[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Hārītasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt) › 4.3 # Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 4.3 English (machine translation) 4.3 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [4.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.4.3.9) — 1 part ### [4.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.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 \[secretion\]— ### [4.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.4.3.6) that is called smooth-cooked (cikkaṇaka), and is always beneficial for nasal errhine. ### [4.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.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). ### [4.3.9.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.4.3.9.p1) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.4.3.2-2) the second chapter. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.4.3) · Pramāṇa