[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) › 44 # Ashtangasamgraha 44 English (machine translation) 44 - **Language:** English ### [44.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.1) Now we shall explain the chapter named "Treatment of Spiders." / Thus spoke Ātreya and the other great seers. ### [44.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.2) When Vasiṣṭha was enraged at Viśvāmitra, drops of sweat born from his forehead / that fell upon cut grass are traditionally remembered as spiders (lūtā). ### [44.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.3) Others say that spiders are the sparks that flew forth / from the bodies of the asuras being burned in the Khāṇḍava forest. ### [44.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.4) Others say that poisonous eruptions that appear from the fermentation / of contaminated food that has been eaten are spiders; bearing the characteristics of insects / according to their own nature, they are designated as spiders and insects. ### [44.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.5) Among them, the most terrible spiders are also divided into three classes / by their sharp, medium, or mild nature; if untreated, they kill swiftly / in seven days, ten days, and a fortnight respectively. ### [44.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.6) Kapilā, agnimukhī, pītā, padmā, mūtrā, sitā, and asitā: / these seven fiery, sweat-born spiders produce disorders of pitta. ### [44.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.7) Pāṇḍurā, raktapadikā, bhṛṅgā, piṅgā, trimaṇḍalā, / pūti, and vīrā: these seven lunar, egg-born spiders produce disorders of śleṣman. ### [44.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.8) Kumudā, alaviṣā, raktā, citrā, santā, nimecikā, / and kasanā: these seven aerial, soil-sprouted spiders produce diseases of vāyu. ### [44.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.9) Kākāṇḍī, eṇapadī, lājā, vaidehī, jālinī, / mālāguṇā, and suvarṇā: these seven mixed spiders are spontaneously generated. ### [44.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.10) Spreading swiftly through the limbs like blazing fire, / caused by a combination of all three doṣas, they are incurable; the others are curable with difficulty. ### [44.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.11) They bite in the bright fortnight, the dark fortnight, and always at the junction of both. ### [44.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.12) Generally, their bite resembles a ringworm patch: / white, black, reddish, yellow, or greyish-black, soft or elevated, ### [44.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.13) black or greyish-black in the centre, covered with a network around the edges, / spreading like erysipelas, accompanied by swelling, burning, and great pain, ### [44.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.14) accompanied by fever, rapid suppuration, exudation, sloughing, and cracking; / whatever limb it touches with its exudate, it causes an ulcer there too. ### [44.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.15) Through eight means—breath, fangs, feces, urine, semen, saliva, claws, and menstrual fluid— / these spiders vomit poison, especially from the mouth. ### [44.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.16) From breath, the bite suddenly swells, with fever and a burning sensation; / but that produced by the fangs is fiercer: discoloured, hardened, and firm, ### [44.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.17) having deep swelling, and accompanied by piercing pain and burning; / from feces, it is foul-smelling, with burning, itching, and tingling, ### [44.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.18) and suppurates quickly, and when suppurated is pale, resembling a pīlu fruit; / from urine, it has red edges, is black in the centre, and sloughs away, ### [44.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.19) resembles a whirlpool, is swollen, putrid, spreads, and burns; / from semen, it takes the shape of a nodule, is hard, and causes acute pain; ### [44.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.20) from saliva, it has a shallow base, little pain, is urticarial, itchy, and soft; / from a claw, it is accompanied by smarting, papules, itching, and a sensation of smoking, / having the colour of the interior of a kiṃśuka blossom and edged with a garland of points from \[spattered\] particles. ### [44.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.21) Spiders bite above the navel; insects bite above and below; / and clothing or other articles spoiled by them, when in contact with the body, produce disease. ### [44.