Witnessed by: Ayurveda
Goat urine (Capra hircus), of the Bovidae (Mammalia) family. The domestic goat — a small horned ruminant of the Bovidae, one of the eight urine-yielding beasts of the mutra-varga; native range: the domestic goat, kept throughout India and across Asia. Globally recognized as basta mūtra, ajā mūtra in Sanskrit, and goat's urine in English. The part used is the fresh urine. A clear to straw-yellow fluid, sharply pungent and bitter, with a strong ammoniacal smell.
In this cross-tradition database, we analyze how this substance operates across world medicine systems — tracking its traditional tastes, temperatures, tissue affinities, post-digestive effects, and planetary correspondences across Ayurveda, Unani, and Western herbalism.
GOAT URINE
IDENTITY
Name
- Common
- goat urine
- Scientific name
- Capra hircus Linnaeus
- Family
- Bovidae (Mammalia)
Form
- Part used
- the fresh urine
PROPERTIES
Nature
Taste
how the plant declares itself on the tongue
- Ayurveda
- pungent (katu) · bitter (tikta)
Temperature
- Ayurveda
- heating (ushna)
PRACTICE
Virtue
Actions
- Ayurveda
- krimighna (destroys worms), kandughna (stops itching), shophahara (disperses swelling), and tikshna — penetrating enough to serve as the mardana drava that drives a pill's ingredients together
Cautions
- Contraindications
- pitta-predominant and hot states; ulceration of the gut; not for the raw skin
This is the card. Sign in for the full four-tradition entry — the aligned TCM · Ayurveda · Western · Unani reading, actions, dosing and cautions.