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Dry, hot, sharp, quick, pervasive, indigestible, light, loosening, subtle and clear.
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Verses 47-49 explain their actions: dryness provokes vāta, heat pitta and blood, subtlety spreads poison into the finest parts, sharpness breaks the vital points, pervasiveness fills the body, quickness kills fast, the loosening quality agitates the dhātus and clarity lets it enter them. Verse 76 says animal poisons have the same ten qualities.
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- Chapter 19
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- T20
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