The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.27

Now, water moistens, and salt causes oozing; / then alkali digests, and milk indeed enlivens;

And clarified butter unctuates, and meat nourishes; / black gram produces much waste, and curd generates elephantiasis;

Oil clarifies the skin and is fit for unction; / oil-cake produces languor, and buttermilk depletes;

And honey unites; surā wears [the body] down; / and by hareṇu peas and lentils, wind is greatly aggravated;

One should know radish to be phlegm-producing; mustard aggravates wind; / garlic pacifies wind and generates bile and phlegm;

Asafoetida does not produce excessive phlegm; and alkali causes impotence; / one should know all bitter things to be non-aphrodisiac, except kūlaka;

All pastry is non-aphrodisiac, with the exception of barley and wheat; / except for pomegranate and āmalaka, all sour things are bile-producing;

One should know wild barley to be harsh, [and likewise] flaked grains, śāli rice, and ṣaṣṭika rice; / but one should specify wetland beasts and birds as equal to game animals;

And likewise beasts and birds of arid lands as wholesome unconditionally. / Thus has food been spoken of in brief; hear it in detail:

Long pepper, ginger, onions, and garlic, / radish, kṛṣṇagandhā, parṇāsa, and kālamānaka,

Surasā, sumukha, caṭaka, and phaṇijjaka: / one should know [these] to be pungent in taste, and likewise sweet in post-digestive effect.

Kirātatikta, neem, ketukā, and śakaṭhillaka, / and kūlaka together with cane-shoots: bitter, and having a sweet post-digestive effect.

Plakṣa, kāśmarya, madhūka, parūṣaka having sweet post-digestive effect, / dates, coconut, priyāla, and similar ones,

Madhuka, lotus root, and whatever are vitalizing drugs: / one should know whatever of diverse kinds is sweet in taste and in post-digestive effect.

Lotus tubers, kaṭukā, bimbī, and all products of sugarcane: / one should know whatever of these three kinds is sweet in taste and in post-digestive effect.

The nyaṅku deer, rasamudras, sṛmaras, rhinoceroses, and boars, / and other animals born in marshy land: one should know them to be sweet by taste and post-digestive effect.

Kādambas, saindhavas, swans, sārasa cranes, white elephants, / kācākṣas, mallikākṣas, and likewise puṣkarasāyakas,

[…], śarārīs, vikramas, sumanāmukhas, / nandimaudgalyakas, kālakas, and kṛṣṇapucchakas,

ājñātas, ḍuṇḍubha snakes, frogs, chuṭumallikas, / and by pleasure the saptavāra, etc., and likewise garbhabhatāsakas(?),

and one should know all water-dwelling animals to be sweet by taste and post-digestive effect. / The priyaṅgu, plāṅga, egrets, and birds likewise,

and whatever other aquatic, terrestrial, and sky-faring birds are remembered; / crocodiles, porpoises, the vallakī fish, and tortoises,

and other water-dwelling creatures: one should know them to be sweet by taste and post-digestive effect. / Priyaṅgu, vinaktā, nīlikā, śāli rice, ṣaṣṭika rice,

parūṣaka, wild nīvāra rice, kodrava, and brahmabhūtikā: / this kind of grain, and whatever else is of like kind,

is sweet by taste, but they know it to be pungent in post-digestive effect. / Mudga beans, lentils, chickpeas, kuluttha beans, and kalāya peas:

they know them to be sweet by taste, but pungent in post-digestive effect. / The rohī deer, śvadaṃṣṭrā deer, camels, śarabhas, mṛgamātṛkās,

and other animals of sweet taste: they know them to be pungent in post-digestive effect. / Donkeys, mules, rams, and whatever other such animals [there are]:

they know them to be sweet by taste, but pungent in post-digestive effect. / Green pigeons, cuckoos, pigeons, parrots, and mynas,

sparrows, bhṛṅgarājas, and likewise pippalakas, / godhāputras, tailapākas, and whatever other pecking birds,

and whatever others are sweet: they know them to be pungent in post-digestive effect. / I shall describe after-drinks, which among them are beneficial.

With goat meat, astringent cold water [should be given], and with hāyana rice, water; / an after-drink should be prescribed, with boar meat, a decoction of the core of khadira.

Curd and fermented vinegar one should administer as an after-drink for grains; / cool water, a fermented infusion for those who consume lotus stalks and nodes,

so one should prescribe an after-drink for aquatic creatures: / triphalā, śīdhu, mārdvīka, and water of kadamba and breadfruit,

fermented infusions from the fruits and trunks of deodar, jambu, and plakṣa individually; / one should administer an after-drink for soup-grains such as mudga:

bilva pulp pastes or fermented infusions of kapittha; / one should administer an after-drink for cave-dwelling animals:

fermented infusions from the trunk, branches, and fruit of the nyagrodha group; / one should administer an after-drink for scratching birds:

the after-drink of kakubha, and vāruṇī for unctuous substances; / for the four types of unctuous substances, one should administer hot water.

Grape, kāśmarya, date, barley groats, and likewise fermented infusions; / a decoction of aśvagandhā, and indeed the scum of vāruṇī.

It digests food with ease, stimulates appetite, extracts [waste], / and provides suitability to human beings. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the twenty-seventh chapter in Bheḷa. / Twenty-eighth chapter. / Now, therefore, we shall explain the rules of food—thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.