Ashtangasamgraha 48.1

48.1

Now we shall explain the chapter named 'The Therapeutic Use of Poison'; thus said Ātreya and the other great seers: / Counter-poison should be employed against poison when it is not subdued by mantras and therapies, / after the fifth stage of poisoning has passed and before the seventh is exceeded, / with pure intent, [yet] without proclaiming it to anyone or to the ruler.