Hari, the Lord, spoke to Hara, the bull-bannered one, revealing a treasury of remedies for ailments and wonders of the body. He began with the power of fumigation: when fever strikes on the fourth day, or when the fever of the ḍākinīs threatens, the smoke from the flowers of arjuna, bhallātaka, and viḍaṅga is a potent cure. Likewise, the wise know to fumigate with balā, sarja resin, Sauvīra salt, and mustard seeds; this drives away snakes, lice, flies, and mosquitoes. For constriction and contraction of the yoni, the powder of bhūtalā, whether filled within or applied outside, brings swift effect. Turning to pain of the eyes, Hari advised: mix betel, ghee, honey, and salt in a copper vessel, adding milk—this soothes eye afflictions. For cough, asthma, and hiccup, one should lick a blend of harītakī, vacā, kuṣṭha, vyoṣa, asafoetida, and manahśilā with honey and ghee. A mixture of pippalī, triphalā powder, and honey, when taken, banishes catarrh and cough, and strengthens the breath. Licking the root of citraka, its ash, and pippalī powder with honey is another remedy for asthma, cough, and hiccup. Blood disorders yield to a combination of blue lotus, sugar, licorice, and padmaka, mixed in equal parts with rice water. For a sweet, melodious voice, dry ginger and sugar, combined with honey and made into a pill the size of a meal, bestow a voice like a cuckoo. The removal of hair is achieved by rubbing a mixture of orpiment and conch powder with the ash of banana leaves, or by combining salt, orpiment, and the fruits of the tumbini plant with lac resin. Another potent hair-removing paste is made from lime, orpiment, conch shell ash, borax, and rock salt, ground together with goat urine and applied immediately. Conch, Indian gooseberry leaf, and the flowers of dhataki, ground and mixed with milk, kept in the mouth for seven days, render the teeth smooth, white, and brilliantly clean. Hari continued, teaching about curd: it is best avoided in autumn, summer, and spring, but in winter, late winter, and the rainy season, curd is beneficial. After meals, drinking sugar mixed with fresh butter sharpens the intellect; eating old jaggery endows a man with strength so great that he may unite with a thousand women. At bedtime, powdered kushta mixed with ghee and honey increases strength and destroys gray hair. A paste made of atasi, black gram, wheat, and long pepper, applied to the body with ghee and water, transforms a person into one as attractive as Kama himself. Eating a preparation of barley, sesame, ashwagandha, musali, sarala, and jaggery brings youthfulness and vigor. For relief from pain called parinama and indigestion, drink hing, black salt, and dry ginger boiled in water. Grinding dhātaki and somarāji with milk makes a weak person stout. The strong should lick fresh butter mixed with sugar and honey; consuming milk in this manner nourishes and enhances intellect. To cure consumption, powder of crab taken with milk is effective. Bhallataka, vidanga, barley-alkali, and rock salt, along with borax and conch powder cooked in oil, are certain to remove hair. The juice of the mālūra fruit, with a leech ground in it and applied to the hands, arrests fire. The juice of the silk cotton tree, placed in donkey urine and thrown into fire, also stops its spread. The stomach of a vulture, combined with frog fat, made into a pill and thrown into fire, arrests it excellently. Chewing the bark of mundi, vacha, musta, black pepper, and tagara allows one to extinguish fire with the tongue. Mixing cow's gall and bhringaraja powder equally with clarified butter, together with divine water, and reciting the mantra, “Om, perform the immobilization of fire, perform it, perform it,” immobilizes fire. For water, recite, “Om, obeisance to the Blessed One, immobilize the water, saṃ saṃ saṃ, keka kekaḥ, moving and unmoving,” and water will stand still. For the destruction of enemies, bury vulture bones, cow bones, and temple remnants at their doorway. To attract, collect five red flowers of different kinds, mix with saffron and one’s own blood, grind together with rocanā, and apply as a tilaka to a woman or man. Brahmadandi, mixed with flowers and consumed, also acts as a means of attraction; drinking honey cooked in hot water is another method. The viṣṭambhikā herb removes heart pain, and the mantra “Om hrūṃ jaḥ” destroys all poison from scorpions. Long pepper, fresh butter, ginger, rock salt, black pepper, curd, and kuṣṭha, used as nasal drops or taken orally, remove poison. Triphala, fresh ginger, kuṣṭha, and sandalwood mixed with clarified butter, taken or applied, also destroy poison. The eyes of a pigeon, orpiment, and mica, when combined, eradicate poison as Garuda destroys serpents. An ointment of rock salt, tryūṣaṇa, curd, honey, and clarified butter destroys scorpion poison. Boiling brahmadandi and sesame, and drinking the powder of trikaṭuka, destroys tumors and blocked blood. Thus, Hari imparted these sacred remedies and mantras to Hara, for the welfare of all beings.