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.22) For half a day, the bite arising from spider venom is not perceived at all. ### [44.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.23) Then, on the first day, it feels like the prick of a needle, / with an indistinct colour, unsteady, accompanied by slight itching and pain. ### [44.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.24) On the second day, it is very elevated at the borders and studded with pustules, / of distinct colour, depressed in the centre, itchy, and resembling a nodular swelling. ### [44.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.25) On the third day, it is accompanied by fever, causes horripilation, has a red circular patch, / has the form of a shallow saucer, has abundant pricking pain, and discharges from the hair follicles. ### [44.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.26) On the fourth day, the swelling is large, producing burning heat, dyspnea, and dizziness. ### [44.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.27) On the fifth day, it causes diverse disorders born of poison provocation; / on the sixth, it pervades the vital spots; on the seventh, it destroys life. ### [44.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.28) Such is the venom of the extremely acute ones; one should classify the others accordingly. ### [44.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.29) The poison of all of them subsides after twenty-one nights. ### [44.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.30) A bite of the nature of pitta has burning, thirst, vesicles, fever, and heat; / one of śleṣman is swollen, hard, pale, itchy, and of little pain; / one of vāta is rough, greyish-black, and causes pain such as cracking of the joints. ### [44.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.31) And one should diagnose the aggravation of doṣas through the signs stated for recognizing snakebites. ### [44.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.32) Almost all spiders involve all three doṣas, with a predominance of pitta and kapha. ### [44.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.33) In fatal \[spider bites\] there are confusion of the heart, dyspnoea, hiccup, head-seizure, / white, black, yellow, and red eruptions, and the arising of swelling, ### [44.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.34) trembling, vomiting, burning sensation, thirst, blindness, crookedness of the nose, / blackish discoloration of the lips, mouth, and teeth, breaking pain in the back and neck, / and blood resembling the colour of ripe jambu fruit flows from the bite. ### [44.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.35) Then, immediately, one should excise the bite of one bitten by a spider with a sharp instrument, / and burn it with a jambu-shaped cautery iron or similar tools; but one should not burn \[a bite\] dominated by pitta. ### [44.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.36) A bite that is rough, with bristling hair, located on a vital spot, joint, or the like, / or spreading in all directions, one should neither cut nor burn. ### [44.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.37) One should smear the burnt \[site\] with antidotes mixed with honey and rock salt, / and then sprinkle it with cold decoctions prepared from latex-bearing trees. ### [44.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.38) One should extract blood from everywhere with horns or similar means, or through a vein; / after blood has flowed, pouring over \[the site\] with ghee, milk, and the like is beneficial. ### [44.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.39) Prapauṇḍarīka, hrībera, sārivā, uśīra, jīvaka, / lodhra, candana, jīvantī, mañjiṣṭhā, sarja, vañjula, ### [44.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.40) lotus stalk, lotus root, algae, white water lily, blue water lily, red ochre, / nyagrodha, udumbara, aśvattha, nicula, plakṣa, vetasa, ### [44.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.41) samaṅgā, pāṭalī, gundrā, kākolī, śataparvikā, / śirīṣa, dhātakī, mūrvā, vidārī, padma, kiṃśuka, ### [44.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.42) śṛṅgāṭaka, kośavatī, vāyasī, somarājī, / madhuka, aṃśumatī, and mūrvā, gathered as available: / this paste, kept overnight and mixed with ghee, is commended on a pitta-type ulcer. ### [44.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.43) The two varieties of śyāmā, niśā, mustā, nakha, rāsnā, mahāsahā, / vāsā, pattaṅga, suvahā, nākulī, girikarṇikā, ### [44.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.44) sarpagandhā, yavaphalā, nirguṇḍī, aśmantaka, sthirā, / śukākhyā, mahiṣakrāntā, kuṣṭha, indrayava, saffron, ### [44.