A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c8.146

v1.c8.146

After this long exposition of Ātreya, Agniveśa asks him to give an account of disagreeing (vairodhika) articles of food.496 Ātreya, complying with this request, says that substances may be antagonistic to constituents (dhātu) of the body due to their properties, combination, processing, nature (svabhāva), etc. As an example he mentions the combination of fish and milk. Bhadrakāpya objects, asserting that milk may freely be taken together with fish, the fish called cilicima excepted (26.80–83).497