Sura drink

Sura drink

Sura (alcohol) is referred to as an anesthetic by Sushruta (an ancient surgeon in India, 4 B.C.E.) before surgical operation and the other known medical authority (internist) of ancient India, Charaka apparently referred to making a woman with a miscarriage senseless to pain by administering alcoholic drinks like sura, sidhu, arishta, madhu, madira or asava. [ Shri C. DWARAKANATH (1965) Use of opium and cannabis in the traditional systems of medicine in India. UNODC Bulletin on Narcotics. Issue 1, No. 003. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/bulletin/bulletin_1965-01-01_1_page004.html ]

The method for preparation appears in the Atharvaveda [Marianne S. Oort (2002) Sura in the Paippalada Samhita of the Atharvaveda J. Am. Orient. Soc. Vol. 122, No. 2. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%28200204%2F06%29122%3A2%3C355%3ASITPSO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage] in the Kandas 5 and 8.

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