The Compendium of Caraka 6.24

English (machine translation) 6.24

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Now we shall expound the treatment of alcoholism.

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She who was worshipped of old by the gods together with the lord of gods, / who is offered in the sautrāmaṇī sacrifice, who is established by the sacrificers,

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who carries the sacrifice, by whom Śakra, having greatly transgressed against Soma, / devoid of vigor and enveloped in darkness, was rescued from that calamity,

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by great-souled men sacrificing with rites prescribed in the Veda / she is to be seen, touched, prepared, and used in sacrifice for the accomplishment of the sacrifice;

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who, becoming manifold through differences of origin, preparation, names, and the like, / is of one kind universally by the characteristic of intoxication;

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who, having become nectar for the gods, having become svadhā for the ancestors, / and having become soma for the twice-born, unites [them] with the highest blessings;

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who is the great luster of the Aśvins, who is the strength of Sarasvatī, / and the power of Indra, who is accomplished, and who is soma in the sautrāmaṇī sacrifice;

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who destroys grief, discontent, fear, and anxiety, possessing great power; / who is delight, who is pleasure, who is speech, who is nourishment, and who is bliss;

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which liquor is declared to be pleasure itself as surā by gods, gandharvas, yakṣas, rākṣasas, and humans— / that surā one should drink in the proper manner.

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Having purified one's body, clean, bearing exquisite fragrances, / draped in spotless garments fragrant in accord with the season,

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wearing varied garlands, adorned with jewel ornaments, / having worshipped the gods and twice-born, having touched supreme auspicious things,

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in an agreeable place suited to the season, scattered with flowers, / pleasant, delightful, charming, perfumed with fragrant incense,

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seated or reclining comfortably on a prepared couch or seat / furnished with cushions and well spread,

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one should always drink from golden, silver, or gem-encrusted cups, / or other clean, well-crafted vessels,

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while being massaged here and there by desirable women / intoxicated with beauty and youth, well trained,

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adorned with season-appropriate clothes, ornaments, and garlands, / and endowed with cleanliness and affection, one should drink the incomparable wine,

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along with various seasonal fruits and fresh green herbs suitable for wine, / salts, fragrant appetizers,

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various fried meats of terrestrial, aquatic, and aerial animals, / and various delicacies prepared by cooks,

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having first worshipped the gods, having pronounced blessings, / and having offered wine mixed with water to petitioners on the ground.

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Conditioned with massage, unction, bath, garments, fumigation, and unguents, / and with unctuous and warm foods, a person of vāta constitution should partake of wine.

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Conditioned with various cooling regimens and sweet, unctuous, and cool foods, / a person of pitta constitution does not suffer when drinking wine.

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A person of kapha constitution should drink wine with non-cooling regimens, eating barley and wheat, / along with the meat of arid-zone animals seasoned with black pepper.

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This is the rule for the wealthy; those of modest means, however, / should drink wholesome wine in proper measure according to what is available.

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For those of vāta constitution, wine made from jaggery and flour is generally wholesome; / but for those with an excess of kapha and pitta, wine made from grapes and honey [is wholesome].

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Composed of many ingredients, having many qualities, performing many actions, and intoxicating in nature, / that wine is seen to possess both merits and faults.

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When a person, being cheerful, drinks wine according to the rule, in proper measure, at the right time, / with wholesome foods, according to strength, it becomes like nectar for him.

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However, when wine is drunk by someone who takes whatever comes along, out of addiction, / who is dry and constantly engaged in physical exercise, it acts like poison on him.

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Entering the heart, wine, with its ten qualities, agitates / the ten qualities of ojas and drives the mind to disturbance.

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Light, hot, sharp, subtle, sour, pervading, fast-acting, / dry, expansive, and non-slimy: wine is taught to have ten qualities.

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Heavy, cold, soft, smooth, dense, sweet, stable, / clear, slimy, and unctuous: ojas is taught to have ten qualities.

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It destroys heaviness through lightness, coldness through heat, sweetness through its sour nature, / softness through sharpness, clarity through its fast-acting property,

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unctuousness through dryness, stability and smoothness through its pervading nature, / sliminess through its expansive nature, and density through its non-slimy quality.

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Thus, through subtlety, wine strikes down the qualities of ojas with its own qualities, / and swiftly agitating the mind that resides there, it generates intoxication.

