Properties of milk

Milk in general is described as sweet, cold, unctuous and very aphrodisiac, destroying disorders of blood and vata, thirst, pitta, fainting, diarrhoea, breathlessness, cough, wasting, insanity, chronic fever, giddiness, intoxication and udāvarta; it is wholesome and very strengthening, good in gynaecological disorders, removes fatigue, prevents miscarriage, calms all heart diseases and bladder diseases, and breaks up gulma and granthi.