[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt) › 42 # Ashtangasamgraha 42 English (machine translation) 42 - **Language:** English ### [42.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.1) Now we shall explain the chapter named "Prevention and Treatment of Snake Venom"; thus spoke the great sages led by Ātreya. ### [42.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.2) Having stayed at the bite of the bitten living being for a hundred measures of time, the poison advances into the body, corrupting the bodily tissues such as the blood. ### [42.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.3) In this interval, one should quickly perform treatment of the bite, such as excision, so that the creeper of poison does not take root in the body. ### [42.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.4) As soon as bitten, he should promptly bite that very wind-eater \[snake\], or, in a flurry, bite a clod of earth or the ground with his teeth, or tear it. ### [42.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.5) One should smear the bite with saliva or earwax. Four finger-breadths above the bite, one should tie a tourniquet with linen or the like in a braid, and the knower of mantras \[should tie it\] with proven mantras. ### [42.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.6) A binding according to the site, neither excessively tight nor loose, is beneficial; for when bound too tightly, it causes putrefaction of the bite, swelling, and the like, while when loose, it is incapable of checking the poison from traveling to another location. ### [42.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.7) Like water by a dam, the poison is stopped by the binding; and the vessels, compressed by the binding, do not carry its poison. ### [42.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.8) One should press and excise the bite, provided it is not located on a vital point or a joint. The surge of poison does not arise, just as a sprout does not \[grow\] when the seed is destroyed. If it is located on a vital point, one would meet death; if situated in a joint, deformity of limbs. ### [42.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.9) Except for the bite of hooded or viperine snakes (maṇḍalin) because of their pitta-provoking nature, one should quickly cauterize the other \[bites\] with heated gold, iron, or the like, or with a firebrand; for what indeed does fire not reduce to ashes in an instant? ### [42.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.10) Or one, filling the mouth with clay, ash, antitoxic medicine, and cow dung, should suck \[it\], having scarified \[the area\] within the tourniquet, especially where it is fleshy. ### [42.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.11) One should repeatedly smear the limb together with the bite with antitoxic formulations, and sprinkle it with water accompanied by sandalwood and uśīra. ### [42.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.12) When the poison has spread, one should puncture a vein; that is the supreme treatment. ### [42.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.13) For when the blood is extracted, the entire poison is extracted; indeed, when corrupted, it pervades the limb, and death certainly occurs from that. ### [42.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.14) One should induce unstarted blood with the means prescribed for venesection, and check excessive flow using those very means, in order to preserve life. ### [42.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.15) Foul-smelling, venomous blood crackles in the fire; and one should observe the purified blood according to the doṣas as described previously. ### [42.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.16) When the veins are not visible, \[cupping\] horns and leeches should be employed. ### [42.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.17) And the remaining shed blood, liquefied by the heat of the poison, one should check repeatedly with extremely cooling pastes and sprinklings. ### [42.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.18) For when \[blood\] does not coagulate owing to the surge of poison, fainting, delirium, burning sensation, and palpitations arise; one should conquer them with cold \[measures\] and fan until goosebumps appear. ### [42.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.19) Because of its sharpness, the poison pulls at the heart; for its protection, one should drink ghee, ghee with honey, or an antitoxic medicine inundated with ghee, ### [42.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.20) Bone marrow, juice of cow dung, ash water, black-soil water, or the five bovine products (pañcagavya) combined, curd, or red-ochre water; ### [42.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.21) Or one should eat the leaves of kovidāra, arka, śirīṣa, and kaṭabhī. Children, the elderly, and women should drink the blood of a goat, sheep, or boar, ### [42.