Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.12

English (machine translation) 1.12

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1.12.1

The urine of the cow, goat, sheep, buffalo, elephant, horse, camel, and donkey, / and human urine besides: hear their properties in brief.

Sharp, hot, alkaline, astringent, strength-giving, and intellect-promoting, it destroys phlegm and vāta; / purgative, it pacifies internal haemorrhage, and removes abdominal tumours, distension, and disorders of arrogance.

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Diseases of the eyebrows, temples, jaw, throat, and mouth, abdominal tumours, diarrhoea, rectal vāta, eye disorders, / cough with leprosy, and the network of internal worm cysts: cow's urine alone, when drunk, destroys these within days.

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Goat's urine is sharp, hot, and astringent, to be employed in drinks to destroy the pain of colic and abdominal tumours; / they declare this best for cough, asthma, jaundice, anaemia, and haemorrhoids.

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Sheep's urine is alkaline, pungent, sharp, destroys vāta, / destroys haemorrhoids, abdominal swelling, and colic, and purifies leprosy and urinary disorders.

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It is potent, bitter, pungent, astringent, purgative, and pacifies vāta; / it always provokes pitta, and destroys leprosy, haemorrhoids, anaemia, abdominal enlargement, and colic.

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Elephant's urine is very bitter, salty, purgative, destroys vāta, provokes kapha, / is alkaline, and destroys circular leprosy.

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[Horse's urine] removes cough and kapha, destroys vomiting, worms, and leprosy; / it stimulates digestion, is pungent, sharp, hot, and dispels disorders of vāta and phlegm.

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Camel's urine removes kapha, is dry, destroys worms and ringworm; / it is best for dispelling leprosy, abdominal enlargement, insanity, desiccation, haemorrhoids, worms, and vāta.

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Donkey's urine is relaxing, may sometimes be used [with] oil, / is alkaline, bitter, pungent, and dispels insanity and leprosy.

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Human urine is said to be alkaline, pungent, sweet, and light; / it removes eye diseases, gives strength, stimulates digestion, and destroys kapha.

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The urine of a nullipara is dense; that of a woman who has borne children is liquid and light; / there is no difference in their properties, there being equality in post-digestive effect and potency.

1.12.13

The urine of a cow is praised as thick and dense,
and that of castrated ones is considered slightly lighter.

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And bull's urine destroys swelling, eliminates worm disorders,
cures jaundice, dysentery, and anaemia, and stimulates the digestive fire.

1.12.15

The urine of goats and sheep is commended for drinking, O best of physicians;
that of sheep, buffaloes, and horses is prescribed for cooking medicated oils.

1.12.16

An external paste of elephant's urine cures itching, ringworm, and erysipelas;
camel's or donkey's urine is prescribed for medicated oil or nasal errhine.

1.12.9-2

Thus ends the ninth chapter, entitled the Group of Urines, spoken by Ātreya in the later part of the Hārīta [compendium].