Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 64: Adhikāra 64

The binding of a tourniquet, a mantra, and an application which counteracts poison [should be performed], / or cauterisation of the bitten part of the soft fruit [bitten] by the biting snake. // 1

When one drinks, ground with rice-water, / the pure root born of pratyaṅgirā on a day with an auspicious planetary conjunction, / whence could there be any fear of snakes for him? / When out of sheer pride, confounded by delusion, a hooded serpent bites that root-drinker, / right then and there that very serpent surely goes without delay into the mouth of Yama. // 2

One should eat a lentil with two neem leaves when the sun enters Aries. / For one year there will be no fear of poison for him; there is no doubt. // 3

A white punarnavā root, drunk with rice-water under the constellation Puṣya, / removes the affliction of venomous snake poison for a whole year in men. // 4

Soot, both varieties of turmeric, and whole taṇḍulīyaka with its root— / even if bitten by Vāsuki, one should drink [these with] curd flooded with clarified butter. / By nasal administration of kūlikā root, one lives even when bitten by death itself. // 5

An application made of phlegm and earwax using the left ring finger / destroys terrible poison; likewise, sprinkling with human urine. // 6

White mustard seeds macerated in the fresh juice of siris flowers / for seven days are beneficial as nasal therapy, drink, and collyrium for those bitten by snakes. // 7

Two palas of nata and kuṣṭha combined, with four palas of clarified butter and honey— / this drink brings relief even to those bitten by Takṣaka. // 8

The root of sterile karkoṭakī macerated with goat's urine, / administered as an errhine combined with sour gruel, is for one whose consciousness is impaired by poison. // 9

Trivṛt, viśālā, madhuka, both turmerics, / the entire group of mañjiṣṭhā, all the salts, / and the three pungents, finely powdered: / one should place them together with honey in an animal horn. // 10

This antidote, when employed / as a compound for drinking, collyrium, anointing, and errhine, / of irresistible potency, destroys the rush of poison; / named Mahāgada, it is of great efficacy. // 11

When poison is drunk, there should be emesis; and when it resides in the skin, / a poultice, affusion, and so forth, very cold. // 12

Pulp of wood-apple with sugar and honey when poison is in the throat; / one should lick a pala of powder of nata with those two when it has reached the stomach. // 13

When poison has reached the large intestine, a man should drink / pippalī, both turmerics, and mañjiṣṭhā ground in equal parts with cow's bile. // 14

An excellent clarified butter combined with turmeric, rock salt, and honey / is prescribed as a drink for one afflicted by vegetable poison and for one pierced by a poisoned arrow. // 15

Powder of copper or of gold mixed with sugar and honey / as a linctus pacifies severe poison produced by any combination. // 16

One should lick a decoction of aṅkoṭa root reduced to treacle with clarified butter; / anointed with oil and having all limbs fomented, it dispels the poison of homicidal concoctions. // 17

Barks of kaṭabhī, arjuna, śairīya, śelu, and the latex-bearing trees: / their decoctions, powders, and pastes remove insect and spider bites, and sores. // 18

An application made of chimney soot, mañjiṣṭhā, turmeric, and rock salt / conquers rat poison, as does the drinking of [the paste of] karṇikā. // 19

A man who throws a kāsamarda leaf into his mouth and blows into the ear / quickly overcomes the poison of scorpions. // 20

Circling the pill of kupīlu over the bite in the prescribed manner destroys scorpion poison; / [likewise] an application made by grinding calotropis leaves, preceded by fumigation with bdellium. // 21

A paste made of cumin combined with clarified butter and rock salt, / applied pleasantly warm as a good plaster, removes pain in those afflicted by scorpions. // 22

Rubbing with tamarind on the bite, and one should extract the sting. / Or, when swelling arises from poison, by application of the juice of phaṇijjaka. // 23

By moving a pill made of saffron, realgar, karkaṭa, and orpiment / mixed with safflower in a circle [over the bite], one conquers the poison of a bitten iguana or chameleon. // 24

Fumigation with aṅkoṭa leaves quickly dispels the poison of fish with spines. / The root of kuṭaja and kapālī, applied as a paste, dispels the poison of iguanas and wasps. // 25

Like the fruit of gold-udumbara ground with rice-water and drunk, / one pala of milk with juice of thorn-apple leaves, clarified butter, and jaggery removes the venom of dogs. // 26

Just as an application of siris seeds sprinkled with milk-hedge latex [removes] toad venom, / the root of aṅkoṭa combined with kuṣṭha, eaten for three days, removes venom. // 27

An application of black pepper, ginger, bālaka, and cobra-lily [cures] bee poison. / The roots of paṭola and indigo combined remove the poison of saliva. // 28

Somavalka, aśvakarṇa, gojihvā, haṃsapādī, / the two turmerics, and red ochre: this application removes the poison of nails and teeth. // 29

Vacā, asafoetida, viḍaṅga, rock salt, gajapippalī, / pāṭhā, prativiṣā, and the three pungents, formulated by Kāśyapa: // 30

Having drunk this ten-ingredient antidote, one conquers all insect poison. / All treatments for an insect bite are identical to those for leeches. // 31

Pṛkkā, plava, sthauṇeya, / kākṣī, śaileya, rocanā, tagara, / dhyāmaka, saffron, māṃsī, / surasā shoots, cardamom, and costus; // 32

bṛhatī, siris flowers, / śrīveṣṭaka, lotus, cāraṭī, viśālā, / devadarū, lotus filaments, / śāravaka, realgar, and priyaṅgu; // 33

jasmine flowers, calotropis flowers, mustard seeds, / both turmerics, asafoetida, pippalī, grapes, / bālaka, mudgaparṇī, madhuka, / madanaphala, and sindhuvāra; // 34

sampāka, lodhra, peacock-flower, / priyaṅgu fruit, lāṅgalī, and viḍaṅga: / gathered under Puṣya, ground in equal amounts, pills should be prepared. / It destroys all poisons, brings victory, / revives the dead from poison, and terminates fever, // 35

and by being drunk, applied as an ointment, worn, / and inhaled as smoke, [it protects] the householder; // 36

it destroys spirits, poisons, pests, misfortune, / black magic, hostile spells, fire, lightning, and enemies, / bad dreams, harms caused by women, / and fear of untimely death, water, and thieves. // 37

Increasing wealth, grain, accomplishment of undertakings, / fortune, nourishment, complexion, and lifespan, auspicious: / this very Mṛtasañjīvana / was spoken by Brahmā prior to the nectar of immortality. // 38