In the ancient wisdom of the scriptures, the care and healing of animals and humans are revealed in sacred detail. During the autumn and summer, horses are to be given five palas of well-pounded guḍūcī mixed with ghee each morning. This remedy destroys disease, nourishes the body, and increases strength and vigor, and can be administered with milk or otherwise. For other medicinal preparations, such as śatāvarī and aśvagandhā, the dosage is adjusted: four or three palas for horses of the middle type, and less for those of the lowest. Sometimes, without apparent cause, all animals may appear the same and suddenly perish. This is recognized as an epidemic affliction. To pacify such calamities, protective rites are performed—homa, feeding brāhmaṇas, and offering oblations—following the prescriptions for harītakī and other medicines. Harītakī, combined with cow’s urine, oil, and salt, is administered in increasing amounts: first five, then another five, gradually reaching a hundred palas, though eighty or sixty are also considered excellent doses. The science of elephant medicine is then declared. All preparations beneficial for elephants have been stated, but the dosage for elephants is four times that for horses, ensuring their diseases are cured. To pacify epidemic diseases among elephants, the gods and brāhmaṇas are worshipped with jewels, and a tawny cow is offered. After fasting, a garland is tied between the elephant’s tusks, and physicians recite mantras, bestowing the desired objects. Hymns to the Sun, Śiva, Durgā, Śrī, and Viṣṇu are chanted for protection, and oblations are offered to spirits. The elephant is bathed with four pitchers of water, given food consecrated with mantras, and sprinkled with ashes. Such protection from spirits is auspicious and pure, and the elephant should always be guarded. Medicines such as triphalā, pañcakola, daśamūla, viḍaṅga, śatāvarī, guḍūcī, nimb, vāsaka, and kiṃśuka are used. For destroying elephant diseases, dry and astringent preparations are beneficial, as stated in both Āyurvedas. Turning to the healing of women, Hari addresses Śiva: the root of punarnavā or apāmārga, placed fresh in the yoni, removes pain and relieves labor in young women of beautiful bodies. Consuming earth, ash gourd root, or rice flour with milk for seven days greatly increases milk production. A paste of rudra, indra, and varuṇī roots, prepared with ghee, relieves breast pain. When eaten, this paste destroys pain in the womb, and when applied with kāravella root, it expels retained matter. When the womb begins to discharge, no further consideration is needed. The roots of nīlī and paṭola, mixed with clarified butter and sesame oil, form a paste that removes burning and pain. The root of pāṭhā, ground with rice water and drunk, removes evil diseases and cures leprosy; water mixed with honey benefits those afflicted within. This remedy brings relief from the heat of evil diseases. Lac, equal in weight to ghee and drunk with milk, removes the disease called pradara without doubt. Powder of dvijayaṣṭī and trikaṭu, when drunk, also removes pradara. Combined with a decoction of sesame, these medicines remove bloody tumors in women, and a special flower preparation is prescribed for young women. The root of the red lotus, mixed with sugar and sesame, when drunk with sugar, causes miscarriage. Bleeding is stopped by cold water, and fermented gruel boiled with śarapuṅkha, when drunk, also helps. A mixture of asafoetida and rock salt quickly induces labor, and the root of citron, tied at the waist, brings on labor. If the root of apāmārga is named and placed for a pregnant woman, when it is pulled up whole, a son is born; otherwise, a daughter. If the root of apāmārga is placed on the head of a woman, pain in the womb is destroyed. When the womb is filled with camphor, madana fruit, and licorice, it becomes beautiful in an old woman—how much more so in a young woman! For children, marking the forehead with white ochre and giving sugar and kuṣṭha to drink makes them fearless and protected from poisons, spirits, and diseases. Constant wearing of conch shell, nābhi, vacā, kuṣṭha, and iron shields children from afflictions. Powder of palāśa, mixed with honey, cow’s ghee, amalaki, and viḍaṅga, when drunk, makes a man exceedingly intelligent. Within a single month, one becomes free from old age and death. Palasha seed, mixed with ghee, sesame, and honey, when eaten for seven days, destroys old age. Powder of Rudra-amalaki, combined with honey, oil, and ghee, taken for a month, makes a man youthful and eloquent. Powder of Shiva-amalaki, taken with honey or water at dawn, strengthens the nostrils. Eating powder of kuṣṭha with ghee and honey in the morning makes the body fragrant and grants a lifespan of a thousand years. Split and husked grains of black gram, dried, soaked in ghee, and cooked with milk, when eaten with honey, ghee, and milk, empower a man to satisfy a hundred women instantly. Juice mixed with castor oil and sulfur, gargled with water three times daily and then eaten, imparts strength. Thus, the sacred teachings of healing and rejuvenation, for animals and humans alike, are preserved in the wisdom of the scriptures, guiding all who seek health, vigor, and protection.