The Sushruta Samhita — trans. Bhishagratna
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% Dallana says that in place of "'^tt'^T* Gayaddsa reads "iTW'n^^^j tliat is to say, the diet should be taken with clarified butter.
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The person in whom the poison (of a rabid dog or jackal, etc.) is spontaneously aggravated has no chance of recovery. Hence the poison should be artificially aggravated (and then remedied) before reaching that stage of aggravation. The patient should be bathed at the crossing of roads or on the bank of a river with pitcherfuls of water containing gems and medicinal drugs and consecrated with the appropriate Mantra. Offerings of cooked and uncooked meat, cakes and levigated pastes of sesamum as well as garlands of flowers of variegated colours should be made to the god (and the following Mantra should be recited). *'0 thou Yaksha, lord of Alarka, who art also the lord of all dogs, speedily makest me free from the poison of the rabid dog that has bitten me." Strong purgatives and emetics should be administered to the patient after having bathed him in the above manner, since the poison in a patient with an uncleansed organism may sometimes be aggravated, even after the healing of the incidental ulcer. 8.
The poison of a (rabid) dog, etc., lies in the teeth and tends to aggravate the Pitta and the Vdyu and hence the patient bitten by such animals is found to imitate their cries and nature. A patient afflicted with such poison cannot be saved even with the greatest care. The seat of a scratch made by the nails or teeth of any of those animals should be rubbed (and the poisoned blood should be let out). It should then be sprinkled over with tepid oil, since the poison in this case aggravates only the Vdyu of the system. 9-10
This reading of Gayaddsa seems to be the better one, as the use of clarified butter in such cases is supported by the custom of our country. Thus ends the sixth Chapter of the Kalpa-sthdna in the Su'sruta Samhita which deals with the symptoms and treatments of rat-poison.
CHAPTER YII.
Thus ends the sixth Chapter of the Kalpa-sthdna in the Su'sruta
Samhita which deals with the symptoms and treatments of rat-poison.
CHAPTER YII.
Now we shall discourse on the Chapter which treats of the sounds of a (medicated) drum, etc., possessed of anti-venomous virtues (Dundhubhi-Svaniya). i. Ksharagada:— The woods of Dhava, As'vakarna, Tinis'a^ Palds'a^ Pichu-marda^ Pdtali^ Pdribhadraka, Amra^ Udumhara^ Karahdtaka, Arjuna, Kakubha, Sarja, Kapitana^ S'leshmdtaka^ Amkotha^ Amalaka, Pragrahay Kutaja^ S'ami, Kapittha, As'vmantaka, Arka, Chira-vilva, Mahd-vriksha, Arushkara^ Aralu^ Madhuka^ Madhu-s'igru, S'dka, Goji, Murvd, Tilvaka, Ikshuraka, Gopa-ghantd and Arimedd* should be taken (in equal parts) and burnt down to ashes. The said ashes should be dissolved in the urine of a cow and filtered (through a piece of linen) in the manner of preparing an alkali. This alkaline solution should then be duly boiled (till it would assume a transparent blood-red hue and slimy character), and the powders of Pippalimula, Tanduliyaka^ Vardnga, Chochaka, Manjishthd^ Karanja, Hasti-Pippali, Maricha, Utpala, Sdrivd, Vidanga^ Grihadhuma (soot of a room), Anantd, Soma, Sarald^ Vdhlika, Guhd, Kos'dmra, white mustard seeds, Varuna, Lavana, Plaksha, Nichula, Vardhamdna, Vanjula, Putra-s'reni, Sapta-pama, Dandaka, Ela-vdluka, Ndga-danti, Ativishd, Ahhayd, Bhadra-ddru Kushtha,
* The plants of these should be taken in full i.e. with their leaves, roots, branches, etc. The prepared ash should be dissolved in cow's urine weighing six times the combined weight of the ashes. Dallana says that Gayaddsa does not read "S'irisha, Pichumarda, Kakubha, Arushkara and Madhu-S'igru" in the list.
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Haridrd and Vachd together with pulverised (dead) iron (taken in equal parts)* should be added to it. Then it should be boiled again and preserved in an iron pitcher after it had been duly prepared in the manner of an alkali. 2.
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Haridrd and Vachd together with pulverised (dead) iron (taken in equal parts)* should be added to it. Then it should be boiled again and preserved in an iron pitcher after it had been duly prepared in the manner of an alkali. 2.
Metrical Texts : — Dundhubhis (drums), banners and the gate ways of houses should be smeared with this alkaline preparation, hearing the sound as well as the sight and touch whereof would lead to the complete elimination of the poison from the system of the patient. This medicine is known as the Kshsiraigada which is equally efficacious in cases of S'arkard (gravel), stones in the bladder, Haemorrhoids, Vdta- Gulma, cough, S'ula (colic), Udara (abdominal dropsy), indigestion, Grahani, extreme aversion to food, general oedema of the body and violent asthma. The remedy is applicable in all cases of poisoning of whatsoever type and acts as a sure antidote to the poison of the serpents headed by the dreadful Takshaka. 3.
Kalyanaka Ghrita:— An adequate quantity of clarified better duly cooked with (the decoction and Kalka of) the drugs known as Vidanga, Tri-phald^ Dantiy Bhadra-ddru^ Harenu^ Tdlis'a-patra^ Manjishthd^ Kes'aray Utpala, Padmaka^ Dddima, Mdlati flower, the two kinds of Rajani, the two kinds of Sdrivd^ the two kinds of Sthird, Priyangu, Tagara^ Kushtha, the two kinds of Vrihati^ Elavdluka^ sandal wood and
* The total weight of these powders to be added should be one thirtieth part of the prepared alkalitie solution. Dallana says that Gayadasa counts only thirty and he does not read "Maricha, Soma, Guhd, Lavana, Chakra and Ala in the text. We do not, however, find Chakra and Ala in the text. We have, on the other hand, the names of some more drugs which are believed to be mere interpolations from the marginal notes of some manuscripts.
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Gavdkshiy is known as the Kalyainaka Ghrita. The curative efficacy of this Ghrita extends to cases of poisoning, Grahdpasmdra (hysteria due to the influence of malignant stars and planets), Jaundice, Gara dosha Cslow chemical poisoning), asthma, sluggishness of appetite, fever and cough. It is commended to consumptive patients, as well as to men suffering from scantiness of semen and women afflicted with sterility. 4.