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Snake poison is called the most dreadful of animal poisons; snakes are of five kinds, divine serpents poison by sight and breath and earthly snakes by their fangs, and the text lists why…

Tying the limb tightly four finger-breadths above the bite, then cutting out the bitten flesh to let the poisoned blood out.

Svarpita, radita (rachita) and udvihita, plus the non-venomous sarpangabhihata swelling from fright.

For a bite by any snake on a hand or foot, the limb is tied tightly four finger-breadths above the bite with cloth, cord or bark, the bitten flesh is cut out and the blood let out; on other…

For a bite on a hand or foot the text says to tie the limb tightly four finger-breadths above the bite, cut out the bitten flesh and let the blood out; where tying is impossible the place…

Bites received at anthills, temples, cremation grounds, under milky trees, at twilight, at crossroads, at the rise of kulika or under dreadful asterisms such as Bharani and Magha, bites…

The text says a snake's bite is of three kinds: svarpita, radita (rachita) and udvihita. A svarpita bite is made with one to four venomous fangs, shows fang wounds with swelling and carries…

No weal from a whip, no blood from a cut, no gooseflesh from cold water, a wick of kapha from the mouth, bleeding from upper and lower passages and loss of sleep mark an incurable…

A person with abdominal distension who repeatedly passes stool like raw flesh and coloured like orpiment, drips froth from the mouth, and whose heart fire does not burn properly after…