Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.25
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The swan produces phlegm, imparts great strength and appetite, is aphrodisiac, heavy, and cooling.
Likewise, it generates semen [and alleviates] itching and stiffness; it is aphrodisiac, highly appetising, and soft.
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The sārasa crane is known to relieve phlegm and wind; it is declared aphrodisiac and heavy. / The heron and the bhāsaka are aphrodisiac, increase virility, and eliminate phlegm.
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The āḍī bird destroys wind disorders and cough, is strengthening, aphrodisiac, and kindles the digestive fire.
The krauñcī destroys [...] defects of semen, and the karkaṭa bird is similar to it.
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The water-cock destroys wind, is aphrodisiac, strengthening, and yields semen; / likewise of excellent qualities, it alleviates fatigue, yields semen, and destroys wind.
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Among aquatic creatures, the makara is best; it stimulates the digestive fire, destroys wind, / imparts relish, produces semen, and destroys the defect of urinary calculus.
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The catfish destroys wind, causes relish, is aphrodisiac, and considered phlegm-destroying; / therefore the rohita fish is wholesome, strengthening, possesses the nature of wind, and produces phlegm.
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The small carp produces phlegm; the reed-fish is of the nature of phlegm; / the śakulī and the viśālā are to be known as having the nature of wind and phlegm; / and hole-dwelling fish are known to cause wind, bile, and phlegm.
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The tortoise is considered sweet, pleasant, and an increaser of semen; / it generates wind and phlegm, is nourishing, and indeed unctuous.
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The crab is very strengthening, aphrodisiac, and destroys anaemia and wasting; / it is beneficial in swelling, diarrhoea, dysentery, for the elderly, and for women.
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The crocodile stimulates the digestive fire, is pleasant to the heart, constipating, and destroys heat disorders; / it calms urinary calculi and destroys phantom tumours and diarrhoea.
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Cranes, owls, hawks, boars, donkeys, camels, horses, and the like, bears, wild beasts, cattle, and whatever
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other creatures of humans [there may be]—
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frogs, classes of reptiles, lizards, kaliṅga birds, crows, cranes, mynas, / and parrots: these are eaten, [yet] they are not commended.
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House-sparrows, partridges, crow varieties, hawks, cuckoos, parrots, maghas, mynas, drongos, water-cocks, māṅgas, / water-crows, doves, pigeons, wagtails, wild dogs, maghas, maliṅgas, louse-brown birds, and the like—
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these are eaten, [yet] they are not to be eaten, nor are they desirable, nor are other egg-born creatures of unknown names; / and other wild beasts which are censured: all of these are forbidden as food here.
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Thus ends the twenty-second chapter, entitled "The Group of Meats," in the supplementary section of Hārīta as spoken by Ātreya.