youthful and strong. Drinking hing, black salt, and dry ginger with boiled water relieves pain called parinama and also indigestion.” Thus, Hari imparted to Rudra a treasury of remedies, each rooted in the wisdom of the ages, for health, vigor, and the fulfillment of desires.