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WHEY OR BUTTER MILK (Chhachh)


Properties
Whey or buttermilk is cool and light. It drives away tiredness and thirst. It destroys the excessive wind humor in the body but causes the formation of phelgm- humour. It cures gastro diseases, vomit, excessive formation of saliva in the mouth, jaundice, diabetes, diarrhea, pain, aversions, leprocy, swelling and worms in the stomach.

Uses:
  1. In the disease like sprue, mixing powdered leaves of the holy fig tree and dry ginger in buttermilk and drinking it is very beneficial.

  2. Drinking buttermilk made from fresh milk of cow, without mixing salt in it purifies the blood. It gives strength and vitality. The complexion of the body improves. It destroys numerous disease related to wind and phelgm humour of the body.

  3. If equal quantities of powdered dry ginger, powdered black pepper, powdered of the leaves of fig tree and powdered rock salt is mixed in buttermilk and then had, it cures indigestion. Similarly, if only powdered dry ginger and powdered black pepper is mixed with buttermilk, it too destroys indigestion.

  4. The pulp of wood apple, if mixed with the buttermilk, cures diarrhea, dysentry and excessive haemorrhage.

  5. Drinking buttermilk mixed with powdered asafoetida powdered cumin seed and powdered rock salt, cures diarrhea and abdominal pains.

  6. Drinking buttermilk made out of cow's milk mixed with powdered black pepper powdered dry ginger, powdered leaves of fig tree and "Veed salt" cures abdominal pains.

  7. Drinking buttermilk mixed with raw sugar (gur) cures urinary disease especially Uraemia.

  8. Giving buttermilk mixed with "Vayvidang" powder to the children, cures them from the worms in their stomach.

MILK

Properties
The milk of a cow is heavy, cool, sweet, gives total nourishment, destroys the humours of excessive wind and bile in the body and prevents plethora. Mother's milk is light, cool, increases appetite and cures pain and eye disease. It also eliminates excessive humours of wind and bile in the body. Cows milk is light, cool, an appetizer and is like ambrosia and destroys all the three humors in the body i.e. wind, bile, phelgm. Goats milk is bitter in taste, also sweet at the same time, cool, beneficial in dysentery and is "light". Plethora, diarrhea, consumption, cough and fever. It cures every diseases. Buffaloes milk is sweet, heavy, it causes sleep, an appetizer and cool.

Uses
  1. Drinking warm milk cures excessive humour of phelgm and wind. Cold milk cures the excessive humor of the bile. If water is mixed in the milk and then heated so that the mixed water gets evaporated, this milk is very light as compared to raw milk hence is easily digestive.

  2. Milk drunk in the morning increases virility, vitality and is an appetizer.

  3. Milk if taken in the night time cures consumption, increases virility in old people, is very easily digested and pacifies numerous faults and diseases of the body.

  4. Fresh milk if taken in afternoon, gives strength, destroys excessive humor of phelgm and bile and increases appetite.

  5. Ghee, dry ginger and black grapes boiled in cow's milk, cures chronic fever.

  6. The boiled milk of cow stops hiccups.

  7. Mixing sugar candy (misri) and powdered black pepper in boiled milk of cow, cures coryza.

  8. Hot milk mixed with ghee and sugar, gives vitality, strength and virility.

  9. Hot milk drives away tiredness and refreshes the mind and body.

  10. Equal quantities of milk and water are mixed and boiled till the water in it gets evaporated. This residue milk cures dysentery.

  11. If ghee and sugar candies are mixed in fresh cow milk, it is beneficial for children having fever due to small pox.

  12. If dry ginger is crushed in the milk and the paste thus acquired is applied on the head, it cures severe headache in 7 to 8 hours.

  13. Take a piece of cotton, wetted in cow's milk and then sprinkling powdered alum on it and put this on the eyes wrapped in a piece of cloth, it will cure inflammation of the eyes.

  14. Massaging the face with cream of cows milk and after 10 minutes washing it with flour of gram pulse, makes the skin of the face radiant.

TEA LEAF

Properties
The leaves of a tea plant taste bitter, sharp, dilutes the density of semen, destroys excessive humour of phelgm in the body, increases the wind- humor in the body and gives nourishment to the stomach. The leaves of a tea plant mixed with milk destroy phelgm, are good stimulator, an aphrodisiac drive away cold and are beneficial in fever, headache and coryza.

Uses
  1. Tea is used very commonly in our daily lives right from giving a treat to our guest's tom its daily use in our diet. There was a news article in a newspaper in 1998 about a woman who had been surviving only on tea since five years.Though tea is used very commonly yet people know very little about the real method of having it. According to a popular saying tea has two merits and three demerits. The merits are that it clears phelegm and wind. Its demerits are that tea dilutes blood and semen and also causes weakness. But still if it is taken methodically, its evil effects are minimized. Tea leaf has caffeine in it and when it is heated by giving the temperature of 100 degree celsius it turns into nicotene which causes gastric ulcer. Therefore the best method of preparing tea is considered to be keeping tealeaves in a filter pan, and pouring hot water over it and mixing milk and sugar in that gathered water. Tea prepared in this way is least harmful.

  2. Boiled water when poured through tealeaves, kept in a filter pan and milk and sugar added to it and also 1/4th cup of lemon juice added to it, cures cold, cough and influenza.

  3. Tea is considered to be very useful for people over 40 years of age but people having a weak liver have ill effects on their health if they have excessive tea. Tea, because of having "Hot-semen" properties, dilutes the density of the semen, as a result of which, numerous other diseases might arise. Excessive use of tea causes excessive urination because it affects the anti dioratic harmones in the body. Excessive damage of this harmone could be fatal. Excessive use of tea also might cause diabetes.

CHIRETA

Properties
Chireta has curative effects in fever, inflammation, loss of appetite, indigestion, acidity, liver problems, jaundice, boils and pimples. It also destroys the worms in the body.

Uses

  1. If powdered chireta mixed with honey is given to a person having hiccups, the occurrence of hiccups are checked instantly. It also acts as a panacea, in checking the vomiting of person intoxicated by wine.

  2. If the chireta is soaked in water for the whole night and is mashed in the same water in the morning and if this water is used, then it cures pimples and purifies the blood. It also sharpens the mind.

  3. The inflammation in the body caused by chronic fever is cured if the powdered chireta is used.
Note
The excessive use of chireta weakens the virility of a man and it also causes excessive formation of phelgm in the body.

Coffee

Properties
Coffee eliminates excessive phelgm, drives away the effects of cold and tiredness. It is diuretic. It is beneficial in fever, headache, cough and coryza.

Uses

  1. Coffee and tea are similar in properties.

  2. A cup of coffee gives warmth, agility and alertness.

  3. It activates and stimulates the nerves.

  4. Coffee neutralizes the effect of opium. It also gives relief from troubles and pains after an opium addict has quit this habit.
Note
Excessive use of tea or coffee is harmful because it weakens the liver and digestion.



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