In the seventh stage sharp collyrium and pressed nasal medicine (avapīḍa) are applied, a crow's-foot incision (kākapada) is made on the head with a knife, and all other measures for removing poison are used.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- सप्तम विषवेग की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment of the seventh stage of poisoning
Ingredients and preparation
Preparation as described
Kākapada: an incision in the shape of a crow's foot is made on the head with a knife.
शिर में काकपद (कैवे के पाद के समान शस्त्र से चीरना चाहिए) का प्रयोग
How it is used
Eye and nasal applications with an incision on the head.
विष के सप्तमवेग में ती़ण अंजन व अवपीडननस्य का प्रयोग करना चाहिए।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Plant and mineral poisons (sthavara visha)(विष के सप्तमवेग)
ती़णमंजनमथाप्यवपीडं कारयेच्छिरसि काकपदं वा।Source wording as converted, Chapter 19 · p. 420 · v. 62.Safety
- Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.
Questions and answers
How is poisoning treated in its first and second stages?
In the first, emesis followed by cold water sprinkled on the body or drunk and then an antidote with ghee; in the second, emesis followed by purgation.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The verse is printed with the number 63, like the following verse; read as 62.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 19
- Extraction tasks
- T20
- Record id
- method_saptama_vega_chikitsa_p492