Green gram soup is said to suit, and benefit, people whose impurities and doshas have been removed by emesis and similar procedures, whose bodies are wasted by wounds, who are very thirsty, heated by the sun or burnt by fire, afflicted by diarrhoea, or fatigued. A footnote defines yūṣa as pulses such as mung or peas cooked in eighteen times their water.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- मुद्गयूष के योग्य व्यक्ति
- English
- Green gram soup for the purified, wounded, thirsty, heated, burnt, those with diarrhoea and the fatigued
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Green gram (mudga)मूंग (मुद्ग) | मुeयूष | Not stated |
| Water (jala)जल (पानी) | अठारह गुण जल | अठारह गुण जल · eighteen times as much water as pulses |
Preparation as described
Pulses such as green gram or peas are cooked in eighteen times their quantity of water.
द्विदल (मूंग मटर आदि) धान्यों अठारह गुण जल डालकर सिद्द किया गया दाल को यूष कहते हैं।
How it is used
Indicated for, as the text says
- Wounds and ulcers (vrana)(व्रण के कारण जिन का शरीर ़ीण हो गया हो)
- Morbid thirst (trishna)(अधिकतर तृषार्ता)
- Burns (dagdha)(अग्नि के द्वारा दग्ध)
- Diarrhoea (atisara)(अतिसार रोग से पीडित)
- Fatigue (klama)(थक गए हों)
Quantities are reported exactly as the source states them. They are historical measures, not dosage advice.
जिन का मल व दोष, वमन आदि कमोँ के द्वारा शरीर से निकाल दिया हो, व्रण के कारण जिन का शरीर ़ीण हो गया हो, जो अत्यन्त प्यासा हो, धूप से जिनका शरीर तप्त होSource wording as converted, Chapter 5 · p. 66 · v. 20.All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Those heated by the sun (घर्मपतप्ता:) are also named. The yūṣa definition is footnote 2 on PDF 138.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Remedy
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 5
- Extraction tasks
- T03
- Record id
- remedy_mudga_p138_2