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Thus, for example, if ifc is ordered to give the patient yavdgu made 

 with ginger and long pepper, the process adopted in preparing it 

 is as follows. Take of dry ginger and long pepper, one tola each, 

 boil in four seera of water till reduced to two and strain. Now 

 take nine, eleven or nineteen parts of this strained decoction and 

 one part of powdered rice for making yavdgu of the strength 

 ordered. 



m$n 9 Ldjd, ( Vern. Khai ), is paddy fried in a sand hath. The 

 husks open out and the rice swells into a light spongy body. It is 

 considered a light article of diet suited to invalids and dyspeptics. 



Wci^i, Bhrishta tandula, ( Vern, Muri) is rice fried in a sand 

 bath. This is aleo a light preparation of rice and is given to sick 

 persons as a substitute for boiled rice. Et is also much used by 

 the poorer classes for tifiia and early breakfast. 



Y^f, Prithulidt (Vern. Churd). To prepare this, paddy is 

 moistened and lightly fried. It is then flattened and husked. This 

 preparation of rice is given with curdled milk (dadhi) in dysentery. 

 It is well washed and softened in water or boiled before use. 



WTQ % Pdyasa is a preparation of rioe with nine parts of milk. 



cf^TW, Tanduldmbu is water in which unboiled rice has been 

 steeped. This sort of rice-water is sometimes prescribed as a 

 vehicle for some powders and confections. 



The produots of the acetous fermentation of rice and other 

 grains have been already described in the introduction. 



TRITICUM VULGARE, Linn. Three varieties of wheat are 



mentioned in the Bhavaprakasa namely Mahdgodhuma or large 

 grained, Madhuli or small grained 1 and NihsuH or beardless, that 

 is without awn. The first variety is said to come from the west 

 and the second to be indigenous to the middle region comprising 

 the modern provinces of Allahabad, Agra, Delhi, Oudh, etc. 

 Wheat is considered the most nutritive of the food-grains, but 

 less easily digested than rioe. 



HORDEUM HEXASTICHUM, Linn. Barley though less 

 esteemed than wheat is more employed in the dietary of the siok. 



It is chiefly used in the form of saktu or powder of the parched 



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