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.45) karavīra, agaru, nata, sugandhā, sinduvāra, / āsphoṭā, and gundrā are beneficial as a paste in kapha-type poison. ### [44.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.46) Bimbī, vidula, bandhūka, kovidāra, palāśa, / suvahā, ariṣṭaka, brāhmī, guḍūcī, viśvā, sairyaka, ### [44.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.47) siddhārthaka, devadāru, viḍaṅga, indravāruṇī, / śatāvarī, lāṅgalikī, rājavṛkṣa, punarnavā, ### [44.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.48) jīvantī, vāyasī, bhārṅgī, kataka, indrayava, arjuna, / misi, vyāghrapadī, siṃhapucchī, maṇḍalaparṇikā, ### [44.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.49) śvadaṃṣṭrā, kolabṛhatī, revatī, śvetapuṣpikā, / prapunnāṭa, and kuravaka \[form\] a paste in vāta-type poison. ### [44.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.50) And bodhi, śleṣmātaka, and akṣa are commended everywhere. ### [44.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.51) When the doṣas are aggravated, in strong persons, or in severe poison, one should cause emesis / with kākaṇḍakī, kośavatī, lodhra, indrayava, rock salt, ### [44.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.52) leaves of paṭola, marica, karaghāṭa, priyaṅgu, / kṛṣṇā, śukanasā, nīpa, nimba, and saptāhvayaṣṭi. ### [44.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.53) And one should induce purgation with triphalā, trivṛt, trikaṭu, and rock salt, / along with dantī, pūga, mṛdvīkā, and viḍaṅga; or one should cook / a prastha of ghee with half a pala of each of these, along with an equal quantity of brāhmī juice. ### [44.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.54) Milk or water boiled with pañcamūla, combined with purifying medicines / pasted appropriately, one should administer separately as purgation. ### [44.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.55) With pippalī, pippalī-root, dried ginger, indrayava, rock salt, / pāṭhā, ajamodā, yaṣṭyāhva, mustā, mustard, and deodar, ### [44.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.56) prepared along with the lesser pañcamūla and sarala, / a gruel mixed with ghee should be employed in the post-purification dietary regimen as a destroyer of poison. ### [44.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.57) In tympanites, hiccup, dyspnoea, breaking pain in the back and neck, / contracture, stiffness, trembling, colic, hemicrania, ### [44.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.58) and other vāta diseases such as piercing pain in the joints and facial paralysis, / one should cook eraṇḍa, vilva, sarala, cirivilva, arka, pāṭalī, ### [44.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.59) śigru, pāṭhā, kuśa, vṛṣa, and vidula in water, / along with the lesser pañcamūla; in that \[decoction\], one should cook the scum of ghee, ### [44.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.60) with twice the quantity of water, equal quantity of cow's milk, and pasted yaṣṭī, niśā, nata, / surāhva, vella, sarala, śatāhvā, lodhra, red ochre, ### [44.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.61) payasyā, kuṣṭha, gāṅgeyī, kṛṣṇā, madana, and rock salt. / When the enema has returned, \[the patient\] should eat with meat soups prepared with pañcamūla. ### [44.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.62) Errhine \[is indicated\] in heaviness, swelling, excessive salivation, and lockjaw: / girikarṇī, phalasāra, bandhūka, kiṇihī, sitā, ### [44.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.63) ṣaḍgranthā, garlic, vyoṣa, bṛhatī, vella, rock salt, / fruit of apāmārga, bhārṅgī, nākulī, sarpagandhikā, ### [44.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.64) śyāmā, yavaphalā, and seeds of phaṇijjaka and śirīṣa, / ground with the juice of vārtāka, are a supreme errhine that dispels poison. ### [44.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.65) And for one whose head has been purged, an errhine of the scum of ghee should follow. ### [44.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.66) When obstruction of the eyes, swelling, itching, and excessive sleep occur: / vacā, manohvā, trikaṭu, triphalā, lodhra, red ochre, ### [44.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.67) conch, blue water lily, copper, gold, coral, / jīvantī, garlic, kuṣṭha, kataka, mārkava, nata, ### [44.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.68) prapauṇḍarīka, madhuka, seed of karañja, rock salt, / the two niśās, phaṇijjaka, blue vitriol, antimony, rasāñjana, / and flower of meṣaśṛṅgī, ground with cow's urine, form a collyrium. ### [44.