Ashtangasamgraha 47
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Now we shall explain the chapter named "Treatment of the Complications of Poison". / Thus said Ātreya and the other great seers:
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Fever, cough, vomiting, dyspnea, hiccup, thirst, excessive fainting, / diarrhea, excessive hardness [of stools], abdominal distension, bladder pain, headache,
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swelling, putrefaction of the bite, hemorrhage, and toxic flatulence: / thus sixteen complications of those afflicted by poison are enumerated, / afflicted by which, if neglected, poisoned patients go to their death.
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A decoction of rājavṛkṣa fruit, uśīra, kāśmarya, ghana, and padmaka, / taken with sugar and honey, is supreme in destroying toxic fever.
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Kaṭukā drunk with rice-water and rock candy, / [or] ajājī, jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, and utpala, destroy toxic fever.
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The pulp of kola, sugar, dhānya, bhārṅgī, yaṣṭyāhva, and kesara / eradicate toxic fever, vomiting, dyspnea, cough, and thirst.
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A decoction of triphalā, āragvadha, and vyāghrī conquers fever and constipation; / a decoction of young bilva, vacā, and mustā, together with punarnavā, / destroys fever, depression of the digestive fire, and swelling arising from poison.
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Vaidehikā, rāmaṭhaka, wood-apple juice, and rock salt, / licked with sugar and honey, relieves dyspnea, cough, and fever.
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Having licked kṛṣṇā with drākṣā and ginger, or [kṛṣṇā] with varā and ghana, / along with ghee and honey, one is freed from cough arising from poison.
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Likewise, having drunk pāṭhā, añjana, mañjiṣṭhā, the two niśās, madhuka, / and yaṣṭyāhva with water, powdered over with pepper,
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in toxic vomiting, one should drink a decoction or powder of bilva root, / or dhātrī, pharūpaka, drākṣā, and madhuka dissolved in milk.
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Vella, agryāñjana, uśīra, yaṣṭī, elā, and kaṇakesara; / or one should lick pepper and kumbhī dissolved in ghee and honey.
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Sprouts of milky trees, honey, and sugar destroy thirst and vomiting.
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Having eaten cooked old śāli rice with honey and milk prepared with sandalwood, / one should drink cold water after it: this dispels toxic vomiting.
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One should lick kṛṣṇā and priyaṅgu with oil, cow-dung juice, and honey.
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One suffering from dyspnea [should take] drākṣā, śṛṅgī, māgadhikā, and sugar with honey, / or jaggery, ginger, vaidehī, vijayā, and āmalaka.
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In hiccup, śaṅkha, kanaka, kaṭukā, and svarṇagairika; / or vella, ginger, kaṇā, uśīra, and the two rajanīs;
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or one should lick vyoṣa and mṛdvīkā with citron juice; / or one should drink vālaka powder with honey, or its decoction with jaggery.
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[Or one should take] a paste of viśvabheṣaja, gāyatrī, haridrā, maradāru, / dantī, indravāruṇī, and dvīpin with sauvīraka.
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In thirst and fainting, cold pastes and affusions—excluding the head—are beneficial, / with lotus stalks, flowers, sandalwood, uśīra, and pearls, / drenched in rainwater, sugar-water, milk, ghee, and sugarcane juice.
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Fanning with a palm-leaf fan and staying on cold sand [are beneficial].
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Bathing in lakes whose waters are covered by an abundance of lotus and water-lily filaments / destroys toxic thirst, burning sensation, and fainting.
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In thirst arising from an impulse of poison, one should drink roasted-paddy flour refreshment / immersed in water with sugar, pomegranate, and honey, / and cold water [infused with] vaṭa, vetasa, jambū, āmra, and sevya.
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One should drink equal parts of bhūnimba, mustā, kaṭukā, trāyantī, and indrayava, / two parts of citraka, and eight of kuṭaja, with water: / it removes toxic diarrhea, upward movement of vāyu, cough, dyspnea, and fever.
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One should drink lodhra, mocarasa, ambaṣṭhā, and dhātakī with rice-water / and honey; likewise ginger, ativiṣā, and abhayā.
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[One should take] dhātakī, kuṭaja, and añjana finely powdered, / or a powder of pāṭhā and ginger combined with yogurt and honey.
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In bladder pain and abdominal distension with constipation, one should administer a fruit suppository; / one should drink harītakī with āragvadha, trivṛt, and upakulyā, / along with ghee and honey, to destroy bladder pain and other symptoms.