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The heart is declared to be the seat of the channels of rasa, vāta, and so forth, / of the mind, intellect, sense organs, self, and paramount ojas.

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When wine is excessively drunk and ojas is impaired, / that heart undergoes disturbance, as do the bodily constituents located there.

When ojas is unimpaired and the heart is awakened, the first [stage of intoxication occurs]; / when it is moderately impaired, the middle [occurs]; and when it is completely impaired, the highest intoxication [occurs].

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Wine made from flour does not cause such impairment of ojas, / for its expansive, dry, and non-slimy qualities are not excessive.

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When the heart is seized by the qualities of wine, exhilaration, longing, pleasure, comfort, / and diverse rājasika and tāmasika disturbances arise according to one's constitution.

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From excessive indulgence in wine, [states] ending in stupor and sleep are produced; / that mental confusion caused by wine is designated by the name "intoxication" (mada).

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Three intoxications are to be recognized in one who is drinking wine: / the first, the middle, and the final. We shall describe them by their symptoms.

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It brings exhilaration, produces pleasure, causes appreciation of the qualities of drinks and foods, / and stimulates musical instruments, singing, laughter, and conversation.

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It does not destroy intellect or memory, does not render one incapable regarding sense objects, / and allows pleasant sleep and awakening: the first intoxication brings happiness.

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Intermittent memory, intermittent stupor, speech faltering indistinctly again and again, / rambling incoherently with words fitting and unfitting, and stumbling about;

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disorderly arrangement of staying, drinking, eating, and conversing— / one should recognize these as the symptoms when the middle intoxication has taken hold.

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Transcending the middle intoxication and reaching the highest intoxication, / people of rājasika and tāmasika natures would leave no evil undone.

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What wise man would enter into such intoxication, which is like severe madness, / just as a traveler would not enter a path lacking shelter and full of dangers?

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Reaching the third intoxication, however, he lies motionless like a broken timber, / his mind veiled by intoxication and stupor; though alive, he is equal to the dead.

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He does not perceive delightful sense objects, nor his friends; / and that pleasure for the sake of which wine is drunk, he does not find.

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What ought and ought not to be done, happiness and sorrow, and what is wholesome and unwholesome in the world— / arriving at which state he does not know these: what wise man would enter that state?

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He is corrupt to all living beings, blameworthy, and unfit to associate with; / and on account of his vice, in the end he attains suffering and disease.

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Whatever is good in the hereafter and in this world, and what is the supreme good in liberation— / all that depends upon composure of the mind for all embodied beings.

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And great agitation of this mind is caused by wine, / like that of a tree standing on a riverbank caused by the force of a great wind.

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And that addiction to wine, which is a great evil and a great disease, / the ignorant regard as happiness, overcome by rajas and delusion.

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With their understanding ruined by wine, devoid of sattvic qualities, / blinded by intoxication and longing for intoxication, they are deprived of what is good.

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In wine reside delusion, fear, sorrow, anger, and death, / along with insanity, intoxication, fainting, epilepsy, and convulsive seizures.

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Where loss of memory alone exists, there everything becomes vile; / thus those who know the evils of wine censure wine with effort.

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It is true that these great faults of wine have been stated, without doubt, / when it is unwholesome, taken in excessive measure, and consumed contrary to the rules.

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Yet wine by its very nature is regarded just like food: / when used improperly it leads to disease; when used properly it is like nectar.

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Food is the vital breath of living beings, yet when used improperly it destroys life; / poison destroys life, yet when used properly it is a rejuvenating tonic.

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Exhilaration, vigor, joy, nourishment, health, and supreme virility— / wine drunk with proper method swiftly produces these, bestowing comfortable intoxication.

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It stimulates appetite, kindles digestion, is pleasing to the heart, clarifies voice and complexion, / gratifies, builds the body, imparts strength, and dispels fear, sorrow, and fatigue.

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It induces sleep in those who have lost sleep, awakens speech in the mute, / awakens those who sleep excessively, and removes constipation in the constipated.

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It causes oblivion toward slaughter, imprisonment, distress, and sorrows; / and wine itself is the remedy for diseases arising from wine.

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Delight in union with sense objects, increasing union with affection— / wine brings festive joy and delight even to the aged.

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That delight in the five desirable sense objects during the first intoxication, / whether of the young or of the old, has no equal on earth.

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For this world of living beings, struck by many sorrows and afflicted by grief, / wine consumed with proper method is a source of rest.

