Beef is yummy.
even Ayurvedic texts have recommendations.
Ayurveda on Meat and its types
Ayurveda says that meat is the most nutritious and strengthening food available in the world. It builds the waste muscular areas very fast. Usually meat is sweet in taste, hot in potency, hard for digestion and produces sleep. Ayurveda generally recommends meat soup to increase the digestive fire. Ayurveda advises to take cooked meat only.
Ashtanga Hrudaya Samhita explains about eight types of meats. They are as follows:
- Meat of deer
- Meat of peacock
- Meat of dove
- Meat of frog, snake etc.
- Meat of cow, goat, camel etc.
- Meat of elephant, lion etc.
- Meat of water birds like swan etc.
- Meat of fish, prawn etc.
Charka classifies the meat and its types as follows:
- Household animals
- Animals moving on the earth like snake etc.
- Animals living on wetlands like boar etc.
- Animals living in the water
- Animals moving in the water
- Forest animals like lion etc.
- Birds of small nature
- Birds of poultry like peacock and hen
- Big birds like eagle etc.
There is more description on each one.
Goat and sheep meat: Goat meat is neither cold nor hot and is unctuous. It pacifies all the three doshas of the body. Ayurveda recommends goat meat as a general diet for everyone.
Beef: Humans are consuming beef since Vedic times. It is sweet in taste and very hot in potency.Excessive use of this meat causes diarrhoea and weakens the digestive fire.
Pork: It is sweet in taste, cool in action and potency. It is very heavy for digestion.
Buffalo: Buffalos meat is unctuous, hot in potency, sweet in taste, aphrodisiac, heavy and refreshing. Ayurveda recommends soup of buffalo meat for insomnia.
Chicken: It is sweet in taste and warm in potency. It is good and nutritive for the human body.Ayurveda recommends chicken soup for fever and convalescence after fever.
Fish: In general, fish is sweet in taste and warm in action. It is light for digestion. It is strengthening, nourishing, unctuous and aphrodisiac in nature.
Tortoise: Ayurveda recommends this meat for bleeding piles and all bleeding diseases of female reproductive system. It promotes complexion, strength, intelligence, memory and improves eyesight.
Egg: It is sweet in taste and hot in potency. It reduces the vitiated Vata and increases Kapha.
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the three doshas are kabha,pita and vatha.
More references can be seen in ayurvedic text of
vasthi kalpa.
Even today lots of rasayanas have meat content.
Its not a Taboo.. Its a Taboo for the ignorants.