śīta: what the term means and how it is translated

Charaka SamhitaSutrasthana 1:Standard 1.59 and 1.61; Kaviratna prints 58 and 60 · checked against the source

Wind, which may be dry, cold, light, subtile, unstable, clear, keen, is cured by objects which have adverse attributes. [...] Heavy, cold, mild, watery, sweet, stable, and slimy, these attributes of phlegm are cured by objects having adverse attributes.

Śīta is a quality of both Vata and Kapha (and absent from Pitta). Sanskrit as retrieved: रूक्षः शीतो लघुः सूक्ष्मश्चलोऽथ विशदः खरः|...||५९|| and गुरुशीतमृदुस्निग्धमधुरस्थिरपिच्छिलाः| श्लेष्मणः प्रशमं यान्ति विपरीतगुणैर्गुणाः||६१|| (https://www.carakasamhitaonline.com/index.php/Deerghanjiviteeya_Adhyaya). The bracket marks the omitted Pitta verse (1.60).

Charaka SamhitaSutrasthana 22:Standard 22.13 (second half) to 22.14 (first half); Kaviratna prints 11 · checked against the source

Such things as are heavy, cooling, soft, exceedingly oily, gross, slimy, mild stable, and smooth, are generally said to be Vringhana.

Śīta ('cooling') as a bṛṁhaṇa quality. Sanskrit as retrieved: गुरु शीतं मृदु स्निग्धं बहलं स्थूलपिच्छिलम्||१३|| प्रायो मन्दं स्थिरं श्लक्ष्णं द्रव्यं बृंहणमुच्यते| (https://www.carakasamhitaonline.com/index.php/Langhanabrimhaniya_Adhyaya). 'Vringhana' is OCR of Vrimhana.

Sushruta SamhitaSutrasthana 46:Sanskrit 46.515 per the numbered text on easyayurveda.com; Bhishagratna prints no verse number (vol. 1 p. 567, 'Specific properties of matter') · checked against the source

Coldness — is pleasurable, exercises styptic virtues, alleviates epileptic fits, thirst and a burning sensation of the body, and arrests perspiration. Heat is the reverse in its action to coldness.

Sushruta's karma of śīta per the Sanskrit of Su Su 46.515: hlādana (pleasing), stambhana (styptic), and relieving mūrcchā (fainting), tṛṭ (thirst), sveda (sweating) and dāha (burning); uṣṇa is the reverse and especially pācana. Sanskrit as retrieved: ह्लादनः स्तम्भनः शीतो मूर्च्छातृट्स्वेददाहजित्| उष्णस्तद्विपरीतः स्यात्पाचनश्च विशेषतः||५१५|| (siva.sh 46/515; easyayurveda Su 46). The quoted English is Bhishagratna's rendering: his 'epileptic fits' stands where the Sanskrit has mūrcchā (fainting), and his 'suppuration in boils' is not in the verse, which says uṣṇa is pācana. The English is evidence of how Bhishagratna read the verse, not of a Sushruta claim about epilepsy.

Sushruta SamhitaSutrasthana 42:Sūtrasthāna 42.7, printed ॥ ७ ॥ in Suśrutasaṃhitā with Dalhaṇa's Nibandhasaṅgraha, ed. Jādavji Trikamji Ācārya, 2nd edn 1931, p. 166; Bhishagratna vol. 1 ch. XLII prints the same passage as an unnumbered paragraph beginning 'According to certain authorities'. · checked against the source

According to certain authorities, there are only two kinds of tastes, owing to the two-fold (hot and cold) nature of the temperament of the world. Of these the tastes such as sweet, bitter and astringent are cold in their properties, while the pungent, acid and saline ones exercise fiery or heat making virtues.

A view Sushruta reports (kecid āhuḥ, 'some say'), not his own statement: that rasas are two-fold by the agnīṣomīya nature of the world, with madhura, tikta and kaṣāya saumya and therefore śīta, and kaṭu, amla and lavaṇa āgneya and therefore uṣṇa. Sanskrit: केचिदाहुः- अग्नीषोमीयत्वाज्जगतो रसा द्विविधाः- सौम्या आग्नेयाश्च । मधुरतिक्तकषायाः सौम्याः; कट्वम्ललवणा आग्नेयाः । ... सौम्याः शीताः, आग्नेया उष्णाः ॥७॥ (siva.sh Su Su 42.7).