Animal (jaṅgama) poison is described as very dreadful and of sixteen kinds by its seat in the creature, with the creatures that carry each kind; it has the same ten qualities as immobile poison.
Also described as
Poisons of creatures other than snakes, and bites of fierce wild animals.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- जङ्गमविषजंगमविषदंष्ट्राविष
- Hindi
- जंगम विषजीवों का जहरकाटने का जहर
- English
- Animal poisonsanimal venombites and stings
- Romanized
- jangama visha
Types described in the text
Fang and tooth poison
दंष्ट्राविष
In the fangs of ordinary earth-born snakes and the teeth of horses, donkeys, monkeys, mad dogs and cats.
Tooth and nail poison
दंष्ट्रा-नखविष
In śiṃśumāra, crocodiles and other quadrupeds, several kinds of frogs and house lizards.
Urine, faeces and tooth poison
मूत्र-मल-दंष्ट्राविष
In creeping creatures (sarīsṛpa).
Touch, bite, wind and anal poison
स्पर्श-मुखसंदंश-वात-गुदविष
In creatures with strange bodies and many feet; the kaṇabha and leeches carry intense poison in their bite.
Bone poison
अस्थिविष
Bones of those killed by thorn poison, of wicked snakes and of varakī and many other fish.
Corpse poison
शवविष
The dead bodies of many kinds of minute poisonous insects.
Bite or clawing by fierce wild animals
श्वापद दंश
Great wound, thirst, bleeding, swelling, severe pain, vata-kapha poison, madness with biting of others.
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Classification1
Animal poison is said to have sixteen seats in the bodies of creatures, and so sixteen kinds: sight, breath, fangs, saliva, urine, faeces, semen, nails, wind, bile, anal region, bones, touch, bite, sting and dead body.
Signs and symptoms1
People bitten or clawed by a fierce wild animal, with a great wound, rising thirst, heavy bleeding, swelling, great pain and intense poison from vata and kapha, are said to become mad and bite other people in fierce anger.
Properties1
Animal poisons are said to have the same ten qualities as immobile poisons, so all animal poisons provoke all the doṣas and dhātus of the body.
Prognosis1
If people bitten by fierce animals behave like the biting animal, see its form in a mirror, lamp, sunlight or water, and suffer dread of water, these are fatal signs and they are not to be treated.
Other1
The author says he will now describe, after the teaching of Adinatha, remedies by the three doshas for the many poisons of two-footed, four-footed, six-footed and many-footed creatures and insects, in the order of curable and incurable.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 6 times on 4 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- PDF page 9Front matter… ओं के द्वारा दंष्ट्र होने पर उस पर कि जाने वाली चिकित्सा। (2) स्थावर, जंगम विष के किसी प्रकार शरीर में प्रवेश होने पर की जाने वाली चिकित्सा। जराचिकि …
- Book page 422Chapter 19कल्याणकारके / विषरोगाधिकार: 422 अथ जंगमविषवर्णन जंगमविष के षोडशभेद जंगमाख्यविषमप्यतिघोरं प्रोच्यते तदनु षोडशभेदम् । दृष …
- Book page 423Chapter 19×3… प्रकार के होते हैं] उनका मृत शरीर विषमय रहता है। उसे शवविष कहते हैं। जंगम विष में दशगुण जंगमेष्वपि विष्ोषु विशोषप्रोक्रलक्षणगुणा दशभेदा:। संत …
- Book page 624Appendix: Hitahita… रूप में प्रतिपादित है। चरक संहिता के विषचिकित्साप्रकरण में कहा भी है। जंगम विष की गति नीचे की ओर होती है। और मूलज विष की गति ऊपर की ओर होती है। इसलि …
Questions and answers
Into how many kinds are snakes divided, and what are they?
Five: darvīkara (hooded), maṇḍalī (with round patches), rājīmanta (striped), vaikarañja (born of mixed parentage) and nirviṣa (non-poisonous).
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat is jalatrasa and what does the text say about it?
Fear at the sound, touch or sight of water; after bites of fierce animals it is a fatal sign, and even without a bite it is regarded as one.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
- Chapter 19 · p. 422 · v. 68-69
- Chapter 19 · p. 422 · v. 70
- Chapter 19 · p. 422 · v. 71
- Chapter 19 · p. 422 · v. 72
- Chapter 19 · p. 423 · v. 76
- Chapter 19 · p. 423 · v. 73
- Chapter 19 · p. 423 · v. 74
- Chapter 19 · p. 423 · v. 75
- Chapter 19 · p. 437 · v. 132
- Chapter 19 · p. 437 · v. 133
- Chapter 19 · p. 438 · v. 134
Extraction notes
- The commentary closes the list with स्थावर विष के सोलह अधिष्ठान, evidently a slip for jangama; footnote 1 gives the variant सित at मुख in verse 69.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Poisons
- Source pages with records
- 4
- Pages naming it
- 4
- Chapters
- Chapter 19
- Extraction tasks
- T20, T21
- Record id
- condition_jangama_visha