This text explains Sushruta Samhita Sutrasthana Chapter 20 “Hitahitiya Adhyaya” Appropriate and unsuitable (for well being).
Hitahitiya Adhyaya – Appropriate and unsuitable (for well being)
We are going to expound the chapter by identify Hitahitya- appropriate and unsuitable for well being; as revealed by the venerable Dhanvantari.
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Dravya Bhedas
Varieties of gear
“Substances that are appropriate to vata (medicines, meals, actions, behaviors and many others.) are unsuitable to pitta”. Based mostly on this precept some authorities (masters) opine that no substances (on the earth) are both completely or all the time, utterly or absolutely ‘appropriate or unsuitable’ always and in all situations and for all people.
This opinion appears to be incorrect. As a result of in accordance with the Dhanvantari college, all substances by their nature and because of their mixture (or by likelihood) are all the time both completely appropriate, completely unsuitable or completely each appropriate and unsuitable (as per scenario, want or utilization).
Ekanta–Hita– Completely appropriate means these which don’t hurt the physique despite them being all the time used.
Ekanta Ahita – completely unsuitable means these which hurt the physique rapidly and so can’t be used even for brief intervals.
Hitahita – suitable-unsuitable, are these which don’t hurt in sure situations (correct amount, time, season, admixture, processing and many others) however trigger hurt in sure different situations (improper amount, time, season, admixture, processing and many others).
Thus, substances are of three sorts.
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Ekanta Hita Dravya
Substances that are all the time appropriate
Amongst these, substances like water, ghee, milk, porridge (boiled rice) and comparable others are all the time appropriate due to being accustomed by lineage of generations (genetically accustomed over a interval of generations) or accustomed to the person proper from the start.
Equally, the substances like hearth, caustic alkali and poison used for dahana (burning), pachana (cooking) and marana (inflicting demise) respectively are (utterly, absolutely) and all the time unsuitable.
As a result of mixture some appropriate substances additionally act just like poison. Subsequently, they’re additionally all the time unsuitable.
The substances that are each appropriate and unsuitable are these that are talked about as appropriate to Vata and unsuitable to Pitta and many others.
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Pathyatama Ahara
Meals supplies that are finest suited to well being
So, additional on, is enumerated such substances that are helpful as meals for all residing beings, similar to –
- Raktasali, Sastika, Kanguka, Mukhundaka, Panduka, Pitaka, Pramodaka, Kalaka, Asanapuspaka, Kardamaka, Sakunahrta, Sugandhaka, Kalama (all are totally different types of Paddy / rice),
- Nivara, Kodrava, Uddalaka, Syamaka (all are millets),
- Godhuma (wheat), Yava (barley), Venu Yava (seed of bamboo tree);
- Meat of Ena, Harina, Kuranga, Mrgamatrka, Svasamstra, Karala (all are totally different sorts of deer), Krakara, Kapota, Lava, Tittiri, Kapinjala, Vartira, Vartika (all are types of birds);
- Mudga, Vanamudga, Makustaka, Kalaya, Masura, Mangalya, Canaka, Harenu, Adhaki, Satina (these are legumes / pulses)
- Cilli, Vastuka, Sunisannaka, Jivanti, Tanduliyaka, Mandukaparni (these are leafy greens),
- Cows’ ghee
- Saindhava
- Dadima and
- Amalaka
The substances of this group are typically finest suited to all residing beings.
Equally, the beneath talked about are additionally finest suited all the time –
- celibacy,
- sleeping at a spot devoid of breeze,
- bathing in sizzling water,
- sleeping at nights,
- bodily workout routines and many others.,
These which are all the time appropriate and all the time unsuitable had been enumerated earlier, appropriate –unsuitable are these that are described (within the texts) as appropriate to vata however unsuitable to pitta and so forth.
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Samyoga viruddha
Incompatible by mixture
Some substances together with some others change into just like poison (in impact) similar to; Valliphala (fruits of creepers) Kavaka, Karira, Amla Phala (bitter fruits), Lavana (salts) Kulattha, Pinyaka (paste of tila) Dadhi (curds), Taila (oil), Virohi (germinated grains), Pista (flour), suska saka (dried leafy greens), meat of goat and sheep, wine, Jambuphala, cilicima matsya (sort of fish), meat of Godha (Iguana), Varaha (boar) and many others. ought to by no means be consumed together with milk.
