Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.t2.51

c6.t2.51

It is the proud distinction of the Indian system of medicine that it has provided for the treatment against poison of snakes and other insects—a provision which is absent in some of the most advanced systems of medicine to-day. Even in this rudimentary state of the medicinal science with which we come across in the Atharva Veda we find that the poison of snakes has received attention in detail. The kind of snakes from which men were in constant apprehension of danger are distinctly mentioned.