Ashtangasamgraha 46

English (machine translation) 46

Language: English

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Now we shall explain the chapter named Treatment of Rat and Rabid Dog [Bites]. / Thus spoke Ātreya and the other great seers:

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Lālana, capala, putra, hasira, cikira, ajina, / kaṣāyadanta, kulaka, kokila, kapila, asita,

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aruṇa, śabala, śveta, kapota, palitonduru, / cucchundāra, and the one named rasāla: these are the eighteen rats.

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On whichever limb their semen falls, or which they touch with their limbs, / or which is smeared with their semen—the blood there, corrupted, turns pale.

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Knots, swelling, urticarial eruptions, circular patches, dizziness, loss of taste, / fever with chills, severe pain, prostration, trembling, and joint pain [arise];

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horripilation, weeping, fainting, persistence for a long time, / and vomited matter occasionally containing many young rat pups enveloped in phlegm.

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Rat poison is penetrating, difficult [to treat], and flares up again and again.

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Fainting, swelling of the limbs, discoloration, wetness, deafness to sound, fever, / heaviness of the head, salivation, and vomiting of blood are the signs of incurability.

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One should avoid a patient afflicted by a rat whose bladder is swollen, whose lips are discolored, / who is covered with knots resembling rats, and who smells like a musk shrew.

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In a dog, the doṣas, with a predominance of śleṣman, residing in the sensory channels, / robbing consciousness, cause an exceedingly terrible agitation of the bodily tissues.

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Salivating, blind, deaf, it runs about everywhere, / with tail, lower jaw, and shoulders drooping, distressed in head, its face turned down.

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The bite of one bitten by it is numb and discharges dark blood, / and subsequently pain in the chest and head, fever, stiffness, thirst, and fainting arise.

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By this, other fanged, predatory beasts should also be understood: / jackals, mules, horses, bears, leopards, tigers, wolves, and so forth.

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Itching, piercing pain, discoloration, numbness, moistness, fever, dizziness, / burning, redness, pain, suppuration, swelling, knots, contracture,

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splitting open of the bite, blisters, fleshy growths, and circular patches: / in every case [these are] the sign of a venomous [bite], while the opposite indicates a non-venomous one.

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One who, imitating the actions and sounds of that [beast] by which he was bitten, perishes, / seeing that very creature unexpectedly in mirrors, water, and the like;

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and one who becomes terrified by the sight, touch, or sound of water— / one should abandon that patient suffering from hydrophobia, even if not [visibly] bitten.

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As soon as one is bitten by a rat, one should cauterise the bite with a hot arrow-shaft / or with a mirror, for otherwise a fleshy growth with severe pain will form.

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One should make the burnt bite bleed, and having scarified it, apply a paste / of śirīṣa, turmeric, tagara, saffron, and guḍūcī.

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Soot from the house, mañjiṣṭhā, turmeric, and rock salt: / [this] plaster overcomes rat poison and causes the fleshy growth to fall off.

Then, having washed it with sour liquids, one should subsequently apply a plaster / of pālindī, white kaṭabhī, bilva root, and guḍūcī, / and other destroyers of poison and swelling, or swiftly open a vein.

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Emesis [is effected] by decoctions of jālinī, or of śukākhyā and aṅkola; / or having powdered the fruit of kośavatī, śukākhyā, jīmūtaka, / and madana, drinking it with curd, one should vomit the poison.

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Or vacā, madana, jīmūta, and kuṣṭha ground with urine, / should be drunk according to the previous recipe; it removes the poison of all rats.

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Niṣpāva, kadalī root, bandhujīva fruits, / suvarcalā, rāmaṭha, svarjikā, the two ativiṣās, / śyāmā, drikarṇikā root, and the three emetic herbs above;

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when the chest of the vomited person has cleared, if colic, hiccup, anorexia, vomiting, / or continuous hot belching should occur, then this is the remedy:

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Cumin, the three pungents, kuṣṭha, the one called tuṅga, nāgakesara, / the two turmerics, rock salt, uśīra, liquorice, suvarcalā salt,

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and having ground the sweet group with the juice of bījapūraka and kapittha, / one should make a sauce combined with honey and candied sugar; / consumed endowed with pleasant smell, color, and taste, it conquers the toxic disorders.

