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| 1. Cow’s milk |
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| Cow’s milk is life promoting (potentiates the strength),
vitalizing, useful for persons emaciated due to wounds and lung injury, promoes
intertigo,
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| tiredomeness, stupor,
inauspiciousness, dyspnoea, cough, excess hunger, chronic fever, haematuria and
haemorrhagic diseases. |
| 2. Milk from a she-buffaloe |
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| Milk from a she-buffaloe is ideal in persons who have
excess digestive fire (food consumed is digested fast and they demand more and
food in short intervals), and in those suffering from insomnia. It is difficult
to digest and is cooling. |
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| 3. Goat’s milk
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| Generally, goats consume less water, eercise more, and
eat food (grass, leaves etc;) which is pungent and bitter. That is why, their
milk is easy to digest. This milk also cures tuberculosis, fever, dyspnoes,
haemorrhages and diarrhoea. |
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| 4. Camel’s milk |
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| Camel’s milk contains less fat (and so it dries u the
internal secretions), heat generting, saltish in taste, appetizing and easy to
digest. It is ideal in Vata and Kapha diseases, distension, worm infestation,
edema, visceral diseases and haemorrhoids. |
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| 5. Women’s milk
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| Breast milk is useful in some therapeutic procedures like
Tarpana (filling the ears or eyes to nourish), Ascyotana (eye drops) and Nasya
(nasal drops). Through such procedures, breast milk controls Vata, Pitta and
Rakta diseases, injuries or wounds and diseases of eyes. |
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