Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.15

English (machine translation) 1.15

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1.15.1

The group of scum:
Scum of roasted grain relieves pitta, cures fatigue, and removes calculus;
it produces vāta, pacifies blood, is astringent, and an excellent stimulant of the digestive fire.

1.15.2

Scum produced from red rice is sweet, astringent, and cooling;
it cures urinary anomalies and calculus, produces vāta, and is excellent at relieving pitta.

1.15.3

White rice [scum] is sweet, slightly cooling, produces phlegm, and destroys wasting;
it cures calculus, urinary anomalies, and vomiting, and produces vāta.

1.15.4

Barley scum is astringent, binding, hot, and light in post-digestive effect;
likewise, that produced from wheat is sweet and wards off pitta.

1.15.5

The scum of other minor grains is considered to relieve vāta;
kodo millet, causing immediate depression and fainting, is not considered wholesome.

1.15.6

Likewise, sour preparation of minor grains produces vāta and generates pitta;
it causes elephantiasis and phantom tumour, and aggravates catarrh and the like.

1.15.12

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