Charak Samhita

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वल्लूरं शुष्कशाकानि शालूकानि बिसानि च| नाभ्यसेद्गौरवान्मांसं कृशं नैवोपयोजयेत् ||१०||

sanskrit

[Forbidden food articles for habitual consumption] One should not be habitual to take dried meat, dried vegetables, shaluka (tuber of lotus-Nymphaea alba Linn.) and bisa (stalk of lotus-Nymphaea alba Linn.) as these are heavy to digest. One should never eat meat of emaciated animal.

english translation

vallUraM zuSkazAkAni zAlUkAni bisAni ca| nAbhyasedgauravAnmAMsaM kRzaM naivopayojayet ||10||

hk transliteration