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Foodआहार द्रव्य

Rice (shali)

शालि चावल (शालि) · शालि

Oryza sativa · Poaceae

Extracted from the text3 references

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

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
शालिशालीरक्तशालिकलममहाशालि
Hindi
शालि चावलशालिचावलधानभातलाल चावलशालिधानअन्न
English
Ricericeshali ricered rice
Romanized
shalichawalbhatdhaan
Marathi
तांदूळ

Ayurvedic properties

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

Taste (rasa)
Sweet (madhura)
Qualities (guna)
ShitaLaghu
Effect on the doshas
Pitta: pacifiesKapha: aggravates
Actions
Mutrala

What the text says

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

Properties1

  • Shāli rice is described as sweet and cooling and light in digestion, and therefore as removing pitta, increasing kapha and bringing on much urine.

    Chapter 4 · p. 52 · v. 20Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Diet1

  • Food (anna) is named with water, ghee and milk as what the one-sided view calls absolutely wholesome; the author replies that if so it would have to be used even in new fever, diarrhoea, kushtha, fistula-in-ano, eye diseases and wounds.

    Appendix: Hitahita · p. 623Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Other1

  • Food (anna) and meat are said to be alike bodies of living beings, yet one (food) is to be eaten and the other (meat) not, just as of sister and wife, both called woman, one is to be approached and the other not.

    Appendix: Hitahita · p. 635Hindi commentaryTraditional description

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Topics of the text that discuss it

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After-drinks during mealsAphrodisiac rice, black gram and sesame cakesBhallataka stone kalpaDiet for the consumptiveKalpa of fruit-shaped stonesPlant glossary, letter section त (entries 1–41: तगर to त्वक्)Plant glossary, letter section ध (entries 1–7: धत्तूर to ध्यामक)Plant glossary, letter section प (entries 1–48: पटोल to प्लक्ष)Plant glossary, ल section, entries 1–14 (लकुच to लुंग)Plant glossary, स section, entries 1–48 (सद्धातकीकुसुम to स्नुही)Properties of shāli and other riceThree kinds of substances; the nourishing kind

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 59 times on 46 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

What is given to eat after the emesis and purgation in the chandramrita regimen?

At first only milk, fragrant and boiled then cooled; once strength appears, shali rice with ghee and milk once a day, along with massage, bath and anointing.

Detailed answer and sources
Why 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 sources
How does the translation answer the doubt that plant medicines are also meat because they are bodies of living beings?

Meat is the body of a living being, but a living body need not be meat, just as a neem is a tree but not every tree is a neem.

Detailed answer and sources

All references

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

Extraction notes

  • The translation writes अन्न (food) where the Sanskrit on PDF 680 has ओदन (cooked rice), which T29 maps to ingredient_shali.
  • The translation writes अन्न (food) where the Sanskrit at line 25102 has ओदन (cooked rice); mapped to ingredient_shali as in T30-01.

Quick facts

Content type
Food
Categories
Grain
Source pages with records
3
Pages naming it
46
Extraction tasks
T03, T30
Record id
ingredient_shali