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Astanga Hrudaya

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रोमशे क्षीरसन्तानं दध्युत्तरमरोमशे । शृते पयसि दध्यम्लं जातं हरितपाण्डुके ॥ २१ ॥

When fruits with fine hairs on them (tender unripe) are available, with the cream of milk; when fruits without hair (ripe) are available, with the water of curds (whey); when fruits which have become greenish-white(stage in between ripe and over ripe) with sour curds prepared from boiled milk.

english translation

आसुत्य वारुणीमण्डं पिबेन्मृदितगालितम् । कफादरोचके कासे पाण्डुत्वे राजयक्ष्मणि ॥ २२ ॥

Fruits may be squeezed in Scum of varuni wine and consumed by squeezing and filtering it, in loss of appetite due to Kapha, cough, anaemia and pulmonary tuberculosis.

english translation

इयं च कल्पना कार्या तुम्बीकोशातकीष्वपि । पर्यागतानां शुष्काणां फलानां वेणिजन्मनाम् ॥ २३ ॥

Similar recipes can be prepared with those of tumbī – Lagenaria siceraria and Luffa acutangular (24 grams) of powder of fruits of veṇi – Luffa echinata after getting ripened, which have become dry

english translation

चूर्णस्य पयसा शुक्तिं वातपित्तार्दितः पिबेत् । द्वे वा त्रीण्यपि वाऽऽपोथ्य क्वाथे तिक्तोत्तमस्य वा॥२४ ॥

should be consumed with milk by the patient who is troubled by Vata- Pitta (undergoing increase together). The patient of fever caused by Pitta and Kapha should drink the decoction of either nimbi – Azadirachta indica or Patola – Trichosanthes dioica

english translation

आरग्वधादिनवकादासुत्यान्यतमस्य वा । विमृद्य पूतं तं क्वाथं पित्तश्लेष्मज्वरी पिबेत् ॥ २५ ॥

or any one of the nine herbs commencing with Aragvadha -Cassia fistula (in the Aragvadhadi Gana- vide chapter 15 of sutrasthana) in which two or three fruits are squeezed and then fluid allowed to ferment, later macerated (squeezed) and filtered and consumed.

english translation