Elements to contemplate earlier than administering these substances
After rigorously contemplating his ailments, habituation, accustoms, habitat (area), time (seasons), physique (bodily structure), digestive hearth and different elements the clever doctor could administer these substances to the affected person.
Because the phases of ailments and many others (elements talked about above) are massive in quantity, physicians don’t wish to discriminate towards the substances (as all the time appropriate or all the time unsuitable or appropriate unsuitable) however want to think about both of them for defense of well being.
From the attitude of (administering these to) the sufferers, if the doctor wants to pick anyone, he’ll clearly decide milk which is all the time appropriate and never the poison as a result of it’s all the time unsuitable.
Pricey son Sushruta, on this method one ought to perceive and think about the substances similar to water and many others, having regular tastes as all the time appropriate (to well being) and never in any other case (when irregular in style and many others).
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Samyoga Viruddha
Incompatible by mixtures
Additional on, we are going to describe another substances, that are unsuitable (for well being), of their mixtures, similar to the next: –
Meat and many others. (blood, fats marrow) of animals’ lives in marshy lands and water shouldn’t be consumed mixed with freshly harvested grains, sprouted grains, muscle fats, honey, milk, jaggery and black gram.
Rohinisaka or jatukasaka, shouldn’t be consumed together with milk or honey.
Meat of balaka shouldn’t be consumed with varuni (a sort of alcohol / wine) and kulmasa (half boiled grains).
Kakamaci shouldn’t be consumed together with Pippali and Marica.
Nadibhangasaka, shouldn’t be taken with meat of cock and curds combined collectively suddenly.
Scorching water as an after-drink shouldn’t be taken after consuming honey.
Raw meat shouldn’t be taken together with pitta (bile).Sura (beer), Krsara (rice boiled together with inexperienced gram or black gram) and Payasa (milk pudding) shouldn’t be combined collectively suddenly.
Tila Saskuli (paste of sesame fried in oil / ghee) shouldn’t be consumed together with Sauviraka (a sort of gruel).
The merchandise of sugarcane (jaggery, sugar and many others.) shouldn’t be taken together with fish.
Kakamaci shouldn’t be consumed together with jaggery.
Mulaka shouldn’t be taken with honey.
Boar meat shouldn’t be eaten together with jaggery or honey.
The beneath talked about shouldn’t be taken together with milk –
- Mulaka
- fruit of Amra and Jambu
- meat of porcupine, boar and Iguna
All types of fish shouldn’t be taken together with milk, particularly the cilicima fish.
Fruits of Kadali and Tala shouldn’t be taken together with milk, curds or buttermilk.
Fruit of lakuca shouldn’t be taken along with milk, curds or soup of Masa. Likewise, lakuca fruit shouldn’t be consumed earlier than or after taking milk.
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Karma viruddha
Incompatible by processing
Now, we are going to clarify incompatible meals primarily based on their processing.
Meat of Kapota fried in mustard oil shouldn’t be partaken.
Meat of Kapinjala, Mayura, Lava, Tittiri and Godha cooked with gasoline (wooden) of Eranda or Darvi or cooked in castor oil shouldn’t be consumed.
Ghee stored in a bronze vessel for ten days or extra shouldn’t be consumed.
Honey ought to by no means be consumed with sizzling substances or in sizzling seasons.
Kakamaci cooked in a vessel by which fish or ginger was cooked ought to by no means be consumed.
Upodika saka ready with paste of tila shouldn’t be consumed.
Meat of balaka chicken fried in fats of boar and added with Narikela shouldn’t be taken. Meat of bhasa chicken pierced by iron rods and roasted in flame shouldn’t be consumed.
