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# Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 3.3.2.173

Hārītasaṃhitā 3.3.2.173

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.3.2.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita.3.3.2.173)

yasyordhvaṃ raktapittañca madhye vātakaphāvubhau  
tenordhvaṃ jāyate coṣṇamadhaḥ śītaṃ prajāyate

> it is better to drink the venom of a serpent, or boiled copper, / or to eat iron balls heated red-hot by intense fire,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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