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.69) Sprouts of surasā, vyoṣa, vilva root, surāhva, / and turmeric, \[ground with\] goat's urine, is a collyrium that destroys spider and insect \[poisons\]. ### [44.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.70) Śirīṣa, padmaka, uśīra, pāṭalī, sinduvāra, / shoots of latex-bearing trees, nata, udīcya, sārivā, kuṣṭha, candana, ### [44.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.71) ground with the fresh juice of śelu: this antidote is exceedingly beneficial / as an errhine, collyrium, drink, paste, and wash in spider bites. ### [44.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.72) Payasyā, honey, mṛdvīkā, śvadaṃṣṭrā, kṣīramoraṭā, / gojī, vidārī, yaṣṭyāhva, and madhuka have the same properties; ### [44.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.73) likewise śirīṣa flower, the fruit born of candralekhā, / surālā, kaṭabhī, jātī, and white girikarṇikā; ### [44.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.74) and in the same way one should employ tagara, kuṣṭha, nāgabalā, and balā. ### [44.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.75) The two turmerics, nāgadantī, śābara lodhra, / śirīṣa flower, tagara, sahadevā, śatāvarī, ### [44.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.76) punarnavā, nāgabalā, sarpagandhā, kuṭannaṭa, / gavādanī, dantaśaṭha, somavalka, and indurājī: / this antidote, mixed with honey, accomplishes all purposes in all poisons. ### [44.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.77) Sarpākṣī, candana, vakra, mṛgākṣī, gandhanākulī, / elā, and mahāsugandhā, pasted with goat's urine: / for smearing and drinking in spider bites, there is no antidote equal to this. ### [44.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.78) With root of kaṭabhī, tagara, samaṅgā, devadāru, / the two bṛhatīs, gāṅgeyī, rocanā, and candana, ### [44.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.79) ghee prepared with four times as much milk is beneficial for drinking and anointing / in the exceedingly dreadful poison of spiders, centipedes, and insects. ### [44.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.80) When burning sensation, swelling, and the like have subsided, one should cause the slough to fall from the wound. ### [44.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.81) Safflower blossom, godanta, svarṇakṣīrī, pigeon droppings, / trivṛt, rock salt, and dantī likewise cause the falling of the slough. ### [44.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.82) Turmeric, guggulu, ferment, bamboo manna, pigeon droppings; / and likewise rocksalt, kuṣṭha, dantī, kaṭukā, daugdhikā, / root of rājakrośātakī, or ferment produced from churned buttermilk; \[these cause sloughing\]. ### [44.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.83) At the time of the sloughing of the core, one should strengthen \[the patient\] with poison-destroying remedies. ### [44.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.84) In the mating season of spiders, as many drops of semen / as fall upon the body, that many cores arise at the same time. ### [44.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.85) Godanta, dantī, trivṛtā, the two turmerics, rocksalt, sesame seeds, / licorice, neem leaves, and ghee cleanse the wound. ### [44.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.86) Clarified butter prepared with priyaṅgu, viḍaṅga, catechu, neem, kampillaka, mustā, / resin, cardamom, dhātakī, and iron destroys wounds. ### [44.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.87) The barks of śirīṣa, kaṭabhī, śelu, the milky-sapped trees, and arjuna, / applied as paste, powder, or wash, destroy insect and spider wounds. ### [44.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.88) Śatāhvā, lodhra, ferrous sulfate, dāruharidrā, jambu pits, rocanā, / harītakī, and betel nut: this powder heals wounds. ### [44.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.89) Lac, the two turmerics, madder, orpiment, realgar, / ghee, and honey: this paste is supreme for purifying the skin. ### [44.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.90) One should perform the restoration of hair as described in the treatment of wounds. ### [44.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.91) And every task of oleation should be performed with ghee alone; / oil serves to increase poison, just as dry grass increases fire. ### [44.91\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44.91_1) Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter. ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.155.2) — Indu, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.44.1) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.44) · Pramāṇa