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.22) And a pregnant woman should drink cold and sweet remedies with milk; thus fainting and the like would not occur, and the poison would not quickly reach the wind. ### [42.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.23) Because of this guarding of the heart, śleṣman accumulates in the heart; then, when heaviness, nausea, and salivation have appeared, one should induce vomiting ### [42.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.24) With liquids devoid of fermented gruel, horse gram, oil, liquor, and the like, and with poison-destroying emetics; thus it does not pervade his body. ### [42.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.25) Having examined very subtly and thoroughly according to the specific serpent, doṣa, constitution, location, and surge \[of poison\], one should administer the appropriate treatment. ### [42.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.26) One should grind roots of sinduvāra with its own juice; this antitoxic medicine combined with honey is a drink for the poison of hooded snakes (darvīkara). ### [42.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.27) The roots of sinduvāra and white girikarṇikā are a drink when bitten by hooded snakes (darvīkara); honey with pākala is a nasal medication. ### [42.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.28) When blood has been removed from one bitten by a black cobra (kṛṣṇasarpa), one should plaster the bite with cāraṭī and nākulī, or with a sharp root poison; ### [42.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.29) And a drink \[is\] ghee combined with honey, mañjiṣṭhā, and soot. ### [42.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.30) Taṇḍulīyaka, kāśmarya, kiṇihī, and girikarṇikā, mātuluṅgī, white sugar, and śelu: \[this\] antitoxic medicine is beneficial for a drink, nasal medication, and collyrium in the dreadful poison of hooded snakes and of striped snakes (rājīmant) as well. ### [42.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.31) Equal parts of sugandhā, mṛdvīkā, the one named śvetā, and gajakarṇikā, and a half-part each of surasā leaf, kapittha, bilva, and pomegranate, with honey, is an antitoxic medicine especially beneficial in the poison of viperine snakes (maṇḍalin). ### [42.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.32) The bark of the five trees (pañcavalkala), the three myrobalans (varā), yaṣṭī, nāgapuṣpa, and elavāluka, jīvaka and ṛṣabhaka, śīta, sugar, padmaka, and utpala, ### [42.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.33) Combined with honey, named Himavān, destroys the poison of viperine snakes (maṇḍalin); as a plaster, it removes swelling, erysipelas, blisters, fever, and burning sensation. ### [42.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.34) Kāśmarya, aerial roots of vaṭa, jīvaka and ṛṣabhaka, sugar, mañjiṣṭhā, and madhuka: one bitten by a viperine snake (maṇḍalin) should drink this. ### [42.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.35) Bamboo bark, seed of bījaka, kaṭukā, seed of pāṭalī, dried ginger, seed of śirīṣa, ativiṣā, root of gāvedhuka, and vacā: this eight-part formulation ground with cow urine destroys the poison originating from a gonasā viper. ### [42.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.36) Kaṭukā, ativiṣā, kuṣṭha, soot, and hareṇukā, with honey, the three pungents (vyoṣa), and tagara, destroy the poison of striped snakes (rājīmant). ### [42.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.37) One should bury the bite of a kāṇḍacitrā in the earth for two yāmas; having extracted it and scarified it, one should smear it with ghee, paddy, and earth. ### [42.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.38) And one should drink aged ghee dusted with powder of the three myrobalans (varā); when digested, having purged, he should eat barley grain prepared with pulse soup. ### [42.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.39) Karavīra, flower and root of arka, lāṅgalikā, and kaṇā combined with pāṭhā and black pepper, one should make into a paste with sour gruel; this is an all-purpose antitoxic medicine for those bitten by mixed/cross snakes (vyantara). ### [42.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.40) White pepper macerated for seven days in the fresh juice of śirīṣa flowers is beneficial as a drink, nasal medication, and collyrium for those bitten by snakes. ### [42.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.41) Two palas of vakra and kuṣṭha, \[and\] four palas of ghee and honey: this drink brings relief even to those bitten by Takṣaka. ### [42.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.42) Soot, the two kinds of turmeric, and taṇḍulīyaka along with its root: even one bitten by Vāsuki should drink \[this\] inundated with honey and ghee. ### [42.