When buttermilk is to be used as a definitive medical treatment for any selected disease the following regimen has been prescribed. Before commencing the taking of buttermilk, the patient should be given a meal of kalami or shali rice (good quality of rice of those days), green gram (a very easily digestible article much recommended elsewhere also for its great ease of digestion), or horse gram or a meat soup that can be digested quickly. When the stomach is cleaned, buttermilk is to be given so as to counteract the gases.
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