Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- मूत्रगणअष्टमूत्र
- Hindi
- आठ प्रकार के मूत्र
- English
- Group of urines (eight kinds)
What the text says
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Other2
Because grass-eaters owe their vigour to plants, the text says, their dung, urine and milk, not those of flesh-eaters, are taken as medicines; it quotes that the urines of goat, sheep, cow, buffalo, horse, elephant, donkey and camel are the eight used in therapy.
Because grass-eating animals owe their health to plants, the translation says, their dung, urine, milk and the like are taken for use as medicines, but those of meat-eating animals are not.
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Organs and systems mentioned
3Other ingredients used together
10Count of shared preparations.
Topics of the text that discuss it
1Course sessions
1Questions and answers
2Where else is this mentioned?
Named 3 times on 3 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 263Chapter 15… ोंठ, मिरच, पीपल इनको अलग-अलग अथवा मिले हुए औषधियों के क्वाथ व कल्क और आठ प्रकार के मूत्र, इनसे घृत व तैल को बराबर लेकर सिद्ध करें। फिर उस तेल को थोडा गरम कर क …
- Book page 397Chapter 18… िलावा इनसे पकाये हुए पानी से स्नान कराना चाहिए। मूत्रवर्ग (गाय आदि के आठ प्रकार के मूत्र) देवदारु व सर्व सुगंधित औषधियों से सिद्ध तिल के तेल से लेपन करना चाह …
- Book page 433Chapter 19… का इन सब औषधियों को समभाग में लेकर अच्छी तरह चूर्ण करें। उस चूर्ण में आठ प्रकार के मूत्र व पाँच प्रकार के लवण को मिलाकर अच्छी तरह आलोडन (मिलाना) कर श्रृंग में …
Questions and answers
Which food combinations with milk does the hitahita chapter warn against?
Milk taken with meat, fish, jaggery, black gram or modaka sweets is said to bring on kushtha, and taken with vegetables, jambu fruit, sura or asava to kill the ignorant quickly like a snake; meat and milk together are called unworldly, unpleasant and excluded by the texts.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhich eight kinds of milk does the translation say are effective in medicine?
The milk of the goat, sheep, cow, buffalo, mare, she-elephant, she-donkey and she-camel.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The verse says सर्वैर्मूत्रगणै:, the commentary eight kinds of urine (v121); members are not listed in this range.
- सूत्राणि is read as मूत्राणि (urines).
- The translation names the eight animals only for milk; the urines are referred to as the eight kinds stated in the texts.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Ingredient
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 3
- Chapters
- Appendix: Hitahita
- Extraction tasks
- T21, T29, T30
- Record id
- ingredient_ashtamutra