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.43) Dried and powdered blood and flesh of a monitor lizard is beneficial; when poison has entered the chyle (rasa), it is taken as a drink combined with kapittha juice. ### [42.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.44) One should drink tips of root-bark of śelu, badara, udumbara, and kaṭabhī when \[poison\] has entered the blood; and when it has entered the flesh, ### [42.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.45) Roots of khadira, ariṣṭa, and kuṭaja with honey in water; in all cases, the two balās, madhuka, madana, and nata \[are useful\]. ### [42.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.46) When the poison has entered the head, one should employ in the procedure of nasal medication the root of bandhujīva, bhārṅgī, and black surasā. ### [42.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.47) Or else, pippalī, hiṅgu, vṛścikālī, realgar, śirīṣa seeds, apāmārga, and salt bring back consciousness, or a paste or powder from kṛṣṇā, kṣavaka, ativiṣā, and ūṣaṇa. ### [42.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.48) Pippalī, black pepper, alkali, vacā, rock salt, and śigru, ground with the bile of a rohita fish, destroy \[poison\] residing in the eyes when used as a collyrium. ### [42.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.49) Sandalwood, licorice, māṃsī, pippalī, black pepper, and utpala, with rock salt, ground into a paste with cow's bile, makes an excellent collyrium. ### [42.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.50) Karanja fruit, the three pungents, bilva root, the two turmerics, and the flower of surasā ground with goat's urine into a collyrium, taught by Bhoja and Vaitaraṇa, awakens one sleeping from poison. ### [42.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.51) Vāri, guñjā fruit, and uśīra ground with water is the Gāruḍa collyrium for eyes corrupted by poison, equal to Garuḍa. ### [42.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.52) Cuttlefish bone, black pepper, kaṇā, and Sauvīra antimony, with rock salt, as a powdered collyrium, is for those whose vision is damaged by poison. ### [42.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.53) Pulp of wood-apple with sugar and honey should be licked when poison is in the throat; when it has entered the stomach, \[one should lick\] one pala of powder of nata with those two. ### [42.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.54) When poison has reached the large intestine, having ground equal parts of mañjiṣṭhā, the two turmerics, and pippalī, one should administer it to drink with cow's bile. ### [42.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.55) Pippalī, dry ginger, and alkali, blended with butter, should be applied as an inunction when śleṣman is aggravated in the throat. ### [42.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.56) One should quickly overcome poison situated in the head by means of transference. Having made a crow's-foot incision on the head of one bitten below, ### [42.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.57) one should apply meat and blood measuring a bilva fruit, of a crow, cock, peacock, goat, cow, buffalo, or fowl; \[or\] on the feet of one bitten above. The poison transfers thither; otherwise it would quickly kill him. ### [42.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.58) At the conclusion of sharp nasal errhines and collyriums, he should drink a generous dose of ghee; for poison stirred up by sharp remedies destroys the eyes of one who is dry. ### [42.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.59) Then, one should induce vomiting in him to subdue the remnants of poison, especially in a person of kapha constitution bitten by kapha creatures, above the navel. ### [42.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.60) Dhāmārgava, śakrayava seeds, mustard seeds, madana, honey, and rock salt serve as a warm emetic when poison has taken residence in the seat of śleṣman. ### [42.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.61) Surasā, sarpavetālī, īśvarī, white mustard, and leaves of patola and nimba should be drunk with honey and rock salt. ### [42.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.62) Śukāhvā, jālīnī, dantī, madana, ikṣvāku, kuṭaja, kālā, lāṅgalikā, and tiktā \[serve as\] an emetic with rice-water. ### [42.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.63) In a person of pitta constitution bitten by pitta creatures, especially below the navel, when poison has entered the seat of pitta, one should administer a purgative. ### [42.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.64) Dantī with nīlī fruit with milk or whey; or finely powdered kumbha with a decoction of the three fruits; or powder of trivṛt, śyāmā, surasā, and nīlinī with milk. ### [42.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.65) Piṇḍītaka fruit, the three pungents, trivṛt, viḍaṅga, and harītakī, combined with salt and saturated with urine, is a purgative when kapha predominates. ### [42.