[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) › 46 # Ashtangasamgraha 46 English (machine translation) 46 - **Language:** English ### [46.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.1) Now we shall explain the chapter named Treatment of Rat and Rabid Dog \[Bites\]. / Thus spoke Ātreya and the other great seers: ### [46.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.2) Lālana, capala, putra, hasira, cikira, ajina, / kaṣāyadanta, kulaka, kokila, kapila, asita, ### [46.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.3) aruṇa, śabala, śveta, kapota, palitonduru, / cucchundāra, and the one named rasāla: these are the eighteen rats. ### [46.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.4) 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. ### [46.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.5) Knots, swelling, urticarial eruptions, circular patches, dizziness, loss of taste, / fever with chills, severe pain, prostration, trembling, and joint pain \[arise\]; ### [46.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.6) horripilation, weeping, fainting, persistence for a long time, / and vomited matter occasionally containing many young rat pups enveloped in phlegm. ### [46.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.7) Rat poison is penetrating, difficult \[to treat\], and flares up again and again. ### [46.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.8) 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. ### [46.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.9) 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. ### [46.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.10) 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. ### [46.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.11) Salivating, blind, deaf, it runs about everywhere, / with tail, lower jaw, and shoulders drooping, distressed in head, its face turned down. ### [46.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.12) 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. ### [46.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.13) By this, other fanged, predatory beasts should also be understood: / jackals, mules, horses, bears, leopards, tigers, wolves, and so forth. ### [46.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.14) Itching, piercing pain, discoloration, numbness, moistness, fever, dizziness, / burning, redness, pain, suppuration, swelling, knots, contracture, ### [46.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.15) 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. ### [46.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.16) 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; ### [46.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.17) 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. ### [46.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.18) 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. ### [46.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.19) One should make the burnt bite bleed, and having scarified it, apply a paste / of śirīṣa, turmeric, tagara, saffron, and guḍūcī. ### [46.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.20) Soot from the house, mañjiṣṭhā, turmeric, and rock salt: / \[this\] plaster overcomes rat poison and causes the fleshy growth to fall off. ### [46.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.21) 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. ### [46.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.22) 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. ### [46.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.23) Or vacā, madana, jīmūta, and kuṣṭha ground with urine, / should be drunk according to the previous recipe; it removes the poison of all rats. ### [46.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.24) Niṣpāva, kadalī root, bandhujīva fruits, / suvarcalā, rāmaṭha, svarjikā, the two ativiṣās, / śyāmā, drikarṇikā root, and the three emetic herbs above; ### [46.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.25) 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: ### [46.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.26) Cumin, the three pungents, kuṣṭha, the one called tuṅga, nāgakesara, / the two turmerics, rock salt, uśīra, liquorice, suvarcalā salt, ### [46.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.27) 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. ### [46.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.28) And a gruel prepared in a decoction of the two pippalīs and the two aṃśumatīs has the same qualities. ### [46.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.29) For purgation, a paste of trivṛt, nīlī, and the three fruits is desired; / for head-purification, the heartwood of śirīṣa and \[its\] fruits. ### [46.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.30) For a collyrium, cow dung juice mixed with fine powder of vyoṣa \[is used\]; / for an electuary, kapittha and cow dung juice with honey \[is used\]. ### [46.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.31) 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 \[ghee\]. ### [46.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.32) 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, ### [46.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.33) 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. ### [46.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.34) Nalada, dhyāmaka, vyoṣa, lodhra, citraka, and dīpyaka, / ground with alkaline water of kutala, \[mixed\] with honey and ghee, ### [46.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.35) or one should make him consume \[this\] with curds; honey, yavakṣāra, milk, curds, / treacle, sesame oil, and ghee taken together destroy poison. ### [46.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.36) 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. ### [46.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.37) 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. ### [46.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.38) Milk combined with payasyā, sugar, and madhuka; ### [46.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.39) kirātatikta, amṛtā, samaṅgā, bark of kakubha, / bāṇa, palāśa, kāśmarya, payasyā, taṇḍulīyaka, ### [46.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.40) ākhuvinnā, mahānimba, saptaparṇa, madhūlikā, / kapittha, or rājavṛkṣa—the feverish person should drink any one \[of these\]. ### [46.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.41) One should scarify a firm \[swelling\] with mild pain, or make the fleshy sprout fall off. / Śyāmā, lāṅgalikā, dantī, kiṇihī, girikarṇikā, ### [46.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.42) ākhuvṛkṣa, mahāvṛkṣa, trivṛt, añjanakī, and snuhī: / each one as a paste, like a sesame paste, makes the fleshy sprout fall off. ### [46.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.43) 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. ### [46.