Goat Meat

Chhaga (Goat) meat is one of the most commonly recommended meats in Ayurveda. It is considered Satmya (wholesome) for most people. Goat meat is lighter than mutton/sheep meat. It is sweet, slightly unctuous, cooling and nourishing. It does not significantly aggravate any dosha and is particularly good in bleeding disorders and fever. It strengthens the body and is easily digestible compared to other red meats. Goat meat is recommended in general debility, convalescence and as a nutritive food. Verses: 12-14.

• Balya (strengthening)
• Brimhana (nourishing)
• Raktapittahara (alleviates bleeding)
• Jwarahara (antipyretic)

23 Aja ksheera-(Goat milk benefits):अ पा बप ु ान यायाम कटु त ताशनैः लघु आजं शोष वर वासर त प ता तसारिजत ् २४ Goat drinks less water and does a lot of walking.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Drava Vigyaniya Drinkables

Hence goat milk also carries these qualities.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Drava Vigyaniya Drinkables

52-53 ½ यो न वजावी या म गोचर वाद नि चते Goat and sheep are not included in any particular group because of their mixed heredity and living in all types o lands.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Annaswaroopa Food

of them the flesh of carnivorous and prasaha animals have salt as secondary taste, pungent the end of digestion, increases the muscles of body, ideally suited for persons suffering from long standing haemorrhoids, duodenal diseases and consumption 62-62 ½ Aja (goat’s meat) ना तशीत गु ि न धं मांसम ् आजं अदोषलम ् ॥६३॥ शर रधातुसामा यात ् अन भ यि द बं ृहणम ् । Goat meat is not very cold in potency, hard to digest, fatty, does not aggravate the doshas, being identical with the doshas of the human

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Annaswaroopa Food

The other woman (other than his wife), and the nun, the other animals like the goat, buffalo etc.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Anna Raksha Vidhi

20), goat milk gruel for blood-tinged diarrhea (v.

— Charaka Samhita, Sutra Sthana — Fundamental Principles, Chapter 2: Dehusked Seeds of Apamarga & Panchakarma (Apamarga Tanduliya Adhyaya / अपामार्गतण्डुलीय अध्याय)

For diminution of purisha (feces), kulmasha, masha, kuskund (mushrooms), ajamadhya (meat of abdomen and trunk of goat), yava, shaka (leafy vegetables), and dhanyamla (sour rice gruel) should be given.

— Charaka Samhita, Sharira Sthana — Human Body & Embryology, Chapter 6: Analysis of the Body (Sharira Vichaya Sharira / शरीर विचय शरीर)

Patient should drink goat-meat juice with long pepper, barley, horse gram, ginger, pomegranate, emblic myrobalan, and unctuous articles.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 8: Consumption and Wasting Disease Treatment (Rajayakshma Chikitsa / राजयक्ष्मचिकित्सितं)

He may also take the soup of eggs of sparrow or (preparations) of the blood of goat or wild animals (like deer, etc).

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 11: Chest Injury and Emaciation Treatment (Kshatakshina Chikitsa / क्षतक्षीणचिकित्सा)

Two prasthas of ghee should be cooked with the juice dhatri (two prasthas), juice of vidari (two prasthas), sugarcane juice (two prasthas), soup of the meat of goat (two prasthas), milk (two prasthas), and the paste (one karsha each) of jivaka, rsabhaka, vira, jivanti, nagara, shati, shalaparni, prushniparni, mashaparni, mudgaparni,meda, mahameda, kakoli, kshirakakoli, kantakari, bruhati, shveta punarnava, rakta punarnava,madhuka, atmagupta, shatavari, riddhi,parushaka, bharangi, mridvika, briha

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 11: Chest Injury and Emaciation Treatment (Kshatakshina Chikitsa / क्षतक्षीणचिकित्सा)

When consumed with water, goat's milk (Chhaga Dugdha), or buttermilk (Maranda), it conquers [the following diseases].

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 8: Avalehakalpana (Confection/Electuary Preparations)

When consumed with water, goat's milk (Chhaga Dugdha), or buttermilk (Maranda), it conquers [the following diseases].

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 8: Avalehakalpana (Confection/Electuary Preparations)

Now the method of purifying Hingula (cinnabar — mercuric sulphide, HgS): Triturate Hingula (Darada) with goat's milk (Meshi Kshira) and acidic liquids (Amla Varga) seven times with careful effort.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 12: Rasadishodhana-Maranakalpana (Mercury and Rasa Preparations)

When steamed in goat's milk (Aja Payasi) for one Yama (approx.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 12: Rasadishodhana-Maranakalpana (Mercury and Rasa Preparations)

In the absence of goat's milk, purify it with cow's milk (Gavya Kshira).

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 12: Rasadishodhana-Maranakalpana (Mercury and Rasa Preparations)

The cauterizing agents include: Pippali (Piper longum), Ajashakrit (goat dung), Shara (arrow-shaped rods), Shalaka (metal probes), Jambavaushthaira (iron instruments), Chaudra-gunda (honey-wax preparations), and Sneha (medicated oils/ghee) (4).

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 12: Agni-karma Vidhi Adhyaya - Cauterization by Fire

Blood-discharge (raktasrava) and ajaka (goat-like lesion) are associated with blood disorders.

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 1: Aupadravika Adhyaya (Chapter on Complications / Secondary Eye Diseases)

Resembling goat dung, painful, blood-tinged, with blood-mixed slimy tears, it splits open the cornea and grows — that should be diagnosed as ajaka.

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 5: Krishnagata Roga Vijnaniya Adhyaya (Chapter on Diseases of the Cornea/Iris)

Milk prepared with hibera (vetiver), vakra, manjishtha (madder), and udumbara (fig) bark — or goat's milk with water — is an excellent ashchyotana (eye drop) for pain.

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 9: Vatabhishyanda Pratishedha Adhyaya (Chapter on Treatment of Vata-type Conjunctivitis)

The best anjana (collyrium) for abhishyanda is prepared with goat's milk, gairika (red ochre), saindhava (rock salt), krishna (black pepper), and nagara (ginger) in increasing proportions.

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 9: Vatabhishyanda Pratishedha Adhyaya (Chapter on Treatment of Vata-type Conjunctivitis)