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Foodआहार द्रव्य

Curd (dadhi)

दही (दधि) · दधि

Extracted from the text5 references

Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
दधिदधिमण्डमस्तु
Hindi
दहीदधिमलाई वाला दहीदही का पानी
English
Curdcurdyogurtyoghurtdadhi
Romanized
dadhidahi
Marathi
दही

Ayurvedic properties

Only the qualities the text states are listed. The claims below give each statement with its source.

Taste (rasa)
Sour (amla)
Qualities (guna)
UshnaGuru
Effect on the doshas
Kapha: aggravates / pacifiesVata: pacifiesPitta: aggravates
Actions
VishaghnaDeepanaSnigdhakaraVidahiVishtambhiVrishya

What the text says

Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.

Properties2

  • Curd is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

    Chapter 3 · p. 39 · v. 60Hindi commentaryTraditional description
  • Curd is described as hot and sour, removing vata disorders, destroying kapha, producing pitta, removing poison, kindling the digestive fire, making the body unctuous, causing burning (vidāhī), obstructing the stool, aphrodisiac and slow to digest.

    Chapter 5 · p. 68 · v. 27Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Cautions2

  • Freshly set (taruna) curd is listed with plain meat, old women, the rising sun, intercourse at dawn and sleep (at dawn) among six things said to take life at once.

    Appendix: Hitahita · p. 615Sanskrit verseTraditional description
  • Fresh (taruna) curd is listed with plain meat, intercourse with old women, the rays of the rising sun, intercourse at dawn and sleep at dawn among six things said to destroy a person's life quickly.

    Appendix: Hitahita · p. 630Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Other1

  • Curd is named with milk, ghee and buttermilk among the products of mobile beings that, the translation says, are taken for use in medicines because they arise from causes of comfort such as the nourishment of those animals, touch and the suckling of calves.

    Appendix: Hitahita · p. 637Hindi commentaryTraditional description

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Where else is this mentioned?

Named 53 times on 42 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

What signs show that wine, curd, milk or buttermilk has been poisoned?

Wine and water show black streaks, curd turns white with a slight yellow tinge, and milk and buttermilk show red streaks.

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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.

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Which 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.

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All references

Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.

Quick facts

Content type
Food
Categories
DairyFermented
Source pages with records
5
Pages naming it
42
Extraction tasks
T02, T03, T29, T30
Record id
ingredient_dadhi