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Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- मद्यसुरामदिरावारुणीमैरेयसीधु
- Hindi
- मद्यशराबमदिरा
- English
- Alcoholic drinksalcoholwineliquormadya
- Romanized
- madyasuramadirasharab
Ayurvedic properties
Only the qualities the text states are listed. The claims below give each statement with its source.
- Effect on the doshas
- Pitta: aggravatesKapha: aggravates
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
The verse lists liquor (surā) and its products among the causes of pitta aggravation.
The commentary also lists liquor (madirā) among the causes of kapha aggravation.
Cautions2
The text says that under the intoxication of wine even a man of good conduct loses his judgement, wanders aimlessly, babbles, does what should not be done, in lust approaches even his sister, daughter or mother, and eats pure and impure things without discrimination.
Wine-drinking is described as producing great sin and disorder, as the chief basis of many terrible diseases and as degrading a person, so the righteous have given it up as ruinous in both lives; the commentary calls it always to be rejected.
Contraindications2
The hitahita chapter groups liquor with honey and meat as impure food that involves the killing of many living beings, aggravates all the doshas, causes great sin and makes diseases grow, and says the authoritative sages rejected it.
The translation groups liquor with honey and meat as impure food that causes the destruction of many beings, aggravates many doshas and makes all diseases grow, and says the sages rejected it from afar.
Historical3
The editor reports that at the Ayurveda inauguration festival of Banaras Hindu University, Śrī Kavirāj Gaṇanāth Sen (Mahāmahopādhyāya, M.A., Vidyānidhi) strongly forbade wine, meat and the like.
The editor reports that in his presidential address at the Kanpur session of the All India Ayurveda Mahāsammelana, Śrī Kavirāj Yogīndranāth Sen, M.A., said that English medicines are mostly mixed with alcohol and the like and so can never suit the constitution of Indians; the editor adds that many Indian and foreign scholars thus regard these substances as things to be given up.
Note: The sentence begins at the foot of p.39.
Liquor, with honey and meat, is said to have been mixed into this science of Ayurveda later by people greedy of the tongue.
Other2
The introduction says wine (madya), like meat and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because it is born of violence and its renunciation is needed to uphold non-violence.
Liquor is named with honey and meat among the condemnable substances whose use, the translation says, the other texts support in many ways.
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11Where else is this mentioned?
Named 39 times on 29 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- PDF page 7Front matter… ुत अच्छी तरह चरक ने किया है। कल्याणकारक ग्रन्थ का चिकित्सा विषयक मधु, मद्य, माँस के भाग को छोडकर बहुत अंश में चरक से मिलता जुलता है। शल्य चिकित् …
- PDF page 18Front matter×2… गया है। एक बात खास उल्लेखनीय है कि इस ग्रंथ में किसी भी औषधप्रयोग में मद्य, मांस व मधु का उपयोग नहीं किया गया है। मद्य, मांस, मधु हसिांजन्य हैं। …
- PDF page 23Front matter… ्यक ग्रंथ में भी अक्षुणण बनाये रखता है। जैनाचायोँ के वैद्यक ग्रंथ में मद्य, मांस, मधु का प्रयोग किसी भी औषधि में अनुपान के रूप से या औषध के रूप …
- PDF page 36Front matter… मं पेळ्दनिं तळितयिं॥ इससे यह भी स्पष्ट है किं पूजयपाद के ग्रंथ में भी मद्य, मांस व मधु का प्रयोग बिल्कुल नहीं किया गया है। चरकादियों के द्वारा र …
- PDF page 39Front matter×3… इसमें किसी को भी विवाद नहीं हो सकता । अंतिम प्रकरण में आचार्यश्री ने मद्य, मांसादिक गह्र्य पदाथोँ का सेवन औषधि के नाम से या आहार के नाम से उचित …
- Book page 39Chapter 3×2… से मछली, बकरी, भेड, गाय, इनके मांस, कुलथी का यूष (जूस) खट्टी कांजी और मदिरा के सेवन से शरीर में पित्तप्रकोप होता है। कफ प्रकोप के कारण नित्यं दिव …
- Book page 74Chapter 6… दाहयुक्तजवरे वा॥ 6॥ भावार्थ : मूचि्र्छत, अजीर्ण रोग से पीडित, प्यासा मद्य आदि को जिसने पीलिया हो और रेचन लिया हो जिस का शरीर अतिकृश हो, दाह जवर …
- Book page 76Chapter 6… िक हो, उन्माद जिसको हुआ हो, मूत्रकृच्छ्र से पीडित हो, दूध पिया हो, और शराब पीकर नशो में मस्त हो ऐसी अवस्थाअों में तांबूल वजर्य है। जूता पहनने व …
- Book page 78Chapter 6… ासा हो, वातरोग से पीडित होकर क्षीण हो गया हो, अतिसार रोग से पीडित हो, मद्य पीकर मत्त हो गया हो एवं रात्रि मे जो जगा हो, वह मनुष्य जागरण से आधी न …
- Book page 85Chapter 6… ्थी॥ 56॥ भावार्थ : औषध से निरोग बनने की इच्छा रखने वाला जीव सबसे पहले मद्य, माँस, कषायला पदार्थ तीखा (चरपरा) नमकीन, यवक्षर आदि क्षर, रूक्ष पदार् …
- Book page 113Chapter 8… भवती को, मूचि्र्छत को, मद,भ्रम-श्रम से युक्त, कृश, ऐसे व्यक्ति को एवं मद्य पीये हुए को, उeारी को, अजीर्ण से पीडित को, वमनादि से अत्यधिक विशुद्ध …
- Book page 125Chapter 9… भावार्थ : कटु (चरपरा) खट्टा, रूखा, नमकीन, उष्ण व विदाहि आहारों को और मद्य को अत्यधिक सेवन करते रहने से, पित्त प्रकुपित होता है। इस से मूच्र्छा …
Questions and answers
What does the front matter say about wine, meat and honey in the Kalyāṇakāraka?
No formula in the work uses wine, meat or honey, because they arise from violence; and its last section, which Ugrāditya is said to have delivered at the court of Nṛpatuṅga Vallabha, sets out to prove that meat is of no use in medicine.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat 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.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhich combinations with milk does the translation say cause kushtha or quick death?
Milk taken with meat, fish, jaggery or sweets made of black gram is said to cause kushtha, and milk used with liquor made from vegetables and jambu fruit is said to kill the fool quickly.
Detailed answer and sourcesHow does the glossary explain तरली?
As a यवागू made of barley flour, as liquor and कांजी, and as the honeybee.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Food
- Categories
- BeverageFermented
- Source pages with records
- 9
- Pages naming it
- 29
- Extraction tasks
- T01, T02, T20, T29, T30
- Record id
- ingredient_madya