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Ghee prepared with soot, nata, śyāmā, nīlinī, and taṇḍulīyaka; / or similarly unprepared [ghee] combined with varā decoction and trivṛt [may be used].
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Kākolī, bark of milky trees, drākṣā, yaṣṭyāhva, and sugar / combined with cold water should be administered as nasal drops to cure toxic headache.
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In swelling, when the bowel is cleansed, drinking milk boiled / with viśvabheṣaja, vaidehī, kaṭukā, and devadāru, / or with a paste of sour herbs and surasā, or goat's milk boiled with pippalī, is beneficial.
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Trivṛt macerated for three days with a decoction of triphalā, / stirred with ghee and drunk, destroys toxic swelling.
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A paste of honey, vella, varā, vyoṣa, surāhva, uśīra, and padmaka / conquers toxic swelling; likewise [pastes made] with sweet and astringent herbs.
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A fumigation of śirīṣa flowers, ahiśiras, nata, and kuṣṭha, combined with ghee, / is an antidote that conquers swelling and destroys all poisons.
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Even by a minor lapse in regimen, a bite incurs putrefaction; / poison generally does not tolerate sharp or hot medicine.
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Therefore, on a toxic wound one should apply sweet, unctuous, and cold measures, / and affusions and pastes with milky decoctions prepared from milky trees.
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Banyan sprouts, madhuka, sesame, mustard, rock salt, / along with abhayā, neem leaves, and ghee, destroys putrefaction of the bite, / is best for causing sloughing of the core, and eradicates toxic wounds.
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When blood flows excessively, one should drink ghee with pepper, / combined with taṇḍulīyaka root or with sugar.
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And one should plaster his bite with very finely ground dārvī; / sugar candy, honey, ghee, and goat's milk make nasal drops.
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He should drink a fine paste of śamī and anoint the limb with viśālā; / gold and śuklā are used for nasal medication; then the blood is pacified.
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When excessive blood has flowed from a debilitated person, through excessive indulgence in dry things, / and by the very nature of poison, vāta becomes aggravated.
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From that, mania, convulsions, mental derangement, and apoplexy arise; / there, oleation, enema, nasal drops, insufflation, and collyrium are recommended.
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Nāgadantī, abhayā, kuṣṭha, pippalī, vṛṣa, kaṭphala, / seeds of bhallātaka, kaṭukā, bilva, prativiṣā, and agnika— / ghee prepared with these along with milk overcomes disorders of toxic vāta.
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Or he should drink castor oil combined with goat's meat broth, / or ghee and oil together, consuming the meat broth of intelligent animals.
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Stirring in water kārpāsa root, black pepper, the two haridrās, nalada, nala, / pippalī, svarjikā, and kuṣṭha, he should make / a man who is maddened by toxic vāta drink it, and likewise one suffering from epilepsy.
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Vacā, haṃsapadī, the three pungents, dadhittha, hastipippalī, / devadāru, balā, bilva, kṛmijit, kuṣṭha, tuṇṭuka,
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lodhra, ākhukarṇī, ativiṣā: he should administer these with milk and ghee; / taken as a drink and used for massage, that ghee destroys all poisons.
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One should treat accordingly in these and in other diseases as well, / considering the associated doṣas, without opposing the toxicology teachings.
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By antitoxic agents that act through sight and sound, he should avert any residue of poison; / for even a tiny amount left behind leads to disease or to death.
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Dhava, aśvakarṇa, tiniśa, karaghāṭaka, pītana, / palāśa, āmrātaka, kakubha, pāribhadraka, tilvaka,
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kapittha, kuṭaja, aṅkola, pragraha, āmalakī, bhuja, / śamī, śleṣmātaka, aśmanta, gojī, yamalakaṇṭaka,
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cirivilva, arka, kaṭvaṅga, samaṅgā, madhuśigru, / gopaghoṇṭā, and himāra: having reduced them to ash with cow's water,
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and strained it like an alkali preparation, one should cook it, throwing in the powders of: / the two pippalīs, kośāsra, saptaparṇa, elavāluka,
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varāṅga, coca, mañjiṣṭhā, kuṣṭha, vañjula, tuṇṭuka, / viḍaṅga, ativiṣā, anantā, mustard, taṇḍulīyaka,
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surāhva, sarala, plakṣa, soot, karañjaka, / nāgadantī, sutaśreṇī, nicula, varuṇa, vacā,
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vardhamāna, ayas, and bilva. When it has attained cooking like an alkali, / placed in an iron vessel, it must always be kept nearby.
