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Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- पथ्यहित
- Hindi
- पथ्यहितकर आहार
- English
- Wholesome diet and conductwholesome dietpathyarecommended diet
- Romanized
- pathya
What the text says
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Classification2
Stating the opposing position, the text reports that some teachers hold no substance to be wholly wholesome or unwholesome, because what is wholesome for vata is unwholesome for pitta; the one-sided view answers that substances, by nature and by combination, are either absolutely wholesome, such as water, ghee, milk and cooked rice, being naturally suited, or absolutely unwholesome, such as fire, alkali and poison, which burn, cook and kill, while others become like poison when combined.
The translation sets out the opposing view: some Jain teachers say no substance is one-sidedly wholesome or unwholesome, since what is wholesome for vata is unwholesome for pitta; the one-sided view answers that water, ghee, milk and food (anna) are absolutely wholesome, that fire, alkali and poison, which burn, cook and kill, are absolutely unwholesome, and that other substances become poison-like by combination.
Diet1
Every grain should be used after carefully examining the person's constitution, region, season, disease and so on, choosing what suits them.
Cautions1
The merits and faults of these grains should be weighed before using them, otherwise harm follows.
Other3
The author replies that absolute must mean in every respect: if water, ghee, milk, rice and the like were wholesome everywhere, always and in every way, they would be wholesome even for people suffering from new fever, diarrhoea, kushtha, fistula-in-ano, eye disease or wounds, who would then have to take them constantly; so the one-sided view does not hold.
The reply is that if wholesome substances were wholesome in every way, their use would have to count as wholesome even in new fever, diarrhoea, kushtha, fistula-in-ano, eye diseases, wounds and other severe diseases, and they would have to be used whether suitable or not.
The specially learned earlier teachers, who knew both worldly and supreme (paramarthika) matters, are said to have taught the accomplishment of one's duty in the world as attaining the wholesome and avoiding the unwholesome (hitahita prapti and parihara).
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 21 times on 20 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- PDF page 17Front matter… ेद का उपदेश है। आहार, स्वप्न व ब्रहाचर्य ये आरोग्य के मुख्य आधार हैं। हितकर आहार व विहार के कारण रोगोत्पत्ति न होकर आरोग्य कायम रहता है। स्वास्थ्य प्र …
- Book page 33Chapter 3… धि स्वल्प क्यों न रहे, परन्तु सुरूप, सुरस, सुगंध, सुखकारक, स्वादिष्ट, पथ्य रूप, शुद्ध व साक्षत् फलप्रद होती है, वही प्रशस्त है। ऐसी औषधि चिकित्स …
- Book page 34Chapter 3… शरीर को स्निग्ध तथा पुष्टिकर औषधि, अन्न-पानों से पुष्ट बनाना चाहिए और पथ्य सेवन से मध्यम देह का रक्षाण करना चाहिए अर्थात् स्थूल व कृश होने नहीं …
- Book page 49Chapter 4… खटाई व मिठाई इस ऋतु में हितकर है। इस ऋतु में प्राय: सर्व प्रकार का जल पथ्य होताहै। शिशिर ऋतु में हित अम्लक्षीरकषायतिक्तलवणप्रस्पष्टमुष्णाधिकं। भ …
- Book page 71Chapter 5… भावार्थ : कषाय रसयुक्त फल व कंदमूल के भाजियों में मीठारस अनुपान करना पथ्य है, जो भोजन साक्षत् मधुर है, उसमें कटु रस अनुपान करना अच्छा है। अम्ल …
- Book page 103Chapter 7कल्याणकारके / व्याधिसमुद्रेश: 103 भावार्थ : जो रोग उसके अनुकूल औषधि पथ्य आदि सेवन करते रहने से दब जाते है (रोगी का सद्य प्राण घात नहीं करते है …
- Book page 130Chapter 9… सर इनके चूर्ण को ठणडा दूध और ईख के रस के साथ पीना चाहिए। रक्तपित्ी को पथ्य क्षीरं घृतं शिशिरम़िारसान्नपानं। पित्तामयेषु विदधीत सतीनयूष:॥ मुeान …
- Book page 147Chapter 9… षधियों से सिद्धकर प्रयोग किया जाये तो फिर कहना ही क्या है? अतिसार में पथ्य तक्रं सैंधवनागराढच्यमथवा मुeं रसं जीरकै-व्र्यामिश्रं घृतसैंधवै: समरिच …
- Book page 174Chapter 11… र्कपुष्पी, व तीखे व कडुवे शाकवर्ग को कुष्ठ में प्रयोग करें। कुष्ठ में पथ्य धान्य मुeाढकीसूपरसप्रयुक्तम्। श्यामाककंगुवरकादिविरूक्षणान्नं॥ भुंज …
- Book page 192Chapter 11कल्याणकारके / महामयाधिकार: 192 जलोदरी को पथ्य ततश्च षणमासमिहोदरर्दिते। सुखोष्णदुग्धेन सदैव भोजयेत्॥ क्रियासु सर्वा …
- Book page 267Chapter 15… हैं। उसे दूध से निकाले हुए घृत से चिकित्सा करनी चाहिए। नासागत रोग में पथ्य हितं सनस्यं घृतदुग्धपायसं। यदेतदुक्लेदकरं च भोजनम्। समस्तनासा …
- Book page 288Chapter 15… सकों तर्पण की विधि के अनुसार नेत्रों में डाले। इसे पुटपाक कहते हैं । पथ्य भोजनपान फलाम्लसंभारसुसंस्कृतै: खलै:। घृतै: श्रृतक्षीरयुतैश्च भोजयेत्॥ …
Questions and answers
Which foods does the text call wholesome in long-standing diarrhoea and chronic fever?
Buttermilk with rock salt and dry ginger; mung soup with cumin tempered with ghee, salt and black pepper; and milk prepared with ajamoda and rock salt.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat are the signs that a person is free of poison, and what should a poisoned person avoid?
Body heat settles, the senses are clear, appetite returns and excretion is normal; a poisoned person avoids day sleep, sex, much exercise, sun and anger, and oil, horse gram, sesame, liquor, kanji, buttermilk and sour things.
Detailed answer and sourcesHow does the hitahita chapter argue that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect?
It rejects the one-sided view that water, ghee, milk and rice are absolutely wholesome and fire, alkali and poison absolutely unwholesome: if the former were wholesome everywhere and always, people with new fever, diarrhoea, kushtha, fistula-in-ano, eye disease or wounds would have to take them constantly, while alkali, fire, instruments and poison used by skilled physicians relieve diseases at once.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhy does the Hindi rendering of the hitahita chapter hold that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect?
Because by substance, place, time and state things have many-sided natures; if water, ghee, milk and food were wholesome in every way, they would have to be used even in new fever, diarrhoea, kushtha, fistula-in-ano, eye diseases and wounds.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The second एकान्तहितानि in the opposing view is read as एकान्ताहितानि (absolutely unwholesome), as the examples fire, alkali and poison require.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Principle
- Categories
- Diet
- Source pages with records
- 4
- Pages naming it
- 20
- Chapters
- Chapter 4Appendix: Hitahita
- Extraction tasks
- T03, T29, T30
- Record id
- concept_pathya