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Vira Simhavaloka · Chapter 90
शिरोरोग — कर्मविपाकः
This Shiroroga karmavipaka chapter links head trouble to past-life acts against a teacher and to broken student rules. It sets feeding priests and the gift of a gold thread and cloth.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
Shiroroga (head trouble) - past deeds
अथ शिरोरोगस्य कर्मविपाके हेतुमाह तत्प्रतीकारं च । गुरूपरोधी शिरोरोगी भवति । वैद्यशास्त्रोक्तान्यौषधानि दद्यात् ।
Next, the cause of head trouble in karmavipaka (fruit of past deeds), and its remedy, are told. One who stood in the way of his teacher may suffer head trouble. He should give the medicines named in the medical books.
Shiroroga (head trouble) - past deeds
अपरं च ब्रह्मचारी पूर्वजन्मनिप्रायोपवेशनेन नैष्ठिकादिव्रतत्यागी शिरोरोगी भवति । पंचाशद्ब्राह्मणभोजयेत् । उद्यन्नद्येत्यृचं जपेत् । कुष्मांडीभिर्जुहुयात् ।
Also: a brahmachari (celibate student of the Veda) may have given up his vows in a past life. These are vows such as the lifelong vow of a student. He gave them up by fasting unto death. He may suffer head trouble. He should feed fifty brahmanas (priests). He should do japa (repeating a mantra) of the rik (Vedic verse) that begins "udyann adya". He should do homa (fire offering) with the Kushmandi verses (a set of Vedic verses).
Shiroroga (head trouble) - past deeds
अपरं च ब्रह्मचारी पूर्वजन्मनि भिन्नकांस्यपात्रे भुक्त्वा एकदेशशिरोरोगी भवति । तदा अक्षिभ्यामिति सूक्तमष्टोत्तरशतं जपेत् । चरुघृताभ्यां जुहुयात् । वैद्यशास्त्रोक्तान्यौषधानि दद्यात् ।
Also: a brahmachari (celibate student of the Veda) may have eaten from a broken bronze vessel in a past life. He may suffer head trouble on one side. Then he should do japa (repeating a mantra) of the sukta (Vedic hymn) that begins "akshibhyam", 108 times. He should do homa (fire offering) with charu (rice offering) and ajya (ghee). He should give the medicines named in the medical books.
Shiroroga (head trouble) - past deeds
ब्रह्मचारी यदाश्नीयाद्भिन्नपात्रे विशेषतः ।एकदेशशिरोरोगी भवतीत्याह नारदः ॥
A brahmachari (celibate student of the Veda) may eat from a broken vessel. Then, most of all, he may have head trouble on one side. So says Narada.
This comes from the words of the Naradiya Purana. He should feed twelve brahmanas (priests). This ends [the part on] pain in half of the head.
Shiroroga (head trouble) - past deeds
ब्राह्मणोर्द्धशिरोरोगी वायुपुराणात्उपवीतं हिरण्येन कार्यं तु पंलसंख्यया ।तदर्धेन तदर्धेन यथाविभवतोऽपि वा ॥
A brahmana (priest) with pain in half of the head: from the Vayu Purana. A sacred thread should be made of gold, counted in palas (weight unit of about 48 grams). It may be half of that, or half again, as his means allow.
Shiroroga (head trouble) - past deeds
उत्तरीयं च विमलं तदन्यत्संख्यया कृतम् ।ब्राह्मणायाग्रगण्याय श्रोत्रियायोपपादयेत् ॥
And a clean upper cloth should be made, to the same measure. He should give it to the foremost brahmana (priest), one learned in the Veda.
Shiroroga (head trouble) - past deeds
मंत्रेणानेन विधिवत्पूजितायांगुलीयकैः ।धाता विधाता जगतां परमात्मा चतुर्भुजः ॥विनाशयतु मे क्षिप्रं रोगवेगं शिरोगतम् ॥
With this mantra, by the rules, he should give it to the brahmana (priest) honoured with rings: "Dhata and Vidhata of the worlds, the Supreme Self with four arms: quickly destroy the force of the illness that has gone to my head."
This ends the rite of giving a sacred thread, which removes head trouble.
Unit 90.6 says a sacred thread of gold, counted in pala, is made and given to a priest with pain in half of the head.