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And a gruel prepared in a decoction of the two pippalīs and the two aṃśumatīs has the same qualities.

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For purgation, a paste of trivṛt, nīlī, and the three fruits is desired; / for head-purification, the heartwood of śirīṣa and [its] fruits.

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For a collyrium, cow dung juice mixed with fine powder of vyoṣa [is used]; / for an electuary, kapittha and cow dung juice with honey [is used].

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Ghee cooked with the root of taṇḍulīyaka is wholesome to drink; / or [ghee cooked] with the two niśās, kaṭabhī, raktā, and yaṣṭyāhva, combined with amṛtā; / or cooked with āsphota root, or indeed the pañcakāpittha [ghee].

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If in one purified in the lower tract there should be pain in the navel, / or if the feces become obstructed, or there should be a cutting pain in the anus,

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then one should drink cold gruel mixed with sugar and honey, / prepared with a decoction of pippalī, pippalīmūla, sārivā, and kaṭukā, / together with balā, samaṅgā, and viśvabheṣaja.

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Nalada, dhyāmaka, vyoṣa, lodhra, citraka, and dīpyaka, / ground with alkaline water of kutala, [mixed] with honey and ghee,

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or one should make him consume [this] with curds; honey, yavakṣāra, milk, curds, / treacle, sesame oil, and ghee taken together destroy poison.

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Sinduvāra, nata, śigru, bilva root, punarnavā, / vacā, śvadaṃṣṭrā, and jīmūta—a decoction of these with honey / one afflicted by a rat bite should drink, while eating rice with curds.

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Or he should drink the seed of śarapuṅkhā powdered with buttermilk; / or the bark of aṅkola root made into a paste with goat urine, / used for drinking and application, removes all rat poison.

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Milk combined with payasyā, sugar, and madhuka;

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kirātatikta, amṛtā, samaṅgā, bark of kakubha, / bāṇa, palāśa, kāśmarya, payasyā, taṇḍulīyaka,

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ākhuvinnā, mahānimba, saptaparṇa, madhūlikā, / kapittha, or rājavṛkṣa—the feverish person should drink any one [of these].

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One should scarify a firm [swelling] with mild pain, or make the fleshy sprout fall off. / Śyāmā, lāṅgalikā, dantī, kiṇihī, girikarṇikā,

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ākhuvṛkṣa, mahāvṛkṣa, trivṛt, añjanakī, and snuhī: / each one as a paste, like a sesame paste, makes the fleshy sprout fall off.

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Shoots of milky trees, mañjiṣṭhā, balā, dārvī, and hayāhva / pasted are healing; or oil or ghee cooked in the same way / with the two niśās, tila, yaṣṭyāhva, tagara, uśīra, and padmaka.

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Thus the general treatment of [bites by] rats has been stated; specifically:

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By a lālana [rat bite] vomiting, fainting, and salivation arise; / in that case one should lick powdered taṇḍulīyaka with honey.

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By a capala [rat bite] vomiting, fainting, or thirst [arise]; in that case one should lick / triphalā with devadāru and mustā; but by a putraka [rat bite], pallor [arises],

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weakness in the body, and the appearance of rat-like nodules all over; / in that case one should lick śirīṣa seed and kuṣṭha with honey.

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By a hasira [rat bite] aversion to food, yawning, and horripilation [arise]; / there, after he has vomited well, one should make him drink a decoction of the āragvadha group.

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By a cikira [rat bite] headache, swelling, hiccup, vomiting, and dizziness [arise]; / having vomited there, he should drink the essence produced from aṅkola with decoctions of jālinī.

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By an ajina [rat bite] blackness of the body, fainting, vomiting, and cardiac distress [arise]; / in that case one should lick mañjiṣṭhā made into a paste with snuhī milk, [mixed] with honey.

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By a kaṣāyadanta [rat bite] sleepiness, drying of the chest, and excessive emaciation [arise]; / in that case one should lick the pith, bark, and seeds of śirīṣa with honey.

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By a kulaka [rat bite] pain, discharge, and stripes on the area of the bite [arise]; / in that case one should lick the two sahās along with sinduvāraka, drenched in honey.

