Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Are the prajāpatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?
Prabhupāda: Human.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Are there different prajāpatis for the different species?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Brahmā is the origin. (break) ...a class of men, they are called vaidyas (doctors). They know all these herb, which herb is medicine for certain disease, and they sell in the market. Every one of these is meant for some medicine. They know it.
Hari-śauri: Is that kind of information given in the Vedas?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Āyur Veda. There is a book. Dravya-guṇa. All kinds of herbs, metals, even different kinds of flesh of different animals, they are mentioned. Hundreds of different kinds of animals flesh, how it can be utilized for certain disease, the descriptions are there.
Hari-śauri: They use flesh for curing things?
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Hari-śauri: They use flesh for curing diseases?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Animal-killing is only allowed when it is absolutely necessary, for medicine. Suppose by killing one animal hundreds of lives are saved, so that is allowed. One preparation is chagalaka-ghṛta. It is prepared... A live goat is put into the ghee with other ingredients, and that is a good medicine for tisis(?).
Hari-śauri: For?
Prabhupāda: Tisis(?) Tuberculosis.
Hari-śauri: Oh.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They actually cook the live goat in the ghee? Maybe we should withhold this science from the Western world for a while.
Prabhupāda: No, you are expert already. (laughter)
Hari-śauri: There were some mantras they chant... Just like the sacrifices where they would give new life to the sacrificed animal. They would do the same thing?
Prabhupāda: To test, to test the Vedic mantra.
Hari-śauri: So that goat would get a new life, or...?
Prabhupāda: Who? No, this is used for medicine.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Many, many of the Western medicines are taken from different glands from animals.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (break)
Devotee (1): They had an Āyur-vedic doctor in New Vrindaban, and he was prescribing mung and rice diet for the...
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: He's the one who told Rameśvara prabhu not to take any sugar when he had hepatitis. He told them that for hepatitis one should take—what was it?
Devotees: Mung and rice.
Devotee (1): Mung and rice, and no sugar.
Prabhupāda: So it was taken?
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Rameśvara was taking, but then he heard that Your Divine Grace said he should take papaya and sugar.
Prabhupāda: Sugar candy.
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: So he immediately stopped the other prescription and followed your prescription.
Prabhupāda: It was beneficial?
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Rameśvara? Yes, he recovered.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: I also got over hepatitis following Prabhupāda's prescription.
Śyāmakuṇḍa: Prabhupāda, yesterday in this book it said that when a cow gets so old, the most economic solution to do with it is not to waste the meat, that it should be slaughtered.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Śyāmakunda: The karmīs, they say that its... When you have this cow that won't give any more milk and its teeth are rotten where its going to die—it can't hardly eat properly—that it's a waste to not use that meat to feed people. It should be slaughtered.
Prabhupāda: I have written?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No. He's saying in a karmī book.
Śyāmakunda: They say that the economically proper thing to do is to kill the cow after it, er, and not waste the meat.
Prabhupāda: And who will take? When he'll die, who will take his meat? That is also economical. Why don't you give it to the animal-eaters instead of wasting it? Why they bury in the ground? Why? Let it be thrown eating by the jackals or anybody else.