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With it he should smear drums, banners, and bed coverings; / through sight, hearing, and touch, these make [one] free of poison.
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Taken as a drink, this alkali antidote [cures] animate and inanimate poison, / colic, abdominal swelling, abdominal enlargement, indigestion, dyspnea, cough, gravel, and calculus;
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it restrains swelling, hemorrhoids, digestive impairment, and loss of appetite; / and it destroys the arrogance even of serpents equal to Takṣaka.
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Śrīveṣṭaka, manohvā, ala, together with sarjarasa and vālaka, / one karṣa of each, one prakuñca of nāgapuṣpa, twenty cardamoms,
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sixty-four hareṇus, four [parts] of kuṭannaṭa, / and sixteen of śatāhvā: having gathered these during the Puṣya constellation, one should grind them
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during the Āśleṣā constellation in the midst of cows, protected with weapons and mantras, / by a bathed maiden; there this mantra was formulated by Viṣṇu:
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“My mother is named Vijayā, my father is named Jaya; / and I am the son of the Invincible One; in victory I conquer you!”
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This antidote called Sugandhā, through daily anointing of the body, / prevents defeat in battle and brings victory in dispute.
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Parasols, drums, banners, and archways anointed with this, / seen, touched, or heard, destroy inanimate and animate poison; / kept in a house, it also wards off spirits, infant seizure demons, and mania.
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Prapauṇḍarīka, sarala, devadāru, kuṭannaṭa, / jaṭā, śatāhvā, ativiṣā, tilaparṇī, sugandhikā,
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nīlī, yavaphalā, bhārṅgī, licorice, elavāluka, / toya, toyada, kālīya, tagara, dhyāmaka, cinnamon bark,
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nakha, padmaka, punnāga, patra, kālānusārivā, / tālīsapatra, black pepper, joṅgaka, the two sandalwoods,
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the two cardamoms, the two sevyas, the two tās, the two niśās, the two naladas, / lac, śīta, śivā, the three pungents, phalinī, dhānya, red ochre,
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śaileyaka, śilāpuṣpa, granthilā, coraka, abhayā, / arka, sthauṇeya, pṛthvīkā, kaṭukā, candrarāji,
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kaliṅgaka, sarjarasa, kuṣṭha, the five salts, / śrīparṇikā, aśmarī, śelu, śiṃśapā, sinduvāra,
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the flowers of campaka, aśoka, surasā, sumanas, and tilvaka, / the blossoms of pāṭalī and tṛṇaśūlyā, white water-lily, blue lotus,
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tiniśa, arjuna, śamyāka, and dhava flower, along with red lotus— / this powder of eighty-five [ingredients], with [cow's] urine, ghee, and honey,
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he should store in a cow's horn. With it he can bring back a man, / one whose neck is broken, whose eyes are rolled back, who has entered the fangs of death.
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By name this is Mahāsugandha; possessing immense potency and excessive splendor, / it checks even the poison-fire of Vāsuki, which is exceedingly hard to check.
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A king whose limbs are smeared with this becomes beloved by all people, / and he attains brilliance even in the midst of a multitude of kings.
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One should administer only cooling treatments to patients suffering from poison, / except in the case of insect poison, for that increases greatly with cold.
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Aged śāli rice, ṣaṣṭika rice, koradūṣa, priyaṅgu, / mudga, hareṇu, pigeon pea, paṭola, cane shoots,
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taṇḍulīyaka, jīvantī, eggplant, suniṣaṇṇaka, / game meat, pomegranate, dhātrī, kapittha, rock salt, and sugar,
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and whatever other food is non-burning, knowing it by its intrinsic nature— / each such thing he should give to those tormented by poison; the preparation of side dishes should be made / with decoctions of poison-destroying [drugs] and with ghees such as Kalyāṇaka.
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One afflicted with poison should drink water derived from rain, a lake, or a well, / or other water boiled and cooled, or mixed with honey and āmalaka; / he must avoid river and pond water, especially at the coming of the clouds.
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Roasted barley-meal well prepared from barley passed through the interior of a white cloth, / drunk with buttermilk and ghee, is supreme in destroying poison.
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Sesame, wine, horsegram, hunger, anger, fear, exertion, sexual intercourse, / and especially daytime sleep, even one freed from poison should avoid.
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The physician should recognize that a man is free of poison when his doṣas are pacified, his bodily tissues are in their natural state, / he has an appetite for food, his urine and feces are regular, and his complexion, sense faculties, mind, and movements are clear.
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Thus ends the forty-seventh chapter.
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