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Ashtangasamgraha 10.21

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10.21

Foods are mutually incompatible through their intrinsic nature, dose, combination, and the like; / the wise person should avoid them.

Whose offering crows do not consume when presented,

that juice, strained and cooled, mixed with an equal amount of fresh grape juice, two hundred palas of sugar, half a prastha of honey, and one karṣa each of powdered tvac, elā, lodhra, kuṭannaṭa, ambu, sevya, kramuka, and kesara, thrown into a ghee-vessel fumigated with molasses and sugar, and kept aside for a fortnight, is āmalakāriṣṭa, equal [in efficacy] to the previous one; / and it relieves premature wrinkling, graying of hair, and baldness.

One should drink it, which puts an end to epilepsy, fever, insanity, and jaundice.

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