Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.22

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1.22.1

Prepared from molasses, from honey, from flour, and another declared to be from sap; / thus spirits are known as fourfold, according to their divisions.

1.22.2

Through subdivision, twelve spirits are stated with vinegar-infusions and juices: / sīdhu, gauḍī, and matsyaṇḍī are the three originating from molasses.

1.22.3

Mādhvīka, madhuka, and mādhva are the spirits combined with honey; / among the flour-based ones produced from ariṣṭa, three are born from rice.

1.22.4

Produced from the juice of grapes, and born from palm and date sap, / that is known as the sap-spirit; of them I declare the virtues and faults.

1.22.5

Sīdhu is astringent, sour, or sweet, digestive stimulant, breaking up and expelling feces; / it destroys mucilaginous diarrhoea, wind, pitta, colic, kapha disorders, haemorrhoids, and dysentery.

1.22.6

Gauḍī is astringent, sweet, sour, cold, digestive stimulant, dispelling colic and feces; / it is cordial, pacifies the three doṣas and indigestion, and destroys anaemia, haemorrhoids, and asthma.

This one removes feces, stimulates digestion, relieves anaemia and urinary disease, is light, sweet, very cold, appetizing, and destroys pitta; / it digests everything drunk in excess of sourness, and destroys asthma, blood disorders, cough, or jaundice.

1.22.8

Mādhvīka is cold, sour, sweet, and also pleasantly astringent and warm; / it destroys pitta disorders, haemorrhoids, asthma, diarrhoea, and urinary diseases, / relieves colic and abdominal distension, digests everything, kindles digestion according to habituation, and therefore destroys vātarakta, rheumatism, vomiting, and all diseases.

1.22.9

Surā liquor is regarded as astringent, sweet, and sour, stimulating to the digestive fire, / and destructive of cough, haemorrhoids, dysentery, breast-milk [disorders], and urinary diseases.

1.22.10

Liquor made of flour stimulates the digestive fire, promotes taste, produces phlegm, destroys wind, / increases bile, and is regarded in many ways as an instigator of anaemia diseases.

1.22.11

It produces wind and bile, is dry, astringent, clear, and heavy; / it generates phlegm, is purgative, binding, and removes dysuria and head pain.

1.22.12

Palm wine produces phlegm disorders, is aphrodisiac, windy, increases phlegm, / and causes the destruction of cough and nausea.

1.22.13

When fully formed, in astringent [temperament] and bile, properly combined surā is beneficial; / it removes many humours, especially in diseases of phlegm.

1.22.14

In one afflicted by exertion-fever, in desiccation, swelling, anaemia disease, and wasting, / in wound, exhaustion, epilepsy, in consumptives, and in bouts of vertigo,

1.22.15

or in one fatigued, or who has drunk poison, or is bitten by a snake, in ascites, / likewise in internal haemorrhage and asthma, vāruṇī liquor is not considered wholesome.

1.22.19

Thus, in the Hārītottara spoken by Ātreya, the nineteenth chapter, named the Group of Alcoholic Beverages.