Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.18

English (machine translation) 1.18

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1.18.31 — 1 part

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Red śāli rice, mahāśāli, kalamā, another being ṣaṣṭikā, / khañjarīṭā, pasāhī, another being jīrakā, kapiñjalā,

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Saugandhī, another being śūkalā, bilavāsī, kacorakā, / garuḍā, rukmavantī, and another kalamā, / bilvajā, māgadhī, and pītā: these are the eighteen varieties of śāli rice.

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Red śāli destroys the three humours, is beneficial to the eyes, and removes urinary diseases; / mahāśāli is heavy, aphrodisiac, beneficial to the eyes, and increases strength.

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Cool, heavy, destroying the three humours, and sweet is another, the ṣaṣṭikā.

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Jīrakā destroys vāta and pitta; kalamā destroys phlegm and pitta; / kapiñjalā increases phlegm; māgadhī increases phlegm and vāta.

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Bilavāsī is heavy, destroys pitta, and increases semen; / śūkalā destroys pitta and vāta; kacorā destroys pitta.

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The other, garuḍā, destroys vāta and removes diseases of pitta and urine; / rukmavantī is considered light, appetising, and an enhancer of strength and nourishment.

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The other kalamā is light, wholesome, and increases vāta and phlegm; / bilvajā, māgadhī, and pītā are common in their merits and faults.

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Appetising, strength-giving, destroying urinary faults, and removing fatigue; / the varieties of śāli rice grown on burned village hills are light in digestion,

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Very wholesome, binding stool and urine, dry, and drawing away phlegm; / those produced in wetlands destroy vāta and pitta,

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Destroy disorders of internal haemorrhage, produce vāta, and cause phlegm; / one should observe their varied names in different regions.

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All those produced in a specific tract of land are known to be similar in properties.

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The śāli rices that regrow after cutting are diuretic, vāta-producing, and cold.

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Śyāmāka, kodrava, kaṇḍū, markaṭī, and kapikacchurā: / these are spoken of as minor grains; listen, son, they shall be described.

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Śyāmāka is drying, dry, increases vāta, and checks phlegm; / kodrava is dry, astringent-binding, and dries up internal haemorrhage;

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It is stated not to produce excessive phlegm, is appetising, and celebrated as sweet.

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I shall explain the split-pulse foods; listen, son, in due order: / barley, wheat, chickpea, black gram, green gram, and pigeon pea;

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Moth bean, horse gram, lentil, grass pea, / field pea, and pea: [these] are proclaimed as the split-pulse foods.

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Barley is dry, cold, heavy, palatable, astringent, sweet, / aphrodisiac, astringent-binding, destroys phlegm, and dispels pitta, dyspnoea, and cough.

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Sweet, heavy, causing constipation, aphrodisiac, strength-giving, and nourishing, / slightly astringent and sweet, wheat destroys the three humours.

Sesame is sweet in post-digestive transformation, very strengthening, unctuous, and declared wholesome as a plaster for wounds; / it is strength-giving, generative of digestive fire and intellect, excellent, removing urinary defects, and heavy.

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Among all sesame seeds, black is the foremost, white is intermediate, and others are inferior.

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In blood, phlegm, chronic rhinitis, in throat and neck disease, and in pain of vāta accompanied by pitta, / chickpea is cold and destroys catarrh and parasites; both dry and fresh it is commended.

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Unctuous, aphrodisiac, sweet, strength-giving, and nourishing to wind and phlegm, / known as sour and warm in digestion, and cooling, black gram is declared by men to be pleasing to the heart.

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Cold, astringent, sweet, light, removing defects of pitta and blood, and laxative; / green gram is predominantly pungent in post-digestive transformation, and the other kind is declared delightful.

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Mild, astringent, pigeon pea destroys internal haemorrhage, vāta, phlegm, and mouth ulcers; / it destroys phantom tumours, fever, anorexia, cough, vomiting, heart disease, and piles.

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Destroying internal haemorrhage, phlegm, and vāta, warm, astringent, and sweet, / astringent-binding and very cooling, moth bean destroys phantom tumours and all diseases.

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This horsegram is hot; it overcomes vāta, chronic rhinitis, / cough, catarrh, constipation, abdominal swelling, / hiccup, internal hemorrhage, kapha, pitta, and fat.

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It is taught to be unctuous-less, desiccating, sweet; it makes the ligaments and bone tissue strong; / it causes colic, constipation, dizziness, and swelling, and produces burning sensation, piles, and heart-disease disorders.

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Peas, similar in appearance to mung beans, are taught to be slightly astringent, sweet, / strength-promoting, calming blood, and destroying pitta along with a little vāta.

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Lentil is taught to be unctuous-less, desiccating, sweet; it produces pain of colic, abdominal swelling, and dysentery disorders, / increases vāta diseases, and removes binding of pitta and blood.

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Thus the group of grains has been taught concisely, for fear of lengthening the treatise.

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Whichever grains are exceedingly well-known in the world, their foremost qualities have been taught.
Thus ends the fifteenth chapter, named 'The Group of Grains', in the first section of the later Hārīta taught by Ātreya.