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Having understood the six triads of food, drink, age, disease, strength, and time, / along with the three doṣas and the threefold mind, one should always drink wine.

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The proper application of these eight triads is called proper method (yukti); / drinking wine with this method, one is not afflicted by the faults of wine.

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And a man elevated by the quality of sattva attains all the virtues of wine as described, / without any harm to his dharma and artha.

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Mental constitutions are mostly awakened in the first stage of intoxication; / in the second they enter indistinctness, both in the middle and in the highest and middling [minds]. / Just as rain brings forth crops and fire reveals the true nature of gold, / wine acts as both for all mental constitutions.

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Just as fire reveals the manifestation / of primary, low, and middling forms, so wine reveals the true nature of minds.

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Having fragrant garlands and music, well-conducted, free from confusion, / made clean with sweet food and drink, always filled with pleasant conversation,

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with easy drinking, pleasant intoxication, increasing joy and delight, / ending well, and not producing the highest degree of intoxication—[such is] a sāttvika drinking party.

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Sāttvika persons do not suddenly fall into perversion through the faults of wine; / for wine does not suddenly overpower a strong mind.

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Abounding in gentle and ungentle talk, clear and unclear from moment to moment, / varied, and mostly chaotic and ending badly—[such is] a rājasa [drinking party].

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Bereft of joy, affection, and conversation, unsatisfied with food and drink, / and ending in stupor, anger, and sleep—[such] a drinking party is remembered as tāmasa.

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Having discerned the sāttvika, rājasa, and tāmasa companions at a drinking party, / one should abandon those drinking with whom one incurs the faults of wine.

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Those who have pleasant habits, are sweet-spoken, cheerful-faced, approved by the virtuous, / versed in the arts, lucid, and fond of sensory pleasures,

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who are mutually compliant, united by friendship, / and who enhance the drinking party with joy, love, and sweet pleasantness,

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for whom seeing each other is more festive than a festival itself—/ they are pleasant companions for drinking; drinking with them, one rejoices.

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Those good companions who drink surrounded by charming forms, scents, tastes, touches, / and sounds are indeed equal to the fortunate.

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Endowed with the five desired sensory objects dear to the mind, / one should drink wine at the proper place and time with a joyful heart.

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Those who have a firm mind and body, have eaten first, come from a lineage of wine-drinkers, / and are accustomed to much wine do not become intoxicated quickly.

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Those overcome by hunger and thirst, weak, of vāta-pitta constitution, / consuming dry, small, and measured meals, constipated, weak in mental resolve,

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prone to anger, unaccustomed [to drink], emaciated, exhausted, or worn out by intoxication—/ such men quickly reach intoxication even from a little wine.

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Henceforth, O Agniveśa, I shall explain in proper order / the origin, specific characteristics, and treatment of alcoholism (madātyaya).

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One who is severely emaciated by women, grief, fear, heavy loads, long walks, and physical exertion, / and eats dry, small, and measured meals, yet drinks excessively,

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dry and mature wine, destroying his sleep at night—/ for him that wine quickly produces vāta-predominant alcoholism.

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By hiccup, dyspnea, trembling of the head, flank pain, insomnia, / and excessive delirium, one should recognize vāta-predominant alcoholism.

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One who excessively consumes sharp, hot, and sour wine, / eats sour, hot, and sharp foods, is prone to anger, and fond of fire and sunlight—

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for him, alcoholism arises especially from pitta; / if vāta is also aggravated, it either subsides quickly or kills him.

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By thirst, burning sensation, fever, sweating, fainting, diarrhea, and mental confusion, / and by a greenish complexion, one should recognize pitta-predominant alcoholism.

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One who excessively drinks fresh wine, mostly sweet, / made from jaggery or flour, while eating sweet, unctuous, and heavy food,

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and indulges in lack of exercise, daytime sleep, and the comfort of bed and seat—/ he quickly incurs kapha-predominant alcoholism.

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By vomiting, anorexia, nausea, drowsiness, torpor, and heaviness, / and in one overcome by coldness, one should recognize kapha-predominant alcoholism.

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The qualities observed in poison that provoke all three doṣas / are seen in wine as well, but they are stronger in poison.

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For some poison kills quickly, while some leads to disease; / just like poison, the final stage of intoxication produced by wine should be understood.

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Therefore, symptoms born of all three doṣas are seen everywhere in alcoholism; / yet a distinction is recognized based on the prominence of specific manifestations.

