Explore the knowledge
Search in any script or spelling. Combine filters: values inside one filter widen the results, different filters narrow them.
Showing 24 of 49 entries
Condition
Poisoning (visha)
विष (ज़हर) · विषरोग
The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.
Topic
Stage-wise treatment of mandali and rajimanta poisoning
मंडली और राजीमंत विष के वेगों की चिकित्सा · मंडली व राजीमंत सर्पों के सप्तवेगों की पृथक्-पृथक् चिकित्सा
For mandali poisoning: a shallow incision to let blood in stage 1, antidote mixed with ghee then prompt emesis in stage 2, emesis again in stage 3, and the darvikara measures for the rest.…
Question
How is poisoning treated in its first and second stages?
विष के प्रथम और द्वितीय वेग में क्या चिकित्सा की जाती है?
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.
Topic
Seven stages of darvikara poisoning
दर्वीकर विष के सात वेगों के लक्षण · दर्वीकरविषज सप्तवेग का लक्षण
In darvikara poisoning the text lists seven stages: the poison blackens the blood, then affects the flesh, then causes heaviness of the eyes and headache, then reaches the abdomen and…
Topic
Seven stages of mandali poisoning
मंडली सर्प विष के सात वेगों के लक्षण · मंडलीसर्पविषजन्य सप्तवेगों के लक्षण
In mandali poisoning the blood turns yellow in the first stage; in the second the flesh is affected, eyes and face turn pale and the mouth bitter; then come thirst, high fever and intense…
Topic
Seven stages of rajimanta poisoning
राजीमंत सर्प विष के सात वेगों के लक्षण · राजीमंतसर्पविषजन्य सप्तवेगों का लक्षण
In rajimanta poisoning the blood turns reddish and slimy, then the flesh turns very pale, then saliva flows profusely, then come neck stiffness and severe headache, then speech stops, then…
Topic
Stage-wise treatment of darvikara poisoning
दर्वीकर विष के सात वेगों की अलग-अलग चिकित्सा · दर्वीकर सर्पों के सप्तवेगों में पृथक् पृथक् चिकित्सा
For darvikara poisoning the text prescribes, stage by stage, letting blood with an instrument, a drink of antidote, nasal medicine and collyrium, thorough emesis, cold water and cold pastes…
Topic
Treatment of immobile poisoning
स्थावर विष की चिकित्सा · विषचिकित्सा
Heading of the passage on treating immobile poisoning stage by stage (verses 59-62), followed by three antidote preparations (verses 63-67).
Question
What role does the text give to mantras in snake poisoning?
सर्पविष में पाठ मंत्रों को क्या स्थान देता है?
It says even poisons that medicines cannot remove yield to mantras, so life is first protected with mantras and medicines are applied afterwards.
Condition
Rat bite poison (mushika visha)
मूषक विष (चूहे का विष) · मूषकविष
Rat poison carried in the semen, teeth and nails of many kinds of rats.
Procedure
Incision and mantras for severe insect and spider poisoning
दुःसाध्य कीट विष की चिकित्सा · दुःसाध्यविषचिकित्सा
When insect or spider poison reaches a fierce stage, the poisoned wound is incised with an instrument and the patient treated with great mantras and tantra, as for snake poison.
Topic
Primacy of mantras in snake poisoning
सर्पविष में मंत्र की प्रधानता
The text says all poisons, even those that medicines cannot remove, yield to mantras, so the physician should first protect life quickly with mantras and afterwards apply medicines.
Procedure
Stage-wise treatment of darvikara snake poisoning
दर्वीकर विष के सात वेगों की चिकित्सा · दर्वीकरसप्तवेगचिकित्सा
Stage 1: let blood with an instrument; stage 2: drink of antidote (agada); stage 3: nasya and collyrium; stage 4: thorough emesis; stages 5 and 6: pour cold water over the patient, smear…
Procedure
Stage-wise treatment of mandali and rajimanta snake poisoning
मंडली व राजीमंत विष के वेगों की चिकित्सा · मण्डलीराजीमन्तवेगचिकित्सा
Mandali: stage 1 a not-too-deep incision to let blood, stage 2 antidote mixed with ghee followed promptly by emesis, stage 3 emesis, stages 4 to 7 as for darvikara. Rajimanta: stage 1 deep…
Principle
Stages of poisoning (visha vega)
विष के वेग · विषवेग
The verse says the poison, carried by vata from one dhatu to another, produces the successive stages, seven in all.
Topic
Treatment of hard-to-cure poisoning
दुःसाध्य विष की चिकित्सा · दुःसाध्य विष चिकित्सा
When the poison from bites of many kinds of poisonous insects, spiders and the like reaches a fierce stage it can kill, so the poisoned wound is incised with an instrument and treated with…
Topic
Treatment of poisoning
विष की चिकित्सा · विषचिकित्सा
When strong burning, cracking and swelling show that an article was poisoned, the poison is to be removed with suitable nasal medicine, collyrium, drinks and pastes and by emesis and…
Topic
Treatment of poisoning from eating insects
कीट भक्षण से हुए विष की चिकित्सा · कीटभक्षणजन्य विष चिकित्सा
People who unknowingly eat insect bodies mixed in their food develop diseases with many severe complications; they are to be treated with the formulas given for dushivisha (latent poison),…
Procedure
Treatment of poisoning from poisoned articles
विषचिकित्सा
Once strong burning, cracking, swelling and similar complications show that the articles described were poisoned, the resulting disorders are relieved with suitable nasal medicine, eye…
Procedure
Treatment of the fifth and sixth stages of poisoning
पंचम व षष्ठ विषवेग की चिकित्सा
In the fifth stage the antidote is given with a decoction of sweet drugs; in the sixth stage the patient is treated as for diarrhoea, with strong nasal medicine and collyrium.
Procedure
Treatment of the first and second stages of poisoning
प्रथम व द्वितीय विषवेग की चिकित्सा
In the first stage the poisoned person is made to vomit and then cold water is sprinkled on the body or given to drink, after which an antidote (agada) with ghee is given; in the second…
Procedure
Treatment of the seventh stage of poisoning
सप्तम विषवेग की चिकित्सा
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…
Procedure
Treatment of the third and fourth stages of poisoning
तृतीय व चतुर्थ विषवेग की चिकित्सा
In the third stage nasal medicine, collyrium and an antidote (agada) drink are given; in the fourth stage all the antidotes mentioned are used without ghee.
Topic
Wholesome and unwholesome diet and conduct in poisoning
विष में पथ्य-अपथ्य आहार-विहार · विष में पथ्यापथ्य आहार-विहार
A poisoned person avoids day sleep, sexual intercourse, much exercise, much sun and anger, and also oil, horse gram, sesame, liquor, sour gruel, buttermilk and sour things; in strong…