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Dadhi—(curds/soured milicicoagulaged milk)
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Dadhi is sour both in taste and also at the end of digestion, water absorbent
(causing constipation), hard to digest, hot (in potency), mitigates väta,
increases fat, semen, strength, Mcma (kapha), pitta, rakta, aghi (digestive
activity) produces oedema (dropsy), improves taste (or appetite), is ideal for
use in loss of taste, intermittant fever associated with cold (rigors), chronic
rhinits, dysurea; devoid of its fat, it is ideal in diseases of the duodenum.
It should not be eaten at nights, not made hot, not in spring, summer, and
autumn; even in other seasons, without the addition of soup of mudga
(green-gram), kaudra (honey), ghrta (ghee, butterfat), sitopala (sugar candy)
and amalaka; it should not be partaken daily nor when it is not well formed,
othewise it will cause fever, bleeding diseases,
visarpa (herepes); kutha (leprosy and other skin diseases), piçlu (anaemia) and
bhrama (giddiness). 29—32.
Takra—( butter milk removed of its fat) — rni tqr itiF nii
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Takra (buttermilk) is easily digestable, astringent and sour in taste, kindles
hunger, mitigates kapha and văta, and cures dropsy, enlargement of the abdomen,
haemorrhoids, duodenal diseases, dysurea, loss of taste (appetite), enlargement
of spleen, abdominal tumor, complications arising from excess consumption of
ghee (during oleation therapy), artificial poiSons and anaemia.
Notes :—Hernadri, the commentator, clarifies, that takra js inathita dadhi (
well churned cuid/coagulated milk ), it is of two kinds, sajala (mixed with
water) and ni .iala (unmixed with water); sajala (water diluted) is again of two
kirds, sasneha ( with fat ) and asnelia (without fat ), the propet th a
mentioned above ate of asneha takra ( devoid of fat).
Mastu (wheyiwatery part of curds) :—
Mastu (watery part of curds) is similar (to takra) in properties helps easy
movement of bowels cleanses the channels and relieves constipation.
Navanita (butte;) :—
Fresh navanita (buttur) is aphrodisiac, cold (in potency), improves colour
(complexion of the skin), strength and digestion, absorbs water, cures disorders
of väta, pitt, asrk (blood), consumptiOn, hacrnorrhoids, facial paralysis and
cough; butter obtained from milk is water absorbent, cures bleeding diseases and
disease of the eye.
Ghrita_(ghee/butter fat)
Ghtta is ideal for improving intellegence; memory, ingeneity, keenness of
digestion, Longlife, semen (sexual vigour), and eye sight, for children, the
aged, those who desire more children, tenderness of the body, and plcasaHt
voice, for those suffering frGm emaciation as a result of injury to chest
(Lungs), parisarpa (herpes), injury from weapons, and fire, disorders of văta
and pitta origin, poison, insanity, consumption, inauspicious activity
(witchcraft, etc.) and fevers; is best among fatty materials (for oleation and
other thcrapies), cold (in potency), best for retaining of youth; capable of
giving a thousand good effects by a thousand kinds of processing.
Purana ghta (ghee old by ten years), cures intoxication, epilepsy, fainting,
diseases of the head, ear, eye and vagina; cleanses and heals of the wounds. 40.
Kilăta, piyUa, kürcika, morana, etc. are strengthening, increase the semen,
sleep and kapha, cause constipation, heavy
(hard to digest) and aggravate the dosas. 41.
Notss :—Kilăta is the solid portion obtained after heating curds or buttermilk,
piyisa is the milk of cow which has just given blith to a calf, upto a period of
about three days or tilt the milk becomes thin; kürcika is the solid portion
obtained after heating butteamilk while moraiia (or morata) is the sour, thin
liquid portion.
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