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Severe bodily distress, confusion, heart pain, / anorexia, continuous thirst, fever characterized by cold and heat,

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lightning-like pain in the head, flanks, bones, and joints, / excessive yawning, twitching, trembling, and fatigue occur;

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chest constriction, cough, hiccup, dyspnea, insomnia, / trembling of the body, diseases of ears, eyes, and mouth, stiffness in the sacrum,

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vomiting, diarrhea, and nausea caused by vāta, pitta, and kapha, / dizziness, delirium, and seeing non-existent forms,

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and, with a bewildered mind, he imagines being covered with grass, ashes, creepers, leaves, and dust, / or being attacked by birds;

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and seeing chaotic, ominous dreams—/ all these are observed as the signs of alcoholism.

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One should know all alcoholism to involve the three doṣas; but whichever doṣa / one sees as predominant in alcoholism, one should treat that first.

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Treatment in alcoholism should follow the sequence of the seat of kapha; / for alcoholism generally terminates in pitta and vāta.

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A disease that arises from improper, excessive, or insufficient drinking / is pacified by that very same wine drunk properly.

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One should administer wine itself for the fault of undigested wine; / once desire for food and lightness have arisen, whatever may be wholesome for him [should be given].

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One who knows the proper measure [should give it] infused with sauvarcala salt, cold, with viḍa salt and rock salt, / accompanied by citron and ginger, mixed with water.

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When, by sharp, hot, excessive, sour, and burning wine that has been drunk, / the chyle is agitated, burned, and turns into alkaline state,

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it quickly produces internal burning, fever, thirst, stupor, mental confusion, and intoxication; / for its pacification, one should administer wine itself.

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For an alkali quickly attains sweetness when combined with sour; / and wine is best among sours—hear further the qualities by which it is so:

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Wine, which is sour by nature, is recorded to have four secondary tastes: / sweet, astringent, bitter, and pungent.

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And with its ten previously mentioned qualities, by these fourteen qualities, / wine stands superior above all sour substances.

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Vāta obstructed in the channels by the doṣa agitated by wine / produces severe pain in the head, bones, and joints.

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To liquefy the doṣa, wine especially should be given to him, / even when other sours are available, because of its pervading, sharp, and hot nature.

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Wine removes the obstruction of channels and normalizes the downward course of vāta; / it stimulates appetite, kindles the digestive fire, and is wholesome merely through habituation.

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When the channels are unblocked and vāta is directed downward, / pains cease, and the disorders arising from intoxication subside.

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Combined with bījapūraka, vṛkṣāmla, kola, and pomegranate, / dusted with yavānī, hapuṣā, ajājī, and ginger,

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mixed with roasted barley flour prepared with unctuous substance, accompanied by relishable appetizers, / one should give salted wine made from flour to pacify vāta.

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Observing symptoms of predominant vāta, one should treat him with meat soups: / unctuous and sour broths of quail, partridge, rooster, and peacock,

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and with prepared broths of birds, wild animals, wetland creatures, / burrowing animals, and birds of prey, along with cooked śāli rice,

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and with unctuous, hot, salty, and sour veśavāra preparations pleasing to the palate, / varied wheat foods accompanied by clear varuṇī wine,

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with unctuous stuffed pastries containing meat and ginger, / and with black gram cakes, one should treat the vāta-type patient.

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Not excessively unctuous nor mixed with sour, seasoned with black pepper and ginger, / the fat-rich meat mentioned earlier, or [meat] prepared with fresh pomegranate juice,

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combined separately with the three aromatics, along with coriander, black pepper, and ginger, / served with pleasant, warm cakes coated in meat gravy, one should administer.

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When the meal is eaten, one should give clear vāruṇī wine to drink to the thirsty person, / or pomegranate juice, or water boiled with the five roots,

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or coriander and ginger water, or curd-whey, / or the clear scum of sour gruel, or vinegar water.

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By this proven regimen, the disorder subsides; / applied in proper dose and time, strength and complexion increase.

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Through various appetising preparations of rāga and ṣāḍava, / through meats, vegetables, flour foods, barley, wheat, and śāli rice,

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through oil massage, unctions, baths, warm thick coverings, / thick pastes of agarwood, and dense incense of agarwood,

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through the fierce embraces of women glowing with youth, / whose heavy hips, thighs, and breasts bring warmth and comfort by their embrace,

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through warm bed coverings and comfortable warm inner chambers, / intoxication syndrome dominated by vāta quickly subsides.

