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Camel milk (verse karabha) is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Vatarakta is said to arise from burning, pungent, hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding, which burn the blood and provoke vata; the corrupted blood collects in the feet…

Because grass-eaters owe their vigour to plants, the text says, their dung, urine and milk, not those of flesh-eaters, are taken as medicines; it quotes that the urines of goat, sheep, cow,…

The section on milk begins. Milk is of eight kinds—of the she-camel, buffalo, cow, ewe, goat, doe, mare and woman; because these animals eat many trees, grasses and well-known herbs whose…

The milk of the goat, sheep, cow, buffalo, mare, she-elephant, she-donkey and she-camel.