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Ewe's milk (verse avi; commentary मेंढी) is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.

The introduction says meat, like wine and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing living beings and its renunciation is needed to…

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.

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