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Mixed with juices of bhavya, dates, grapes, and parūṣaka, / with pomegranate juice, cooled, dusted with roasted barley flour,

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with sugar, or sugar-prepared wine, or wine made from grapes, or another [suitable wine], / one should give diluted with plenty of water at the proper time to drink in pitta intoxication syndrome.

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Rabbits, francolins, antelopes, quails, and black-tailed deer, / sweet and sour, along with śāli and ṣaṣṭika rice, one should employ in food.

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Or one should prepare goat meat soup mixed with paṭola soup, / or mixed with pea and mudga soup, accompanied by pomegranate and āmalaka,

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or with the juice of grapes, āmalaka, dates, and parūṣaka, / one should prepare nourishing vegetable and meat soups of varied kinds.

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Recognizing kapha and pitta aggravated in the stomach in intoxication syndrome / in a patient with abundant doṣas, afflicted by burning and thirst,

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having given wine, grape juice, water, or a nourishing drink, / one should promptly make him vomit completely; thus he is freed from the disease.

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In due course, when appetite returns, one should again administer nourishing drinks and related regimens; / by that his digestive fire is kindled, digesting the remaining doṣa and food.

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In cough with blood-spitting, pain in the flanks and breasts, / thirst, burning sensation, and nausea in the chest and epigastrium,

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the physician should give a decoction of guḍūcī, bhadramustā, or paṭola, / combined with ginger, followed by a meal of partridge meat.

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When the patient is thirsty and vāta and pitta are extremely aggravated, / one should give cold grape juice to drink to direct the doṣas downward.

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When that is digested, one should feed him a meal with sweet and sour goat meat soup / and give wine as an after-drink to satisfy thirst.

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The proper measure of an after-drink is that by which the mind is not deranged; / for a thirsty person, wine should be given in very small amounts, diluted with much water,

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so that thirst is alleviated and he does not become intoxicated; / or cold juice of parūṣaka and pīlu fruits,

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or he should drink cool water boiled with the four leaf-bearing herbs, / or thirst-relieving water prepared with mustā, pomegranate, and parched grain.

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Juice of kola, dāḍima, vṛkṣāmla, cukrīkā, and cukrikā— / this 'five-sour' mouth paste immediately checks thirst.

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Cool foods and drinks, cool beds and seats, / contacts of cold breeze and water, and cool pleasure gardens,

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contacts of linen, blue and white lotuses, gems, pearls, / cooled by sandalwood water and chilled like moonbeams,

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vessels of gold, silver, and bell-metal filled with cold water / and fanned by breezes from leather water-bags packed with snow,

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contacts of breeze and of women moist with sandalwood, / and excellent sandalwoods are recommended in pitta intoxication syndrome.

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Whatever else is of cold potency, all of that one should employ; / leaves of water lilies and blue lotuses sprinkled with sandalwood water,

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charming touches are beneficial in the burning heat arising from wine; / various pleasant stories and auspicious cries of peacocks,

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and the rumblings of rain-clouds indeed alleviate intoxication syndrome; / water-machine showers and breeze-producing fans,

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and shower-rooms should be arranged by the physician in burning heat; / priyaṅgu, uśīra, lodhra, bālaka, cassia leaf, and kuṭannaṭa,

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combined with juice of yellow sandalwood, are commended as a cool unguent in burning heat; / so too that made from jujube sprouts, and likewise from soapnut tree,

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and the foam produced from soapnut; with these, anointing is auspicious in burning sensation; / beer with its supernatant scum, sour curd, citron juice, and honey,

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along with sour gruel, are commended for sprinkling and plastering to eliminate burning sensation; / for sprinkling, tub baths, and the use of fans,

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cool water is praised to pacify burning sensation and thirst; / by this regimen applied in proper measure and time, intoxication syndrome

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caused by pitta quickly subsides in an intelligent patient obedient to the physician; / one should conquer intoxication syndrome caused by kapha through therapeutic vomiting and fasting.

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And to him who is thirsty, one should give water prepared with hrībera, / or boiled with balā, pṛśniparṇī, or kaṇṭakārī,

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or water boiled and cooled with all these along with dry ginger, / or with durālabhā and mustā, or with mustā and parpaṭaka,

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or one should give water boiled with mustā to digest the doṣas; / and this very drink should be used everywhere in intoxication syndrome;

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taken without danger, it destroys thirst and fever; / when free of āma and desired at the proper time, he should make him drink it with honey.