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By a kokila [rat bite] fierce nodules, fever, and severe burning sensation [arise]; / in that case one should drink ghee cooked in a decoction of nīlī and punarnavā.

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By a kapila [rat bite] sloughing in the wound, fever, nodules, dizziness, and thirst [arise]; / in this case one should lick white [aparājitā] and white punarnavā with honey.

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By a kṛṣṇa [rat bite] he vomits blood, especially on a cloudy day; / in that case he should drink the ash-water of kiṃśuka, śirīṣa fruit, and vālaka.

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The aruṇa and the following [rats] produce diseases arising from the distinct doṣas, / their combination, and blood respectively, and all cause nodular fleshy sprouts.

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From karañja, āragvadha, vyoṣa, bṛhatī, and the two aṃśumatīs / in a decoction, one should cook curds, milk, and ghee, each measured at one prastha,

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and kapittha, dāḍima, varī, viśālā, the three aromatics, / trivṛt, mṛttikā, vakra, and guḍūcī pasted into it,

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one should add; that destroys the poison of the five beginning with aruṇa; / [also] ghee cooked with the fresh juice of kākādanī and kākamācī.

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By a cucchundara [shrew bite] severe exhaustion, neck rigidity, and cholera-like illness [arise]; / in this case one should make him drink the alkali of yavanāla and ṛṣabha, or the two bṛhatīs.

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By a rasāla [rat bite] neck rigidity and pain in the bite area [arise]; / in that case one should lick mahāgada [antidote] combined with ghee and honey.

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Residual rat poison flares up at the sighting of clouds, / or at the appropriate times when causes for the aggravation of the doṣas occur.

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In that case all treatments should be employed according to the stage, / both those specified according to their own [doṣa], and those that dispel chronic latent poison.

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The bite of one bitten by a rabid dog, having been cauterised with hot ghee, / should be smeared with the respective antidotes, and he should drink aged ghee; / or the juice of pratyakpuṣpī should be pressed over the wound.

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A paste of tila, guggulu, dūrvā, dāḍima, and jaggery, / applied again and again, is supreme in overcoming the poison of a dog bite.

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Nala root ground in water is wholesome for drinking and application; / one should bind the bite with mātuluṅga leaves chewed with the teeth.

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And a purgation combined with arka milk should be administered to him quickly.

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He should drink white punarnavā combined with dhurdhūraka fruit.

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The fruit of dhurdhūraka or the root originating from kākodumbarikā, / drunk with fermented liquor or rice water, destroys dog poison.

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Sesame paste, sesame oil, milk of rūpikā, and jaggery taken together / smash the rabies poison just as the wind [smashes] a mass of clouds.

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Garlic, uṣaṇa, vaidehī, and varā, pasted with ox-bile, / are a supreme medicine for one bitten by a dog, by drinking, nasal therapy, collyrium, and application.

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Leaves, bark, and root of jalavetasa crushed, one should cook in water; / that decoction, drunk cold, is a supreme remedy for dog poison;

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and ghee prepared with that, used for drinking, nasal therapy, massage, and application, / in hydrophobia and all poisons, is comparable to Garuḍa.

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In a decoction of yava, māṣa, kulattha, and the pañcamūla, / with twice the quantity of milk, one should prepare ghee with fine pastes of

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aśvagandhā, sahā, kuṣṭha, bṛhatī, the two rajanīs, / vidārī, nata, kaṭvaṅga, payasyā, sinduvāraka,

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sarpagandhā, nakha, abhīru, sugar, and red sandalwood; / this destroys all complications of a dog bite by drinking and massage.

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When there is burning sensation in the heart and excessive salivation, purgation and emesis / which remove the morbidity of poison should be administered; when [the patient is] cleansed, the post-purification dietetic regimen [is applied].

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One must certainly administer sharp purification that destroys poison; / even if the wound is healed in an uncleansed [patient], that poison flares up again.

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With pots containing gems, seeds, and medicinal herbs, filled with cold water, / consecrated one hundred and eight times with potent mantras,

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measuring one hundred and eight, draped with garlands of flowers, / on a mound measuring a cow-hide, smeared [with cow-dung], where a fire is kindled, strewn with kuśa grass, / on the bank of a river or at a crossroads, bathing is [performed] for him.

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