A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.226.2

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kapha predominates in kaṇabhas and unduras, vāta in scorpions and uṣṭradhūmakas (37.15);¹⁰⁸⁶ determination of the main doṣa(s) involved is decisive for the treatment to be followed (37.16);¹⁰⁸⁷ the symptoms of poisoning with a predominance of vāta, pitta and kapha (37.17–19);¹⁰⁸⁸ the treatment of these three conditions (37.20–21);¹⁰⁸⁹ rules for the general treatment of kīṭa-bites (37.22–23ab);¹⁰⁹⁰ the recipe for a fumigation, taught by Kāśyapa, useful in all poisonous bites (37.23cd–24ab); any anti poison measure should be tried, including those against snake-bites (37.24cd–25ab);¹⁰⁹¹ prescriptions against kīṭa-bites (37.25cd–27ab);¹⁰⁹² the formula of daśāṅgāgada against kīṭa-bites, devised by Kāśyapa (37.27cd–28); prescriptions against a scorpion-bite (37.29–42);¹⁰⁹³ a formula against the bites of kīṭas, snakes, spiders, unduras, and scorpions (37.43); a prescription, taught by Jina, against the bites of rātrikas¹⁰⁹⁴ and scorpions (37.44); more dangerous than kīṭas are spiders; these are of sixteen kinds,¹⁰⁹⁵ although others distinguish twenty-eight, others again even more kinds; some regard them as attendants of Sahasrarasmi (= Sūrya) and declare that they are of thousand different kinds (37.45–46ab);¹⁰⁹⁶ spiders, however, are all the same in being able to cause numerous complications (37.46cd); spiders are classified according to their relationship with the doṣas, because it is troublesome to distinguish and name them (37.47);