On what grounds does the translation say that meat is not a medicine?

Detailed answer

Meat lacks the power to purify upward, downward or both ways, and having no particular taste of its own it cannot pacify doshas as the tastes do. None of the ten times for taking medicine is fixed for it, and no measure is given for it as for liquids, fats, powders and pastes. It is not read in the rasayana chapter and is opposed to milk. The closing argument concludes that meat is not food, nor a well-known medicine, nor an excellent rasayana, and that honey, liquor and meat were mixed into the science later by people greedy of the tongue.