After the spoilt blood has been let out, the poisoned person is bathed in cold water and then given medicines to drink with curd, ghee and milk.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- शीताम्बुसेक
- Hindi
- ठंडे पानी से स्नान व औषधपान
- English
- Cold-water bath and medicines after bloodletting
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Curd (dadhi)दही (दधि)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
| Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
| Milk (ksheera)दूध (क्षीर)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
How it is used
Cold-water bath, then medicines taken orally with curd, ghee and milk.
सर्पविष दूषित को ठणडे पानी से स्नान कराना चाहिए। बाद में दही, घी व दूध के साथ अैषधियों को पिलावें।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Snakebite (sarpa visha)(विषार्त:)
दुष्टे रक्रे निह्ते तद्विषारुयं शीघ्रं सवँ निर्विषत्वं प्रयाति।Source wording as converted, Chapter 19 · p. 430 · v. 105.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.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Remedy
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 19
- Extraction tasks
- T21
- Record id
- remedy_shitambu_p502_1