Ashtangasamgraha 10.28

English (machine translation) 10.28

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10.28

Food that is excessively sweet pacifies the digestive fire; eaten when unwholesome, it does not nourish the body. / Excessively salty food is bad for the eyes; excessively sour and sharp food is old age incarnate.

He who feels aversion toward the things in which he previously took delight does not live.

And it cures swelling, abdominal enlargement, asthma, cough, and hiccup.
Muruṅgī, vañcula, dantī, kakubha, along with punarnavā,

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