Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.21

English (machine translation) 1.21

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1.21.1

Now I shall speak of the three kinds of honey; listen, my son: / bhrāmara, sāragha, and kṣaudra; I declare their virtues and faults.

1.21.2

It is cold, astringent, sweet, light, digestive stimulant, and recommended as a linctus; / purifying, a cleanser of wounds, a healer of wounds, most cordial, and strengthening.

It brings about destruction of the three doṣas and nourishment, in cough, wasting, or chest-lesion, in vomiting, / in hiccup, dizziness, desiccation, chronic coryza, blood-urinary disease, and simple diarrhoea.

1.21.4

And in dysentery with blood and bilious blood, in thirst, delusion, heart disease, and flank disease it is recommended; / in eye disease or dysentery disease, or in poison, that which is collected by large bees is praised.

1.21.5

The bhrāmara honey is dense, heavy, predominantly sweet; / kṣaudra honey is especially known to be cold, light, and a linctus.

1.21.6

Lighter than that, dry, is sāragha, and not excessively cold; / it is praised in cough and wasting, and destroys jaundice and haemorrhoids.

1.21.7

Not excessively cold nor dry, it is considered a digestive stimulant and strength-giver; / it is beneficial in diarrhoea, in eye disease, in trauma, or in chest lesions.

1.21.8

Bhrāmara honey is found in tree trunks; sāragha is found in branches; / but in crevices or tree hollows, kṣaudra honey is praised.

1.21.18

Thus, in the teaching of Ātreya, in the later section of Hārīta, the eighteenth chapter, named the Group of Honey.