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tes Cough, Big pumpkin is sweet, and appetiser, it cleanses bowels cures heat troubles, and all sorts of ailments. Small pumpkin is cool, removes all Raktapitta troubles and if ripe is a great appetiser."
(Bhavaprakash Nighantu-Vegetable group) Merits and demerits of meat:
"Snigdham ushnam, Guru, Raktapitta Janakam, Vata haram cha Sarva mansani, Vata vidhvamsi Vrushyam.
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Meat causes all blood troubles to sweell. Now if we refleet on the heat condition of Lord Mahavira, this is undoubtedly proved that the flesh of a dove (kapota) cannot cure this disease. In this disease kapota herb, paris, and kolafal etc, are extremely useful, and it is automatically proved that Revati had the pumpkin preparation "Duve kavoya sarira," and not any bird.
The ancient commentators of Bhagavati "KuSutra have also interpreted this word as shmanda Fala and not otherwise. They stated that the resemblance in colour of a dove and the pumpkin is the cause of signitying Kushmanda fruit as kapota. Ravati Jain lady had prepared from them and had kept ready.