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.66) Nīlinī fruit soaked in ghee, with salt, is \[the purgative\] when vāta is involved. ### [42.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.67) The afflicted by poison should be purged while lying on a bed with an aperture; for if he repeatedly stands up, the poison vitiates vāta. Having vomited or purged, he should drink gruel that destroys poison. ### [42.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.68) When poison has reached the seat of vāta, the drinking of ghee is desired, as well as whatever was stated in the first and last methods of poison counteraction. ### [42.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.69) Now, in the case of a hooded snake, having let out the blood during the first stage of poisoning, one should quickly drink an antidote mixed with honey and ghee. ### [42.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.70) In the second stage, having performed emesis, one should drink the antidote just as before; in the third stage, one should apply poison-destroying collyrium and nasal errhines. ### [42.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.71) In the fourth, one should drink the previously described gruel after emesis is performed; in the fifth and sixth, he should be repeatedly anointed and sprinkled with cold substances; ### [42.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.72) one should administer a sharp emetic and the gruel as prescribed; in the seventh stage, one should apply a sharp antidote as collyrium and nasal errhine. ### [42.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.73) Then, having made a deep crow's-foot incision with a blade upon the head, one should place upon it meat accompanied by blood, or hide, of that \[animal\]. ### [42.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.74) In the case of viperine snakes, having been vomited in the third stage, he should drink gruel; in the sixth stage, a mild antidote or the group beginning with padmaka. ### [42.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.75) In the first stage of one bitten by striped snakes, having scarified deeply, one should draw blood with a gourd, and he should drink the antidote as before. ### [42.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.76) In the sixth stage, one should apply a sharp collyrium and nasal drops; and in the stages not explicitly mentioned, the treatment stated for hooded snakes \[should be done\]. ### [42.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.77) In pregnant women, children, and the elderly, one should puncture gently and not cut the vein. ### [42.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.78) Cinnamon bark, realgar, the two turmerics, vakra, rasa, tiger-claw, tamāla, stamens, \[and\] śīta, drunk with rice-water, destroys all poisons, just as the thunderbolt destroys the Asuras. ### [42.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.79) Prapauṇḍarīka, kaṭukā, devadāru, suvarcikā, kālānusārī, sthauṇeya, śaileya, mustā, padmaka, ### [42.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.80) kuṭannaṭa, elā, punnāga, nata, kuṣṭha, priyaṅgu, lodhra, guggulu, tālīsa, pippalī, red ochre, ### [42.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.81) sinduvāra, sugar, dry ginger, dhyāmaka, and rock salt, finely powdered and kept in a horn, liquefying with honey, ### [42.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.82) this antidote called Tārkṣya, equal to Garuḍa, through potions, nasal errhines, ointments, and collyriums, can turn back even the poison impulse of Takṣaka. ### [42.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.83) Lodhra, flowers of śirīṣa, samaṅgā, hiṅgu, reṇukā, kaṇā, black pepper, cardamom, manahśilā, vacā, yaṣṭī, honey, utpala, ### [42.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.84) roots of sinduvāra and mandāra, seeds of karañja, jyotiṣmatī, nata, kuṣṭha, śvetā, and girikarṇikā, ### [42.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.85) powdered with aloe juice and rolled into pills with honey and cow's bile, \[this\] antidote destroys \[the poison of\] snakes, rats, kaṇabha insects, and jackals; ### [42.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.86) poison arising from cats, kāṇḍacitra snakes; possession by evil spirits, fever, epilepsy, spirit affliction, insanity, abdominal swelling, indigestion, and cholera. ### [42.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.87) Root of bilva, flower of surasā, fruit of karañja, nata, devadāru, the three fruits, the three pungents, and the two turmerics, ground very finely with goat's urine, ### [42.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.88) restores to health, through collyrium, potions, and nasal errhines, men afflicted by snakes, spiders, rats, scorpions, and the like, or by cholera, indigestion, and fevers, and those assaulted by spirits. ### [42.