Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.16

English (machine translation) 1.16

Language: English

1.16.1

Horsegram soup is sweet and astringent, and destroys blood and kapha;
it destroys severe calculus, anal fistula, and fat, stimulates the digestive fire, and desiccates urinary anomalies.

1.16.2

Pigeon-pea soup is sweet, desiccating, wards off vāta,
removes phlegm, relieves pitta, and removes dreadful worms individually in fevers.

1.16.3

Mung bean soup is cooling, sweet, and overcomes pitta disorders;
it is declared to relieve vāta and is the best pacifier of fevers.

1.16.4

Chickpea soup is said to be astringent, pungent, and hot,
relieves vāta, causes kapha disorders, and quickly subdues bleeding pitta.

1.16.5

Black gram soup is thick, produces vāta, generates kapha, and produces pitta;
when sour and kept overnight, it is also recommended for cooking medicated oils.

1.16.6

Other horsegrams kept overnight are praised;
lentils and grass peas are strengthening, while peas and the like are to be avoided.

1.16.13

Thus ends the thirteenth chapter, named the Group of Soups, in the Hārītottara spoken by Ātreya.