Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.14

English (machine translation) 1.14

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1.14.1

The fermented wash is cooling, sweet, and destroys severe diarrhoea;
rice water is very sweet, cooling, and promotes bulk.

1.14.2

Chaff water relieves vāta and pitta, cures bleeding pitta, and is a purgative;
it aids digestion, promotes assimilation, destroys worms, cures indigestion, and is pungent in post-digestive effect.

Fermented barley vinegar is pungent in post-digestive effect, relieves vāta, and removes phlegm along with blood;
it causes aggravation of pitta, is a purgative, and corrupts pitta diseases and blood.

1.14.4

The boiled astringent liquid prepared from wheat stimulates the digestive fire, cures colic, and imparts appetite;
it stimulates digestion, promotes assimilation, destroys kapha, and also removes disorders of wind.

1.14.5

When drunk, it digests undigested matter and relieves external burning and fatigue;
it cures leprosy and itching, and when combined with oil it removes wind.

1.14.6

Sorghum vinegar destroys kapha and vāta, causes digestion in colic disorders,
is sharp and sour, removes the ill effects of fatigue, and is considered beneficial for blood in urinary anomalies and haemorrhoids.

1.14.7

Sour gruel is not praised in wasting, for those suffering from fainting, fever,
dizziness, or affected by deadly poison, or for those with leprosy and bleeding pitta.

1.14.8

In anaemia, consumption, and in those afflicted with swelling,
in chest injury, fatigue from travel, and one afflicted with mild fever,
sour gruel is declared not wholesome at all for a person, as it generates the doshas.

1.14.9

However, for those afflicted with colic and vāta, and likewise for those with chronic constipation,
it is declared excellent and sour, possessing superior virtues for people.

1.14.11

Thus ends the eleventh chapter, entitled the Group of Sour Gruels, spoken by Ātreya in the later part of the Hārīta [compendium].