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.89) Trivṛt, viśalyā, licorice, the two turmerics, the five salts, mañjiṣṭhā, and the three pungents likewise: one should make a paste; that is the Mahāgada. ### [42.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.90) Māṃsī, hareṇu, the three fruits, muruṅgī, licorice, mañjiṣṭhā, padmaka, aśoka, kuṣṭha, tālīsa, sandalwood, ### [42.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.91) sugandhikā, cardamom, kiṇihī, cinnamon bark, paṭola, mṛgādinī, bhārṅgī, viḍaṅga, pālindī, pāṭhā, kroṣṭukamekhalā, ### [42.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.92) Bhallātaka flower, tulasī leaf, areca nut, and guggulu; / bile from a mongoose, cat, monitor lizard, porcupine, and pig; ### [42.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.93) and from a spotted deer and a peacock—kept as before in a cow's horn: / in the house where this remains, there is no fear arising from snakes, insects, and the like. ### [42.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.94) Kettledrums, drums, and banners smeared with this \[formulation\] / called Ārṣabha destroy poison by touch, sound, and sight. ### [42.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.95) And by means of ointments and the like, one should extract the poison completely even from the bite; / any remnant would lead to another paroxysm or to slow poison. ### [42.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.96) When the poison has departed, one should treat provoked vāta with oleation and the like, / using vāta-destroying \[measures\] that exclude oil, wine, horsegram, and sour substances; ### [42.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.97) \[pacify\] pitta with decoctions and unctuous enemas that relieve pitta fever; ### [42.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.98) and \[pacify\] kapha with honey and the group beginning with āragvadha. ### [42.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.99) Sugar, vaigandhika, grapes, payasyā, madhuka, and honey / as a drink; sprinkling with water sanctified by mantras; soothing and gladdening— / one should employ \[these\] for one struck by a snake's body, and likewise for one afflicted by suspected poison. ### [42.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.100) Pūtanās, pretas, kūṣmāṇḍas, piśācas, and other enemies of man / would destroy the potencies of medicines if not warded off in the protective rite; / therefore, one should employ protective measures that avert the host of rakṣases. ### [42.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.101) In a house thoroughly swept clean with cow dung, well fumigated with agarwood incense, / and where deities are worshipped with perfumes, garlands, offerings, and the like; ### [42.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.102) having thoroughly worshipped the treatise-composers, Śiva, Āstīka, and Kāśyapa, / and having gratified kindled fires and brāhmaṇas with sacrificial oblations and offerings to the ancestors; ### [42.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.103) to the poison-afflicted patient seated facing east, / the physician, facing north, should administer the lore, the mantras, and the medicine. ### [42.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.104) With equal-sized, green darbha grass blades previously consecrated with mantras, / intact at their tips and with roots attached, he should perform the sweeping purification over him. ### [42.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.105) One should continuously anoint him with antivenomous remedies such as Brāhma; / and one should employ \[recipes\] like Sañjīvana in drinks and the like, and as a paste on the bite. ### [42.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.106) A full water pot along with flowers, mustard seeds, goat's milk, / a weapon, dūrvā grass, honey, and ghee should be placed above the head of the bitten person; / in this way, within seven days the poison subsides in one who possesses self-restraint. ### [42.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.107) Chrysoberyl, emerald, diamond, elephant-pearl, / cat's eye gem, the donkey gem, picukā, poison-nut, ### [42.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.108) somarājī born on the Himālaya mountains, punarnavā, / likewise droṇa, mahādroṇa, mānasī, a snake gem, / and potent poisons—one should wear these for the pacification of poison. ### [42.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.109) Holding an umbrella and carrying a rattle in hand, he should walk, especially at night; / terrified by its shadow and sound, serpents flee away. ### [42.109\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42.109_1) | Thus ends the forty-second chapter. ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.152.83) — Indu, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.42.1) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.42) · Pramāṇa