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546 the eye-sight. Confectionary fried in clarified butter has an agreeable taste and aroma, is light, spermatopoietic, and tonic, subdues the Vayu and Pittam, and tends to improve the complexion and invigorate the eyesight. Similarly, that which is fried in oil is heavy as regards digestion, pungent in its digestive reaction, and heat-making in potency. It destroys the vayu, generates the Pittam and tends to affect the sight and produces cutaneous affections. Confectionary made of fruit, meat, modifications of sugar-cane juice (treacle, sugar, etc.), sesamum and Masha pulse is tonic, heavy of digestion, tissue-building and palatable. Articles of food fried in broken vessels of baked clay, or cooked over a charcoal fire should he considered as light in respect of digestion and as possessed of the virtue of aggravating the bodily Vayu, while those that are prepared with lumps of curdled milk should be considered as heavy (ofdigestion) and as increasing the Kapham. Kulmashas ( half boiled Chanakas or gram) generate the vayu, produce loose stool, and are heavy of digestion, and tend to produce a condition of parchedness in the organism. Articles of food made of fried harley (Vatya) prove curative in cases of Udavarta, cough, catarrh and Meha. Dhana fried barley) and Ulumva (Mudga pulse etc., boiled over a fire) are light of digestion and absorb the excess quantity of fat and Kapham in the body. Barley powder (dissolved in