Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 4.3

English (machine translation) 4.3

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4.3.9 — 1 part

4.3.1

Ātreya said: / The cooking of oils is declared to be of four kinds; hear, O son: / hard, unctuous, medium, and another is considered desiccating.

4.3.2

Milk, sour gruel, decoction, or curd dries up; / there is no moisture of the medicaments, and it is frothless and clear;

4.3.3

resembling the juice of Indian madder, it arrives at the hard cooking. / That is known to destroy vāta and is beneficial for massage and inunction.

4.3.4

The medium-cooked [oil] is frothy, liquid, and rolls into a ball;
one should designate [oil] that is neither excessively frothy nor frothless as medium-cooked.

4.3.5

It is praised in enema and in drinking, and it destroys all three humours, O best of physicians.
That which is frothy, moon-bright, and whose liquid resembles healthy [secretion]—

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that is called smooth-cooked (cikkaṇaka), and is always beneficial for nasal errhine.

4.3.7

That which is smoky, overburnt, and has a burnt odour and taste
is to be known as aggravating wind and causing desiccation; it must be avoided in all procedures.

4.3.8

The hard-cooked is [used] for massage, the smooth-cooked in an enema,
and the medium-cooked in an enema and in drinking; that which causes desiccation is to be avoided.

4.3.9

Medicated oil is prepared in a fortnight, and clarified butter in seven days;
one should prepare a decoction diligently in just a single watch (prahara).

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Thus, in the Hārītottara spoken by Ātreya, in the fourth section, the sūtrasthāna, [this is] the rule for cooking medicated oils,

4.3.2-2

the second chapter.

Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 4.3

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