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.44) Thus the general treatment of \[bites by\] rats has been stated; specifically: ### [46.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.45) By a lālana \[rat bite\] vomiting, fainting, and salivation arise; / in that case one should lick powdered taṇḍulīyaka with honey. ### [46.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.46) 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 \[arises\], ### [46.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.47) 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. ### [46.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.48) 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. ### [46.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.49) 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. ### [46.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.50) 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. ### [46.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.51) 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. ### [46.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.52) 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. ### [46.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.53) 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. ### [46.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.54) 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. ### [46.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.55) 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. ### [46.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.56) The aruṇa and the following \[rats\] produce diseases arising from the distinct doṣas, / their combination, and blood respectively, and all cause nodular fleshy sprouts. ### [46.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.57) From karañja, āragvadha, vyoṣa, bṛhatī, and the two aṃśumatīs / in a decoction, one should cook curds, milk, and ghee, each measured at one prastha, ### [46.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.58) and kapittha, dāḍima, varī, viśālā, the three aromatics, / trivṛt, mṛttikā, vakra, and guḍūcī pasted into it, ### [46.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.59) one should add; that destroys the poison of the five beginning with aruṇa; / \[also\] ghee cooked with the fresh juice of kākādanī and kākamācī. ### [46.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.60) 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. ### [46.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.61) 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. ### [46.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.62) Residual rat poison flares up at the sighting of clouds, / or at the appropriate times when causes for the aggravation of the doṣas occur. ### [46.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.63) 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. ### [46.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.64) 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. ### [46.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.65) A paste of tila, guggulu, dūrvā, dāḍima, and jaggery, / applied again and again, is supreme in overcoming the poison of a dog bite. ### [46.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.66) Nala root ground in water is wholesome for drinking and application; / one should bind the bite with mātuluṅga leaves chewed with the teeth. ### [46.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.67) And a purgation combined with arka milk should be administered to him quickly. ### [46.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.68) He should drink white punarnavā combined with dhurdhūraka fruit. ### [46.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.69) The fruit of dhurdhūraka or the root originating from kākodumbarikā, / drunk with fermented liquor or rice water, destroys dog poison. ### [46.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.70) Sesame paste, sesame oil, milk of rūpikā, and jaggery taken together / smash the rabies poison just as the wind \[smashes\] a mass of clouds. ### [46.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.71) 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. ### [46.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.72) Leaves, bark, and root of jalavetasa crushed, one should cook in water; / that decoction, drunk cold, is a supreme remedy for dog poison; ### [46.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.73) and ghee prepared with that, used for drinking, nasal therapy, massage, and application, / in hydrophobia and all poisons, is comparable to Garuḍa. ### [46.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.74) In a decoction of yava, māṣa, kulattha, and the pañcamūla, / with twice the quantity of milk, one should prepare ghee with fine pastes of ### [46.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.75) aśvagandhā, sahā, kuṣṭha, bṛhatī, the two rajanīs, / vidārī, nata, kaṭvaṅga, payasyā, sinduvāraka, ### [46.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.76) sarpagandhā, nakha, abhīru, sugar, and red sandalwood; / this destroys all complications of a dog bite by drinking and massage. ### [46.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.77) 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 \[is applied\]. ### [46.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.78) One must certainly administer sharp purification that destroys poison; / even if the wound is healed in an uncleansed \[patient\], that poison flares up again. ### [46.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.79) With pots containing gems, seeds, and medicinal herbs, filled with cold water, / consecrated one hundred and eight times with potent mantras, ### [46.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.80) 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. ### [46.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.81) "O lord of rabies! O yakṣa! O lord of the pack of hounds! / Make this person afflicted by rabies free from poison for me without delay! / Svāhā!" This mantra is commended in all procedures for one suffering from rabies. ### [46.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.82) A wound inflicted by the claws or teeth of four-footed or two-footed \[creatures\] / swells, suppurates, and is accompanied by redness, fever, discharge, and pain. ### [46.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.83) Somavalka, aśvakarṇa, gojihvā, haṃsapādikā, / the two rajans, and gairika: this plaster removes the poison of claws and teeth. ### [46.83\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46.83_1) Thus ends the forty-sixth chapter. ## Commentaries (1) - [Śaśilekhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha!indu.157.p1) — Indu, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.46.1) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.46) · Pramāṇa