An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. II — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1911)

Kdliyaka and cardamom pasted together (with cold water)^ A potion of the same drugs mixed with the urine of a cow and the expressed juice of Kapittha is equally commended in the present instance. Symptoms which mark the use of poisoned armour, garments, bedding, cosmetic, washes, infusions, anointments, etc. and the remedies for these are identical with those consequent upon the use of poisoned unguents. 21-22.

A poisoned plaster (if applied to the headj leads to the falling off of the hair and to violent headache, bleeding through the mouth and the nostrils, etc., and the appearance of glands on the head. The remedy in such a case consists in the application of a plaster made of black earth treated (Bhavita) several times with the bile of a Rishya (a species of deer), clarified butter and the expressed juice of S'ydmd, Pdlindi (Trivrit) and Tanduliyaka (in succession). The expressed juice of Mdlati (flower) or of Mushika'Parni, fluid-secretions of fresh cow-dung and housesoot as external applications are also beneficial in such cases. 23.

In cases of poisoning through head-unguents or through a poisoned turban, cap garland of fllowers, or bathing water, measures and remedies as laid down in connection with a case of poisoned Anulepana should be adopted and applied. In a case of poisoning through cosmetics applied to the face,; the local skin assumes a bluish or tawny brown colour covered with eruptions like those in cases of Padmini-kantaka and the symptoms peculiar to a case of using a poisoned unguent become manifest. The remedy in such a case consists in the application of a plaster composed of (white- sandal wood, clarified butter, Payasyd, Yashti ntadhu, Phanji. (Bhdrgi), Vandhujiva and Panarnavd. A potion of honey and clarified butter is also beneficial in this case. 24-25.

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A poisoned elephant usually exhibits such symptoms as restlessness, copious salivation and redness of the eyes. The buttocks, the penis, the anal region and the scrotum of its rider coming in contact with the body of such an elephant are marked by eruptions. Under such conditions both the animal and its rider should be medically treated with the remedies laid down in the treatment of poisoning through an unguent. 26.

A poisoned snuff (Nasya) or poisoned smoke (Dhuma) produces bleeding from the mouth and nose, etc., pain in the head, a discharge of mucus and a derangement of the functions of the sense-organs. The remedy in such cases consists in drinking and snuffing* a potion of clarified butter duly cooked with the milk of a cow or such other animal together with Ativishd, Vacha and Mallikd flower (as Kalka). A poisoned garland ( of flowers') is characterised by the loss of odour and by the fading and discolouring of its natural colour, and when smelt produces headache and lachrymation. Remedies laid down under the heads of poisoning through vapour (Dhuma) and through cosmetics for the face (Mukha-lepa) should be used and applied. 27-28.

The act of applying poisoned oil into the cavity of the ears impairs the faculty of hearing and gives rise to swelling and pain in that locality and to the secretion (of pus) from the affected organs. The filling up of the cavity of the ears with a compound of clarified butter, honey and the expressed juice of Vahuputrd (S'atdvari)t

* Dallana explains this couplet to mean that clarified butter cooked with milk and Ativishd should be given for drink, and that cooked with Vacha and Mdlati flower as an errhine.

+ Dallana says that some read "^-^Mt^lili:'' and explain "w^T-^l" to mean "TRJ^rf^^ f

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or with the juice of Soma-valka in a cold state prove curative in such cases. 29.