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Mana viruddha
Incompatible by proportion
Subsequent, we are going to enumerate incompatible meals (mixtures) by their amount / proportion. Honey and water, honey and ghee combined in equal portions shouldn’t be consumed. Two snehas (fats), honey and fat or fat and water, particularly rain water combined in equal portions shouldn’t be consumed after consuming.
Rasa Viruddha
Incompatible by tastes and many others
Now we are going to describe incompatibility in respect of mixture by style, efficiency and style after digestion as follows. Mixtures of two tastes viz, candy and bitter or candy and salt are incompatible in respect of style and efficiency. Candy and pungent tastes combined collectively are incompatible in all respects (style, efficiency, and style after digestion). Combination of candy and bitter tastes is incompatible by way of style and style after digestion. Candy and astringent tastes are incompatible in respect of style and so is the mixture of bitter and salt tastes. Bitter and pungent tastes are incompatible by way of style and style after digestion. Combination of bitter and bitter tastes and combination of bitter and astringent tastes are incompatible by all respects. Combination of salt and pungent is incompatible by way of style and style after digestion. Mixture of salt and bitter and combination of salt and astringent tastes are incompatible in all respects. Pungent and bitter style mixture is incompatible with respect to style and style after digestion, so is the combination of pungent and astringent tastes. Combination of bitter and astringent tastes is incompatible by way of style.
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Mixtures which have to be prevented
Among the many mixtures, these that are profound and extra profound in respect of their numerous elements (style, efficiency, and style after digestion) similar to an excessive amount of of unctuousness, or an excessive amount of of dryness, an excessive amount of of warmth or an excessive amount of of chilly and many others. must be prevented.
These substances that are described as incompatible by efficiency, must be understood as completely (all the time) unsuitable (to well being), whereas all of the remaining (substances) must be understood as appropriate and / or unsuitable.
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Penalties of consuming substances having incompatible tastes and efficiency
The one who with out self-restraint consumes substances that are incompatible in respect of tastes and efficiency turns into a sufferer of ailments, debility of sense organs (improper sense perceptions) and even demise.
These substances which when consumed will trigger enhance (aggravation) of the doshas however is not going to expel them out of the physique. These doshas which aren’t faraway from the physique would contaminate the rasa and different tissue within the physique and would result in abnormalities in them and provides rise to many ailments.
Illnesses arising from consuming incompatible meals will get cured by purgation, emesis or assuaging therapies, or by means of appropriate substances (conducive to well being) proper from the second of graduation (of the ailments) itself.
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Individuals who usually are not harmed by incompatible meals
Within the beneath talked about situations and individuals even the incompatible meals (when consumed) will change into ineffective (is not going to hurt the physique) –
- attributable to satmya or being accustomed / habituated to incompatible meals for a very long time
- when consumed in small portions
- when consumed by the one who has eager digestive hearth (digestive capability),
- in a teenager
- in those that have change into robust by the impact of utilizing unctuous (fatty) meals and bodily workout routines
Vataguna
Properties of breeze
Breeze from the east is – candy (nice), unctuous and salt, heavy, produces burning sensation, and aggravates Rakta (blood) and Pitta all the time. It exacerbates the ailments of these affected by wounds, poison, ulcers and of individuals of Kapha (structure). It’s good for individuals of Vata structure, the fatigued and people in whom the kapha has dried up. But when these individuals are having ulcers / wounds, this breeze will enhance the moistness in these wounds.
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Breeze from the south – is good, doesn’t trigger heartburn, may have astringent sub-taste, is gentle; it’s best for well being, good for eyes (imaginative and prescient), enhances energy, alleviates rakta (blood) and Pitta, and doesn’t irritate Vata.
Breeze from the west – is obvious / calm, dry, tough, robust, decreases unctuousness and energy, is penetrating, dries up Kapha and medas (fats), reduces Prana (energy) and causes emaciation.
Breeze from the north – is unctuous, delicate, candy, astringent in secondary style, chilly, doesn’t irritate the Doshas, therefore it causes moistness and enhances energy in wholesome individuals, it’s helpful particularly for these struggling from emaciation, consumption and poison.
Thus ends the Twentieth chapter by identify Hitahitiya- In Sutra Sthana of Susruta Samhita.