Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Iatrochemistry

by Bhudeb Mookerjee | 1938 | 52,258 words | ISBN-10: 8170305829 | ISBN-13: 9788170305828

This fourth volume of the Rasa-jala-nidhi deals with Rasa-chikitsa-vidya, also known a the science of Iatrchemistry (chemical medicine), a major branch of Ayurveda. It contains Ayurvedic treatments for Fever and Diarrhea. The Rasa-jala-nidhi (“the ocean of Iatrochemistry, or, chemical medicine) is a compendium of Sanskrit verses dealing with ancie...

Diet and actions beneficial in diarrhoea.

Vomiting, fasting, sleeping, boiled rice prepared from shali and sasti paddy two or three years old, bilepi (grains of rice over boiled), paste prepared from paddy fried and devoid of husk, soup of masura, and adhaki, juice of the meat of hare, laba, antelope, deer, and kapinjala; all sorts of small fish, oil prepared from tila, goat’s milk, clarified butter prepared from goat’s milk, curd, butter-milk and butter prepared from goat’s milk or cow’s milk, green flowers, and fruits of banana, honey, jambu fruits, bahnbara, amra-haridra, shunthi, tuber of water lily, bikankata, kapittha, bakula fruits, green bilva fruits roasted, tinduka and pomegranates, green kernel of palm fruit, kanchata changeri, bhanga, red coloured potherbs, jatiphala, balaka, jira, bark of kutaja, dhanya, mahanimba, all sorts of food stuff astringent in taste, and those which are considered light and increaser of power of digestion.

Diet and actions injurious in diarrhoea.

Fomentation, application of collyrium, shedding of blood, drinking of water in excess, bath, sexual intercourse, keeping late hours at night, smoking, snuff, anointing the body with oil, suppressing calls of nature, taking of food which is coarse, unaccustomed, and incongenial by combination, wheat, masha grams, barley, bastuka, kakamachi, beans, potato, and other tubers, shobhanjana. mango, betel nuts, kushmanda, alabu, plums, food difficult to digest, betel leaves, sugar cane, molasses, wine putika grapes, fruits of amla-vetasa, garlic, amalaki, impure water, curd churned without water, kanji (gruel), cocoanut, oily substances, musk, all sorts of pot herbs, alkalis, laxatives, punarnava, karkati, salt, and sours are harmful to patients suffering from diarrhoea.

Conclusion:

Rasasastra category This concludes ‘Diet in diarrhoea’ included in Bhudeb Mookerjee Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory. The text includes treatments, recipes and remedies and is categorised as Rasa Shastra: an important branch of Ayurveda that specialises in medicinal/ herbal chemistry, alchemy and mineralogy, for the purpose of prolonging and preserving life.

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