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Chap.XLVI.] taste.* A tbin meat soup is a pleasant tonic, and proves beneficial in cases of dyspnoea, cough, and consumption. It subdues the Pittam and Kapham, destroys the Vayu, and has an agreeable taste. It is wholesome to persons of weak memory and reduced semen, as well as to those suffering from cachexia peculiar to chronic fever, from general emaciation of the body, from ulcerative endocarditis (Urakshata), or from diseases affecting the voice or the albumen (ojas). It is known to bring about an adhesion and reduction of fractured and dislocated bones, and increases the quantity of semen and oja (albumen) in subjects found wanting in those two important principles of life. Meat-soup, prepared with the juice of the Dadima, etc., and seasoned with pungent condiments, increases the quantity of semen and tends to subdue the action of all the three deranged humours of the body.

The use of meat of which the essence has been previously extracted fails to contribute to the growth and strength of the organism, and is long retained in an