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458 has a sweet and astringent taste, is pleasing and aromatic and increases the agility of the limbs and organs.

The wine known as the Sura (made of rice-paste and other fermenting drugs) proves curative in cough, piles, chronic indigestion and diarrhoea, and retention of mine. It subdues the deranged Vayu and is tonic and appetising. It purifies the breast milk of a woman and proves beneficial in all types of diseases of the blood, as well as in wasting diseases. White Sura is used with benefit in all cases of cough, piles, diarrhoea, dyspnoea and catarrh. It builds up new sugar and tissues, and increases the quantity of blood. It is*gii1[}ii! P'guic in its effect, and increases the quantity of Kapham in the body. The wine known as the Prasanna (the cream or the limpid surface of Sura) may be taken with advantage in vomiting, non-relish for food, aching or colic pain at the sides or about the cardiac region, constipation, suppression of stool and urine or flatus, as well as in all cases of obstinate constipation and derangement of the bodily Vayu. The wine prepared from barley (Yavasura) generates Pittam and tends to enrage the bodily Vayu. It is dry and slightly generates Kapham. The wine prepared from Madhulika (a kind of small barley) is heavy and generates Kapham in the body. It is long retained in the stomach, and arrests the