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or aged sugar-wine, honey-wine, ariṣṭa, or sīdhu, / combined with dry refreshing drinks, along with yavānī and dry ginger.

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And he should feed him food made of barley and wheat with unctuous-free soup, / or with the juice of horsegram or well-dried radishes,

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thin, scant, light, pungent, sour, and with little ghee; / or sour paṭola soup, or soup of āmalaka,

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mixed with abundant pungents, served with barley food; / or soup with three pungents that is sour, or soup with amlavetasa;

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unctuous-free goat meat broth, or sour broth of arid animals; / or meat fried in a pot or on an earthen pan, prepared without liquid,

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pungent, sour, and salty, which he should take while choosing honey-wine; / meat prominently flavored with black pepper and combined with mātuluṅga juice,

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mixed with abundant pungents, accompanied by yavānī and dry ginger, / fried, soured with pomegranate juice, wrapped in hot bread,

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he should eat according to his digestive fire at the proper time, with abundant pieces of fresh ginger; / and he should drink clear wine when the intoxication syndrome is dominated by kapha.

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Sauvarcala salt, cumin, vṛkṣāmla, along with amlavetasa, / cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper in half parts, joined with a part of sugar—

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this eight-part salt is supreme in stimulating the digestive fire; / one should give it in intoxication syndrome dominated by kapha to cleanse the channels.

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This very formulation, properly liquefied with sweet and sour ingredients, / is extremely appetizing for wheat foods, barley foods, and meats.

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One should grind white, seedless raisins combined with pungents / with juice of mātuluṅga or pomegranate,

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with sauvarcala salt, cardamom, black pepper, cumin, cinnamon bark, and dīpyaka; / that rāga sauce, combined with honey, is excellent for appetizing and stimulating the digestive fire.

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According to the method for raisins, one may also prepare one from caraway / with sour fermented vinegar and candied sugar—a rāga sauce stimulating digestion and digesting āma.

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One should prepare distinct rāga sauces from slices of mango and āmalaka, / accompanied by coriander, sauvarcala salt, cumin, caraway, and black pepper,

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with jaggery mixed with honey, made distinctly sour and salty; / smeared with these, food is relished, and eaten properly, it digests.

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Through dry and hot food and drink, and a non-cold bath, / and exercise, fasting, and proper vigil,

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through a dry bath and powder-massage done at the proper time, / and resort to rubbing pastes that restore vitality and complexion,

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through wearing heavy garments and using aguru, / and through the company of women whose limbs are slender, warm, and comforting,

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and through massage by women whose hands are pleasantly trained, / intoxication syndrome dominated by kapha quickly subsides.

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This procedure prescribed according to the strength of each separate doṣa / must be adapted by the wise physician in the ten varieties of sannipāta.

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He who knows the varieties of doṣas and who knows the varieties of medicines, / discerning curable from incurable, can cure curable diseases.

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Delightful groves, bodies of water with lotuses, / clear food and drink, and gladdening companions,

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garlands, perfumes, spotless garments, / pleasant sounds of music, and heartwarming gatherings,

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delightful engagements in conversation, laughter, and song, / and beloved, compliant women dispel intoxication syndrome.

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For wine does not cause intoxication syndrome without perturbing the mind / and afflicting the body; therefore, gladdening treatment is desired.

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Through these successful treatments, intoxication syndrome subsides; / if not, leaving aside the regimen of wine, one should administer milk to him.

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When he is free of wine, his kapha reduced, and weakness and lightness have arisen / through fasts, digestives, doṣa-cleansing measures, and pacifying remedies,

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for him scorched by wine and having an excess of vāta and pitta, / milk is like rain for a tree scorched by summer heat.

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When the disease is removed by milk and strength has arisen, he should discontinue / the administration of milk, and take wine gradually, little by little.

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One who, having interrupted wine, suddenly consumes too much wine, / in him the diseases dhvaṃsaka and vikṣaya arise.

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Since his body is emaciated by disease, these two are extremely difficult to treat; / their symptoms and treatment will be explained properly.

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Excessive flow of phlegm, dryness of throat and mouth, intolerance to sound, / drowsiness, and excessive sleep are to be known as the symptoms of dhvaṃsaka.

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Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit