Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c9.61.3

c9.61.3

The sugarcane is also eaten raw, but especially medical effects are attributed to its pressed juice, boiled or unboiled, to the syrup and the sugar. Of the oils, sesame oil is especially much used as an article of food as well as a medicine (external and internal). For salt, milk and urine, see § 22. Drink after repast (anupāna) is also sufficiently discussed. Thus according to Caraka, milk as anupāna works like ambrosia in exhaustion by fasting, walking, speaking etc. Thin people should take liquor after meal to become fat and fat people should take honey and water to become thin. Then are enumerated viruddha foods and drinks, i. e. those not suited to one-another and therefore causing unfavourable effect if combined, e. g. fish with milk. As usual food Car 1.5.9 recommends rice (ṣaṣṭika and śāli), mudga (phaseolus mungo), rocksalt, myrobalans, barley, rainwater, butter, venison and honey (Car 1.37; Su 1.20; 1.45 f.; AS 1.6 f.; 1.9 f.; AHr 1.5. f; Bhāv 1.1 227 ff; Rajani.). The quantity of food should be adjusted according to the digestive capacity (Car 1.5 etc.). There are only two daily meals : in the morning and in the evening.