Navapashanam
Navapashanam is one of the most acclaimed Siddha elixirs known to mankind. Nava means nine and Pashanam means poisonous substance. A dark hour, a dark age where people will suffer and die from many diseases never even known to mankind, has been predicted. Foreseeing this impending doom, the Siddhas assigned Bogar to develop a process by which people who embrace God in the form of Lord Murugan will be redeemed of their afflictions and be able to survive this dark phase.
So, Bogar decided to create a very strong idol of Lord Murugan that would withstand the kali yuga (the last stage out of four stages the world goes through) to provide enough healing elixir to humans in the form of navapashanam.
With the consultation of Agasthiyar (Father of Ayurvedic Medicine) and other siddhars, Bogar mixed nine poisons (Navapashanam) and made the Master Medicine in the form of the Lord Murugan idol which is currently worshiped at Palani Murugan temple. There is a place near Palani Hill called Thanasiappan Temple which is the place where Bogar mixed the Navapashanam and made the Murugan idol.
Bogar and others then decided that by using the milk and panchamirtham poured on the idol, one can extract the medicine from the idol. Panchamirtham is a sweet concoction used in Hindu worship and pujas. A traditional recipe for Palani Panchamirtham consist of these ingredients: crushed small plantains, kandasari sugar from the Kangeyam area, dates, raisins, sugar candy (kalkandu), cardamom and ghee in proper proportions. The milk and panchamritham then become medicine to cure disease.